one line of tech tips video two keyboards is it a showdown no it's
actually not but I'm going to highlight what these keyboards do differently from
each other and what they do differently from the rest of the keyboards on the
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free let's start with the strafe from Corsair first off I need to check out
these two videos from lonus if you haven't seen them yet there are his
reviews on the Corsair k70 and the Corsair k70 RGB they're very important
com for comparative reasons because the k70 is currently $110 on
newegg.com and the MSRP of the strafe is
also $110 that price could change but they're the same for now the k70 and the
strafe both have cherrymx switches they both have USB passrs they both have
textured and contoured key caps for a few certain Keys although they're
different ones the strafe leans more towards MOA uh they both have 100% anti-
ghosting technology and they both have enhanced easy access multimedia control
controls so what's different the k70 has
a wrist rest the k70 is multimedia controls are amazing the volume control
has a wonderful metal scroll wheel that feels great to operate and most of the
controls have their own dedicated button for easy access the strafe is mostly
based around a function key outside of just brightness and a lock button the
k70 has an amazing aluminum construction and it looks great it adds a lot to the
structural rigidity of the keyboard and the strafe does not have that it's
mostly plas construction but is it all bad news no not at all the trfe has some
really cool stuff the k70 doesn't have the hardware inside it in order to work
with Q software which enables users to program each key with automated macros
this comes from the k70 RGB but that has
a huge price increase the other thing that it inherits from the RGB is an
enhanced lighting controller lighting modes on the k70 were maybe a bit rather
boring but the strafe has six unique lighting effects built in and the
ability for the user to craft their own this also includes downloading lighting
themes off the Corsair gaming.com website and it's not just a better
lighting controller behind your keys is a red back plate which will enhance the
quality of your back lighting effects pretty cool moving on we have the MX
board 6.0 from Cherry this is a fairly standard looking keyboard the beautiful
aluminum housing is coated so your oily hands won't ruin it which is great and
the awesome Magnetic wrist rest Clicks in very easily is a great size and feels
very comfy but outside of those things and some slightly shorter than normal
key caps it looks fairly standard at first one technology that cherry put
into this board and as of this point doesn't really seem too interested into
giving to other people is their RK technology also known as real key the
goal of real key is reducing the lag within the keyboard from about 20
milliseconds for a key press to 1 millisecond and a mechanical version of
switch debouncing all of this is compared to the standard m scanning
method what the hell am I talking about well every time that you press a key
your keyboard has to figure out that you pressed it and which one it was The
Matrix scanning method checks all the pins on your board with a specific
current and then directs all of that using a bunch of diodes back to the
controller which in takes the X and Y AIS and then it can figure out which one
you press real key technology doesn't use diodes and connects everything
together directly to the controller but this time a unique voltage is sent to
each pin and the controller will use the final total voltage to determine which
switch was pressed down this in theory
is a huge Improvement and I think it's super cool don't get me wrong but I
didn't personally really notice a difference I would like to do more
testing here but that would require more scientific equipment than I currently
have my hands on so maybe we can look into that in the future but it's not a
huge very drastically noticeable change
in conclusion the keyboard battle is ever expanding and two new strong
players have entered the game they're both on the Cherry team but they have
their own unique offerings one with fantastic liting control and the other
is faster than ever which do you choose
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