Gadgetory

welcome to my unboxing and first look at what Mad Catz claims is the most adjustable gaming keyboard ever created ever this is the u.s. QWERTY layout 1 which makes sense because I'm in North America Oh oh it has a built-in Oh LED screen and the backlight can be changed to pretty much any color you can imagine so there's RGB LED lighting behind it giving you 60 million possible backlight colors which is very cool something we really haven't seen that much we've seen some keyboards where you can change from between backlight colors but they'll usually just have a few options now we finally have a fully backlit gaming keyboard that can be whatever color you want so it's customizable it is has color o LED okay so that's for the screen right there that kind of shows cool stuff about what you're adjusting or whatever else command module setup reduces the footprint and provides 21 programmable buttons 3 profile modes media keys and a Windows key lock so you can actually put the thing together for to build what is to say basically your own kind of Belkin Nostromo type thing if you guys remember that thing ok ok just another picture of it ah yes so here's a little bit more information about what can be displayed on the screen so the multiple i gaining at the Woomer gaming app something ok yeah it's a different language that's cool so basically it just shows you what's going on at any given time so your program launcher right there see battlefield is the launching indicator mic volume countdown timer stopwatch clock brightness and volume can all show up on there very cool stuff so let's go ahead and open it up and we'll be back a moment sorry guys we were trying to open it we realize there's more information on the back so the modular components adapt to your game space and playing style just like their rat series mice okay the it has a full RGB backlight okay we've talked about that 21 program will knock four keys in three modes okay we talked about that height adjustable active palm rest features additional thumb wheel and button for even more controls at your fingertips so that is right there we'll find that after I panel innovative full-color LED screen which is there and pass through headset are passed through for headset and microphone port so that's a very handy as well so we'll have a look at that once we get this video open down so the whole thing comes out of the box in like kind of a tower like this the first layer contains the main part of the keyboard where you actually do your typing you know you're writing letters to Grandma or whatever else so this is just your letters and your shifts and your back spaces and you oh that's not bad they're using a very unique key technology with this keyboard that actually it's supposed to feel more like mechanical even though it is using membrane key switches and I'd say it is better there is more tactile feedback but it's still very quiet with the only notable exception being the spacebar the next piece contains your number pad as well as your delete and insert keys page up page down your arrow keys and all that stuff that you may or may not have any need for and you can decide whether you even want to attach it to the main keyboard itself and later next you've got the module that goes up at the top that has the O LED display as well as your media keys and a bunch of programmable macro keys that you can switch which mode you're using by using the buttons that are probably located on something we haven't seen yet cables which again will figure out how all that works in a moment more cables which will figure out how all that works in a moment and finally your wrist rest this piece that allows you to switch between the various modes so you can go from pick from one of three profiles for your macro please your manual Allah oh wow and allen key to put the whole thing together as well as the screws you need and finally two more pieces of what will be the rest rest for the main part of the keyboard now you have the option of putting it together with screws but if you change it around all the time I guess you don't even have to because everything clips into place so I'm going to show you guys this configuration before I show you the more standard configuration so we got it in two pieces so you got your keyboard here which just has all your standard functionality on it so there's nothing bad exceptional about it except that you can completely adjust the wrist rest for the length of your hands so you can see I'd be quite uncomfortable like this however I can move it in one step or I can move it in one more additional step in order to get closer which is probably where I would end up then you've got these huh see these interchangeable things right here that you can use to plug it in however you need to so I've used the cables that I need however you can see I have an extra left over this would be for if I assemble it the other way you can adjust the height of it just by pulling these down and it has lots of rubber grippy feet on the bottom making it so it's not going to slip anywhere pretty much no matter what you do to it now this piece so I've assembled this using the O LED display so the way you use this is you can select the functionality using the up and down you can use the right arrow to activate things you can use left arrow to go back I believe I'm not okay I can't remember what the left arrow does but basically these four buttons are for functioning the display and the dial around the top allows you to change whatever is on the display so if you're using the application launcher you can change which application you're going to launch if you're using the volume control then you can adjust in increments of five and then if you want more fine adjustment then you can use the buttons on the side your media controls are here your play your stop your mute your left your are your left your right your your back your forward and then these up here are all programmable keys now I was wrong before I said that these were for the different profiles they are not the profiles are selected up here one two and three here's a Windows on an off key as well as control for the backlight on the keyboard these guys right here are additional programmable buttons you can see that they have normal functionality control shift enter and backspace but you don't have to use them that way this is a rolling wheel so you can use that with your thumb this is an additional programmable button and then all these mbot RC buttons rather around here are also programmable so this is that you can create yourself a little sort of gaming pad and you can adjust however you want to use it it's totally totally up to you more adjustments here so you can change the length L and you can also increase the height of it if you want so very cool stuff there's that pass-through for the headphone and microphone ports on the back here and you can see again how I've assembled it using little wires and cables and whatnot going where it needs to go so there you go you can move as far away as you want to you can use ER peas like this or if you have smaller hands then you can move it up closer whatever you want to do is totally up to you so we're going to put it together the other way and show you how that works and we are assembled now so I hope you guys enjoyed the assembly process actually doesn't take that long and this was my first time doing it so you guys could see I got a little bit confused there for a while so now this is in position to use your more typical WASD gaming configuration this has been moved over so that the the strike 5 wrist rest is here everything is still very adjustable so you can change everything to your heart's content and your layout is more like when you'd what you'd see on a normal keyboard so there you have it I hope you guys have enjoyed my unboxing and first look at the strike 5 from Mad Catz don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos and before we wrap this up I should say guys um I'm actually pretty impressed by what they've done with the membrane keys here are the mechanical keys no but are they your typical membrane keys no there is a lot of difference between one membrane key and another for example the first-generation Logitech G 15 had significantly better membrane keys than any further gen 2g whatever anything that's followed it so there is a huge difference from one membrane key cap to another one and this one definitely achieves that I'd love for you guys to post a comment under the video let me know what do you think of this whole modular peripheral concept we've seen it with the rat series now we see it with the strike series what do you guys think