Comments on: OCZ Sabre OLED Gaming Keyboard http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ocz-sabre-oled-gaming-keyboard/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: unimpressedWithSabre http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ocz-sabre-oled-gaming-keyboard/#comment-171769 unimpressedWithSabre Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:32:21 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-171769 with current (and only) available drivers, the OLEDs have a built in 'screensaver' of 3 minutes. Its a feature confirmed by OCZ on their forums to prevent the OLEDs frmo burning out. <br /> <br />so if you're wanting to use the OLEDs for say a Flight Sim and dont touch any of the OLEDs for 3 minutes, they will all go blank/off. If you press one of the OLEDs, they will all come on again, but you will invoke the associated function of the pressed OLED button in the process - which is undesirable unless you keep one of the OLEDs dedicated to waking all the OLEDs up...which means you really only have 8 OLEDs to play with. <br /> <br />This 'screensaver' only occurs AFTER installing the drivers. Of course you need to install the drivers to setup your own icons on the OLEDs. <br /> <br />Shonky retailers, such as Computer Alliance (Brisbane), might inform you that the OLEDs stay on all day - but they havent (and wont) installed the drivers and setup application specific profiles. with current (and only) available drivers, the OLEDs have a built in 'screensaver' of 3 minutes. Its a feature confirmed by OCZ on their forums to prevent the OLEDs frmo burning out.

so if you're wanting to use the OLEDs for say a Flight Sim and dont touch any of the OLEDs for 3 minutes, they will all go blank/off. If you press one of the OLEDs, they will all come on again, but you will invoke the associated function of the pressed OLED button in the process – which is undesirable unless you keep one of the OLEDs dedicated to waking all the OLEDs up…which means you really only have 8 OLEDs to play with.

This 'screensaver' only occurs AFTER installing the drivers. Of course you need to install the drivers to setup your own icons on the OLEDs.

Shonky retailers, such as Computer Alliance (Brisbane), might inform you that the OLEDs stay on all day – but they havent (and wont) installed the drivers and setup application specific profiles.

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