Saying that the pirate ship had exclusive rights to use the Cherry MXRGB shaft that year, since the K70RGB was launched, the mechanical keyboard with lights, especially with RGB lights, was like sitting on a rocket, attracting a lot of attention. The attention of game players, peripheral players, programmers and even ordinary office clerk.
However , the price of K70RGB surpassing 1K3, and the unitary nature of only the red axis, also caused many people to hesitate. Although the pirate ship later went out of the disciplinary series, it also introduced the latest silver shaft, which is called the representative of the mechanical axis. Green axis, but has not seen the RGB version of the listing, so that the majority of enthusiasts and so on.
Although various manufacturers have launched their own mechanical keyboards with RGB lighting effects, some of which are equipped with green shafts, but they are all domestic or custom shafts. Cherry's original RGB green shaft has not been on the market.
Now the Corsair does not have a green shaft for RGB, and it is ASUS's first to introduce a mechanical keyboard equipped with Cherry's original MX RGB green shaft. The good news is not only this, the price is not expensive!
As a person who always hopes to have a green shaft, seeing this news is the original green axis, RGB, and decisive orders. Arrived, out of the box.
Jingdong is fast, and it arrives in the afternoon at the end of the morning. It is still a featured package of Jingdong.
The front of the package is a highlight of the keyboard, the original factory! RGB!
On the back is the introduction of lights and drivers
Come out!
Different from the common double-layer carton packaging for the keyboard, the GK1100 is a one-layer paper box with a color-printed sleeve directly on the outside. It is a pull-type structure. Packing on both sides of the keyboard shape, series, model, axis, backlight and other information readily available. Cherry MX RGB and ASUS dual LOGO design, the double-belief bonus, so GK1100 this keyboard's packaging adds a lot of temptation.
Sealing is intact! Was scared by various second-hand Eastern rumors to check every time
The protagonist debuts
First, the keyboard appearance
The GK1100 is still a full-size black 108-key layout keyboard, 456.5148.523mm (not including the keycap height) size, matte process processed aluminum alloy shell, 1.06KG weight, on a full metal body mechanical keyboard It's not too heavy.
Equipped with a key puller and 13 buttons
Is there a strange keyboard font?
Backside wire slot design for easy wire management
Slip foot
Dual USB plug has become standard, but also to ensure power supply
The all-metal panel has a fine matte finish that looks more like a plastic feel in style, but as long as you know it, the aluminum alloy panel can't run. The back refers to the now common wire-slot design. The keyboard lines can be drawn from the left, middle, and right positions, respectively, so that the desktop is not too messy. The anti-slip mat works well, and the foot workmanship feels great. When it is closed, it has a crisp crash sound and is very comfortable. However, since this keyboard is not equipped with a wrist rest, I do not plan to support it either, or it will be a bit too high.
The keys of the keyboard have to say that there is a strange, two-color injection keycap to ensure the transparency, bolden the increased font once again to ensure the transparency. Moreover, Asus chose an unclosed font so that I could not adapt to it when I first started. Words like Q, G, D, and B were almost unrecognized. What is the size of the font? Normal keyboard and function keys are often printed in two rows to write Page Dawn, and this Asus only put two letters, PU. Here's a comparison with the Corsair K70RGB.
With the keys provided with the keyboard to the normal font, both the thickness and the font are common
The processing and assembly of the keyboard is good, and the overall assembly precision is relatively high. There is something more embarrassing here. Actually, I originally wanted to change all the above four arrow keys. I found out that when using the key puller to pull the keycap, I found that the gap between the panel and the keycap was too small. ! Do not! Into! go with! The arrow keys on the right and the right, after many times of my efforts, have no way to remove the keycaps. It seems that it is time to get into a wire puller.
The assembly between the keyboard panel and the plastic substrate is also very good, although there are gaps, but it can be seen deliberately.
Several small protrusions on the side are directly stamped out of the metal panel, not the lamp
Second, the keyboard light
From the K70RGB we are already very familiar with Cherry's original RGB axis, how powerful the lighting performance. It is a pity that it has been placed on ASUS. Such a powerful hard power has not been fully reflected. Looking at the ASUS V1.0 driver and some of the light patterns in it, I just wished ASUS to quickly develop V2.0, 3.0, and N.0.
Limited role of driver
The keyboard presets 7 kinds of RGB light effect modes, including: 1. Full-key always-on mode; 2. Spiral running light mode; 3. Custom light mode; 4. Full-key alternate breath mode; 5. One-button lighting Mode; 6. Random breathing mode; 7. Button laser mode. The specific color of the light in each of the above modes can be changed by heart, but up to 7 colors can be preset.
You can choose 7 kinds of colors you like
Then, that custom light pattern, I do not know if it was because I was stupid, I do not know how to set, to see the instructions can set the backlight color of a single button, but unfortunately I did not succeed.
