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Product ReviewsOCZ Black Wired OLED Gaming Keyboard
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With 11 User Reviews
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 Rating: Review Date: 04/15/11  |
Cons:
price (unless on sale), programmable buttons can be a pain to customize, no official windows 7 support but vista driver works
Pros: solid built, fancy looking programmable buttons and blue led lights, rubberized finish. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/03/10 |
Cons:
Large, a little ungainly
Pros: Nice feel, handy hot keys, easy setup. Comment:
Works fine on Windows 7, just make sure to install with admin privileges. OLED keys are intuitive and can be rather clever. With the $75 rebate it was totally worth the $10 shipping costs. I look forward to using it more! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/17/10 |
Cons:
Much:Overall not working.
Pros: None - read infoIf the keyboard was working, it would be excellent. Except .... Comment:
The fancy aspect of this keyboard is the OLEDs. However, OCZ dropped support for this keyboard and only provide drivers for Vista (32/64). Those have been tested by many users and me, and do not work. Do not hope that those drivers will work on Win7 since they're made for Vista, they won't.Overall, it's a very cool concept on paper, except the interest on this keyboard is simply not working unless you plan on staying on vista for a long time.As a normal keyboard, yes it's good except you have a big 3X3 grid utterly useless to your left.I see no reason of buying this keyboard, since the price tag is for a keyboard with OLEDs. Unless you're on vista forever, then it's perfect. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/20/10 |
Cons:
Drivers didn't work for Windows 7.
Pros: It works, kind of. Comment:
Keyboard works, but the OLED macro keys didn't since there wasn't any driver support for Windows 7. I bought this as a bundle with a OCZ power supply. Would probably not pay regular price for the keyboard. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/02/10 |
Cons:
Lack of advertised functionality in Windows 7
Pros: Mechanical quality and feel Comment:
I feel totally cheated with this purchase. Like some others I found drivers that were supplied do not all work in Win7. The s/w for setting up the OLED keys also does not function in Win7. Strangely, perhaps unique to my 770TA Gigabyte MB but unlikely so, function keys like Del and F12 do not work during boot so you need a second keyboard handy. According to the OCZ toll-free support staff, this product is out of production and there are no plans for updated drivers. Do not buy unless you have and plan to keep Vista forever. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/29/10 |
Cons:
- OLED keys feel cheap and are useless since the program to configure them barely works and looks like it's been programmed in a single day.- The blue LEDs on the sides and the OLED keys won't turn off after I power off my PC, so I have to disconnect the keyboard everytime I do a shutdown.- Price is high, I can't beleive I paid 90$ for that, I wouldn't pay more than 30$ now.- No backlighting
Pros: - Nice look- Feels solid Comment:
I've been using the keyboard for a month now. It looks nice but the OLED keys are useless and feels cheap. Also, the lights on the sides don't turn off when you shutdown the PC. Promising keyboard but it feels unpolished, OCZ should have spent more time on it before releasing it. I will probably purchase another keyboard to replace it soon. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/25/10 |
Cons:
Lack of Windows 7 support for 9-key pad
Pros: Comfortable to use Comment:
As others have noted, the glaring problem with this keyboard is OCZ still hasn't released any form of Windows 7 support. I wasn't aware of this on purchase and was hopeful it would work fine due to the similarities to Vista, and at first the keypad actually seemed to function properly. However it soon began to act in extremely random ways - pressing a key to get to another layer menu would sometimes bring up the wrong keys, or half right/half wrong key arrangements, or not respond entirely. Returning to the global layer (top layer of 9 keys) would sometimes take 1 press, sometimes more, randomly depending on what menu I was currently pressing it from. Numerous other weird and quasi-functional issues with the keypad. If you're a Windows 7 user looking to make use of the keypad, steer clear until OCZ gives it support.Besides that, it's a very comfortable keyboard to use and I'm looking forward to gaming with it, hopefully new drivers will be out soon. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/22/10 |
Cons:
No LED on keys, Software, software and horrendous software. Wrist pad can be wider and a USB extension on keyboard would give it more love. Limited OLED colours.
