Element V2 Gaming Keyboard: Interactive and Customizable Lighting – Immersive, Reactive RGB Experience (Red Linear)

Pros:* Full size layout, some may prefer tkl/60% but I want my dang numpad ;)* build quality as mentioned in title is excellent. Brushed aluminum body, satisfying tactile (brown) switches, keycaps are well backlit and very legible* The SignalRGB software which controls the backlighting, fancy game integrations, etc. is quite powerful, esp. if you have other (a)RGB stuff connected to your PC and/or dabble in Javascript and wanna roll your own lighting effects*No seriously Signal supports an absurd amount of hardware nowadays. Got a modern RGB-laden GPU, RGB RAM, and mobo RGB headers controlling hubs full of argb strips? Decent chance Signal will just recognize and be able to control all of it from the first launch. Favorite device isn't supported? You can ask around and learn how to packet sniff the instructions being sent by the official software and reverse engineer a module foe Signal to control it.* For this price point it's rare to have full mech keycaps, good lighting software, and hardware that doesn't feel like it cuts a lot of corners. This is WWFX's "premium" model at budget/midrange prices.Cons:* The layout is just a bit off from the last couple full size US QWERTY Windows boards I've owned. I keep mistyping for a few characters then having to correct myself. I've only been using it as my daily driver for about 3 weeks, and haven't been doing much typing outside the usual social mediaing. I hope/assume this will fix itself in time, if not I'll play with backlighting to highlight alphanumeric keys and the like till my brain learns where the 'normal' key rows begin and end.* SignalRGB is an amazing tool if you're comfortable at least editing some json and ideally writing your own animations (Signal uses an html canvas and you write JS to draw animations on it, which then get mapped to devices' LEDs) = it is in some ways more limited than the better of the big name first party solutions if you just wanna tell your keyboard what colors to be. There are a lot of predesigned effects with varying degrees of customizability, especially if you spring for Pro (it's like $3/month iirc), and the game-specific integrations are extremely well done with more coming out seemingly every few days - but for complex DIY effects with no coding involved it hasn 't quite caught up to Chroma 's layered, per key approach* Signal does lots of cool lightng stuff, it can dim the backlighting as well as disable the Win key if you want - but there is no comprehensive macro/rebinding utility out of the box. I would suggest AutoHotkey for an extremely powerful, hardware agnostic alternative - it can be intimidating but for simple key rebinds it's pretty easy to pick up - copy-pasting examples of simply rebinds like "make ctrl + f7 input this block of text instead."* Not much in the way of handrest space or front 'lip' - you may need to get a wrist pad for comfort if you're used to resting your palms on the desk.* No dedicated media or macro keys (fn+[f7-f12] cover media key inputs by default but obviously with no macro buttons there's also no macro record/delete buttonssummary: more casual users will appreciate the slick and well built hardware and game lighting integrations but may miss having things like macro features built in. Power users will love Signal's novel approach to RGB lighting and may appreciate the lack of bloat.

This is only my third keyboard. But if it lasts it will also be my last keyboard. The red linear switches are perfect for me, a teeny bit of noise but super buttery smooth. The keyboard being made out of aluminum makes it pretty light but still feels like it has good build quality.The lighting on this keyboard, is second to none. I have always wanted one of these keyboards and it finally went on sale. I am so glad I made the jump. With their software I have all of my RGB for my entire setup all synced together. But hands down this keyboard has the best most customizable, brightest most vibrant RGB I have ever seen. It even probably has the best screen mirroring I have seen as well.

After buying a junky used keyboard for about $30 at Goodwill, I felt bad for the misses and found something with blue switches, her having experienced the red switches I have on my keyboard that I'm typing this with).I got this thing for cheap on here, which kinda blew my mind when it arrived and was cool to the touch with how nice the aluminum frame was. I kinda wish she didn't have to keep it at work all the time, but I did get it for her...Anyhow, the short of it is, super bright RGB, satisfying and loud switches, solid build quality, and pretty damn cheap when I got it.You do need SignalRGB to change the RGB effects and whatnot, but I already had it installed to control my off-brand RGB AIO, and it still has all the functionality and effects you really need, unless you really wanna pay $5 a month just for some fan controls and extra effects (you don't have to).

