Introduction

Cougar Gaming is a relatively new player on the gaming peripherals market. Despite being newcomers, they have a huge line-up of products. These range right from gaming mouse mats to full-blown, macro-enabled mice and keyboards. Their first high-end keyboard is dubbed the 700K, a full mechanical deck with six extra keys on board. The 700K uses the standard US layout and is, of course, back-lit just like other high-end gaming keyboards on the market today. The one we had for review uses Cherry MX Red keys, one of the best key mechanisms for gaming around today.

Specifications

• Key switch: Cherry MX mechanical
• Processor: 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0
• N-key rollover: Yes
• Full key backlight: Yes
• Game type: FPS / MMORPG / MOBA / RTS
• On-board memory: Yes
• Polling rate: 1000Hz / 1ms
• Repeat rate: 1X / 2X / 4X / 8X
• On-board memory: Yes
• Material: aluminum / plastic
• Software: COUGAR UIX SYSTEM

The Package

The Cougar Gaming 700K's package is large, which is due to the keyboard being wider and longer than usual because of its additional keys.


Cougar chose to include everything in the 700K. It even has a mini-jack pass-through system which we have always had our reservations about due to the lack of headphones and headsets with short cables.