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for a truly Enthusiast class experience welcome to my unboxing of the flagship
of Flag ships of Corsair keyboards this
is the Vengeance k95 which is a direct
replacement for the k90 in terms of feature set and it brings some
compelling new features with it that make it not not just a slot in
replacement but I'd say a significant Improvement I mean I wouldn't have
minded if they' called it the K 100 but
I guess that sort of breaks the uh you know K and two digits after the
numbering scheme that they were going for but the unfortunate thing about that
for Corsair they started at 90 they could have easily done a k30 or you know
a k you know 20 to start with but they started right there at 90 so that left
them not a whole lot of room to move on the numbering scheme
so the first thing that's different about the k95 versus the k90 and this
was complaint number Uno for the k90 was
the fact that all the key switches on
the k95 are now mechanical on the k90
the macro Keys as well as the F Keys
along the top of the keyboard used rubber Dome switches in addition to all
these macro keys right here there we go let's move over all these macro Keys
here used rubber Dome membrane key switches all these F keys at the top as
well as Escape used rubber domes and these guys right here used rubber domes
enthusiasts basically went Corsair we
think it's interesting your philosophy about how you want these ones to feel
different tactilely so that I can tell what I'm doing when I'm not looking at
the keyboard but we don't care what we'd like you to do is replace them with
mechanical Keys Corsair took that feedback and implemented it with the k95
it is fully mechanical the next thing that is different about the k95 versus
the k90 is that it is in a different
color scheme so you can see that we've got that same blue aluminum back plane
that gives the keyboard a very premium
look um did I say blue aluminum okay
we've got that same aluminum black backplane that gives the keyboard a very
very clean look as well as extreme ruggedness so Corsair keyboards have
almost no flex you can see how thick that piece of aluminum is that makes up
the unibody construction of it that goes all the way down to here we go all the
way down to the bottom of the where the wrist rest attaches and then all the way
up to the top it's very very rigid and another thing that Corsair does That's
Unique is they have an extremely high distance between the bottom of the key
cap right here and the top of the back
plane and what this does is it gives them a very strong underglow effect
because these keys are individually back
lit so so these LEDs are casting light not only through the keys themselves and
you can see there's varying brightness levels three brightness levels as well
as off but also down on the back plane itself that gives it a very very very
very cool effect this is one of the things that I believe sold Corsair
keyboards because it's a very unique look um the next thing is the wrist rest
has not been changed much from the previous gen I really like Corsair's
implementation on the wrist rest here and that is it's different from the k70
where they have done away with the metal screws here at the edges that make it
extremely secure as well as I believe less prone to breakage the plastic uh
the plastic Clips on the k70 have a pretty strong design but there's no
substitute for these metal thumb screws that are able to attach this in a much
more more permanent fashion and even if these broke off which I don't think they
would they could still be guides and you could still firmly secure it with this
on the bottom of the keyboard you've got flip out feet right here that are are
going to allow you to change the elevation slightly as well as rubber feet here here here and here that'll
keep it from slipping around on the back of the keyboard we find a single USB
pass through so you can use this for your mouse or for I don't know a USB
drive or whatever else that you want as well as a bio switch this is kind of
unique and the funny thing about the bio switch is Corsair makes no mention of it
no mention here no mention on the website so I will explain what it does
it enables better comp compatibility with different motherboards particularly
ones running Legacy bioses this was one of the other complaints that I
personally had about the k90 was that it wasn't always compatible with
motherboards allowing you to get into the BIOS if you press to delete in time
so they've got four different profiles here one 2 four and eight that will
allow you to get into the BIOS of your
of your motherboard pretty much regardless so that's a really strong thing another carryover from the k90 is
the media Keys which I believe are some of the best out there so you've got stop
back play pause and forward as well as mute and a volume wheel volume wheels
are much more intuitive and natural for me to use than something like uh
function hotkey up on the F Keys themselves so I I love seeing them
implemented that is that is my favorite way of doing that uh moving on down here
we've got a Windows key lock that is also a carryover as well as the
brightness adjustment that I showed you guys before I'm going to put it on the dimmest one just so you guys can see
what I'm talking about here and check this out the keys are individually
backlit they are also individually controllable here we go so you hold this
button down and all of a sudden wo what's going on only like a bunch of
random Keys over here on the keyboard of backlit you can change and backlight
whichever Keys you desire so if you
wanted to oh yeah there you go so if you
wanted to like spell Your Name Across the keyboard you could blank out the
whole thing oh oh oh I have not done this the most effective way but uh bear
with me here guys so there you have it that is my feeble attempt to have the
keyboard say my name on it instead of any kind of sort of reasonable pattern
so there's an L I
N N's tough u s see cool and then all
you have to do is you press this down hold her down and you have effectively
changed the mode so you can switch between the modes by pressing one of
these buttons If I recall correctly there we go so by pressing this button
you can go full back lit not back lit and then using brightness adjust you can
turn the whole thing off entirely very cool stuff all of the G programmable G1
to G18 keys can be programmed on the Fly
you also have three different profile layers for each of them and that I think
is pretty self-explanatory or you can use Corsair's gaming software in order
to enable sort of a bunch of this functionality as well if you don't
prefer to program things on the Fly I think that pretty much wraps it up oh
right Cherry MX red so the k95 is still
only available with Cherry MX red switches because these are according to
sort of what Corsair would believe although I not necess well I'm not a Pro
Gamer so that's part of the problem but according to Corsair for gaming Cherry
MX Reds are still the most optimal key switches because of their extremely
light tactile response so you they are very light button presses as well as
their linear switch fashion allowing you to quickly and easily repeat the buttons
in a way way that you can't really do with the tactile switches like Cherry MX
Blues so while Blues might be more satisfying for typing this is a gaming
keyboard so Corsair is going well you know what we're going to deliver the best product that we think is most
appropriate for gaming and the typists can get k7s which are available with
other key switches as well so this particular one Cherry MX red and let's
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