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one line of tech tips video two keyboards is it a showdown no it's

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actually not but I'm going to highlight what these keyboards do differently from

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each other and what they do differently from the rest of the keyboards on the

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market treat that like button down there like the big red button that you see in

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a movie or video game and press it if you'd like to see a video on the r9390x

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free let's start with the strafe from Corsair first off I need to check out

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these two videos from lonus if you haven't seen them yet there are his

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reviews on the Corsair k70 and the Corsair k70 RGB they're very important

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com for comparative reasons because the k70 is currently $110 on

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newegg.com and the MSRP of the strafe is

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also $110 that price could change but they're the same for now the k70 and the

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strafe both have cherrymx switches they both have USB passrs they both have

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textured and contoured key caps for a few certain Keys although they're

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different ones the strafe leans more towards MOA uh they both have 100% anti-

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ghosting technology and they both have enhanced easy access multimedia control

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controls so what's different the k70 has

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a wrist rest the k70 is multimedia controls are amazing the volume control

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has a wonderful metal scroll wheel that feels great to operate and most of the

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controls have their own dedicated button for easy access the strafe is mostly

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based around a function key outside of just brightness and a lock button the

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k70 has an amazing aluminum construction and it looks great it adds a lot to the

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structural rigidity of the keyboard and the strafe does not have that it's

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mostly plas construction but is it all bad news no not at all the trfe has some

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really cool stuff the k70 doesn't have the hardware inside it in order to work

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with Q software which enables users to program each key with automated macros

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this comes from the k70 RGB but that has

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a huge price increase the other thing that it inherits from the RGB is an

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enhanced lighting controller lighting modes on the k70 were maybe a bit rather

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boring but the strafe has six unique lighting effects built in and the

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ability for the user to craft their own this also includes downloading lighting

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themes off the Corsair gaming.com website and it's not just a better

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lighting controller behind your keys is a red back plate which will enhance the

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quality of your back lighting effects pretty cool moving on we have the MX

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board 6.0 from Cherry this is a fairly standard looking keyboard the beautiful

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aluminum housing is coated so your oily hands won't ruin it which is great and

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the awesome Magnetic wrist rest Clicks in very easily is a great size and feels

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very comfy but outside of those things and some slightly shorter than normal

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key caps it looks fairly standard at first one technology that cherry put

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into this board and as of this point doesn't really seem too interested into

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giving to other people is their RK technology also known as real key the

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goal of real key is reducing the lag within the keyboard from about 20

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milliseconds for a key press to 1 millisecond and a mechanical version of

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switch debouncing all of this is compared to the standard m scanning

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method what the hell am I talking about well every time that you press a key

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your keyboard has to figure out that you pressed it and which one it was The

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Matrix scanning method checks all the pins on your board with a specific

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current and then directs all of that using a bunch of diodes back to the

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controller which in takes the X and Y AIS and then it can figure out which one

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you press real key technology doesn't use diodes and connects everything

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together directly to the controller but this time a unique voltage is sent to

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each pin and the controller will use the final total voltage to determine which

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switch was pressed down this in theory

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is a huge Improvement and I think it's super cool don't get me wrong but I

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didn't personally really notice a difference I would like to do more

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testing here but that would require more scientific equipment than I currently

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have my hands on so maybe we can look into that in the future but it's not a

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huge very drastically noticeable change

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in conclusion the keyboard battle is ever expanding and two new strong

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players have entered the game they're both on the Cherry team but they have

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their own unique offerings one with fantastic liting control and the other

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is faster than ever which do you choose

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Mast drop has another one of their pretty killer deals going on today the

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Sennheiser urbanite XLS are currently available over there at a whopping

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$15 off the MSRP these do have a more

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base focused frequency respon so they're a bit of a new generation sound meat

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storied Sennheiser engineering type of product of course this product is

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available only through Mast drop at this significantly discounted price thanks to

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their group bu model especially uh essentially the more people that buy the

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more the price goes down to a set minimum with its minimum price being

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just under 30% below the MSRP for this product you can check out this drop and

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