Monday, July 15th 2024
ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Azoth Extreme
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the Azoth Extreme, a custom 75% gaming keyboard featuring a precision-crafted aluminium-alloy chassis with metal frame, delivering premium aesthetics and top-tier wireless performance. A carbon-fiber positioning plate delivers a crisp typing feel and keeps keystroke vibrations down to a minimum. The keyboard includes an adjustable gasket mount that can be toggled to offer a hard or soft typing feel via a quick-flip switch. A full-color OLED touchscreen on the top right corner of the keyboard can show system info and keyboard settings; with the adjacent three-way knob allowing for instant volume, multimedia, lighting adjustments, and settings customization. An extended wrist rest ensures comfortable typing experiences and retains its firmness over time.
Superior build quality
The eye-catching ROG Azoth Extreme gaming keyboard boasts a premium aluminium-alloy chassis with a metal frame that undergoes an intricate 12-step manufacturing process that includes sandblasting, anodizing, CNC machining, and more. Additionally, the Azoth Extreme achieves an impressive 8000 Hz polling rate when used with the ROG Polling Rate Booster, while offering up to 1600 hours of battery life.
Crisp typing and sublime acoustics
The ROG Azoth Extreme uses a carbon-fiber positioning plate instead of FR4, steel, PC, POM, or brass, which are commonly found in other gaming keyboards. Carbon fiber offers metal-like rigidity for crisp typing sensations; and its elasticity provides excellent shock absorption to effectively minimize vibrations while typing.
The Azoth Extreme utilizes three dampening layers, with two PORON layers and a silicone pad to absorb vibrations and minimize switch pinging and echoes to offer sublime acoustics.
Adjustable gasket mount
An innovative gasket-mount design allows users to adjust the typing feel via a quick-flip switch found on the bottom of the keyboard. In Hard typing mode, the ROG Azoth Extreme delivers firm keystrokes with quick rebound that's ideal for gaming. Alternately, Soft mode offers a more cushioned and bouncy feel to ensure comfort during extended typing stints.
Full-color OLED touchscreen
The 1.47-inch full-color OLED display on the upper right of the ROG Azoth Extreme can show various types of information including keyboard connection status, Caps Lock, and PC/Mac mode indicators. Tapping and swiping on the high-resolution OLED screen allows users to view other various functions such as hardware info and the KPS feature that displays the user's keystrokes per second.
Additional features
The ROG Azoth Extreme has pre-lubed ROG NX mechanical switches that provide smoother keystrokes with better acoustics. Tri-mode connectivity allows users to connect devices via Bluetooth, low-latency ROG SpeedNova 2.4 GHz RF wireless, or standard wired USB; with Bluetooth enabling simultaneous connections and easy switching between three devices. A bundled extended silicone wrist rest that aesthetically matches the keyboard ensures typing comfort and retains its firmness over time. Lastly, the Azoth Extreme includes two pairs of magnetic feet of different heights, giving it three tilt angles to suit user preference.
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ASUS ROG
Superior build quality
The eye-catching ROG Azoth Extreme gaming keyboard boasts a premium aluminium-alloy chassis with a metal frame that undergoes an intricate 12-step manufacturing process that includes sandblasting, anodizing, CNC machining, and more. Additionally, the Azoth Extreme achieves an impressive 8000 Hz polling rate when used with the ROG Polling Rate Booster, while offering up to 1600 hours of battery life.
The ROG Azoth Extreme uses a carbon-fiber positioning plate instead of FR4, steel, PC, POM, or brass, which are commonly found in other gaming keyboards. Carbon fiber offers metal-like rigidity for crisp typing sensations; and its elasticity provides excellent shock absorption to effectively minimize vibrations while typing.
The Azoth Extreme utilizes three dampening layers, with two PORON layers and a silicone pad to absorb vibrations and minimize switch pinging and echoes to offer sublime acoustics.
Adjustable gasket mount
An innovative gasket-mount design allows users to adjust the typing feel via a quick-flip switch found on the bottom of the keyboard. In Hard typing mode, the ROG Azoth Extreme delivers firm keystrokes with quick rebound that's ideal for gaming. Alternately, Soft mode offers a more cushioned and bouncy feel to ensure comfort during extended typing stints.