What's worth a bit of praise is that the indicator light of this keyboard also directly uses the LED backlight of the MX axis, so the color of each indicator light is individually adjustable.
Three lights are set in three different colors
Although Asustek's driver can't fully play the full strength of the Cherry MX RGB shaft, but from the light color, the color saturation is very high, and the entire backlight height is adjustable in four stages. It should be said that the quality of the original lamp is just right. .
Keyboard light on mode
Third, the keyboard feel
In terms of keycaps, the keycaps with a more grainy feel are quite good to hand, and the oil situation remains to be seen. However, compared to the phenomenon that the K70RGB used to lightly oil in one afternoon, the GK1100 has been used for more than 10 hours and there is no any Visible oiling occurs.
The included keycaps seem to have a more grainy appearance. What I value more is that it looks a bit more comfortable and looks better.
On the left is the keycap on the keyboard and on the right is the supplied
In terms of keystrokes, the overall sense of Cherry's green axis is very clear, and the hand feels consistent with the normal Cherry MX green axis.
Here I want to specifically talk about the difference between the green and red axes - because I actually suffer from the K70RGB red axis. The red axis goes straight up and down. Most of the pressure will not be too large. Pressing it easily and responding quickly is indeed the best choice for playing games. But for me, there is a more embarrassing place, which may be related to my long-term use of the membrane keyboard (By the way, Logitech's G105 feels very good in the membrane keyboard, even if you get a mechanical keyboard to compare, There are advantages and disadvantages to each other. Although I use the red axis when playing games is very comfortable, but in the daily typing it shows the weakness of the red axis - the reaction is too sensitive and too easy to be mistaken. My fingers were thick and I didn't lift my hands when typing. I often touched a button inadvertently. For the membrane keyboard, because there is a certain sense of passage, I know if I have touched a button, and I will not respond when I touch it, but the red axis is not like this. Which one or several keys were touched, and I didn't know if it was confirmed after the encounter - and in fact, it was often a mistake to touch it. This was when using the keypad to quickly enter numbers. It's even more apparent that after I changed the K70RGB red axis version, I no longer run through the keypad. It should be said that the red axis still seriously affected the speed and efficiency of my typing.
This time, the green axis, because of the large number of grams of pressure, and a clear sense of passage, let me regain the feeling of typing, and the sound of the mechanical sound is indeed let me enjoy the pleasure of typing. Attach a typing speed chart.
Although it has not reached the best speed in history, the entry speed has indeed increased.
Honestly speaking, the CHERRY Green Axis is not intended for games, so it is not very suitable for playing games. Although it has a strong sense of rhythm, the rebound speed and the sense of passage can be a bit difficult when the player is intensely operating. Will make you want to be more responsive players feel tangled. After three rounds of DOTA2, it was clearly felt that when the skills were released, it was confirmed that the speed was not as fast as when using the red axis, and even occasionally because of the speed of rebound and the sense of passage, things did not occur. Of course, if you are not an e-sports player with millisecond competition, this small difference will not have much impact.
Fourth, summary
advantage:
Exquisite workmanship. Regardless of everything from design, workmanship, materials, materials, and details, it can be seen everywhere that this is a product with a heart, and it does show ASUS's full sincerity. Although it is not ROG, but the big ASUS brand reputation, coupled with Cherry original MX RGB axis dual blessing blessing, and then taking into account the very rare RGB version of the green axis, on the keyboard itself, has been worth the money back.
The emergence of the Cherry MX RGB green axis finally compensates for the long-standing lack of original RGB typing keyboards. Although the pursuit of typing enjoys people who estimate that the requirements for the lights are not so high, there are lights that win and no light, and the lights are good. Well. It is also worthwhile to spend the money on the original factory axis and send light effects.
Disadvantages:
Fonts, fonts, fonts! Maybe everyone feels different, I personally, is really can not tolerate such a bold and bold font, although the enhanced light transmission performance, the overall brightness of the keyboard backlight may have benefits, but I still very much hope to be able to feel comfortable Font, how about Microsoft Cubs?
drive. The ASUS 1.0 version of the driver has a long way to go before it comes out of the original lighting effects. The level of backlighting of the original RGB axis is so strong that we have already seen it on the K70RGB. Compared to the ASUS driver, it is like a college student who just learns to write a program and writes his first operation. It is hoped that Asustek will accelerate the upgrading of the drive in the future, allowing us to realize the true power of the RGB Green Axis as soon as possible.
Small problems can be seen in big designs. The pull key is not inserted into the keyboard. There is no way to complete the replacement of the keycap. Is this a few meanings? I can only understand Asustek demonstrating their machining accuracy in a low profile.
Evaluation:
The keyboard is a good keyboard, the axis is a good axis, and the light is a good light. Although it will take time for all of our strengths to be fully utilized, we have to design a top-notch craftsmanship with solid materials. ASUS and Cherry MX RGB dual-belief blessings would require you to be 799 not expensive!