For whatever reason, I chose the ASUS-branded as if I had no other choice but to buy something from this year's SITEX event. The gaming mechanical keyboards look and feel cool but obviously, these kinds of keyboards can be as noisy as the traditional keyboards like those from IBM. The famous keyboards from IBM come from the ones with buckle spring mechanism and when used at work, they can be quite noisy most of the working time. To use those keyboards at home is one different story and question.
For this keyboard, it has six program functions. Function key 6 toggles Gaming Mode on or off while the first five are parts of Gaming Mode. When Gaming Mode is on, some of the keys will be disabled for smoother gaming like the Start Menu won't come up when you accidentally press the Windows key. It doesn't matter which genre of games you play on as the Windows key is one of the essential parts of the keyboard nowadays. To have a keyboard that doesn't have that is to buy the vintage one whose computers of the past don't happen to be using Windows anyway. Other features include the 6-key max mode or no limit mode like you can turn on or off the Anti-Ghosting. This is quite useful for some game genres when playing with gaming keyboards. Function Left and Right keys toggle the way the lights are lit and function up and down keys are for brightness or something.
