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well guys if you're like me and you like pretty things to hook up to your computer then you're not going to want to go anywhere because today we're taking a look at razors BlackWidow chroma RGB mechanical keyboard I saw this thing at CES and I had to have it gigabytes flex display technology automatically detects and connects up to four displays for the best gaming experience in multi display Ultra HD click the link in the description to find out more all right if you've been following the channel for any length of time you guys know that I've been a little bit hard on Razer in the past considering I've had a couple of mice that didn't last as long as I would have hoped so here we are now in 2015 and we're going to kind of circle back and see what's changed with the company in the last few years since I've used one of their products now the last keyboard I had I will say has definitely held up and that was the Black Widow ultimate with a cherry MX blue switch it was with the polished finish in the blue backlight in fact that was a pretty rare keyboard and a lot of people have hit me up for that keyboard quite a bit it was one I use when I first started my channel I've since given it to my dad who's a programmer and it's held up very well through the test of time I'm going to go ahead and start in on the switches here now they advertise that this is a 50 gram actuation wait for this mechanical switch but I'm going to have to call a little bit of shenanigans on that because it is way heavier than 50 grams in fact I would say it's a lot closer to the 80 grams that is on the Cherry MX green switch now 50 grams is the same weight as the Cherry MX blue and when I put this side by side with my switch tester which has Cherry MX blue switch in it the blue was much much lighter as well as the Cherry MX blue mechanical BlackWidow keyboard that I have from 2012 which is also significantly lighter on the touch which is a 50 gram switch so if you guys are a light typist you might have a hard time pushing these buttons until you really start to strengthen up your fingers and start mashing on the keys so it's advertised as a 50 gram I really really personally feel that it's heavier than that I've typed on every single switch that is out there well with the exception of gray gray is like yeah that's like a industrial switch but anyway alright so it's going to take a tour around the keyboard here and talk about its physical properties here it's a matte finish which I definitely like you guys have heard me say before I don't like polished finish I don't like piano finish it takes it makes it gets all greasy it gets all dusty it just looks nasty it scratches so I really like the met the matte finish on here it does have also to a USB 2.0 past year there's only one but at least one is better than none and that puts it ahead of the Strix keyboard which had none it also has an analogue 3.5 jack for headphones as well as your microphone I like to see this because I like to change out the headphones that I'm using so now instead of having to reach back behind the computer constantly and fumble around to find the right cable I just plug it in here and then this passes through the amplified headphone cable that I have plugged in to the other end so that works really well and then the microphone I don't really use a three and a half analog microphone but if you or twitch streamer or something you could plug it in right there and have easy access to it now on the bottom it has what I feel are under sized rubber feet I do like to see large rubber feet that you know run the good length of the bottom because it keeps the thing from sliding around and these tiny little feet like this the adhesive eventually on the omni's will peel up and then they won't stick anymore that happened to my other keyboard and so I would have liked to have seen larger rubber feet on this now it does have pretty decent size flip-up feet which are also rubberized here if you want your keyboard on a more upright angle but other than that it's the exact same physical properties as their other keyboards the other Black Widow keyboards the only difference is it's a non Cherry MX switch with RGB backlighting so what we're going to do now is we're gonna do a quick typing test and we're also going to take a little demo of the software to show you how easy the software is to use which is what I feel really gives this keyboard a competitive edge now one of the things that's hard about typing test is it's to be hard to determine how loud it is for you on your end it's only going to be as loud as my microphone can pick up which is a lavalier mic but they are clicky keys the green if it I mean it's basically just like the blues and the other Cherry MX greens that they were they were mimicking their their a clicky sound so if you're a twitch streamer or a live streamer and you're doing typing or gaming that can get a little annoying to your audience over time but if you're like me I love the click I definitely love the click so it's going to do a little test here this is me doing a test of this new razor oops typing like a doofus here the Razer chroma RGB mechanical keyboard and I think that once you get used to the what is heavier than 50g switch then it is it is something that is pretty easy to type on once you get used to mashing the keyboard yeah so when I get on my cherry and it's brown keyboards which are pretty much all my other keyboards I find myself typing really heavy on it so these are certainly what feels to be heavier than 50 grams switches now it could be entirely wrong I was comparing it like I said to other Cherry MX blues that I have in the room in the office here that are 50 grams actuation weight so whatever I digress we're going to do now is we're going to go ahead and jump into the software here we're going to show you guys how you can customize the lighting and how easy it really is to use all right here we go guys razer uses a program called Razer synapse to do all of their control of all of their peripherals today we're gonna take a look at the keyboard and specifically we're going to look at the lighting because macros are pretty easy works the same as all the other macro keyboards but obviously today we care about lighting now you have your base effect right here which is where you can choose as you can see breathing let's say green white so it's going to actually now start breathing different colors and effects and stuff on here you can do reactive typing so when you push a button it lights up momentarily and then turns off and you can to choose how long