Member Reviews: Coolermaster Storm Trigger Mechanical Keyboard

First off, don't pay $120 for this keyboard. You can find $100 if you actually bother to look around. That said, let's move on. This is the slightly more expensive cousin of the other Trigger keyboards from CM. This one has 5 macro keys on the left hand side. The macro-recording is somewhat confusing. The windows key is also not functional by default. What's good about this keyboard? It's quite heavy and seems to have good build quality. The lighting is nice, with 5 brightness settings, and 3 lighting settings (on, breathing (slow pulsing), only WASD... OFF isn't a lighting mode!). The two highest brightness settings can only be acheived by plugging in a seperate, not included 6V DC...

Let me start by saying this isn't the First Mechanical Keyboard I have used. I have a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate at work, which i use every day. On the non-mechanical side, i came from a Logitech G19, which replaced my old G15. While the G19 is a beautiful, sleek, and excessive keyboard (who honestly needs a display on a keyboard? ) which is awesome, i decided to try out the CM storm as a mechanical keyboard for my second computer. After it arrived, I couldn't help but smile at how brilliant it looked. I am not too much a fan of the "gloss" (it gets dirty, smudgy, it's difficult to clean sometimes and scratches are extremely obvious) and i hated the fact that the Blackwidow i use makes...

This is my first mechanical keyboard that I needed red led with MX Brown switches. The options to have one here in Canada is very limited and expensive. When I got this keyboard I notice how heavy this was. There is a nice hefty feel to it. Shows that this is very sturdy. The Trigger has a nice feel to it. The whole keyboard including the wrist rest has a nice soft touch rubber feel. Even the angled feet are in rubber to help it from slipping. There is 4 LED Brightness settings to choice from which all of them shine very nicely through the keys. The 5th one is by the AC adapter plug. (sold separately) , what this also helps with is the 2 USB ports. Can give extra power to the USB...