Founded in 1992, Cooler Master is an aftermarket computer part manufacturer, with a primary manufacturing facility located in Huizhou, China. Launched in 2008, the CM Storm subsidiary of Cooler Master features products designed with the needs of PC gamers in mind, with an emphasis on performance, durability and aesthetics. Popular CM Storm products include gaming headsets, cases, mice and keyboards. Cooler Master has been successfully producing keyboards tailored towards gamers for several years under the CM Storm brand.

Just several years ago, PC gamers weren't focusing on mechanical keyboards as a viable upgrade, but now, it's almost unheard of for a high end gaming system budget to not including a provision for a mechanical keyboard. With gamers now viewing mechanical keyboards as a necessity, it's no surprise that so many manufacturers are now releasing keyboards aimed specifically towards gamers. This competition is great, as the selection for mechanical keyboards continues to rise and consumers are offered a decent amount of choices when it comes to their keyboard selection. Cooler Master, with most of their keyboard releases, have gone the minimalist route, offering solid build quality on keyboards devoid of dedicated media keys and extraneous features that are of dubious value to gamers. With the Quick Fire XTi ($145.91 shipped), Cooler Master is offering gamers a simplistic, clean keyboard design with red and blue LED lighting effects for the first time on any of the CM Storm gaming keyboards. For competitive gamers, the 1000hz polling rate of the Quick Fire XTi ensures fast, accurate input.