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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the rocket rocket rocket rocket that's the way to say it rocket rocket is school FX so this is a premium level gaming keyboard and before we get too far into this know it isn't mechanical but it does have a lot of features that do set it apart from other keyboards even at this price range so the MSRP is something like ninety nine euros but it's really the software that sets this guy apart as well as some of the design things that they've integrated that really do make it a tool for enhancing your gaming experience whether it's to make you better or whether it's just to make it more enjoyable and so we'll get into some of those in a bit more detail once we get it opened up so first there's a quick installation guide important document you know what we're not going to worry too much about that download the latest drivers off the rocket website and that was pretty much it so packaging is very minimalistic on this guy there we are and let's start going through some of the features once we get this covering sort of torn off there we go there we go alright so relatively low profile keys so you can see the key caps don't stand up very high so it's not quite like a like a laptop keyboard but it is there the idea is responsiveness so it features a thousand Hertz polling rate so there should be pretty much no leg and then the idea with the low profile keys is that you should be able to actuate them more quickly this is especially important for membrane key switches because you do have to bottom them out in order to activate them I'm actually going to pull this up as a cheat sheet because there's a lot of stuff to cover all right programmable keys so you've actually got a zone here and I'm going to use this to illustrate it right here of 20 keys that can have macro functionality programmed into them and simply by using the rocket shift plus so you have a regular shift key and then you have another sort of see you can see it's got like a weird sort of graphic on it with like a downward shift and a plus so that's the shift plus so when you're gaming you put your hand there and then all of these keys over here in this zone that you can reach with your hand can be programmed to have macro functionality this to me is a way better solution than having something like a programmable key that's off to the side I mean we've seen ones with banks of programmable keys that are this big how you going to reach and you don't take your hand off the keyboard to go like fumble if a macro doesn't work that way so the shift is a great addition not only that but with rocket talks if you have a rocket Mouse as well you can press shift on your mouse and then activate a macro key on the keyboard or you can press shift on the keyboard and change the functionality of any of the keys on the mouse so the way that they work together is very very very cool you've also got some fully programmable keys so these can have a basic function programmed and then a shift plus functionality programmed into them so either those can be macros a regular functionality and they've added three thumb buttons here that they're calling like quick strike buttons or something along those lines of the idea is that they're things that you could reach with your thumb rather than spacebar and there's a little indent here so you can tell which one you're actually touching so that's very very cool stuff they've actually also added an indent on the W key itself so it's your regular home row one's your W and then this thumb one here as well as the five over on the number pad the layout is very standard so they haven't committed any cardinal sins the caps lock key looks like it's been replaced I'm not sure if they have a software functionality to turn that back on it's probably not the end of the world since most gamers should have their caps lock keys taken away anyway long enter backspace and shift keys so nothing nothing wrong with the layout whatsoever quick macro recording so on-the-fly you can record macros and use them this is kind of neat this is something we have seen before there are also media keys up here at the top and pretty soon it's going to be time to start talking about some of the other software functionality which I've kind of forgotten about ah yes so Rocket FX is pretty neat so you can actually tell the keyboard you want it to have certain effects when certain things happen so if you get hit for example the keyboard could glow red it has a fully adjustable color so something sixteen point eight million colors so you can light it up in whatever color you want 180 plus programmable functions and the Mac for live recording okay twenty five-plus functions assignable to media plus hotkeys okay yeah we got all that got all that six brightness levels out has anti-ghosting so you don't have to worry about so what ghosting is is if you press a bunch of keys then it can just register random extra keystrokes so it does have anti-ghosting thousand Hertz pulling rate we've covered already the rocket talk set bonus is neat so the cone pier and the cone at shoot xtd are the ones that actually support that functionality with the keyboard ah we'll be back in a moment so you can have a number of different game profiles and that can be indicated by the profile selector button up here so that'll shift to a bunch of different macros and all that kind of cool stuff the wrist rest is actually I think one of the stronger points of this keyboard not necessarily because it's like through super heavy-duty or anything like that but it's quite long so it actually gives you somewhere to rest your wrist unlike a lot of the gaming keyboards we've seen in the past that are kind of like this where you fall off them especially if you have longer hands so it's a very natural it's a very natural shape to put your entire palm down which is technically bad keyboarding form but let's face it a lot of people do it so it is what it is you've got cable management holes on the bottom here so you can route your mouse cable or sort of any other necessary cables around you've also got a nice rubber on the bottom all over the place the entire under the wrist rest is here here here and here and then up on the top of the keyboard there here here and here and then these unfortunately do not have do they okay I can't quite tell that looks like it yeah these have the same rubber pads on them as well so that's actually quite nice to see because sometimes you put those feet up and they don't have rubber on them so they can actually move around yeah the whole keyboards not going anywhere once we get it set up so I think that pretty much covers it for now thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the sqf x from rocket don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos actually it occurs to me now we should have done a nice shot of this guy so you can see we've got it on a cycling effect where it's changing the colors or it's breathing or it's doing something I don't know there's a bunch of different functionality that you can access just by pressing that there we go so there's some different brightness levels it's kind of neat the way they've done the illumination so the keys actually don't even look like like they're clear like they're see-through for the for the buttons themselves you can see them quite clearly in the light but then they do illuminate once the keyboard is once the light gets a little bit darker in the room so now we're actually done