The Back-lighting:

The CM Storm Quick Fire TK keyboard back-lighting is a major feature upgrade over my plain Quick Fire keyboard. As you can tell from the image below this keyboard has red back-lighting. You may notice the directional arrows are not lit, that is because the Num Lock is activated, and those keys are meant to not be lit. But the number 2, 0, 00 and period keys do function. They only have one light on the key, and they are on the bottom of they keys for the directional arrows. Although turning the Num Lock off does not shut off the lights for the currently lit number keys. It will take some time to get used to that part.



The below left image details the left portion of the keyboard at the lowest brightness, while the below right image shows the highest brightness setting. It is somewhat difficult to tell from the images, but there is a big difference in the brightness from lowest to highest.



One of the three modes on the CM Storm Quick Fire TK keyboard is the WASD mode, mostly used with first person shooter games. Using this mode, the only keys that are back lit are the WASD, FN, and direction arrow keys in the num pad area. Both back lit areas are shown in the images below.



The other two back-light modes are user brightness mode, and a pulsing mode. Without any manual or guides I had to figure these out myself. The pulsing back-light mode is very subtle cycling through the brightness levels, and for those who do not know it is supposed to do this might think they need to see an eye doctor.

When using the FN key with the F12 button, the use of the Windows key will be disabled. As you can see in the image below, the F12 / Windows key lock key illuminates while active. And the cool feature is that it will remember this setting after the computer shuts down or is unplugged.



I once again removed the G key to show the brightness of the lights under the keys. In the image below the brightness is maxed out and its very bright without the key present to diffuse the light.