good people I'm Dimitri and my gaming setup has changed quite a lot in the
past few months I've replaced the Razer Viper
ultimate with the extra Phi M for RGB mouse and absolutely love it
I am constantly in between audio to right now I'm really liking the wireless
Anheuser GSP 370 I also stopped gaming on my personal threat Ripper system and
instead been using this insanely compact and powerful hoarser I 165 that has the
same hardware as my Intel workstation which is just insane but the one piece
of the puzzle that actually hasn't changed in the past two months is the
keyboard this is the Razer Huntsman TE
I would say Razer gets major points here for actually listening and releasing a
keyboard with all the features that people have been asking for and it's
what price to you at the hundred twenty nine dollars compared to offerings from
Logitech and steel series the Huntsman Te actually has an upper hand and I've
actually been using it for two months and we intentionally want to postpone
our review videos so that I'm not using it for a week and giving you my
impressions on the build quality and all the feature set but instead deliver a
more longer-term piece that allows me to see if anything
has gone wrong with this keyboard in the meantime this should be fun let's begin
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so let's go over the basics first I am quite surprised not to find any snakes
only the Razer text above the arrow keys the frame itself is surprisingly light
it's mainly plastic with a thin metal plate below the key caps which are
floating style and the first thing that I appreciate here is the standard bottom
row with emic stems on the switches for easy key cap swapping and customization
something Logitech refused to do on their latest Logitech G Pro X keyboard
we have a Type C connection with a braided long cable only on the left side
again awesome for custom type C cables and in the bottom the dual height
adjustment is always nice but the keyboard with these extensions is not as
stable especially on a mousepad surface the key caps are double shot PBT and
that coming from Razer surprises everyone they are slightly more grainy
and matte texture compared to what ducky offers but really solid key caps overall
there are a bit lighter in color than the frame so they're more dark gray than
black and these are so much better than what Logitech and still Sears offer at
the same price so non-glossy fingers even after months of usage plus no more
gamer II font it's a slightly bolder and larger font versus the huntsmen elite
it's clean it's easy to read except the font size for the top-right Keys is just
too large and looks kind of awkward spending the entire key cap however
there are many keys with uneven lighting caused by these black injection
in the bottom and it's honestly not a deal-breaker as brightness is quite
strong vibrancy and color is beautiful and while the secondary characters on
the F keys are not illuminated they pop just fine in white now what we have
under the hood are Razer's new linear red optical switches they are incredibly
light at 40 grams operating at 1 millimeter so super fast with total
travel distance of three point five millimeters so their light super fast
and smooth there is no metal on metal contact to register the keystrokes since
their optical so the entire movement up and down is clean effortless loud when
you bottom out and is rated at a hundred million keystrokes now each switch comes
with its own stabilizer and this means presses it off angle result in smooth
motion no sticky keys here so the execution is
perfect but these sound characteristics are a bit more clunky especially when
you bottom out and that plastic touches and that metal sounding just kind of
reverberates through the entire frame it's not that Pleasant if you love speed
switches this thing is absolutely no brainer the actuation point is high and
the switch is very light it's one of the reasons why I've been using the keyboard
for so long just to try to get used to the feel while in game and for text for
example the weight of my fingers would press into the key without my attention
either activating shift spacebar or pressing a and this doesn't happen with
my MX browns from ducky secondly typing airs in the first two weeks were
annoyingly common I had to develop new finger memory for more precise
keystrokes during text input and fast - now I'm perfectly comfortable with the
weight and the speed of the switches this is my gaming keyboard of choice for
csgo and anything casual I'm really fast at typing with a huntsman but I do
prefer my MX browns on the ducky for anything text related because the
switches are heavier and the quieter too and now the thing you've all been
waiting for what issues have I discovered in the past two months
so nothing major but basic things like dust pick up on the sides of the key
caps is a minor thing because they're so textured my Alt key is starting to wear
out at the front edge and no one in this household likes the sound of this
keyboard including myself and at least four times that I can remember I have
accidentally activated the sticky shift key by pressing it five times and that
has resulted in multiple frustrations not realizing what was happening in game
where I'm walking without pressing shift or doing something really strange at
4:00 sharp the actuation happens so fast and the recent point is exactly at the
same time so you can you can be pressing it as fast as you can and just be
mindful that the switch is very fast and requires a bit of readjustment in terms
of finger memory and also realizing that the weight of your hand will press on
those keys and lastly the synapse software is optional because of guest
node in which you can macro every single key change up the lighting save the
profiles to the keyboard and then migrate to computers without synapse
installed and what I'm hoping this keyboard would do is send a shock wave
to other brands because of just how well this keyboard has been received not only
by gamers but by the entire keyboard community as a whole it's a strong
recommendation from me if you want fast and light switches and if you don't mind
the sound alright that's all for me make sure to check out this other relevant
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