This keyboard is so cool! It changes as your screen changes or can just cycle in different colors and patterns. My only complaint is when I play Destiny The program for the keyboard minimizes the game constantly. That is the only reason I knocked off a star. When they fix this I will update my review!

Use this daily for gaming and typing awesome keyboard got the brown tactical buttons and got the pudding key caps freaking awesome how many things you can do with the RGB in these boards for 30 bucks this board matches up with keyboards that cost 200 easily this board would be perfect for a new build PC or to replace an old board. One of the RGB skins provided in signal RGB software that also works with razor mouse and keyboards I got a light saber dual going on on the keyboard looks sick.

The media could not be loaded.  I love this keyboard, the RGB looks great and is bright and the actual keyboard is great as well, I did actually end up changing the key caps to ones that show the RGB more (I believe they are called pudding key caps) but even with the normal keys they are still great, also the keyboard works with the Signal RGB software as well, definitely recommend this

So this thing is heavy. It FEELS quality. The keys are extremely sensitive, and clicky. My husband complains that he can hear me in the next room as I type this review and he's got a noise cancelling headset on, and I've got music playing. But I don't mind, I think it's funny. On the other hand, the RGB thing is very cool. It does what it says it does, it adds a virtual invisible canvas to your screen and then interprets the colors from there, and mimics that in the lighting. It's cool as hell.HOWEVER, not as cool as I thought it would be. My husband and I were hype for this thing, as any avid gamers would be. But it's... sort of lackluster and gets old fast, the RGB part, I mean. For one, the colors are dim and most importantly, the interpretations of the software are kind of poor and not what you expect. Yeah, when someone throws a fireball at you, you're gonna kind of see it on the board. When you're running around with a gun, you're going to see the gun moving in your peripherals ON THE BOARD. Which is cool, but honestly not as cool as I'd hoped, it's simply not accurate enough yet. AND the board only interprets a fraction of whatever is going on with your screen. That, and you hardly notice it when you're actually gaming.And yes, it works for everything, not just gaming.That said, I love this board and don't regret purchasing it. It's a high quality board and you get the added benefit of having this novelty aspect. So, if you're buying it solely for that novelty aspect - probably don't. It gets old fast and it probably isn't as cool as you'd wish it was. But if you're just looking for a quality keyboard for gaming purposes - even competitively, I'd say go for it - if you REALLY like RGB.As a side note, like I said the board itself is high quality and heavy, but the edges are really sharp. It has this weird like uncut feel to it? It's sort of rough. Like if it was a piece of hardwood, you forgot to use the sandpaper or something. It has cut my wrists and fingers on multiple occasions. Avoidable if you're careful, but not sure why you would want to be careful around a keyboard. The software also needs to be on at all times for the lighting to work as intended. It's light, somewhat intuitive, and hassle free, so don't worry about that.

If you want to have react with game. You need to paid each months to have the SignalRGB PRO.Don't buy if you want to have a reaction with playing a game. But the SignalRGB Free account have light mode cool.

Very sturdy and I really like the design. The RGB is *very* bright if you're into that, I personally prefer no RGB. The software did not provide any way of actually turning off the RGB function nor does the function exist on the keyboard itself. It does somewhat replicate the color patterns on screen but it will regularly switch between sleep and active mode depending on what your active window is. Putting your computer to sleep does not turn off the lights either so you will have a rainbow light show in your room at night if you are the type to put your computer to sleep rather than shut it off. I contacted customer service almost a month ago about how to turn off the RGB when my computer is asleep, I never got a response.

I like the feel of the keyboard and the looks are good the lights are cool but need a better program for them where we can better custom your lights in stages and a better setup for the range on the keyboard only half the lights work when like they should when in a game half is a solid colour and the other half copy’s the game even going through the setting it’s still messes up