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    CMStorm Quick Fire Pro Mechanical Keyboard

    Mechanical keyboard still offers best accuracy compared to regular gaming keyboards. CMStorm offers a mid range mechanical gaming keyboard. I always found mechanical keyboard more comfortable compared to the regular ones. As they offer a much better responsive timing and key press comfort. But annoying noise is sometime not good. Ignoring that, Quick Fire Pro is a nice full fledge mechanical keyboard which features Mechanical Cherry MX Switches. This is a mid range gaming keyboard. The keyboard’s layout is specifically designed to give maximum comfort for gaming only. It does not have unnecessary black lit on every key. The back light is only provided on required gaming keys. They are divided into three modes which is Gaming cluster (WASD + Arrow keys) and Extended Gaming Cluster (QWERASDFZXC + Arrow Keys + 12345+ F1toF4). And in third mode the keys are turned off. You can simply hit the FN keys that replace the right context menu key on the board, and press F4 to choose the mode you want. This mode does not make any changes in the key; it just turns on the back light on. Quick Fire Pro features easy to remove keys. You just have to drag them up and you can check out the dome below that has a spring support due to which the pouncing rate is awesome.


    It offers a comfortable typing and instant response timing with different customization keys on the body itself. Mechanical keyboard are always a costly hardware. But still they are surviving and giving best in gaming. For those who love accuracy, wide layout, typing comfort and custom key profile, Quick Fire Pro is a complete package for them. The right context key is removed from it and that is annoying while work. But for gaming those keys are never required. The keys are not silent. When you hit them there is a click sound that comes continuously when you are hitting a key.

    Features:
    • Mechanical CHERRY MX switches
    • USB 2.0 full speed
    • NKRO in USB mode
    • Multimedia shortcuts
    • 1000Hz/1ms response time
    • Windows key disabled in game mode
    • Partial Red LED backlight (WASD + QERZXC + 1 to 5 + F1 to F4 + Arrow Keys+ Esc + Spacebar)
    • Removable braided USB cable with cable routing

    Specification:
    • N-Key Rollover – 6/Full N Key
    • Polling Rate – 1000Mhz/1ms
    • Backlight – Partial
    • Windows Key Disable – Yes
    • Media Keys – Yes
    • Interface – USB 2.0 Full Speed
    • Cable Length – 1.8m
    • Dimension - 454(L) x 155(W) x 31(H) mm / 17.9(L) x 6.1 (W) x 1.2(H) inch
    • Weight - 1300 g / 2.86 lb

    Quick Fire Pro is a big keyboard, which can consume a nice space on your desk. The dimension (inch LxWxH) is 17.8x6.1x1.2 which makes it bit bigger in size and the weight is around 1300g. It is a heavy keyboard with awesome layout and looks. It may not feature complete back light keys, but the partial back light are easy to identify gaming keys. With full N-Key Rollover support, Quick Fire Pro is capable of giving you instant response time. N-Key Rollover is highlighted as a prime feature of many gaming keyboard. This allows a distinct quality to the keyboard hardware that knows which key you are hitting while using others. That reduces the response time to great extent. Along with this it features 1ms polling rate. Polling rate is just a process which tells the pc what is pressed. That means if you hit a key within 1ms the pc knows the command and performs action. This is an important aspect for gaming. Partial LED is smarty design giving you highlights of only those keys that are required, so that other keys do not disturb much. Below you can see two different images of this LED light.

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    Re: CMStorm Quick Fire Pro Mechanical Keyboard


    All Function keys on Quick Fire Pro have some work. Like from F1 to F4 you can manage the brightness, contrast and change Backlight Mode. The F1 is used to turn on and off the back light keys while F2 and F3 allow you to adjust its brightness. While F5 to F8 are multimedia keys. Volume keys are from F9 to F11 and F12 to disable Windows Key. To use them you have to hit the FN key that replaces Content Menu key. It is a heavy keyboard. The weight of this keyboard offers it firm grip while many light keyboards moves when you use them rigorously.


    Quick Fire Pro comes with a removable usb cable. It is not fixed on it. It is a braided usb cable that is durable and the size is around 3 Meter. It is worth to have a detachable cable only if there is a wifi support provided. Another good advantage of having Quick Fire Pro is that it offers you easy key replacement. You can simply remove and clean it if you want. There are no additional accessories available in the package. Quick Fire Pro offers good responsiveness and easy key configuration. If we compare high end gaming keyboards with Quick Fire Pro, then the keyboard lies at a low range features. Like there are no programmable keys available on the body. It is just designed to give you performance.




    Conclusion

    Among the high and low range of gaming keyboard series available under CMStorm, Quick Fire Pro is a mid range keyboard. There are many things that it lacks, but as we tested it on some fps games we found it a bit better. The cost of Quick Fire Pro is Rs. 6,000/-. That makes it a costly keyboard in terms of features it lacks. Other gaming keyboards like one we had tested by Logitech offers a set of programmable keys and widescreen LED. All this stuff is removed from Quick Fire Pro. It looks like CoolerMaster wants to keep a very straight forward hardware for intense gaming performance only.

    Pros:
    • Comfortable Keys
    • Partial RED LED Mode
    • MX Cherry Keys

    Cons:
    • No programmable keys
    • Overpriced

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