the duration is it's making it longer so you can see those keys are going to see on for longer we can make it shorter the skis are going to be on shorter you've got static so I've got yellow on here it looks orange on the little chart here because well the RGB is imperfect side to do orange to make it look more yellow and then you can do well you know we need to make it white white always looks good I like white keyboards too and then let's say we want to do something custom though right custom is custom is what it's all about so there we'll just make it just making kind of a blue color there so now that's blue but let's say we want to do something custom on here so it's going to remove that wave effect let's make this a yellow keyboard there there's our yellow keyboard but we want to do something custom that happens when we type on it solo we can add an effect think Photoshop here you can add an effect and let's do a reactive effect so you want to leave the static on the bottom that's the color we have right here as you can see that you'd even turn the eye off but it's the static color because that's we chose as our base and we're adding a layer effect on top of it so you have to choose the keys you want to affect so if you only wanted to affect those keys or maybe just those keys or you can break up the keyboard or even just the macro key so you can do that but I'm going to make it all keys and when I type on it they're going to turn pink for a long period of time kind of a dark pink BAM so now as you can see we turn on our static effects there's our yellow but now when I type on it as you can see they turn that color and then they go back to yellow you can even make it instead of lighting up a different color during reactive that it turns off the keys when you type on it so as you can see right now folks I made the static my bed BAM so remember it's like layers so on top we're going to make all these keys turn off when we type on them so you can see it's still on it's still yellow but now we're typing and the keys are turning off as we type on it we can make the duration long as I'm doing all kinds of things over here my goodness there we go so yeah you see the keys are turning off as we type on you can delete effects that you don't want on there you can do pre-selected quick pics here quick pic all you can make it spectrum cycling that's where it just kind of slowly will rotate through all of the different colors of the rainbow and with yellow green red blue all that sort of stuff it's not really doing anything right now though because I have a static color selected as the base so you wouldn't do it that on top of a static but you can play with it quite a bit you've got your ripple effect here let's do ripple and a color of now you can do that so now when you type on it as you can see ripples out and you can change those colors you can see we just have yellow and green here but let's make yellow red and let's make green let's make that white oops done BAM so now you have red and white as you can see and you can say how fast or slow so we can make it more of a medium speed we can make it affect wider keys and we can say how many keys per second we want to affect it happens on a key press you can even make it go three times if we want bam bam bam so yeah you can do a lot of really cool stuff with this I think black red white actually looks good we'll do red and white build in the future all right so the Razer mechanical keyboard the BlackWidow chroma RGB I think it's a fantastic keyboard now I know I've been a little bit hard on Razer in the past but I think that they have a clear winner here now even though it's not Cherry MX switches I got past that pretty damn quickly it's got a decent warranty the rating up to sixty million clicks as long as that holds up I don't see anything going wrong with this keyboard the software is extremely easy to use as you guys saw it is just stupidly easy to use which I think gives this a definite competitive edge so it's got the same layout and and aesthetics that everyone likes with the Black Widow keyboard but it brings in that custom RGB function on top of it which is really making it compete with the Corsair k70 now I know I've mentioned k70 a few times in this video and I think that this is definitely worth mentioning compared to that because this is the only keyboard going toe-to-toe with it with better software as far as I'm concerned it doesn't have a phonebook size manual and require rocket science and a PhD to figure out how to use everyone I know including Barney Cleese has said that the software on the coarser side is just stupid so I love the fact that this is extremely easy to use it's all on the fly you can access all of your settings in the cloud so if you go somewhere you're traveling and you have all the settings saved on what would be a local client you don't to worry about that you can access everything from the cloud and it saves to the device itself so there you go guys the Chrome RGB keyboard is going to be sitting here on my main station probably for a while it has all the stuff I was looking for and more when it comes to a mechanical keyboard now I finally have the RGB custom matched keys to go with skunkworks a nice and it's kind of a pee-pee yellow here like a not like a dehydrated pea but more of just a regular like healthy okay you know what I mean anyway head down to the description if you guys want to check out more information about this keyboard there's a amazon affiliate link down there if you guys want to buy it and support the channel at the same time otherwise buy it through your favorite vendor or favorite youtuber affiliate account that's perfectly okay to head on over to Twitter Facebook or the forum's forums Jason or forum JC sense comm we got a huge community there or approaching 3000 members now and you guys are awesome for that it's always been a dream of mine to kind of have a Tech forum where people can just kind of come and talk Tech and be civil to each other and so far that's happening so you guys are freaking awesome and amazing for that there you go tell me what keyboard you guys are also using down in the comments I'm kind of interested in what you guys look for with keyboards it's always hard to do peripheral reviews they're very very subjective when it comes to feel texture size color as with a lot of things in life it's all perspective and subjective anyway I'm going to get on out of here guys I hope you enjoy hope you've enjoyed today's video and I'm sub mangling on mega you guys can't understand what I'm saying haven't been drinking I promise alright we'll see you the next