The past week I received my new G.SKILL keyboard and since then I had ample time to use this new keyboard. So here are my thoughts on the new G.SKILL Ripjaws KM780.
The reason I got a new keyboard in the first place was because my old keyboard was an Apple keyboard. Whenever I played FPS games, using the Apple keyboard felt weird to me. The new G.SKILL keyboard feels much better. Some feature my new keyboard has my old keyboard doesn’t have are brown cherry MX switches, RGB lighting, six customizable macro switches, a clip that holds on to wires to reduce wire slack and a very interesting sound scroll wheel.
Although this keyboard is amazing there are still some flaws, since this is G.SKILL’s first attempt at a keyboard. For example, the control software that controls the keys and RGB lighting is confusing and hard to use. I had to watch multiple videos just to grasp the RGB lighting control. I think G.SKILL can improve this software by adding confirmation pop-ups, multiple presets, and automatically apply new lighting setups.
Overall the new keyboard is great and I don’t see anything that bad about the keyboard besides the software. In the future, I hope to expand my experience with the keyboard and master the confusing software.