In a nutshell: If you've ever felt like your keyboard was missing something but couldn't quite pinpoint exactly what information technology was, mayhap Asus' latest gaming keyboard is worth a wait. The ROG Strix Flare Animate II gaming keyboard is the offset to characteristic an AniMe Matrix LED display. Much similar the dot-matrix displays featured on select Asus laptops, this implementation allows users to create customizable images and animations for a completely unique look.

Asus' latest boasts an eight,000 Hz polling charge per unit providing a 0.125ms response time alongside swappable ROG NX mechanical switches, PBT doubleshot keycaps with a mid-acme profile and shorter stem to reduce key wobble, and switch stabilizer mechanisms to ensure smoothen strokes.

Asus has besides added sound-dampening foam to reduce pinging for improved typing acoustics, and of course there is RGB lighting. Elsewhere, yous'll find metal media keys and volume controls as well as a detachable wrist wrest with an integrated light diffuser and a USB pass-through port for connecting other devices.

At that place's also a standard Strix Flare Two gaming keyboard that doesn't include the AniMe Matrix LED display, swappable switches and wrist rest-mounted light diffuser should you non require those extras.

A discussion of warning: Asus' new boards are expensive, even by mechanical keyboard standards. The ROG Strix Flare Animate II gaming keyboard is set to arrive after this calendar month priced at $220. The model without all the bells and whistles will control $180.