MK Fission RGB Acrylic White LED Backlit Mechanical Keyboard - Black Keycaps, Silent Red Cherry MX Switches

This is a great keyboard. Heavy, noisy, almost like the IBM Selectric keyboard that I learned to type on way back when. I bought the one with cherry blue switches and although I wish the tactile feel was still just a little firmer (I have hams for hands and sausages for fingers) it is far and away better than the normal cheap computer keyboards. The keys have a nice long throw, the whole unit feels solid and the design with the switches surface mounted and keys extending up is interesting and draws lots of comments.I can barely type on my laptop keyboard any more since I've gotten used to this device.The LED lighting scheme seems a little simple compared to other gaming keyboards. The base rim color shades and key backlight modes can be changed by using function-keystrokes. I could not make any changes with either the Corsair color change software or with the Asus BIOS.The key backlights are white only but you can set it to display various flashing effects.But who cares, it is a great, solid keyboard and with a couple days of using this keyboard I am back up to my 80+ keystrokes per minute that I had in High School. Since my system is used far more for Word/Outlook than gaming, it works well for me and I'm glad I chose this model over some of the others on Amazon.

really solid build, which is exactly what i wanted. I like that all of the fancy keyboard processing is done in the board itself, my only disappointment was that the LEDs under the keys are fairly weak if you are in a sunny place. it would be nice if they were high power RGB so you could match colors with the other LEDs. i can overlook this.oh yea, typing feels great too. im giving it four stars because it has an ugly windows icon as the super key and no replacement keys for it. this is an affront to us NIX elitists

I got the Cherry green switches and I am in love. Cherry greens put up more resistance than blues, which to me just makes them that much more satisfying to press. The lighting is excellent -- both the key lighting and the accent lighting. I like that I can change the accent color and/or make it rotate. The different key lighting animations you can select are fun too. I've been using the "ripple" effect, where a wave of light spreads out from each key you touch. It's excessive and silly, but I love it. If I get tired of it I can switch back to constant lighting, and adjust the brightness to match the lighting conditions in my apartment. The appearance of the white keys against the black body is also nice, and I even like the curved design of the body itself. Is it really worth $120? I don't know, but I'm glad I bought it.

