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Cougar ATTACK X3 RGB Gaming Keyboard Review

Others/Mice & Keyboards by stefan @ 2017-01-23

With the ATTACK X3 RGB, Cougar is introducing another affordable peripheral to the market which houses the reliable Cherry MX RGB switches and we have additional flexibility of choice between four different types: Black, Brown, Blue and Red. The keyboard is quite light for a mechanical model at just 0.9 Kg and features a 1.8m long braided USB cable with gold-plated USB ports, as we have seem with other high-end peripherals. Thanks to the brushed aluminum top plate, the chassis of the ATTACK X3 RGB is reinforced, but also thanks to this layer, the LED lighting reflection looks even better.

A Closer Look Part II

ATTACK X3 RGB does have a plastic chassis, but is reinforced by a brushed aluminum top plate, which also reflects the LED lighting beautifully:

Thanks to the on-board memory, the keyboard can switch between three full-configuration profiles. The switching procedure is possible via the first three function keys, which must be actuated with “Fn”; F4 also acts as a LED mode-switching key, each mode having three LED operating profiles stored on it:

The multimedia keys are available from F5 to F12:

By using the ScrLk/Pause keys, we can adjust the Rollover between 6-key or N-key (as we would have been using the product on the PS/2 bus); the later allows an unlimited amount of simultaneous key presses:

PageUp/PageDown keys also allow the user to adjust the LED lighting intensity:

While on the Cougar ATTACK X3 non-RGB we had some extra multimedia keys in the top right corner, with the RGB version we do receive a more classic design, with the usual function LEDs:

ATTACK X3 RGB is using large, easy to read fonts on the keycaps:

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