INTRODUCTION

   Although there are many people out there looking to get an elegant mechanical keyboard (much like the RETRO Classic Typewriter Inspired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard by AZIO which we finished testing just two days ago) for their office or home there's no denying that the majority of consumers are into feature-rich mechanical gaming keyboards. Needless to say that RGB key illumination is the hottest selling point for mechanical gaming keyboards and so it's no surprise that many manufacturers equip their already successful models with that feature in order to grab an even larger market share. HyperX is one such manufacturer and after testing their somewhat impressive single LED color (red) ALLOY Elite Mechanical Gaming Keyboard a while back today with us we have the updated ALLOY Elite RGB model.

   HyperX is the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the world’s largest independent memory manufacturer, with the goal of providing gamers, PC builders, and power users with high-performance components. For 15 years, the HyperX mission has been to develop gaming products for gamers – high-speed memory, solid state drives, headsets, keyboards, mice, USB flash drives, and mouse pads – to the gaming community and beyond. The award-winning HyperX brand has carved its name atop the leaderboard by consistently delivering products that deliver superior comfort, aesthetics, performance, and reliability. HyperX gear is the choice of pro gamers, tech enthusiasts, and overclockers worldwide because it meets the most stringent product specifications and is built with best-in-class components. HyperX has shipped over 3 million headsets worldwide.

   Since the ALLOY Elite RGB is based on the "regular" ALLOY Elite they are almost identical so both feature Cherry MX switches certified for up to 50 million keystrokes (the ALLOY Elite RGB is also currently available with Blue, Brown and Red RGB switches), dedicated media keys (including a very useful volume control wheel), quick access buttons (game mode, brightness and RGB modes), unique light bar at the top, USB 2.0 pass-through port, solid steel frame for improved durability and stability, detachable wrist rest, 100% anti-ghosting with full N-Key rollover, 1000Hz polling rate and 8 extra keycaps (titanium in color) designed primarily for gamers. Now of course the main difference between the two ALLOY Elite models is RGB illumination but that's not all since in order to make the best out of that HyperX offers the NGenuity customization software something which is not supported (at least not currently) by the "regular" version. There are also a couple of secondary differences like the color of the media keys which makes them stand out and fit nicely with the extra textured keycaps (titanium colored in the RGB version instead of black) and the type of switch covers used (clear plastic used with the RGB switches instead of black matte used with the regular Cherry MX ones).