Update 30 September 2017: still the best keyboard I have ever used.Update 18 April 2017: after two months of use this is still the best mechanical I have ever used.ORIGINAL REVIEW:Wow. This is a lot of keyboard for a more than decent price. As I type on it now, just having received it today, I can't give a detailed long impression. I can only provide my initial perceptions and those are beyond amazing.----- Keycap Color -----Firstly, I got the white-keyed version with Cherry MX Clears. The switch type is irrelevant to the keyboard since there are so many options and they are all so personal. The key color, however, is quite relevant. In my current hindsight, I might have chosen the black-colored keycaps only because this keyboard is destined to be my work keyboard and the white keys certainly stand out. I love them. In my future's hindsight, I am sure I will not regret my decision to possess such a boldly colored keyboard. The contrast of the white keys on the black metal backplate is stark and beautiful.----- Keycap Lighting -----The keycaps are quite starkly lit if you chose to use the light. VERY bright white light on white keycaps is actually astoundingly beautiful as well. It is incredible how much contrast they managed to produce with white backlighting on white keys. As mentioned in some reviews of this keyboard, there are some keycaps where the lighting is not perfectly even. This is due to the extremely high-quality caps, believe it or not! However, that is still a negative aspect. The number pad experiences the largest gap in lighting: the Home, End, Ins, Del, NumPadArrows, PgUp, and PgDn legend writing is not lit much at all. This could be by design; I know I NEVER use those features on the number pad, and as I state later, the welcome default of NumLock ON means I likely never will.The lighting options are also quite nice. The last choices selected are saved to the keyboard, so you never have to reset them due to a random computer restart or when you are forced into a relocation of your computer or keyboard. The video goes over them well enough, though, so I won’t recap each one here. I do think that they could have added a few more brightness and speed levels, but that is so minor a grip because I feel most people will either want off, dim, or max. (They provide off, dim, LackLuster, and BRIGHT)----- Keycaps -----They are double-shot caps and the feel about as sturdy as they come. Unless it is due to discoloration of the white caps, I doubt I will ever need to replace these keycaps. Unfortunately, I can't give a valuable perspective on the keycaps based on their longevity because this is a brand-new keyboard release. All I can say is that they feel like the thickest I have ever used.However, I can continue to comment on the legends: I do believe that placing legends side-by-side on the dual-symbol keys is the best approach for lighting AND readability. Oft I have been led astray by a “gaming” keyboard swapping which one is on top. (Razer) We read left to right – it is about time our keys reflect that. The left symbol is the output without “shifting” and the right symbol is the “shifted” symbol. Simple and consistent. If you view this as a negative you are being silly. I only mention this because others have. It really is a non-feature and non-con.But the Fn/media-legends are different. They are very important to be able to see and discern since they are different from keyboard to keyboard and you might not memorize them as you do the location of the tilde. Of note, they are not lit. Upon testing, the media keys on the Function row are barely visible without room-lighting. Your displays will likely light the keys well enough however; this may vary based on keycap color – since my white caps might reflect my monitors lighting much more aggressively.On a final note, the Fission logo is a bit obtrusive to the aesthetic of the keyboard. I hope that they subdue the logos of their future keyboards. Also of a minor note is that this keyboard does use Cherry MX leveling mechanisms for the stabilized keys. I always find this a plus.----- Build Quality -----WOW! This thing is a lethal weapon! SOLID metal chassis. Seriously? This is a lot of keyboard for not so much money! Of course, the key switches are Cherry MX, so those are high quality, too. Time will tell if the interior is of superb quality, but given the lack of undercutting on the exterior, I would highly doubt they skimped on the internals.The rubber feet are very solid and of superb quality. The kickstand-risers also have rubber feet that actually work well, unlike some other keyboards. It seems they actually designed the risers starting with the rubber feet and then tried finding the best way to attach them to the board, instead of adding rubber as a useless afterthought.Now for the CON of the build quality: the cord. I have almost no doubt that the cord will last for a long time – but I also have almost no doubt that it will be the reason I am eventually forced to replace this god among keyboards. Not having a detachable cord is a HUGE issue nowadays since it is the leading cause, in my experience, of good peripherals’ failures. I would have even rather it didn’t come with any cord at all, instead just having a Micro-USB or Type-C port. Of course, they couldn’t sell it without a cord, but I hope that they listen to these minor complaints before designing their next keyboard. This is the only feature I feel they held back. I know that someone designing this beauty wanted it but was told it was too costly.This downside shouldn’t put many people off. It should only deter you if you actually plan on moving the keyboard more than once a week – for instance if you plan on carrying it back and forth to work every day. I am sure the cable will hold up, if cared for, if you merely go to LAN parties every weekend.KEEP IN MIND: If you take good care of your keyboard, the cord will never spontaneously break. It isn’t the actual cord’s fault if it breaks. I expect this board to last me at least a decade of software development.----- Media/Additional Key Functionality -----As mentioned earlier, this keyboard does come with media key legends place without lighting but in an easy to read location. The Fn-key itself replaces the right Windows/Os key. This might be a very noticeable downside if you often use the right Windows key for the various hotkeys it can be used for, but I imagine most won’t even notice the loss.As for the media and functionality keys themselves, I have tested them all and they seem to all work great. The Browser and Media Program buttons launch your defaults, which you will have to change in Windows if you don’t like them. There is no proprietary software to change them with.----- Firmware -----This keyboard does not use any additional software other than the standard keyboard interface provided by the default operating system’s drivers. Therefore, in order to provide the built-in lighting and N-Key Rollover features it must have some form of native firmware. I doubt it is an overly complex setup, but it has some interesting features that are worth mentioning:1) NumLock and N-Key Rollover (Game Mode) are ON by default.2) CapsLock, ScrollLock, and WindowsLock are OFF by default.3) YOUR SETTINGS ARE SAVED even when they board has no power.This means that the most desirable traits of the keyboard should be correctly set when you first pull it from the box. Of note is that they call N-Key Rollover “Game Mode”. This is silly, and there is a light always on next to your other toggle indicators the shows N-Key Rollover is enabled – because why would you ever disable it?Also noteworthy is that there is no ScrLk indicator! WHAT!?!? This is a huge blunder – what will I ever do if it is enabled and I don’t know? HOW WILL I KNOW!?!?! All kidding aside, this is actually a pretty real downside. In some applications there is a real difference in how they work with Scroll Lock on or off, mainly Excel, and some people may accidentally enable Scroll Lock and not be able to figure out why their program is behaving abnormally.As far as the firmware goes, it all seems to work as I would want it to; and as anyone really should want it to.----- Conclusion -----This is about the best $120 keyboard you can buy. It is minimalist if you want it to be, and it is shiny and bright if you lust it to be. The construction is as sturdy as a keyboard can be made – top-notch in almost all regards except the lack of a removable, and an unbraided one at that, cable. I whole-heartedly recommend this keyboard to anyone who isn’t traveling with it every day. It is produced by one of the largest distributors of mechanical keyboards in the United States, and its price to quality to feature ratio is far superior to any other keyboard I have witnessed. If you like the aesthetics of this board, you needn’t fear anything at all. It will live up to your demands and more.

My keyboard came with white keycaps oppose to black but that's nothing major the keys are also extremely light but I got use to that quickly and the keyboard is extremely loud so that's an A+ from me