Software

When I had the chance to check out the 700M mouse from Cougar it was the software that really impressed me. So when I got ready to check out the 700K’s software I was excited to see if they had good software this time as well. I was a little disappointed that when I plugged in the 700K the Uix software I already had installed didn’t pick up the keyboard. In fact I had to go to their website and download the 700K version. This installed a second program with the same name and icon but in a different folder. This was a bummer because the software implies that it will work with both at the same time.

Once I got everything installed the keyboard did pull the latest firmware update right away. After that I could finally open up the program and get programing. The software is exactly the same as what I saw with the 700M and that is a good thing. On the left you have three modes or profiles that you can select and program, these match with the mode buttons on the keyboard as well. Down lower on the left are three tabs for the three sections of configuration. You start on the Performance tab. Here we can set the USB polling rate, repeat delay, repeat rate, and even elect between 6 key rollover or N key rollover. The reason they even give this option is because full N key rollover over USB will sometimes cause issues in some BIOS.

What I didn’t understand was having the backlighting and sleep modes here on this page when there is a lighting page. So the backlighting modes let pick from a few fancy backlighting modes but the two that most people will focus on is the standard mode (that is just all on) and the click mode that lights up keys when you push them. The other three do things like a nightrider effect or one that looks like an EQ. The sleep mode also shares those same effects, so if you want you can set the keyboard to start a fancy lighting mode after 2, 4, 6, or 8 minutes. Cougar has the EQ mode set to 2 minutes by default and frankly when this first happened to me I thought the keyboard was going bad. I think this should default to none and just give you the option to turn it on. Additionally they should add a true sleep mode that turns the backlighting off, I don’t think I would want my keyboard to start flashing when I was trying to go to sleep or if I was afk for a minute. On top of that I think they should let you set any time limit on when it will go into sleep mode, or at least give a better range than 2-8 minutes. If anything something like 5, 15, 30, 60.  

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The second tab is where you can program the macro keys. Cougar makes this easy with a drag and drop system that lets you drag an image to the key. You can also swap keys all together here if you want to rearrange the key layout altogether. There are pages and pages of things you can program to the macro keys including having them open up other programs, macros, mouse clicks, and media functions.

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The lighting page has less lighting options on it than the performance page. You do get a full image of the keyboard, here you can click on any key to turn the backlighting for that individual key on or off. So you can set one of your profiles to just light up the keys you use for a specific game. You can also turn off the backlighting settings that you flip through on the backlight button on the keyboard. I think they could expand on this by letting you set what each option does as well. I would love to be able to create a set that has my LoL specific lighting layout for example or set a brightness setting for daytime use and nighttime use.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #36170 16 Jan 2015 19:01
It wasn't that long ago that I took a look at the 700M from Cougar, today I have the chance to check out the matching keyboard. Enjoy, have a great weekend!

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