Among the gaming keyboard products listed on the official website of Leibai, the V520RGB alloy version and the V800RGB are the only products that add a slide strip to the fuselage. V520RGB alloy version as the second has a magic double backlight mechanical keyboard, from the product characteristics of the former almost inherited from the latter, including aluminum alloy cover, dustproof and waterproof characteristics, autonomous infrared silver shaft, just in doing some innocuous reduction, called V800RGB youth version is appropriate.
Inside the package is still only the instruction manual and the key puller, and there is no wrist rest of the previous V800RGB, but the light strip can be seen from the front.
Exterior details
The V520RGB alloy version of the mechanical keyboard adopts aluminum alloy narrow frame suspension shaft body design, and the standard 104 keys are matched. With the blessing of aluminum alloy, official data show that the V520RGB alloy version has a net weight of only 811g, which is not only light, but also strong and durable. Because the logo is designed in the upper right corner, the 3 indicators are close together, and the light transmission hole is reduced to ensure that the indicator light will not be dazzling. Regarding the aluminum alloy panel cover, the CNC metal trimming process makes the whole keyboard have a high-gloss chamfer, which really improves the overall texture and grade. However, if the screw position above is hidden between the keys, the look and feel may be better.
A 360° wrap-around RGB strip is connected between the top cover and the base, which is closer to the desktop in position to achieve a better immersive gaming atmosphere.
The bottom foot brace is only a section, very stable, although the keyboard is light, it is still not easy to push. There are also two hydrophobic holes next to the foot sticker, yes, this keyboard also supports waterproof and dustproof, coupled with this suspended shaft body design, the bold point can be washed directly, dried and continued to use.
Keycap shaft body
V800RGB same OEM high ABS translucent keycaps, open characters. It still looks like a frosted keycap, but in fact, the touch is more delicate. The multimedia annotation in the F area, because it is laser-carved, opaque, the RGB lamp does not take into account this position, and when the lights go out to play the game, it may not be clear to see the label.
The V520RGB alloy version uses a Leibai autonomous infrared silver shaft, which uses infrared light blocking to conduct, reduce the jitter interference of the traditional metal shrapnel conduction, can achieve faster response speed, and the life span is up to 50 million times. The V520RGB alloy version of the infrared silver shaft batch seems to be replaced, the most obvious is from the original rounded four corners to right angles, other places have not been modified much, still using silver open wall cross shaft core, enhance the stability of the shaft core. The upper cover is a transparent PC material, because of the rapoo logo to indicate the identity of the autonomous axis. Although called the silver shaft, but this silver shaft is a green shaft-like feel, there is a Click sound and a paragraph sense (using the torsion spring sound), there is about 2mm linear feel before the paragraph trigger, the paragraph trigger pressure gram is 55gf, the parameters and feel and like the green axis, but the noise during the downpression process is very small, pure and transparent.
V520RGB alloy version is hot-swappable, LED light is pasted, regardless of compatibility issues, because this PCB can only be compatible with The Labo infrared silver shaft.
The white big key satellite axis adjusts the level, and there is no big problem in the feel, mainly manifested as bottoming out, small shaking, and high stability. There was just a noticeable wire murmur, especially the two Shift keys. In addition, the keyboard of the general metal body can easily cause resonance when typing, producing a pronounced cavity sound. The V520RGB alloy version is also available, the good news is not obvious, even in the dead of night, you need to be close to the keyboard to hit hard to hear.
Lighting effects
Like the V800RGB, the V520RGB belongs to the type that becomes more exciting at night, and after turning off the lights, a "flash" word is highlighted, and the recognizable strip takes the RGB atmosphere of this keyboard to a whole new height. The RGB on the key is not inferior, and the lighting effect can be switched through FN+PrtSc, but due to the lack of drive support, it is impossible to customize the single shaft body lamp effect.
Write at the end
There are many V800RGB shadows on the V520RGB, the same cool 360 ° shiny RGB lighting effect, excellent hand feel of the autonomous shaft body, retaining the waterproof and dustproof characteristics, only the wrist rest is cancelled. If you have limited desktop space, you don't have to worry about wrist rests. Therefore, it is quite close to the price of V800RGB, which only sells for 349 yuan.