HyperX Gaming Peripherals Review – Work and Gaming!

A Closer Look

It’s quite an awesome looking bundle of hardware and comes with everything I’m going to need for the next week of both my work in the day and playing Elder Scrolls Online on an evening. That’s a bit of a lie actually, with lockdown I’ve been playing ESO a bit more during the day too, but hey, what ya gonna do!

Everything comes with matching black cables, and actually, everything is black, making the whole range look very clean and uniform with each other.

The keyboard comes with a gorgeous USB C cable, it’s nicely braided, and best of all, it’s fully detachable.

The Pulsefire comes hard-wired with a USB cable, which is fine. However, just like the keyboard, it has a matching high-quality braiding giving it a premium quality look and feel.

The headset is wireless, so that comes with a handy USB dongle to pair that up. However, you do also get a detachable microphone and USB charging cable too.

Finally, we have the Chargeplay Base, which comes with a long USB C cable so that it can comfortable reach from your plug socket to your desk, and a high-power USB charger.

The keyboard looks absolutely stunning, and so it should! It uses a single piece of aluminium for the top cover and it’s beautifully finished. There’s a fairly small bezel around the keyboard, and it actually sits quite low; likely why there’s no wrist rest included.

It’s the little details that give it that premium look and feel though. The edges are all slightly rolled down, with a crisp and clean edge below that, as well as perfectly rounded corners. It’s also ever so slightly textured, like a mild sandblasted look to it.

Love some RGB goodies? You’ll find it’s all customisable in the software too, but for a quick and easy adjustment you can use the hot keys here!

Plus you get a nice array of multimedia controls along the top. They’re all accessible via the Fn-Shift button, allowing you to toggle tracks, volume levels etc quickly enough.

It is a full-size keyboard, you might have noticed. However, thanks to that slim bezel it’s still a very compact looking keyboard. I like the number pad for my work, but perhaps those going for a purely gaming-focused setup, the Core (TKL) may be a good choice too.

Tucked into the back of the keyboard, you’ll find the USB C port. That’s just for hooking the keyboard up to your computer. However, as the cable is removable, you could replace it with any USB cable you desire.

The clean look continues on the underside, and there are four firm rubber grips to keep it planted. Plus, you get two-stage thick kickstands to give you some angle adjustment.

The mouse looks great too, sticking with a fairly common shape, but really mixing things up along the side. Rather than just two side buttons, you get five. Two in the normal navigation configuration, but with a second set just below it. Then you have an additional tall button at the front which traditionally we’d call the sniper button, but it can be used for anything really.

Up on the top, you’ll notice is has a separate panel for both the LMB and RMB. That means they’re both sprung separately too, which gives them a more direct tactile feel that doesn’t feed into the other switch (like you often get with an all in one top panel. There’s a small button in the middle, which is DPI by default, but it’s fully programmable, as well as a 4D scroll wheel, which is also clickable.

It looks great for MMO gaming though, all those extra buttons, a lightweight design, and big sweeping ergonomic curves for long-term comfort.

As for the headset, well this is the most expensive part of the bundle here, but it’s certainly the most advanced too. It comes with the same stylish design as everything else here. Smooth curves, soft rolled edges, everything tucks and rolls into the next. It’s a very clean and compact looking and feeling headset, despite being quite large and using an around-the-ear design.

On the edges of each ear cup, you’ll find all the basic controls for power and mute, as well as a volume wheel. As you can see, they use a PU-leather ear cup padding too, and there’s plenty of it. That’ll help lock in the sound, but also allows for a lot of soft memory foam padding too.

The ear cups fold out all the way, making them comfortable to wear around the neck. However, they have a mechanical switch like “click” when turned out or lock back to normal. There’s two large spring-loaded balls in the edges that do this. Never seen that on a headset before, and it really gives adds to the quality feel of it.

Those little dips on the side, they look cool but they’re actually buttons as the side panel is like a 4-way d-pad. You can use it to adjust the balance of the game and chat audio without the need for using system menus. It’s a pretty handy feature, especially if you can’t hear game dialogue because of your moronic screaming mates on Discord. You can actually program these buttons too, so between them, you can have the mix, microphone control, speak, volume, etc.

Little details, but most black headsets still have a shiny metal band on the interior. HyperX has blacked it all out and it looks really cool!

The headset is Qi-certified for wireless charging, but again, you can charge with the USB cable if desired. It’ll last for around 30 hours at 50% volume, but even if you’re cranking it, it should best 20 hours easily.

The headset uses a pair of 50mm dynamic drivers with a circumaural closed-back design. They can run from 10Hz to 20kHz too and should deliver a pretty punchy sound overall.

The detachable boom microphone is great too, featuring an Electret Condenser Microphone, and it’s both Bi-directional and noise-cancelling. The wireless dongle runs on 2.4 GHz and has a range of up to 20 meters.

Finally, we have the Chargeplay Base. It’s a pretty simple thing overall, there are two sides to it, each offering a Qi charge spot. It can do Fast Wireless Charging on two devices simultaneously. There’s LED charging indicators, and it’ll work on Qi peripherals from HyperX, but any other brand or compatible phone too.