Thermal ARGENT K5 RGB Gaming Keyboard Cherry MX Blue
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- Blue switches are known to be responsive and audible; press a key, feel the click and know when the 2.2mm actuation point has been hit. Rated at 50-million keystrokes for maximum durability.
- With a splendid asymmetrical curvature design, coupled with a aluminum top plate, the ARGENT K5 RGB allows enthusiasts to not only challenge the game, but game in style as well.
- An aluminum rotatable volume control knob allows you to adjust the volume settings on the fly. You can increase/decrease the audio output volume or press the knob to mute/unmute the audio output.
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Rosie S. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
RGB is the most even I have owned
Cons
The software is a chore and wants to run at startup
Comment
Bought it mostly on the strength of the lighting and it has not disappointed there. Every key is lit the same brightness, the legends are clear from a normal sitting position rather than only when you look down at them, and the underglow is not so bright that it washes out the desk. iTAKE is the tax you pay. It insists on launching with Windows, it sits in the tray doing nothing visible, and the per-key lighting editor is genuinely awkward to drive with a mouse. Set your profiles once, save them to the onboard memory, and then you can kill the whole thing and the board carries on regardless.
Willow L. Used for: 3–6 months
Cons
Space bar rattle that no amount of fiddling has cured
Comment
Everything about this board is solid except the one key you hit most. The space bar has a metallic rattle on the return stroke that you cannot unhear once you have noticed it, and the shift on the right does a quieter version of the same thing. The letters are fine, the modifiers are fine, it is purely the stabilised keys. I pulled the caps and had a look. The stabilisers are the clip-in sort with a smear of factory grease that seems to have gone nowhere near the wire itself. A dab of dielectric grease on each end helped a good deal, but I should not be doing that on a board at this price. Everything else earns four stars easily. The top plate is proper aluminium, the RGB is even across the board with no dark corners, and five months on there is not a shiny cap anywhere.
Ivy K. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Cherry switches, so spares are easy to find
Comment
Nine months of daily hammering and every key still registers first time. The caps are starting to shine on the WASD block, but that is what caps do
Oscar M. Used for: 3–6 months
Comment
Types beautifully and the magnetic wrist rest is the bit I did not know I wanted!
Louie S. Used for: Less than a month
Comment
Came from a rubber dome that had been on the desk since university, so almost anything would have felt like an upgrade. What surprised me is the wrist rest: it is magnetic, it is soft, and it does not slide off when you shove the board back to make room for a plate. The Cherry browns are louder than the marketing photographs suggest, mind.
Maya P. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
The aluminium top plate keeps it dead still
Cons
Full size means it hogs the desk
Comment
Weighs enough that it has not moved once, even when I catch it with an elbow mid-game!
Freya A. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Build quality is not the problem
Cons
The software would not see the board for the best part of a week
Comment
The software refused to detect it until I uninstalled and reinstalled twice, which is not a great start
Florence P. Used for: Less than a month
Cons
The cable is thick and does not want to bend
Comment
Braided cable is stiff enough that it lifts the back of the board off the desk unless you route it carefully. Everything else has been a pleasure!
