In addition to a good mouse, a reasonable gaming keyboard belongs to the craftsmanship of every gaming addict. But what is the Best Gaming Keyboard? How is Razers BLACKWIDOW CHROMA in the test?
Product: Razer Blackwidow Chroma or Blackwidow x Chroma Keyboard
Category: Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with Chroma Lighting Effects
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Best Gaming Keyboard
Razer Keyboard Review
– The Requirements –
Important for a good gaming experience is a keyboards ability to:
- transfer inputs quickly
- allow finely dosed strokes
- being highly durable for a long time
A really good gaming keyboard is a sensitive instrument, but it has to withstand a lot. In games like “StarCraft 2”, pro gamers hack a good 320 commands per minute into the keyboard.
Whether Razer with the Blackwidow Chroma is a great and well equipped tool for gamers or not – let’s find out.
Best Gaming Keyboard
Essence with no frills?
The Razer Blackwidow already has a clear layout at the first contact. Razer does not make the mistake of distributing many groups of additional keys wildly on the keypad. This provides you the ability that nearly blind operations work smoothly in hectic games.
The Razer has five buttons, which are assigned to commands and command sequences (macros), on the left side. These buttons (like nearly every other button as well) are even customisable to your needs.
However, this field is very close to the main keyboard, so when gambling and sending quick messages, gamers may accidentally catch one of the five M-Keys instead of the Shift-Key.
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Lighting with 16 million colors
Style: Who likes, can illuminate the whole keypad multi-colored. According to your wishes: You can choose an effect from the RGB spectrum with 16.8 million colors. The brightness can be set to match players needs in 18 levels.
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Mechanical buttons
Really good: Instead of buttons mounted on a rubberized circuit board like most keyboards, each button of the well-processed Razer Blackwidow has a mechanical switch. During our testing this design allowed finely adjustable key strokes. The pressure point when triggering an action, such as changing weapons, was felt very precisely.
However, the features list is not complete. As a separate memory is missing your individual key assignments and macros are not available when connecting the Razer to another gaming PC.
Very handy is a gaming headset and an USB port. You can connect a gaming mouse, external hard drives or USB sticks to this comfortable dock.
Razer Blackwidow Chroma vs. Blackwidow X Chroma
Main Difference between the Razer Blackwidow Chroma and Blackwidow X Chroma:
- Blackwidow X is made of Military Grade Metal
- Blackwidow X has NO headset and USB Port
- Blackwidow X does NOT shine so bright as the Blackwidow Chroma because of the missing white Background within the keyboard
– CONCLUSION –
PROS and CONS
The overall handling and operation of the Razer Keyboard are top. The arrangement of the action buttons makes the in game experience very pleasant.
Biggest Plus: The Blackwidow is not crowded with additional controls, nevertheless the equipment is almost complete. What is missing? A separate memory for archiving settings, individual button assignments and macros.
PROS
+ Precisely adjustable Keys
+ Pleasant touch
+ Keypad illuminated
+ USB hub and headset port
CONS
– missing internal memory
Razer Blackwidow Chroma
Pros
- Precisely adjustable Keys
- Pleasant touch
- Keypad illuminated
- USB hub and headset port
Cons
- missing internal memory
- expensive
