Cooler Master CM Storm QuickFire TK Mechanical Gaming Keyboard CherryMX Blue Switch USB

Pros: Fully back lit mechanical for great price! quality is amazing and it has improved gameplay/typing.

Cons: This particular model is sold with the led's according to the types of switches you get. blues you get blue led's, red's you get red. and brown you get white. but aesthetics is everything so i got them blue ones ;)

Other Thoughts: I really wanted a brown switch keyboard but i saw this on sale for like 45% off and i just couldn't pass it up! theres nothing out there that can beat a fully backlit mechanical for 65 bucks

Pros: Great response time. Heavy yet compact. Backlighting.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Brings back memories of the late 80s hammering away with and old IBM keyboard.

Pros: Great feedback compared to my previous membrane keyboards. Love it for gaming but...

Cons: The 'v' key has failed and I just got done wasting a half hour registering and trying to submit an RMA through Cooler Master's antiquated website. RMA request keeps getting denied on their form. Initially I didn't read the fine print that says Chrome is NOT supported. Ok, I boot up IE for the first time in years and I get the same error message. This isn't my first rodeo with RMA requests but it is my first Coolermaster product. May very well be my last. Going to contact their support to see if I can get this resolved.

Pros: Ordered this for a friend, but I played with it before I told him it was delivered. Blue Cherry MX keys are they only way to go! This keyboard is heavy and feels great. You can tell it's made out of high quality material ad will last

Cons: none

Pros: Very nice build quality. Amazing keys (Cherry MX Blues, are the best).

Cons: The keyboard is dead. It does not turn on.

Other Thoughts: Im guessing Im the only one with the problem. Hopefully newegg gets back to me or something

Pros: Beautiful keyboard, Feels amazing. If it wasnt for the con below, it would have been a great purchase.

Cons: Arrived with the F10 key's led not functioning.

Other Thoughts: After contacting Cooler Master they wanted me to pay for the shipping to replace THEIR defect product. I'm not paying another dime for this. They should have to reimburse me the cost. I'll probably just keep the keyboard and avoid all CM products in the future.

Manufacturer Response:

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Pros: Backlit
Not that expensive
Blue Cherry

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Great keyboard. Does what it's supposed to.

Pros: Has a really beautiful and striking backlight. Keys feel very high quality and the rubbery finish on the keys makes it a joy to type on. Feels alot better than my previous Razer Blackwidow even though they use the same Cherry MX Blue switches. Backlight is very even and has 5 different levels of brightness. Also has very minimal CM branding, unlike other models. Great value and build quality. Hard to go wrong when the kb is produced in the same factory as Filco.

Cons: The Fn and F12 keys cannot change their brightness levels. As long as they are activated, they will be stuck on the 4th brightness level. There are 5 levels and you cannot make these two keys any dimmer or brighter. This is a real problem for anyone like me. It is quite annoying to dim or brighten the rest of the keyboard and have these last 2 keys slightly dimmer. I usually play on the brightest setting and the difference between brightness is quite apparent. It's kind of a waste as the keyboard has a glow function. Imagine how silly it looks when the rest of the keyboard dims and brightens in a pattern while your f12 and fn keys are stuck on one brightness level.

Another thing is that you can only use the enter key in num lock mode, which a find quite weird. It has no function at all when not in num lock. Just a dead key.

Other Thoughts: The arrow keys on the numpad are activated when num lock is turned off. I find this quite innovative. However, when you want to use your number lock, the entire number pad except 2 is lit up. Really gets my OCD nerve going. I can understand this as they would need actual mechanics shifting the LED to the other side to light up the 2.

All in all, this keyboard is GREAT for the price. I paid $30 more for my old razer BW non - backlit.

Pros: Blue back-plate make makes backlighting shine, solid build quality

Cons: Number pad is very hard to get used to

Other Thoughts: I bought this keyboard a few weeks ago and I wanted to love it. The backlighting was amazing, they feel and sound of the Cherry MX Blues is amazing, but I just could not get used to the combination arrow set / delete set / num pad. I bought the keyboard thinking this wouldn't be a big deal, but the first time I had to work in a spreadsheet, it became very annoying trying to navigate the arrows and to remember to switch back the num lock when I needed the numbers. All in all, if you are used to a 10 keyless, this would be a great board, but I just couldn't get passed this, so I have actually traded the board for a full size CM Storm QuickFire Pro. I really wish CM made this board in a full keyboard form factor, since with the pro I'm giving up the awesome backlighting, but I just can't do the num pad / arrow set combo, it just didn't work for me.

Pros: Solid construction
Cherry MX Blue
Backlit keys!
Braided cable
Compact form-factor (while retaining full-sized keys)

Cons: The way they've integrated the arrow keys into the num-pad area, takes some getting used to. It's not a common arrangement, so I do find I always take a few minutes to adjust when coming from pretty much any other keyboard. While I'm adjusting each time, I do tend make more typos so that's annoying.

Other Thoughts: I've used a ton of keyboards over the years. Everything from original teletype terminal keyboards (!) and original IBM Selectrics, to Pen Computing's virtual keyboards, with endless membrane and touchscreen variants in between. It's when you get to use a quality mechanical keyboard for a while (again), that you realize keyboards used to be optimized for feel and stroke - to reduce typos and operator fatigue-induced error, since things were typed onto physical media that was hard to cleanly error-correct. Then came the PC and error-correction was just a backspace key away...and that in turn was used to justify the advent of the bundled, cheapo $5 keyboard.

Well, rejoice in the feel of mechanical keyboarding and this is a nicely affordable, quality mechanical keyboard. The few extra bucks for the backlighting only enhances it; fundamentally, this keyboard is a very rewarding purchase. I should have gotten one sooner...I've also bought a CM Storm Trigger for my game machine. Very pleased!