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4.3 out of 5 stars Based on 91 Customer Ratings

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"Best Keyboard I have ever had."
5 stars"

By no means is this keyboard perfect, but it sure has survived a beating, after being dropped by a careless friend and had a whole glass of Pepsi max split through it (after a night in the hot water cupboard) still works perfectly. Love the lighting features and the touch screen. Awesome price for a great keyboard :-)

9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
"Superb"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

An excellent keyboard, the key response is quick and firm, without being stiff.

Commonly used keys like the space bar, arrow keys, and the WASD set are metal capped, giving them a longer life, and the backlighting is great for low-light or gaming in the dark.

I would gladly recommend this keyboard to anyone, even if my sister thinks it is a bit geeky.

8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
"Looks Great in Real Life"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

After looking at many Light up gaming Keyboards, I chose This one because it was the only one that had multi-zone Colours, especially been able to have the W A S D keys a different colour is a bonus.

I can say after seeing it in real life, not one photo or video I seen on the internet done it justice, it looks really really nice in real life, and looks modern and not 1980's like it looks in the photo's.

The only thing that I could say I do not like, would be the Space Key, the light is not even on it " one end is bright the other is dark " but it is a minor thing ". and maybe that it does not have blue as a choice in colour.

The keys even though they are not Mechanical, have a nice positive feel when pressed.

I think if you purchase this Keyboard you will be very happy, unless you are extremely picky :).

6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
"Simply Awesome"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

I have bought this keyboard about three weeks ago and it far exceeded my expectations!!! I love being able to change all the visual settings (Colour and brightness) of the keys from the keyboard itself.

The photo kind of suggested it looked kind of old but it looks the complete opposite!

Awesome Keyboard all around!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
"Nice keyboard to use."
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Great keyboard especially for those with bigger hands.. The keys have a nice feel to them and are responsive. The programmable keys down the sides are a bit useless though as they are to far away from the main keys to use in a hurry in a game. Overall a good general purpose keyboard that works well and looks good.

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
"Impressive"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

First of all…the order and delivery was so quick it shocked me. At 2am had enough of battle with my old keyboard and mouse, jumped on the mighty ape site, placed order and the very same day currier was knocking on the door. Thanks guys…best service in NZ.

Now.....It took me a while to decide which keyboard I was gonna go for it. Now that I've got this one I can honestly tell you I didn't make mistake. Like the other users were saying..don't look at the pictures on the net because they don't do the justice. You need to see it in real life to appreciate the beauty of colours. The keys are soft and nice to type. I am really, really happy. I definitely recommend it. Get it while the price is down.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
"Pretty good"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

I like it, It is a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be though, I guess I should have looked into it. Great responsiveness and a relatively quiet key press. Nothing compared to a mechanical keyboard though. For the price I would say it is definitely worth it.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Maybe I got a faulty one"
2 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Touch screen often doesn't work and sometimes mutes sound during saving a game so suspect the unit is faulty.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"good first several months, then the trouble starts"
3 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

After using the keyboard for 3 months the sensor panel started working horribly and turning the volume up an down randomly at the worst moments. so don't go fot a shiny sensor panel, it's gonna get laggy after 3–4 months.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
"Saitek / Mad Catz V7 Keyboard"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Awesome keyboard the keys have a positve feel, have yet to experience keybounce or any malfunction. Have now purchased 2 so am impressed.

"Everything you need in a keyboard"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Very solid keyboard the best ive used so far without it being mechanical nice responsive feel great colours aswell as being able to change up to 5 sectors of the keys to diffrent colours has gyborg gaming mode which lets you disable the all annoying windows key during gameplay,has 12 hotkeys which is awsome.The one downfall I found and dont get me wrong its not a biggie but if you are using the hotkeys youll need to have windows10 as there are no drivers avaliable for windows7 at all I looked everywhere,overall I would recommened this to anyone wanting a responsive keyboard with all the bells and whistles for very little money I personally am loving it and using it currently so does my son and he was all about mechanical only before hand thanks Mighty Ape you guys do one hell of a job very fast reliable service I dont shop anywhere else.P.S. The 4stars I gave it was purley because of the windows7 drivers not being avaliable nothing else.

"Nice and easy to configure"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Good keyboard with features of more expensive models. The extra keys gives great extra options that you can choose what you like

"Excellent with great build quality."
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Excellent with great build quality.

"brilliant keyboard"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

this keyboard is definitely the bst I have ever owned. so much value, perfectly comfortable, well make and the keys have a solid satisfying feel. nice to type on and it feature packed to make gaming fun and easy with customisable tabs which can be used as hot keys with a nice lighting system for easy visibility.

"Worth $30 at best."
1 stars"

90s keyboards feel more well built. Touch panel never worked. If you touched it, it would constantly turn the volume down until you restarted your PC. Lights are weak but they are OK in the dark. Extra programmable buttons are handy to have but weird to use (2 were snapped internally and were stuck down out of the box). The chrome paint on Space, W,A,S and D lets light through unlike the rest of the keys, such as only half the Space Bar being lit like in the product photo. I tried it give it away to a couple of people and they said no. Jump on Aliexpress or something and get a cheap RGB keyboard for one third of the price if this interests you for the same quality product

Never returned it because I needed a keyboard and for the most part, it did work well enough for that.

The USB slot was great for plugging in the mouse. The wrist rest is nice, better than not having one.

"Awesome"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Love this keyboard good lighting and a nice feel to the key

"AMAZING"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

I Rather use this then my razer black widow ultimate. Best keyboard I have ever owned the color mechanism is really awesome macro's are amazing if you cant be bother'd using your mouse. Very durable steel capped W,a,s,d Space And arrow keys Great keyboard worth the money

"Lovely but meh"
4 stars"

Have had it since 2013 and its great…but only stuffed up when pressed space key way too hard and it keeps jamming. Otherwise, worth while!

"Awesome"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Awesome

"brutal awsome"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

hard wearing keys (metal keys for “wasd” and “↓↑↔” ) with good spring back. the back lit keys is a cool feature and by tappint the “madcatz” ligo the keyboard turns to game mode allowing differnt colours and shade of colours in key areas of the keyboard. The quick buttons (C1-C12) on the side of the keyboard make it seem laeg and bulky but once programed and in use they quickly become another useful tool. The wrist rest is solid plastic and has a rather largepice missing from the middle whilst it looks good, I would rather it we filled and padded. The keyboard hight freet are good with two hight options at the back and one at the front. The usb port is i nice idea and i use it for a 4 way port near the keyboard. I havnot bothered with the headphone and mic jacks ans have usb headset.

Summery: 8.5 / 10 All in all an excellent keyboard but the size takes a little getting use to. Very cool features.

"Great keyboard, good wrist rest" Purchased on Mighty Ape

Pros Backlight good size nice keys wrist rest programmable function keys can set backlight color for different regions (eg wads green, function keys red, etc)

cons can only set different region colours in “gaming” mode in gaming mode “windows” key is disabled (so cant leave in gaming mode to key backlight colours different)

"Awesome gaming keyboard"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Awesome

"Solid build"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Now this is one very nice looking keyboard and is a breeze to use in a dark room. Nice feeling keys there are only 2 things about this keyboard that I can think of in the way of cons and one of them isn't even really a con and that is that the logo on the keyboard isn't a cyborgs face its the mad catz logo and the other would be that I find the macro keys to be too far away to be of any use. Well for fps games anyway although I imagine they could be very useful in mmo. The lighting on the keyboard is good too giving you a small selection of colours and various brightness's over all I am very happy with my purchase and would recommend this to anyone who's in the market for a keyboard and cant afford to go mechanical.

"Brilliant!"
5 stars"

I got this awhile back and the quality is supreme! The customisable colours for each part of the keyboard is GENIUS and the feel of the keys is perfect! The extra USB port and the audio and microphone jack makes setting up really easy A GREAT keyboard EPIC quality!!!

"Extraordinary."
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

This is truly a wonderful keyboard. It is worth more than what you pay for!

Pro's:

  • Various programmable macro keys
  • Various Key light colors and brightness adjustments can be made.
  • Media keys.
  • Has extra USB ports on the front side of keyboard.
  • User Friendly.

Con's:

  • Wired
  • Software for the keyboard must be downloaded in order to use it to its full potential.
"More lights than Tim the Toolman's Xmas tree"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Have you ever driven past one of those homes that gets lit up for Xmas- The sort which wrap hundreds of coloured lights around their homes. Well this keyboard would put them to shame.

I have my arrow keys and WASD keys set to green, the number pad set to yellow the other keys on red and the macros set to orange. It's amazing that my neighbors don't complain.

Some have said the space bar is not lit up – not sure why as mine lights up.

There are little touch keys along the top of the keyboard for you to adjust volume and your media player – the cyborg icon turns the back-lighting on or off and the other ones let you go crazy on customizing the lights.

I'm typing this review on my other PC using a MS curved 5000 and it is nowhere as comfortable to type on as my Cyborg – previously I had a back lit Sidewinder which was good but the keys felt plasticky to me. The Cyborg has good travel on the keys – they are responsive and well separated – no more hitting 2 keys by mistake.

I haven't used the macro keys yet – I do have a Cyborg RAT which I program profiles for but just haven't seen the need for the keyboard yet.

Really the reason I got the keyboard was I wasn't happy with my sidewinder and wanted a keyboard that had good back-lighting and was good for typing – this keyboard meets those needs really well.

Is it overkill – yes – super flashy – yes – does it impress my friends – yes but then I have geeky friends.

I'd definitely buy another if I needed to – I rate this as excellent.

"Great Keyboard"
5 stars"

Was not expecting this keyboard to be this cool. Awesome set of light choices, ability to disable the windows button and a great feel.

"AWESOME!!"
4 stars"

This keyboard is amazing for both gaming and for general purpose. The keys are very responsive and are very nice on the fingers when you are typing. I also like the way you can change the brightness and colour of the keys yourself.