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so my first reaction to the arrival of my sample of a retail k70 RGB was like G

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awesome I'm going to go plug it in right now and I'm going to it's going to be

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sweet and I can't wait I then proceeded

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to calmly and patiently wait for the new

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Corsair utility engine Q software to

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download and install fired it up and

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after faffing about for a couple minutes realized I had no idea how to do

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anything so I checked the box for the manual only to discover that the reason

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Corsair makes you download the manual is that it's 142 pages long that's when it

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hit me this review was going to take a

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while Cooler Master nepton Series CPU coolers are available in a variety of

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radiator sizes to perfectly suit your next build click now to learn more we'll

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start with a physical over review if you've seen 1 k70 you've pretty much

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seen them all the layout is a standard 104 key with no deal breaking

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alterations like a short backspace key and a couple much appreciated additions

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namely a Hardware switch for polling rates I recommend leaving this at the

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default setting and BIOS mode which improves compatibility particularly

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outside of your OS on older Hardware it's got a three-level brightness toggle

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a Windows lock key five media keys and a

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classy looking textured metal volume wheel Corsair continues to include soft

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touch rubberized wrist rests and as someone who won't use a keyboard without

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one I consider this very important and they continue to deliver the same

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pleasing fit and finish that we've come to expect over the last few years with a

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gorgeous solid brushed aluminum back plate rubber bottom flipout feet and a

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braided dual USB power cord although it should be noted that the second

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connector with two arrows on it is not

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for a pass through Port but just extra power for the RGB LED lighting and

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significantly upgraded microcontroller when you're using USB 2 if you plug in

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via USB 3 you only need the connector with the picture of the keyboard on it

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and you can leave the other one dangling so let's dive right into it shall we the

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well publicized and much anticipated

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Special Sauce here is Cherry's implementation for now exclusive to

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Corsair of RGB lighting within their MX

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series key switches replacing the single

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3mm two-lead LED embedded on the top of the switch directly below the key cap is

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a new system that mounts an RGB led to

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the PCB of the keyboard and uses a translucent keycap housing and lens to

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focus the light so from the outside it looks very similar to the older style of

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course this would all be meaningless if performance was compromised in any way

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and keyboard enthusiasts will be happy to know that the tactile characteristics

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of the red blue and brown cherrymx switches that this keyboard is available

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with at launch are untainted and another

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desirable side effect is that the LEDs are less susceptible to failure due to

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static discharge because they're surface mounted in the keyboard so so far sounds

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good all around but of course if it's impossible to use then this is all a

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purely academic discussion so let's dive into the documentation for the Corsair

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utility engine software the main reason this keyboard has been delayed and

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delayed and delayed some more and find out if a little B of good oldfashioned

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rtfm is going to get me through

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this we'll start with profiles not to be

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confused with modes which are sort of like subprofiles

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profiles store their modes and foreground lighting effects and can be

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switched automatically when certain applications launch or manually using

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the system Tri icon something you may find yourself doing often when setting

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up lighting effects since sometimes you'll have to change them to get

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settings to apply modes coexist with profiles you must

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always have one of each loaded at least

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they can have their own background color schemes over which the foreground

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lighting effects will run but they are inexplicably missing functionality like

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the ability to have continuous wave patterns or their own reactive typing

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schemes so you'll likely need a handful of profiles to get the variety that you

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obviously crave because you just spent a couple of hundred dollars on a keyboard

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that lights up funny modes also store button assignments and

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the options here are basically endless every button on the keyboard even the

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LED brightness toggle which I rebound to mode switching because the keyboard

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lacks any dedicated buttons for that or even general purpose macro buttons is

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completely reprogrammable we're talking text input shortcuts to the the homepage

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of your your favorite website or applications or whatever overlaid

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countdown timers for gamers although that overlay features a bit of a work in

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proc progress Mouse DPI changes Mouse

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movement Mouse clicks separate macro

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execution for the downstroke and release of the key and even different lighting

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effects to go along with it it's pretty cumbersome but the groundwork has been

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laid here for Corsair's RGB series to be the most powerful keyboards ever made

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and never mind just for gaming for anything that requires execution of of

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macros or other complex functionality and we haven't even talked about the

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lighting yet it took me a few hours to get the hang of it but not at least not

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entirely because I'm an idiot I spent most of that time being frustrated by

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bugs like needing to drag a mode to the top of the list and sometimes quickly

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switch profiles in order to preview what I was doing and not being able to find

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mode switching within the actions editor because it's the one thing that's not in

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there no you need to rightclick the button instead but once I got the hang

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of it I found myself able to do some moderately cool stuff I can set up

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different key actions per mode uh clone my modes entirely within a profile

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change any key to any color I want even

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the media Keys set up reactive typing on a single key or in a ripple effect I can

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set up waves starting on the side or in the center with whatever colors I want I

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can export the file to carry it with me to other computers or share with friends

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and coolest of all I can just not be ared to do any of this and download

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profiles from the course there forum where folks are already doing stuff that

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I couldn't figure out how to do but here

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I ran into another problem when you import someone else's profile it adds

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all of the crap from theirs into yours

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with the only way to get around that being to manually delete them all or

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wipe out everything in the software and while I saw stuff that I wasn't sure how

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to do most of it was pretty simple different time delays longer or shorter

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Trails on an effect more or fewer colors

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where's the full programmability that you promised Corsair Lua as they call it

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is not here yet which I guess is both

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encouraging and discouraging because it means it's less complicated for now but

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it also means that it's going to get more complicated later in order to unlock the full potential of this bad

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boy so I guess that leads pretty well into conclusion time and it's not a

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simple conclusion in the 10 years I've been using Corsair products I've seen

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Innovation and I've seen success but I've also seen failure so what is the

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k70 right now I would say it's both the

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idea is a success but the endless delays gave their competitors the better part

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of a year to react and bring their own solutions to market now that it's

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finally here I'd say the quality of the hardware is a smashing success but the

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software is to put it bluntly not I mean

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its features are a success compared to other products currently on the market

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but compared to the expectations that they set they're not and I'm sure they'd

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prefer if I just ignore the Uproar over the Corsair gaming Rebrand initiative

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speaking of things that are not that successful right

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now so the k70 RGB won't be taking home

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an editor's choice or anything today but what I will say based on my experience

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with corer is that while this was not a smooth product launch the battle for RGB

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keyboard dominance is far from over for

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all their flaws Corsair's RGB keyboards have a few key advantages versus their

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competition number one is excitement this is the most anticipated keyboard in

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the history of computer enthusiasts ever as far as I can tell number two they are

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first to Market they exist people are buying them and more importantly not

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returning them the bugs appear to be software rather than hardware issues

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which makes patching the ones in the field relatively simple and gives

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Corsair much needed Capital to continue to develop the product and number three

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is that Corsair always comes up swinging when they smell blood and I bet they do

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right now I mean this is the first time an established gaming peripheral maker

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and in this case two of them has ever reacted so quickly to something little

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old Corsair has done and if I was those competitors I would make damn good

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ensure that the chroma and the g910 are strong reactions the last time Corsair

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entered a category this aggressively the PC power supply in case industry was

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dominated by a little company called antech and the rest is history It Anyway

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expect to see coverage of the k95 or K65

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the macro button equipped and 10 keyless variants of the k70 when I've had a

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chance to scope out the competition or when Corsair turns their software from

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something that limps along functionally

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into something worthy of the Corsair name or the Corsair gaming name with

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some batl thing or whatever it is they're calling themselves these days

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guys thanks for watching like this video

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