Click, clack and lots of colorful light – the Cougar Attack X3 RGB in short test

1 - Unboxing und technische Daten 2 - NKRO, Ghosting und Jamming 3 - Taster, Funktionstest und Fazit

Mechanical buttons and special features

Years ago, in our basic article "Mechanical Keyboards: Marketing Hype or Wonder Weapon?" we explained the peculiarities of the respective Cherry-MX buttons. Here the interested reader can inform himself in detail about the differences. Cougar currently offers all four of the most common switch types for MX buttons.

The following picture shows very nicely how to place the buttons on the cover freestanding. The advantage of the transparent switch housings with integrated LED over a fully plugged-in conventional LED is obvious: a more uniform illumination of the keycaps, in which even the lower row of a label is still well illuminated.

The translucent plastic caps are usually coated in class and the label is lasered out. The stability is ok, the attachment to the stamp is also common class average. So you could also rely on individual keycaps that fit on Cherry-MX buttons.

Cougar UIX: RGB lighting, macros and more

The unified UIX software package, which provides customization for Cougar input and output devices, is intuitive to understand and use. Large thought sports tasks do not demand installation and use. In the absence of a separate macro button, you have to accept a third-party assignment using the Fn button, which is of course a matter of taste as always.

Summary and conclusion

Whether you now have the approx. 30 Euro surcharge to the simply illuminated Cougar Attack X3 are worth without the RGB effects, remains a decision-making matter of the buyer. At least then, however, one would also remain below 100 euros. In any case, the keyboard itself does not offer any real slips in both variants, but is a solid average gamer at the end of the day. So it is also not possible to be praised, because where there is not too much in it, one cannot do too much wrong.

The Cougar Attack X3 RGB is thus a gaming keyboard, where the decision-making probably happens above all through the optics. Likes, or doesn't like – life can be as simple as that. In any case, we have not found any other reasons for non-purchase, if you do not know the current price. But this is a completely different story.