Anyone familiar with the SteelSeries Engine software will tell you that it is a cinch to use. Unlike many other manufacturers, you only need one piece of software to configure a multitude of Steelseries products.

The 'Engine', as SteelSeries call it, works very well and is easily navigated through a series of tabs. The Siberia V2 Frost Blue has two of these tabs available, whereas say the Sensei mouse, which is a more complex beast has more. Each compatible device you connect can be configured through this one window rather than closing down one utility and opening another.



The settings tab of our Siberia Frost Blue is where it all happens. You will have at your disposal a basic 5 channel equaliser allowing you to increase/decrease bass, midrange and treble levels to your tastes. You can also adjust the blue LED to 4 different levels of intensity (off, low, mid, high) and 5 different actions (off, slow, medium fast or trigger (sound reactive) which controls the pulsation of the LED. These individual settings can then be saved to one of your backed up profiles or indeed a new one.



With your profiles created you can then link each profile with an application. So say for example you wanted a bass heavy setup for music then you can create a profile which will load up upon starting your chosen music player. Want good midrange for voice comms? No problem, just attach the profile to Teamspeak/ventrillo executable. The possibilities are endless!

Overall, while basic functionality is afforded, I would like to have seen more EQ presets. There was no microphone adjustment in the software which was a shame but this can be done via voice communication software if required. As a novelty value it would also have been good to include voice changing utility but few manufacturers do this so SteelSeries alone cannot be criticised.