Full-color OLED touchscreen
The 1.47-inch full-color OLED display on the upper right of the ROG Azoth Extreme can show various types of information including keyboard connection status, Caps Lock, and PC/Mac mode indicators. Tapping and swiping on the high-resolution OLED screen allows users to view other various functions such as hardware info and the KPS feature that displays the user's keystrokes per second.
Additional features
The ROG Azoth Extreme has pre-lubed ROG NX mechanical switches that provide smoother keystrokes with better acoustics. Tri-mode connectivity allows users to connect devices via Bluetooth, low-latency ROG SpeedNova 2.4 GHz RF wireless, or standard wired USB; with Bluetooth enabling simultaneous connections and easy switching between three devices. A bundled extended silicone wrist rest that aesthetically matches the keyboard ensures typing comfort and retains its firmness over time. Lastly, the Azoth Extreme includes two pairs of magnetic feet of different heights, giving it three tilt angles to suit user preference.
24 Comments on ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Azoth Extreme
We're talking about a brand that has been feasting on consumer money for quite some time... What are they giving back to the consumers?
customersend users?!:roll:You were off by $5... I expected more from you.
However, for that kind of coin, you'd think that maybe, just maybe, they would offer something other than the standard circus pukefest, a few special keys and self-branded switches, which, to my knowledge, are still a mostly unproven variety, and knowing the ROGr camp, probably a cheap knock-off of some better ones....
And yes, I know that the metal/CF frame parts costs $$, but not THAT much nowadays, since they are more commonly available than in the past...
But I do have a ROG Falchion which is similar in purpose.
Main issue with it being the cherry keys start repeating keypresses about once a month requiring maintenance. The things you do to put up with mechanical keyboards.
ISO - big Enter, small LShift
ANSI - small Enter, big LShift
I have a Keychron Q6 ISO (Knob) myself, best piece of PC hardware i bought in a long time. Feels like it's going to last me forever, and if something breaks it can be replaced/repaired. And it's nice not being tied to bloatware software, but open source webbased VIA.
On a serious note why can't companies make wrist rests that are attached to the keyboard.
Not everyone just plays fortnite.
And then, once it sets in that "Gamer Boi Extreme" spent $500 on a keyboard from Asus and it doesn't immediately make him a god-tier Fortnite player, you can bet he gonna be doing this:
ps: Why is the Asus website is so slow?
even if I could afford it, how that hell can I justify $499 buck for 75% keyboard with a bad software ?
This is not the first keyboard going for such a ridiculous price tag but usually you can at least say "well it's a piece of art from a small brand, they might just be a couple people doing custom keyboards in their garage", but this is fucking Asus, I'd be surprised if production cost was anywhere near 50$ for this.
Who in their right mind would buy this? Certainly they exist but damn, people be stupid
I'm still trying to figure out how they're able to justify the stupid-high price tag.... Big whoop, it supposedly has an all aluminum build - so does my assortment of HyperX Alloy boards, and they didn't cost no $500 bucks. Maybe it's because its hot swappable? But I don't think that's right either, because hot swappable boards aren't exactly rare these days, especially given the influx of Chinese brands. And then you have Razer knocking it out the park with their Blackwidow 75, which I guess would be considered the Azoth's closest competition... But I'll take the BW 75 over either Azoth anyday of the week -- in fact, I just bought another one (the white one) because I love the board that much and it's fun playing around with switches and whatnot -- and a big part of that is due to Armoury Crate. I'd be perfectly content never having to purge that shitstorm from my PC ever again.
But yeah, I'm gonna stop thinking about it now, otherwise the ROG eye will haunt me in my dreams. :fear::fear:
The execution is gorgeous! You can't compare it to the usual Azot.
Excellent packaging, good equipment.
Asus, as always, is very attentive to details and gives emotions when unpacking.
And let's be completely honest with you - this keyboard is bought in order to give a person the emotions of the purchase itself. Here we are not talking about money and price, it is about emotions, and you always have to pay extra for emotions. Every product has its own buyer.