Pros: no doubt the OLED is the biggest feature. Heavy, keys are sturdy and the blue LED, also 128MB of memory. Comment:
I bought this keyboard to replace a dying 5 years old saitek eclipse. The letters on the old saitek would fade after long use, but I hope it isn't a common problem. The keys on this board feel very firm so it's comfortable for gaming. The weight of this keyboard is acceptable, not as heavy the professional ones but a good balance between the pro board and portability. The nine OLED are large and customizable. which makes them more attractive. Due to their large size it's not ideal for macro keys unless you only set up one key.The biggest issue which this keyboard is the software. This board has been in the market since Summer 09 and as of now (May 2010) no windows 7 compatible software have been release. It works perfectly fine in Vista. One would think the program should work flawlessly due to overlapping coding between windows 7 and vista, unfortunately it's not a case here. The software will only function in admin access and the "invert keys tab" needs to be reset each restart. Also the blue LED lights doesn't turn off when you shut down. A big concern for people who sleep near their computer. The problem doesn't end yet, if you're not tech savvy you might have difficulty understanding the software, it's not user friendly and you must read the manual. But once that is done, the software is very simple. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/17/10 |
Cons: Sort of ugly
Pros: Works pretty well Comment:
I bought this awhile back it's a decent gaming keyboard for the price. For 49.99$ it totally worth it but anything more than there are better keyboards. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/27/10 |
Cons: Should have USB portsLacks key lighting
Pros: DurableSilent keys yet has decent tactile feedbackBeautiful design Comment:
This keyboard is great in build quality, and the BMP customizable OLED programmable keys was great too.However, for a keyboard of this price, OCZ should have included a couple USB ports for a mouse or gamepad's connectivity. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/01/09 |
Cons: Bundled utility to upload images to OLED keys feels beta & slowOLED displays are monochrome (ie. not 16-level 'grayscale')
Pros: Feels SolidOLED brightness is adjustable very small increments Comment:
The keyboard itself is quite wide. The overall build quality is very satisfactory. It has a tendency to slide a little, as it only has two small rubber feet at the front. But nevermind the nitpicking... OLED keys look _nice_, and they don't feel flimsy at all.Uploading images to the OLED keys requires the "Sabre Manager". At first, the install completed correctly but the software 'half worked'. Turns out the setup program had not checked for .Net (and I don't update often as this is my secondary OS) Once a recent .Net was manually installed, full functionality was available.The Sabre Manager must remain loaded at all time in order to peek at user input and upload images to the OLED keys. That's where the beta feel comes in: it sometimes prevents windows from shutting down, or hangs ~1 min if the keyboard is unplugged. It also does unnecessary redraws on the OLEDs which slows the repaint process to much IMO.Also, the bundled example images had me thinking I had a defective unit: text in OLED images looked as though there were stuck pixels or data corruption. Turns out the Sabre Mgr was dithering color BMPs with antialiased text on-the-fly (_bad_ choice for a demo). Manually pre-processing the offending source images in the installation directory completely fixed the problem.I primarily wanted to use this in Linux, so I wrote a small libusb app to upload images and control brightness (a-la-g15tools). I like my app way better than the windows one. The refresh is good enough to be used for in-game stats similar to what the G15 et al. do, given proper software support, regardless of OS.In other words, this keyboard shows great potential, even if the software still feels a little beta right now. I'd buy again. |
- bought on sale, final price after MIR was around $17.- OCZ took 5 months to process MIR.- programmable buttons are good but hard to program.- wider and heavier than regular keyboards.- built in 110 mb memory to store your settings if you want to use it with different machines.- very responsive. good keystroke feedback.- very easy to program in Linux.- vista drivers work on windows 7 but can crash (rarely).