Starting off with the overall build quality, Cooler Master have done a fantastic job of piecing everything together, using high quality materials, including the anodized aluminium faceplate and double shot keycaps. There is no noticeable flex within the keyboard, even when twisted with an extreme amount of force.
The removable wrist rest increases comfort no end, giving your wrists somewhere to lie while typing for long periods will help keep your arms and wrists straight resulting in a safer work/gaming environment. The magnets used within the detachment system are strong enough to ensure the rest locates itself perfectly every time, but shouldn’t cause any damage to nearby equipment which may be sensitive to magnetic fields, another added bonus is there’s no kind of clips, or other holding mechanisms to break while removing the rest.
Cooler Master offer the MK750 with three different types of Cherry MX key switches, the Brown, Blue or Red. We’ve been supplied with the Brown switches which are designed to offer a tactile feedback with reduced noise, handy for typing in an office environment or if you tend to use a sensitive microphone while gaming. At some point, during an online gaming session, we’ve all experienced a player that sounds as if they’re tap dancing along their desk; the Cherry MX Brown switches could reduce this somewhat. We found these keys were a dream to type on and equally as good for gaming, the tactile feedback, once attuned to it, allows the user a shorter actuation point than your typical keyboard, shaving off valuable micro seconds from your reaction times. Every little counts when playing fast paced games!
Keyboards aren’t just a tool for typing or playing games, they’re often used as a way of displaying different colour schemes across your desk space via RGB LEDs; the Cooler Master MK750 doesn’t disappoint on this front, with per-key RGB illumination and plenty of built in lighting profiles, you can choose from 16.7 million colours and hundreds of different animations/themes. The keycaps allow plenty of that vivid lighting to escape, being bright enough to be seen even during the day, however it’s at night that the keycaps really come to life, lighting up the entire room. The lighting strips along the front and sides of the keyboard also look fantastic, though it’s a shame the wrist rest covers the front while in position – perhaps Cooler Master can remedy this somehow with a V2 of the MK750.
Even though a full software suite is available for the keyboard, Cooler Master have designed this to be entirely optional and instead programmed several different functions and profiles directly into the keyboard, allowing on-the-fly adjustments of almost everything on the keyboard, including macro recording, changing lighting profiles and even adjusting the functions of specific keys. Learning all of the key commands is a fairly long-winded task, but if they’re useful to you, they’ll be worth persevering with. Simple functions, however, such as changing the volume are well placed, using the PGUP and PGDN buttons, which lie in close proximity to the FN key, making this an entirely one handed affair. It would’ve been nice to see volume controls included with the dedicated media keys at the top right though.
The detachable, braided USB Type-C cable is a great inclusion, allowing cables of differing lengths and/or colours to be used. If you only need a cable of half a metre or so, being able to do away with the 1.8M cable can make your desk appear much tidier. The other added bonus is making the keyboard much easier to transport around, again, tying into the LAN party theme of the keyboard.
The removable wrist rest increases comfort no end, giving your wrists somewhere to lie while typing for long periods will help keep your arms and wrists straight resulting in a safer work/gaming environment. The magnets used within the detachment system are strong enough to ensure the rest locates itself perfectly every time, but shouldn’t cause any damage to nearby equipment which may be sensitive to magnetic fields, another added bonus is there’s no kind of clips, or other holding mechanisms to break while removing the rest.
Cooler Master offer the MK750 with three different types of Cherry MX key switches, the Brown, Blue or Red. We’ve been supplied with the Brown switches which are designed to offer a tactile feedback with reduced noise, handy for typing in an office environment or if you tend to use a sensitive microphone while gaming. At some point, during an online gaming session, we’ve all experienced a player that sounds as if they’re tap dancing along their desk; the Cherry MX Brown switches could reduce this somewhat. We found these keys were a dream to type on and equally as good for gaming, the tactile feedback, once attuned to it, allows the user a shorter actuation point than your typical keyboard, shaving off valuable micro seconds from your reaction times. Every little counts when playing fast paced games!
Keyboards aren’t just a tool for typing or playing games, they’re often used as a way of displaying different colour schemes across your desk space via RGB LEDs; the Cooler Master MK750 doesn’t disappoint on this front, with per-key RGB illumination and plenty of built in lighting profiles, you can choose from 16.7 million colours and hundreds of different animations/themes. The keycaps allow plenty of that vivid lighting to escape, being bright enough to be seen even during the day, however it’s at night that the keycaps really come to life, lighting up the entire room. The lighting strips along the front and sides of the keyboard also look fantastic, though it’s a shame the wrist rest covers the front while in position – perhaps Cooler Master can remedy this somehow with a V2 of the MK750.
Even though a full software suite is available for the keyboard, Cooler Master have designed this to be entirely optional and instead programmed several different functions and profiles directly into the keyboard, allowing on-the-fly adjustments of almost everything on the keyboard, including macro recording, changing lighting profiles and even adjusting the functions of specific keys. Learning all of the key commands is a fairly long-winded task, but if they’re useful to you, they’ll be worth persevering with. Simple functions, however, such as changing the volume are well placed, using the PGUP and PGDN buttons, which lie in close proximity to the FN key, making this an entirely one handed affair. It would’ve been nice to see volume controls included with the dedicated media keys at the top right though.
The detachable, braided USB Type-C cable is a great inclusion, allowing cables of differing lengths and/or colours to be used. If you only need a cable of half a metre or so, being able to do away with the 1.8M cable can make your desk appear much tidier. The other added bonus is making the keyboard much easier to transport around, again, tying into the LAN party theme of the keyboard.
