Conclusion

This board has a few good points and a few bad points. It does prevent the nasty claw that FPS veterans will no doubt be familiar with, and it is quite comfortable to use. However, some of the keys, especially the escape key and media keys are extremely hard to use if you have smaller hands; why a key as important as ESC was pushed to the edge of the board and pretty much out of reach of those of us with smaller hands I do not know. Something else I thought of while testing this board is the complete lack of options for macro setups, like other gaming boards such as the Belkin Nostromo. This function is obviously not necessary, but makes the board useful in other genres of games, eg. RTS or RPG games as well as FPS games.

This board performs as it should in many cases, but since it lets you down in several others I would think that buying a gaming keyboard would be a better spent £25

I'd like to thank our sponsors Beastcomputers for providing us with the board

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