OCZ Elixir Gaming Keyboard
The Board
Published: 11th October 2008 | Source: OCZ | Price: £21.84 |
The Board
I must admit I cheated a little here. The Elixir was the keyboard given to the clockers to use in the recent MSI European Overclocking Challenge, as one of the companies that sponsored the event was indeed OCZ. So I already had a quick play with and view of the board before unpackaging this one.
Upon opening the box you get struck with a classy looking, albeit rather large keyboard, finished in mostly matte black with gloss strips down each side where the media controls reside. The lower portion sports a textured wrist rest. The most striking thing I found was the bright blue function keys that lined the usual QWERTY layout. It's also worth noting that the key layout of the QWERTY section is slightly different to the standard we see used on a lot of boards, mostly around the arrow keys area.
The board sits quite flat against the surface it's resting on with the feet up. Flicking them down angled it to a much more user-friendly position. The underside shows off four rubber grips to keep the board from sliding about, as well as the feet tucked away.
Nothing particularly fancy protrudes from the rear of the keyboard. A plain USB plug on a reasonable length wire is all that is present. However, I did notice that there were unused holes for other plugs on the back of the board. Maybe for future revisions or perhaps used on the Elixir II.
On the next page we take a closer look at the board's features and the software it utilises...
Most Recent Comments
Nice review Ham 
OCZ are really throwing everything out there!
OCZ are really throwing everything out there!The keyboard looks aesthetically cheap.
good review, but the lack of an english version, i would have put down as a major fail, and wouldnt have given it the score you did, fair enough, americans have a nice keyboard, but, if i remember right, this site is a predominantly english one, so why has it not been marked down more significantly for the company not actually having been bothered to release a english version
*OCZ now in dislike books*
*OCZ now in dislike books*
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Originally Posted by name='Hassan'
The keyboard looks aesthetically cheap.
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looks fugly
*goes and admires the new logitech gaming kb*
*goes and admires the new logitech gaming kb*
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Originally Posted by name='ionicle'
good review, but the lack of an english version, i would have put down as a major fail, and wouldnt have given it the score you did, fair enough, americans have a nice keyboard, but, if i remember right, this site is a predominantly english one, so why has it not been marked down more significantly for the company not actually having been bothered to release a english version
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As for the look of the keyboard, I think I would have preferred it without the shiny black - but it does remind me of the old IBM keyboards and thus score points imo just for that
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Nice review mate... Board not for me but still (Y)
One thing on the 2nd para, last page "The only real glitch we encountered was they yeboard not registering the CTRL+Space keys when pressed simultaneously."
One thing on the 2nd para, last page "The only real glitch we encountered was they yeboard not registering the CTRL+Space keys when pressed simultaneously."
Hi everybody who have elixir.
I would like to know if CTRL+Space work in this board.
This test say not, but techgage's test didn't say that CTRL+SPACE didn't work.
Please tell me if CTRL+SPACE work in this board.
Thanks
I would like to know if CTRL+Space work in this board.
This test say not, but techgage's test didn't say that CTRL+SPACE didn't work.
Please tell me if CTRL+SPACE work in this board.
Thanks
Hmm badly designed gaming keyboard, absoloutly crap for css with no ctrl jump..
CSS Valid
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