Closer Look

Although the pictures above might be a bit misleading, the Cougar 500K is a fairly small keyboard, in fact, the keyboard measures 487x230x40mm and weighs 0.9 kg. With the 500K, Cougar decided to use the same ABS that you can find on any other product from this company. The keyboard uses a plastic chassis with a wrist rest made from hard plastic and rubber. In addition, inside the package, you get an additional wrist rest that adds an extra comfort area for WASD or arrow zones, depending on your style of gaming. The fastening system uses magnets and it is very easy as well as quick to deploy. As far as the layout is concerned, you have five silver G-Key macro buttons on the left part of the keyboard, while the top part features profile and multimedia buttons. To offer a sixth programmable G-key, Cougar has literally split the space bar in two parts and the the right part is actually the sixth G-Key. Since this is not a high-end gaming keyboard, the Cougar 500K uses rubber dome with orange backlight.



As we mentioned earlier, the Cougar 500K also comes with quite a few multimedia buttons. Unlike many gaming keyboards tested so far, Cougar has also added dedicated buttons for volume and track control on the 500K. Overall, we believe that this keyboard simply does not lack anything. The multimedia keys are located on the top end of the keyboard, which means they are not too easy to reach, but on the other hand that is usually not a big issue.

Front/Back

If you flip the Cougar 500K you will realize that this product is not too heavy. Although the weight is not as high as with other gaming keyboards, and thanks to its comfortable rubber feet, the 500K is well anchored to your desk. The rear part of the keyboard only features a USB 2.0 port. The cable is sleeved, has an overall length of 1.8 meters and features double gold plated USB headers.

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Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Photo Gallery / Delivery

Page 3 - Features

Page 4 - Closer Look

Page 5 - Software

Page 6 - Conclusion