Thermaltake ARGENT K6 Keyboard & DAMYSUS Wireless Mouse Review

ARGENT K6 Keyboard

The ARGENT K6 comes pretty well equipped right out of the box, with a robust USB cable, which is hard-wired unfortunately, but largely because it deals with two USB headers and an audio cable in one.

You can connect one USB for the keyboard/RGB function, while the other is optional to use the USB pass-through port on the rear of the keyboard. There’s also a headphone/microphone pass-through, so you can control and connect your hardware directly to the keyboard.

There’s also this lovely-looking wristrest, which can be magnetically snapped up against the keyboard.

However, I’m not sure I like the design here. The rest is the width of the black section that sits under the keys, but not the width of the keyboard, and it looks like it’s a little short to me as the lines don’t always aesthetically line up on this keyboard, with it being wider at the top, and the black panel breaking up the aesthetic of the much nicer looking brushed aluminium.

Here’s the wristrest aligned with the left edge of the keyboard.

And here it is lined up with the black section/keys.

The keys have a matte UV coating on them, so they do feel silky smooth, and with the Cherry MX Low Profile RGB Speed Silver switches, they’re pretty light and fast to actuate making it great for gaming and typing. However, Cherry no longer feels like the top dog in the switch market, with custom brands like Mountain, JamesDonkey, Ducky and a few others having what I think are even smoother actions than this. Still, it is light and fast, so no issues really.

I’m really not sold on that black background though, I think if TT dropped that and kept the whole thing in brushed aluminium it would be more premium-looking. That being said, style is subjective, so don’t let me tell you otherwise if you like the look of it.

Unfortunately, I ran into another issue, the right shift key. I touch type and my little finger tends to go for the leftmost side of this switch and it pretty much just jammed up, I couldn’t press it! If you strike the switch in the middle, not a problem, but given the width of the shift key, it should smoothly actuate over its whole length, but it doesn’t.

I do like that the keyboard has so many built-in features though, so TT gets top marks for that. There’s a plethora of RGB lighting functions and features just an Fn-Shift away. Allowing you to cycle through profiles for key configuration and RGB effects with just a few keystrokes.

Plus, you get this great control hub in the corner, allowing you to control your music while you work and play. There’s also a large wheel allowing you to deal with the volume, and a function mode to change the wheel function to RGB, tab through windows and whatnot, so that’s pretty neat.

But there’s another quirk, if you push it in from the right, you can mute your audio, but if you don’t have a hand on the keyboard, the keyboard pushes to the left a few millimetres, so muting and unmuting causes the keyboard to move, basically… so the rubber grips and weight aren’t particularly in the balance here.

At the rear, you can hook up a USB device and a 4-pole headphone jack, so you can pair your mouse and headset into one device, which is great for cable management in your gaming setup.

The RGB is stunning though, and while I may not like that black background, it does provide a good accent for the lighting, which looks great! But at the same time, so does the aluminium which can be seen lighting up on the top row of F-keys.

It’s full per-key lighting too, so you can customise it however you like, and there’s the usual array of lighting effects to play around with.

Perhaps the best trick here is that you can use keyboard shortcuts to customise it on the fly. That includes setting any value and combination of R/G/B to any switch, allowing you to create some pretty unique layouts, or just set your favourite shade of blue to all of it.

Overall, a great-looking keyboard and mouse, but they both fall a little short for my taste. The mouse isn’t as smooth as it should be when wireless, and the sticky shift key of the keyboard makes it a little clumsy for me to type on. And finally, while I hate to kick this keyboard again, the wrist rest is too short. My wrists never actually sat on it when using my natural typing position, and it should be at least 2cm more to really work as intended. However, when moving to a WASD gaming position and curling my fingers, it worked ok.