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hey guys welcome to my Razer chroma series video make sure you hit that subscribe button for daily tech videos I'm going to move that reminder to the beginning of my video see if that makes a difference anyway don't worry too much about that now RGB custom color headsets and mice aren't exactly new and neither are the razer deathadder mouse kraken 7.1 headset or Black Widow ultimate 2014 but this is the first time we've seen those two things together coolermaster neptune series CPU coolers are available in a variety of radiator sizes to perfectly suit your next build click now to learn more let's start with the simplest of the three the Kraken 7.1 chroma which is basically just a straight carbon copy of the Kraken 7.1 but I'll give you guys a brief rundown on it anyway it's got 40 millimeter neodymium drivers a headband with size adjustments and folding the ear cups swivel for a good fit against your head and it connects to your PC with a braided USB cable the software includes surround calibration some dials that you can use to tune the integrated sound card I'd recommend turning down bass boost by the way more on that in a minute a mixer in case the one in Windows wasn't enough for some reason and EQ which is actually nice to have included and finally lighting controls of course you can choose between any solid color breathing in any color and cycling through the entire 16 point eight million color spectrum and I guess this seems like a good opportunity to point out how responsive and bug-free the software is but also how limited these options are to color breathing and breathing rates as well as color cycle speed adjustments would be welcome additions to this product if I thought it made any sense to buy it anyway unless you must have RGB lighting on your headset I don't really recommend the Kraken 7.1 at $100 even with bass boost off lows are very overpowered to my ears and the microphone is well all I forgot to press record over here so I'm going to do that now and I will let you evaluate that for yourself now while I'm sure min-liang is in the process of writing an angry tweet to me I guess this might help to stay his hand because with the DeathAdder chroma it's a very different story this seems to have gotten some very tangible improvements over the death out of 2013 ergonomics are still a strong point the rubber side grips still feel great but now the braided cord is one of the best i've ever encountered with almost no kink left after back bending the right and left click are significantly heavier so I don't accidentally press them constantly and the sensor has been I don't know what word you'd want to use for this type of interpolation tomfoolery so let's just say overclocked to 10,000 dpi or CPI if you prefer from 6400 in the original death out of 2013 so next time you're gaming at the local IMAX you can crank that the lighting is better implemented than with the Kraken but still kind of incomplete feeling the Razer logo on the back supports the same modes as the Krakens so solid breathing and cycling but the scroll wheel doesn't support breathing for some reason so that's the bad news the good news though is that unlike the headset the mouse supports different lighting schemes when your mouse profiles Auto switch as you launch various programs great inclusion and I really like how smooth the color transitions are very neat which leads us finally to the Black Widow ultimate chroma this is my second Black Widow ultimate 2014 and if you didn't show me the lighting tab in the software well I probably would never know the difference you can get my full thoughts in a review here but in a nutshell it's still got a matte black finish with subtle frosted lock key lighting and a shiny Razer logo at the bottom it's still got five extra macro keys on an otherwise standard layout where every key is fully programmable and however you may feel about this it still uses razor's own branded mechanical keys which is manufactured by Kyla and China due to the constraints apply of Cherry MX switches back to that lighting tab in the software again though the keyboard obviously got the most attention from razor's deads in addition to auto profile switching and the modes that the other devices support the keyboard gets a suite wave pattern that can run either left to right or right to left but regrettably doesn't support custom colors or speed alterations it gets a reactive mode that fades incredibly smoothly it looks really nice and a custom mode that you can use to either apply profiles for a variety of genres or even specific games or build your own according to your preference I went with a combination of hot pink and purple that I think looks absolutely fabulous so its conclusion time and I'm finally going to address the elephant in the room Razors chroma products are not the only RGB gaming products to be released in the last month or so so who has the best RGB product lineup razor or coarser we'll start with the headset the revised H 1500 from Corsair sounds much more balanced than the Kraken and is more comfortable for me but unfortunately not only lacks RGB lighting but has a horrendous yellow accent to go along with the new trance tent logo and so there you go frankly I wouldn't use either of them so we'll call the headset a dry guess on two mice Corsair would have had a shot at this if they've done an M 45 RGB instead of an M 65 RGB because I really like the shape of their mice and the M 45 uses an excellent sensor along with a firmware that doesn't GIMP it too hard a combination that's surprisingly difficult to find but even though Corsair has more lighting zones due to the m60 5's use of a laser sensor with inherent acceleration I have got to give the nod to the Razer DeathAdder chroma which leads us to keyboards and general thoughts I guess both razors and Corsairs implementations feel a bit rushed to me but in different ways Razer hides it a lot better than Corsair because the synapse 2.0 interface even though the functionality hasn't been changed since the old keyboard and the lighting modes are very limited is super easy to use and this allows Razer to gracefully without end user confusion add more features as time goes on whereas Corsair built in shed loads of functionality on day one lots of extra lighting modes and some really cool program ability that makes their RGB line a serious improvement over their original K line but overlooked some basics like default profiles for lighting modes and then they went and shipped the keyboard with 140 page manual that you will legitimately have to read in order to do any with it not a great end-user experience but software will improve for both so let's focus on the hardware trade-offs for now razors backlight is noticeably brighter but Corsairs is theoretically less prone to LED failure due to electrostatic discharge razor has passed through four USB and audio however poorly positioned they might be while corsair includes dedicated media keys razor includes macro keys on there one $69.99 model while corsair provides them only on the 20-dollar step-up k95 model and in terms of looks beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I think razors matte black and Corsairs brush metal both look awesome so if we say that those trade-offs all cancel each other out the decision for me and for you probably is going to come down to the usage experience rather than the fancy lights of course there includes a wrist rest in the box which personally I find to be very important but you might not care and they use Cherry MX switches whereas razer uses their razer switches so ultimately that's the decision-making factor for me guys thank you for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if your feelings are more complicated than this also let me know do you even care about our DB lighting like does anyone actually care about this love to hear from you guys 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