You thought your keyboard was over the top: You can adjust the typing feel on the new ROG Azoth Extreme while enjoying its color OLED
The ROG Azoth Extreme is a brand new wireless gaming keyboard with a whole lot of extra bits.
The most immediately noticeable extra is the OLED screen in the upper right corner. This full-colour panel may be limited in resolution, but it is a touchscreen—you swipe the screen and the animation changes. It looks surprisingly good in-person, and it's plenty responsive.
The Azoth Extreme is made up of an aluminium alloy surround, in which sits a carbon fibre top plate (there's carbon fibre on the new ROG Harpe Ace Extreme, too), a silicone pad, a Poron switch pad, and Poron dampening foam. All of which sits on metal leaf springs within the chassis.
«We chose carbon fibre for its metal like rigidity, providing a crispy typing feel while its versatility absorbs vibrations. Second, within the keyboard we have integrated metal leaf springs, to give the Azoth Extreme a more cushioned and pleasant typing feel,» Eason Lee, Asus, says.
The idea is that all those layers combined make for seriously smooth operation—and I'm inclined to agree.
I've only tried the keyboard for a brief period at Asus HQ, though it was lovely to type on. I expect no less: we rate the original ROG Azoth as the best high-end gaming keyboard, and I use the ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless most days at home. The newer Azoth Extreme has a more pitchy clack than the Strix Scope, however.
That's perhaps because Asus has implemented a feature that really does feel extreme: the ability to switch between a soft and hard key press.
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The ROG Azoth Extreme isn't the first keyboard to do this, nor is it even the first I've used. Topre have long offered the ability to change up actuation points on its weird but wonderful keyboards (my favourite keyboard maybe ever is the Realforce R2). However, you don't see it used very often, especially not in the gaming sphere.
That's probably because dual-option switches add cost,
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