With the color options, however, you have solid blue, solid red, or many shades of purple and pink as you combine the two color buttons. There are however firmware updates you can get that improve on what the QuickFire XTi offers out of the box.Įvery key on the board has an LED to backlight it, as shown, in 35 colors and across five modes of effects. The QuickFire XTi also sports a 1ms response time or polling rate by default, and use of the keyboard is done without drivers. The QuickFire XTi offers full NKRO support in Windows via presses of the ABS keycaps that are sprayed with a grip-coat, and all of the caps are removable. It is also noted that availability can depend on region as well. It is available in QWERTY ANSI (US) layout and in several ISO-standard layouts, but not all switch variations are available in all layouts.Ī variation with Cherry MX Green has only been available in US-ANSI layout.As we move into the specifications, we first must cover that while we were sent a sample sporting Cherry MX blue switches in it, you can also purchase this same layout backed with Cherry MX red or brown switches as well. Exclusive for the Rapid with the Cherry MX Red, the backplate is painted in red where other variations are black. Both top covers are for sale as extras on Cooler Master's web site. Rapid keyboards with Cherry MX Black switches have a grey case, while keyboards with other switches have a black case. For 2013, Cooler Master removed most of the previous year's branding logos, except for a "CM STORM" which faces to the back of the keyboard, behind the ESC key. When the keyboard was first introduced in 2012, it had a grey rubbery coating with an abundance of logos, for which the Cooler Master had been heavily ridiculed in media and in the keyboard and gaming communities. There is a side-printed variant called the "QuickFire Stealth". 2 black "Windows" keys with Cooler Master's "round logo", replacing the "WIN" keys.4 red-colored WASD keys suitable for FPS gaming, with directional arrows etched on top and "WASD" letters etched of the front side.The locking keys ( CAPS LOCK, SCR LK, and the Windows key lock/disable under the F9 key) have LED windows and red LED backlighing. This "lock" prevents accidental activation of the Windows key when gaming (which would take you out to the Windows menu in the middle of a game). Media-wise, it has basic media keys (volume-up, down, mute, play/pause, forward, back and media stop), activated as secondary functions (Fn) on the top row (F5 to F12).įor gamers, it has a Windows key disable/lock key which lights red when activated (Fn+F9) in the same fashion as the CAPS LOCK and SCR LK keys. The keycaps are made of black ABS plastic which are laser-etched with white infill in a futuristic font. The bottom has rear (non-rubberized) standoffs and four rubber feet. The 'Rapid' comes standard with a braided, detachable, USB-to-mini-USB cable (about 6 feet long) with gold-plated connectors. The bottom surface has three channels for cable management (back, left and right). It had gained popularity partly because it was much less expensive compared to other TKL keyboards with similar specifications from other brands, e.g., Ducky or Filco. It was branded under Cooler Master's now defunct brand "CM Storm" under its "QuickFire" line of mechanical keyboards. The CM Storm QuickFire Rapid is a tenkeyless (TKL) keyboard from Cooler Master.
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