Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard Review

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard Overview
Cougar keeps the same overall design that we saw with the higher-end keyboards, except we do not have the aluminum chassis design, instead we have heavy duty plastic. Upon first inspection it seems very sturdy and the keyboard has some flex to it.

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

This is a full-size keyboard so we have a full compliment of keys as well as a full number pad. There are no extra macro or function keys, but as you will see many of the keys on the keyboard have secondary functions. One thing that I did notice right off the bat was that the backspace key is much, much smaller than on other keyboards.

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

Talking about those keys that have secondary functions the F1-F3 keys are your profile selection keys, F4 is your illumination brightness, F5-F8 will cycle through the pulling rate, F9-F12, Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Pause Break are all multimedia keys.

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

This keyboard makes use of Cougar’s hybrid mechanical key switches. Upon further inspection it seems these are simply a plastic mechanism that sits on top of the rubber dome. These should give you that mechanical feel and very good tactile feedback. After removing the keycaps sadly we can see they use a different design than Cherry MX keys so we cannot use aftermarket keycaps with this keyboard.

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

This design from Cougar will actually increase the lifespan of the switches by 40x over traditional membrane key switches.

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Taking a look at the keyboard from the side we can see that the first four rows of keys from the bottom of the keyboard are angled downwards while the last two are angled up. The keyboard does offer height adjustment via pop-out feet that make those angles more extreme.

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

Flipping the keyboard over we can see there are 5 rubber feet that will keep the keyboard in place, even during the most intense gaming sessions. You can also see the pop-out feet on the bottom of the keyboard.

Cougar 450K Gaming Keyboard

The keyboard has your typical rubber USB cable and normal USB connector.

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