ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate Review

Trackpad / Trackball

No

Wheel

Yes

Numpad

Yes

Lock Indicator

Caps, Scroll & Num lock

The ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate is a feature-loaded keyboard. Along the top left of the keyboard, there’s a scroll wheel and dedicated media keys for skipping and playing media. To the right of the scroll wheel, there’s a Windows key lock button and a button to adjust the brightness of the RGB backlighting. This keyboard has a USB port along the top for USB passthrough purposes. The most notable feature of this keyboard is the LED screen in the top right corner. You can use this screen with one of three modes: system, audio, or animation. Each of these modes displays different images on the LED screen, including the key functions, song title and artist, or any of the preset animations available to you. You can customize the animations and use your favorite gif if you want. Additionally, this keyboard is hot-swappable and supports most 3-pin switches.