- What's cooler than a 360?
Two of them.
A 720.
And we've got the CK720 from Cooler Master.
The really cool thing about this guy,
not that it's Cooler Master, is just that it's hot swap.
It's 65%.
Apparently there's an aluminum top plate.
And what I'm really excited about
is the stabilizers are apparently lubed.
So it seems that the bigger companies
are finally kind of getting on board with this
and I am really down.
The Corsair one was okay,
but there's definitely room for improvement.
So I'm very curious to see how Cooler Master does.
I've actually never typed on like a single
Cooler Master keyboard, I don't think.
So I'm stoked to check it out.
We've got two.
One of them, I think it's just the switches.
Oh, there's a black and a white version.
Very cool.
We've got Clicky's.
It just says Clicky.
I think they're KL Box V2s or something.
And then this is, just says Tactile,
but that looks like a cherry brown.
I kind of want the black one.
Even though I really don't like Clicky's.
I kind of wanna open the black one.
So let's open the black one.
I've never really been one of those
like all white (cardboard box fumbling)
aesthetic kind of people.
I prefer black or colors.
We've got a pouch to remove the aluminum top cover.
Oh, this is super cool.
I don't know if this is entirely tool less.
It looks like you actually don't even need to take
all of the key caps off.
Just where the stabilizers are maybe?
And then you open up the side panel here.
And then you flick a switch and then you take it off.
So we're gonna try that. (paper flipping)
We've also got a quick start guide.
It's basically just warranty and other stuff.
Some quick stuff like function plus T for LED Modus.
Oh that's not English, that's German I think.
(cardboard scraping)
What else do we get in the box?
Oh. That's cool.
It's got like a little, I think that's plastic.
It's not actually gold or anodized metal or anything.
Maybe that's just the tape.
Yeah, I think, I think it's just the tape is gold.
Oh, okay cool. (tape scraping)
That makes a lot more sense.
That's the aluminum top plate.
So we'll try take that off.
Should only have to take these guys off to get at it.
(plastic wrap crumbling)
As per usual.
We've got a key cap puller and a switch puller.
I prefer these ones, personally.
I find that these are just really easy to get switches.
Especially when they're right on the very edge.
And then these key cap pullers
(metal flicking)
that work like this with the tongs.
I like these as well,
because it's really easy to just like
get in and out.
Whereas with one of these guys.
I brought another puller.
With one of these guys like this is,
that's also easy.
But like see how I've gotta push down a bit more?
Well I, I think that's it. (plastic crumbling)
I don't think there's anything else in here.
Oh, cable.
It's not anything special.
It's just C to A with no sleeving of any kind.
But the reality is, if you check their website
I'm pretty sure they mentioned that they are
going to be making custom cables.
So that's cool.
Really excited to see how those end up.
For now, I'll just use this regular guy.
I already took a couple key caps off.
And you can see that they're just KL Box V2s.
Pretty nice Clickies if you're into that sort of thing.
Apparently they come with some greens as well.
So you can try those out. (clicking keyboard keys)
Maybe that's just the final release.
And on ours.
(tapping space bar)
Space bar is okay.
You know what, I'm actually gonna open
the other one really quick.
I don't want to judge the sound of it
based on the clickies.
(plastic clattering)
And hey, now you guys get to see the white one too.
You know what, I'm gonna leave this yellow accent tape on.
I kind of like it.
(clicking keyboard keys)
Yeah, okay.
There are a couple silicone layers in this I think.
And that helps.
These feel a lot, a lot sturdier than regular browns too.
The space bar is okay.
(clicking)
There is some rattle and stuff in there still.
And I think it's because they're using
clip on stabilizers instead of screw in, which is fine.
It's you know, we like screw in.
Actually I'm gonna take the space bar off.
You can tell because they've got clips right here.
Normally those would be screw in.
Or at least in higher end products they'd be screw in.
It's really not the end of the world.
And there is lube.
I can definitely see the lube.
Why is there a "Do not remove cooler master"
sticker on here?
What? What happens if I remove that sticker?
Bell, I'm gonna remove the sticker.
- [Bell] No.
- Oh I got it. Okay.
There's a screw there.
Why they, and why do they only put it over one of them?
Okay, I don't understand.
Whatever. If you need to tear this thing apart,
don't worry about the sticker.
I don't know why it's here.
I hate the whole warranty void.
It doesn't say warranty void, it just says,
you know, "do not remove", but whatever.
The knob is very tactile.
You can really feel each individual click on it.
And I like that a lot.
Press down, forward, back.
Doesn't come out super easy.
Is there a little hole where I can unscrew it?
I am not sure.
Let's try taking the top plate off.
That's what I'm really curious about.
I also don't know why you need to remove these switches.
Like I, like I don't understand.
I'm just gonna try doing the thing on the side.
So we're gonna open it. (plastic scraping)
Take this little guy off, push this over.
Okay, so I have to remove these guys.
Okay.
Knob came off pretty easily actually.
I don't understand.
So these ones I kind of get cause they're stabilizers,
but I don't understand why the page down
and the numb pad has to get taken off.
I think there's plastic clips still.
(plastic wrap scraping)
Yep.
Ah, there we go.
Cool. Yeah just pops right off.
So they've got two layers of silicone in here.
There's one on the very bottom of the case,
and then there's one just above the PCB.
In between the PCB and the top plate.
And it's a cool purple material, so it fits the stabilizers.
I actually really like that.
I don't know, I'm a big purple guy.
I got the purple sweater on and everything today.
I'm a big fan otherwise the case is okay.
The case itself is plastic.
The top it is aluminum, but it's very thin.
The key caps themselves, they're basically
just double shot PBT.
And I'm gonna put this back on.
Oh, do you like slide it over?
Oh, you do.
Oh, okay.
So that's the thing is you push,
and then slide over. And then pull it off.
That's what was going on with those clips.
It was because I'm dumb,
and I didn't realize that you have to slide it over.
That is not shown in there "How to remove the top cover".
It just shows him like lifting it off.
So, Cooler Master you could do a better job with that,
in my opinion.
That was not readily apparent.
But now that I know how to take it on and off,
it's actually like pretty easy.
I'm a big fan. (plastic clipping)
I get why they need the key caps off now too,
because you gotta slide it over
and that would touch the key caps.
Yeah. Okay cool.
That's pretty neat.
On the bottom, (clicking)
we've got two stage adjustable feet.
Pretty sure they're two staged.
Yep. I'm a big fan of this.
This is one of the features that I would really like to see
on more high-end boutique boards.
I know that these feet aren't necessarily as sturdy.
I know they have more of a tendency to break.
I know that they're probably going to have to be plastic.
But I just also don't care.
Like I just want an option for typing experience.
Let me go from like flat, like this, to, I don't know
whatever incline this is.
And then something in between. (clicking)
With these guys here.
Yeah, that's nice.
(tapping keys)
Just gives you options. You know.
I gotta put away the black one with the Clicky switches,
and I'm gonna grab the white one.
Try out the browns, see how the typing experience really is.
when I'm actually typing something,
and not just mashing the keys.
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I'm gonna take off the accent tape now
cuz I don't like it anymore. It looks weird.
(singing)
I wanna know how heavy it is.
It's 880 grams.
So that's almost two pounds?
Yeah, it's pretty close to two pounds.
One thing that I just noticed,
they've probably done this with other products
before they had USB cables, but the internal plastic
on the USB is purple as well.
As you can see there's a bunch of RGB on this bad boy.
Per key illumination.
Nice thanks to this dull shot key cap.
You can see it really easily in the dark.
I like how they've got the Cooler Master logo
on the function key.
That's pretty cool.
That looks like it's also ready for Mac layout as well.
Cuz you got like the command symbol stuff here
on the alt key and whatnot.
So it's probably really easy for you to
switch this to Mac if you are an Apple user.
I haven't taken the top plate off of this one.
And it's very loose.
I did not notice that with the black one.
It's probably hard to see on camera,
but I can actually like really jiggle this
around a lot and I haven't even opened this.
I cannot attest for quality control.
The black one felt fine, the white one not so much.
Don't know.
Buyer beware, I guess. I have no idea.
I'm just gonna try typing and see how this goes.
And away we go.
(keyboard typing)
Oh, that was very, ah, I thought that was every,
110 96%. Not great.
I'm gonna blame myself instead of the keyboard.
That would've gone a lot better if I hadn't thought
that "every" was the word there.
But that's okay.
Honestly, it feels and sounds okay.
The space bar is definitely apparent.
(typing)
But that's actually really hard.
Like that, something a lot of people complain about
is that, and I've done it too.
is that a space bar is gonna sound really different
(tapping space bar)
from the rest of your board.
And the part of the problem is that
it's just a much larger key.
Like they're usually about 6.5 or seven units,
versus like one or maybe two or three or whatever
on your enter and delete key.
Or backspace, sorry.
(tapping keyboard)
And it's really easy to make the other guys
sound good when it's just a three U stabilizer,
but once you're going all the way across
with that really long bar, it's hard to make it sound good.
(tapping)
You could probably improve this with a bit of foam
under the space bar itself.
And then, ah yeah, maybe just not clip in.
Let me screw in the stabilizers.
It's just, it's a lot easier for manufacturers
to just clip stuff in I guess.
Let's take a look at the software.
Let's see how good the master plus plus stuff is.
I don't like the name, but if it works, it works.
Oh, it's detecting our CK 720 right away.
That's nice.
I don't, yeah, there's these two little dots down here.
I don't quite know what those are about, but whatever.
They're clearly labeled here, which is good.
We can change all the RGB stuff.
Like boom, now it's all red.
If we wanted to, it could be all blue.
Easy peasy, you know change things to like,
that's a reactive fade now.
Man. I love RGB.
Oh you can change the LED speed and stuff too?
Just make it like fast and stuff, and you can like
move the LED direction around and whatnot.
Key mapping as well in here, which is great.
You can just, looks like you can change anything
to literally whatever you want except for the
Cooler Master button, which will change.
It's the function button.
You can't really change that.
And then you can set up a bunch of macros and profiles.
Honestly, as much as I hate the name,
the software seems perfectly usable.
So this is great.
Honestly, I think that you can't really go wrong with this.
It, it works no problem. Detected the keyboard.
Everything is readily available to me
and yeah, you know what?
I hate the name, but I like the product, so that's fine.
Master plus plus software, you get A plus rank from me.
Here's the real kicker though.
This guy is like a hundred dollars.
You can definitely find pretty quality,
hot swappable boards for about a hundred bucks.
But, the fact that you could incorporate this easily
into a bunch of your other Cooler Master gear
on your desk and the fact that it does have hot swap.
Maybe these plates will be swappable later.
It comes with switches, key caps.
You're ready to go.
It's got a knob.
Like honestly, I think this is a pretty decent buy.
Especially if you want decent RGB software
and you don't want to use like
QMK and Via and whatnot to program it.
But I think that if you're looking for a keyboard
and you want something with a warranty,
and you want something that you can just buy,
I think this is actually a pretty solid purchase.
For just about anyone looking to get into custom keyboards.
There you have it guys.
It's the Cooler Master CK 720.
I don't know where the CK comes from, but you know what?
I like the rest of the board.
I think for a hundred bucks it's not bad.
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