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when I go set a gaming weapons crate in the mail to be honest I wasn't surprised to see a keyboard mouse and mouse pad in there though when I saw it was from creative that's when I was surprised this marks their first mouse and keyboard to enter the already highly competitive and saturated gaming crippled market and one has to wonder can their products stand out well let's find out so welcome back to tech city this is Brian today we have here a keyboard with unique attributes and upon pulling off the caps I noticed there was some very unique switches from on Ron that's right the guys that make those awesome Mouse switches also make keyboard switches and these are called the Pres or short for perceive react execute switch which besides the name sounding a bit confusing actually is really damn good they are a unique switch but feel similar to a Logitech romaji which kind of feels like a mechanical Brown with a touch of extra feedback and the spice of real force thrown in there anyway besides the wacky description they are actually really nice to type on and the noise is actually quite low I'll let you guys take a listen for yourselves on Ron rates the actuation force at 45 grams with the space bar filling a little stiffer and the keys are rated up to 70 million actuations in other words something else like a cap will probably die on this keyboard before the switches do actuation distance is also at a distance of 1.5 millimeters which in this case I've found in a real world test it was actuated in about one third of the way down of a full press which is great for competitive gaming 26 key rollover is supported and when doing my super spam test I noticed that it didn't choke at all so these claims do seem legit the board features a 2 meter braided cable and with two gold-tipped USB headers one for the USB pass-through which is on the back of the keyboard and the other for pairing the keyboard and data transfer the k8 weighs in at about 1.2 kilograms and has a nice matte black finish to it and does include a wrist rest that is easily attachable and detachable but I think it is a little too easy to detach and comes off pretty easy though it is a nice size and is quite comfortable the lighting has three different brightness settings and there's also a volume knob and a mute button as well as windows lock and media keys there's also the SPX button and that allows you to link in with Sound Blaster studio looking further into the software which can be used for both the K 8 and n poor Mouse has a lot of functionality and is very straightforward with all the options you would want you can control things like individual key backlighting and can save this to your own preset on the keyboards hardware itself there are some unique pre-made lighting effects too that look pretty cool and allow you to control the beats per minute on top of all that you can record macros and assign them to unique keys or even this side extra five macro keys which can be additionally programming remapped so you can use them in games like World of Warcraft for example as your num keys or use them in games like dota 2 as a macro for a character like axe for example there's also adjustable polling rates and easy firmware upgrades so lastly I wanted to take a look at the m4 siege mouse which sits somewhere between fingertip and palm grip but more towards palm grip since it is a larger Mouse weighing in at about a hundred and ten grams without cable drag the sensor is the picsArt 3360 infrared and has support for up to 12,000 dpi and a 2 millimeter liftoff distance which through software can be changed to 3 millimeter which I found legitimately worked the main two buttons and all other buttons are on run switches which are rated to 5 million clicks the clip could be described as a hard snappy click which is just how I like it and the scroll wheel is firm and you can reliably use the center click without having to worry too much about scrolling up and down there is also a side button that allows you to drastically drop your DPI for sniping and will make the mouse light up another color when testing the input lag there was virtually none which is great news for the m4 and if I had to guesstimate it would be somewhere between 0 to 2 milliseconds and this is done by comparing it to what I have here that is the Logitech G 302 which virtually has no input lag at all so it is verdict time in both the keyboard and mouse impressed me especially for their first release I think reiated nailed it not only did they bring a unique keyboard to the market but they also have their software which was very straightforward and the mouse performed really well with a high quality sensor and also extremely low levels of input lag that rivaled that of Logitech's the keyboard switches were really nice to type on in game on and everything felt of really high quality the K 8 keyboard is currently retailing around 140 US and the m4 Mouse is reeling for 60 five us as four AUD pricing and availability it is intended to hit the streets but no official word just yet lastly the mousepad is also pretty nice too and is included with the limited edition creative weapons case that I received which was sent out for review and if you want to get one of these they cost around two hundred and ninety nine dollars so there is a bit of an extra premium if you were to just buy these individual items separately it's kind of like a limited edition thing so what about the negatives well the first and most obvious one there is that price tag so it is pretty expensive for both the keyboard and mouse and the second thing I noticed was the included wrist rest method of attaching and detaching could use some work but besides that everything else checks out really nice the backlighting is also really strong and some of the strongest I've seen so those who want the option for bling will certainly get it with this keyboard you know guys that's about it for me today if you like this video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below do you want to try the omron press keyboard switches they were pretty unique and I have to say that I do like them I am trying them currently as my daily driver and they are really nice to type on end game on to great balance there although they do feel a little bit different to both top rate and Cherry MX switches though I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye