THE RIPJAWS KM570 MX

The RIPJAWS KM570 MX is a medium sized keyboard that measures 446.5mm in length, 158.8mm in width and 45.5mm in height. It weighs a total of 1.25kg and its housing is made by hard plastic (feels very sturdy).

G.SKILL has placed their logo both over the arrow keys and on the space bar.

As usual F1 through F4 can also be used to launch various programs such as open my computer, default internet browser, default email program and the calculator.

F5 through F8 allow you to lock out Windows keys (game button), switch between 6-Key and N-Key rollover, rotate between the 7 available effects / patterns and save your own custom profile.

F9 through F12 are the media navigation keys so here we have the previous track, play/pause, stop and next track keys (always by also pressing the FN key).

The arrow keys also have two roles so from the left and right ones you can slow or speedup various effects while from the up and down ones you can increase and decrease the brightness levels (5 stages).

There are also four keys over the numpad which can be used to mute/increase/decrease sound and launch the on-the-fly macro recording.

Here we see the backlit Cherry MX Red switches.

At the base we find 5 small rubber feet and two height-adjusters.

These height-adjusters are not tall so they hardly raise the top end of the keyboard 5mm more.

The 2 meter long braided cable has a gold plated USB plug at the end.