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welcome to my unboxing and first look at what is clearly a pre-production retail package because I don't think coolermaster with all of their experience would release our retail product that looked like this but this is pretty much what you'll get inside your real one with a more fancy graphic on it this is the Quickfire TK so if you didn't know already coolermaster has been doing mechanical keyboards for a little while now actually so they are quite well-regarded they have a pretty wide variety of products I mean you look at some companies where they'll release sort of one mechanical keyboard with one particular key switch and maybe it has a backplate or it doesn't have a backlight you should be happy to get what you can I suppose I'm cool masters taking a completely different approach and they're going after more like the guys who do a lot of different skills with a lot of customizability so the Quickfire TK alone is available in cherry MX blue cherry MX red switches and cherry MX brown switches they also come with different backlight colors to correspond to the types of switches in them so this I asked for if you know if you guys follow me on Twitter and you know what I think of keyboards I ask for obviously the Cherry MX blue version Oh check that out it's oh oh hold on up there it is alright I thought we were going to be missing a key there oh well this is a good opportunity to show you guys what it what it looks like so there you can see the Cherry MX blue switch you can hear if I move it up to the mic oh yeah you can hear the sexy sound that it makes when you actually actuate the switch I'm just going to go ahead and throw that back on it comes with a key removal tool right so so yes this is the blue version with a blue backlight and a blue and blue switches I'm just going to show you guys how this works so it comes with a removable cable which I don't know if I I don't know if that's entirely necessary but I guess if that's something they want to do then that's great it also has cable routing holes so you can bring it out to one side bring it out the other side or bring it straight out the back of the keyboard depending on what you find preferable there are rubber non-slip here here and here and the all this isn't these are my favorite check this out so if you get right in there you can see the entire both sides of it or rubber so it's an entire coating on the keyboard little foot itself here that's rubber so what that means is a lot of the time you deploy these things and the keyboard becomes slippery all of a sudden because only the bottom two are making contact properly and these will be just plastic cooler masters gone the extra mile and made sure that that's not going to cause any problems for you comes with a key removal tool so you can go ahead and remove the keys you can remove the keys without the key removal tool but it's not recommended because it can damage the switch underneath so let's go ahead and check this out so there you go you can see the blue the blue backplate it has a full metal backplate so let's find it well that's very solid actually this is among the more solid keyboards that I've encountered even some mechanical keyboards you can tell these they're still they're not that solidly built because they'll have a lot of flex in them but you can see I'm actually putting a lot of force on this can you can you see the Flex there's a little bit but I mean there's only so much you can do but it's very very solidly built that makes a great difference when you're mashing on something pressing buttons hard to have it not have any flex to it because that's how you get that sort of that perfect tactile response now blue switches are not for everyone you can hear how loud they are but like I said Coolermaster is making the keyboard available in a variety of different configurations depending on what you want the brown switch one does not come with a brown backlight just so you guys know so the blue switch one comes with a blue backlight the red switch one comes with a red backlight and the brown switch one comes with a white backlight so don't worry it's nothing nothing ridiculous like that and you know what this might be a bit of a bit of a problem here because oh no it works there we go I was worried that it wouldn't work because I'm not actually booted into Windows but it looks like all the software is running in here so the keys are individually backlight backlit and it comes with a variety of mode so you can see the mode here for whatever reason has these ones not illuminated and this will not eliminate it and the f12 not illuminated it also has three different brightness levels so I'm just going to hold down function here and so we'll go brightness all the way down Wow five different brightness levels you know what that looks stunning look how good the backlight looks when they can see here if I unplug it so unplug it again you can see they've colored the backplate blue which means the reflection of the LEDs off the backplate actually makes the blue much more intense and much more striking then keyboards that I've seen in the past that is a really nice touch that's smart I haven't seen that before so let's give it a sec - oh yeah I plugged it into the right thing okay so give this a sec to turn itself back on here so give me a moment so I managed to lock up the computer because I realize it was doing something and I was mashing on he's over here and it was obviously plugged in so I'm going to not mash keys too too hard anymore but I want to show you guys so it has five different brightness levels it has several different modes so that looks like sort of more of like an okay so there's WASD mode then there's sort of full mode except for the function key here and these keys right here and then there's sort of what looks like kind of a oh is it like pulsating or something oh cool it has like a breathing mode that's that's really neat okay and then brightness you obviously can't control in that particular mode I'm not sure what this guy does back in a sec okay I figured it out so I think I've got a got everything down pat oh this switch is between six key and n key roll over remember and key rollover is better because it means you can type like this if you want and it'll actually register every single keystroke no big deal six key rollover however is more compatible with various bios's or with Apple computers for example that don't support any key rollover because this is over USB which normally sort of naturally doesn't support any key rollover all right next we've got I could not figure out for the life of me why these keys weren't illuminating number lock so when you have number lock off you can see these arrow keys illuminate because we are in the mode that allows us to use the other functionality of this of this block of keys here so we've got a full number pad block which I personally still like to see but we have a keyboard that's not much than a 10 kilos which is really cool so by switching this functionality so number lock is on other functionality is on you got all your usual keys and page down page up delete all that good stuff and you have a full number pad just very very cool right here this is a function key lock so this is uh this okay however this works okay one of them is oh sorry windows key locks so you can turn your windows keys on and off and this is your function key lock which will lock your function keys on and off so that you can either have them operate as f1 to f12 or you can have them operate as dedicated media keys including play pause stop back forward mute volume down and volume up as well as all of your lighting adjustments and all that good stuff so you can go sort of I think we showed all the different lighting modes I think that pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the very well built very solid feeling I mean there's you know the whole CM storm thing they've just got good little touches that make it look nice make it function well and that pretty much covers it as you guys know I'm big into mechanical keyboards would I recommend this one absolutely don't forget to subscribe science tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos