Performance

Although there are a lot of similarities between the Trigger and the Quickfire Pro, these are two different beasts all together. The trigger for example requires software for its macro buttons; the QuickFire Pro lacks those buttons meaning no need to complicate things with unneeded software. What you see is what you get with the QuickFire Pro, no hidden features unlocked by software. For me, this is great. I rarely use software like that due to my lack of a need for programmable macro’s.  

The first thing that I noticed with the QuickFire Pro is its weight, this keyboard isn’t going anywhere without you wanting it to. That combined with its industrial design, it really feels like you are picking up a chunk of metal. When looking the keyboard over, you have a standard keyboard layout, nothing you wouldn’t see on almost every mechanical keyboard on the market. Up top where the function keys are you have second functions under each key, when paired with the function key on the right side, you can control the keyboards lighting modes and media playing functions. For the lighting this is great, but for the media keys I would prefer to have dedicated keys. It’s hard to remember to hold the function key when trying to mute or adjust volume for example. If not careful you might end up refreshing a page or closing everything all together on accident.

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The Quickfire’s Cherry Browns mean a quiet gaming experience compared to the cherry blues we see on most keyboards. Cooler Master actually offers a few different switches on the QuickFire Pro, but in the states you are limited to Red’s and Browns right now at least. Running Cherry Browns mean you still have a slight tactile feedback, but they lack the solid feedback and loud noise you will get with Cherry Blues. Some find the browns to be a happy medium between the blues and the linear blacks.

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What really makes the Quickfire Pro stand out from the competition in this case is its unique lighting. Without going full back lit they cut costs but still managed to light up a good portion of the keyboard, in fact just about anything you might end up using while gaming. Not just the normal WASD that a FPS would use. Fans of DOTA or LoL will be happy to see that QWER is lit up as well. The full list of keys that have backlighting is below

Esc

F1, F2, F3, F4

1, 2, 3, 4

QWERASDFZXC

Space (quickfire letters)

F12 (windows key lock)

All four direction keys

FN key

Once you figure out how to work the lighting functions, you are good to go. You have both control over brightness and you can actually turn off some of the keys if needed to take you back to the standard WASD or even no lighting at all.

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I mentioned it before but Cooler Master included a separate USB cable on the QuickFire Pro like with the QuickFire Rapid. This allows you to replace the cable if its damaged. But I did find one issue with this design for me, the connection on the keyboard itself is very tight due to the almost inch long plug. If they shortened this slighting it would make hooking the keyboard up much easier.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #26370 23 Jul 2012 16:40
The QuickFire Pro from Cooler Master
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Dreyvas replied the topic: #26371 23 Jul 2012 17:25
Very nice. I'm thinking this will be my next keyboard.

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