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I've long believed that Hardware can make you a better gamer but when it

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comes to 8,000 HZ pulling rate keyboards and mice I've been a bit dubious so when

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corera decided to sponsor this video so we could check out the k70 pro tkl with

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their version of snaptap I said we'll give it a try after we open the box

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we've got our typical warranty guide we've got our safety and compliance

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information and then we've got the keyboard just right on top here let's

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look at everything else first cuz there's some stuff underneath

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it should come with I think a wrist rest yep that's what this looks like o I like

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the paper packaging with the Corsair logo I do really like the look of the

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logo here but I kind of wish they'd maybe put it up here instead of uh right

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in the center because it is magnetized by the way uh but one of the problems

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that might encounter is if you go and you move over just a little bit you're on the edge of your palm just going to

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touch it it's it's not the worst it's totally fine but of corser just move it

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I like it I like the style I like the rest of the wrist rest to be honest I

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like this uh design they've got going on this little texture pattern that they

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have here feels nice comfortable squishy

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just enough give I'm not big on like granite or wood wrist rest personally I

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like a nice foam one they're nice and soft there's only one other thing in

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here and it is long it's probably about

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6 ft 5.5 no it's more 5.5 all right it's

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got the mgx hyperdrive magnetic switches

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but then it's not all the hyperdrive magnetic switches the F

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keys are regular so that's really cool with these being magnetic and hall

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effect that means that we can change all of our actuation points we've looked at

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this a lot in the past with other keyboards that have kind of done it first but especially with snaptap

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becoming dominant in the FPS scene it's going to give you that kind of

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fine-tuned control uh let's say you want

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to action the key as soon as you basically press it so feather touch boom

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it's down and then the nice thing is what it can also do is basically once

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it's stopped going down the moment it lifts it'll reset so instead of having

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to go up all the way I can take my finger off this key just slightly and

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then push down and it'll action again right away but while I'm a gamer what I

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care more about is the look and the feel

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and the sound of my keyboard as I type on it and game on it and do everything

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in between uh so how does it actually you know it's

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really it's kind of better than I was expecting I know that this is spawn sped

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but I mean you guys will be able to hear it and make your own judgment call here

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but my biggest pet peeve on most keyboards is the stabilizers

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particularly the space bar no rattle or at least very little I

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can't really make any out enter has got a little bit just the

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test shift as well but it's really you know the space

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bar is usually cuz that you're touching the space bar all the time you know every between every word and as for the

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sound aside from you know checking out the stabilizers

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the rest of it sounds pretty decent they've got two layers of sound

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dampening silicone which really helps uh with this version versus the previous

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ones that did not I'm not going to lie to you guys it's not my favorite

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keyboard in terms of sound it's not the most amazing sounding one but the thing

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is companies like Corsair their keyboards have come so far in the last

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few years they've had to play catchup but they've kind of done it admirably

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and I've got to say this is like good enough for most

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people especially when what you're really looking for is that 8 khz pulling

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rate and those hall effect switches it feels okay too uh they're linear they're

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pre- lubed already which has been so much better in the last year or two when

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it comes to buying switches I used to actually recommend against Factory

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Prelude because they didn't do a good job or if it was a good job it'd be fine

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on some switches and then really bad on others uh so it's just kind of all over

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the place but it feels like that's been fine-tuned over the last year or two but

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that's all the hollow effect switches how are the F Keys cuz those

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use another one those use their plasma switches and these are just regular

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linear sure they're fine also preu from the factory key caps are a double shot

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PBT although you can get the ABS version we'll talk about price later but the ABS

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one is 10 bucks cheaper in my humble opinion I think you should just get the

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PBT spend the extra $10 but to each

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their own and then they've got their classic brushed aluminum finish I'm not

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crazy about the brushed aluminum you guys please just stop brushing the

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aluminum just make it aluminum I do like the stamped Corsair logo here and then I

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like that they've got this included knob it's hard to go wrong with a solid knob

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really satisfying tactile feel uh but

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then these two buttons are just buttons and they don't really spin or anything

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I'll have to plug it in and find out what exactly they do but I wish they

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were just a tad more satisfying I also really like the angle of the case and

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how the edges are nice and clean uh it's just a plastic chassis on top underneath

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this kind of brushed aluminum uh top plate here they've got

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USBC and then on the back of the keyboard they've got this pretty cool uh

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just Corsair logo in the middle for looks and then as per usual when it

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comes to the big name brands and keyboards they've got adjustable feet

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something else to note is that's a

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good that's incredibly satisfying um they're also what feels to be a very

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durable nice rubber feel so that they're not going to

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it's not going to slip very much like I'm really pushing on this thing here uh

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in terms of durability though it's pretty solid there's like really not a

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lot of flex at all I'm actually surprised I was expecting a bit more decently heavy but not too heavy I kind

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of wish it was Wireless but then the weight would go up with the included battery and one of the big benefits of

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going with a keyboard like this is you can just go to a store and buy it like

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you can just walk in a Best Buy and buy one you don't have to sign up for a group order you don't have to order

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something online just walk in hand the guy your credit card or cash and walk

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out with your brand new keyboard uh but let's try it out you know properly we'll

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see some RGB we'll try typing on it where I have actual words to type

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instead of random gibberish one moment please okay ladies and gentlemen here we

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go one8 97% that's not too bad I've been

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slowed down a little bit because I'm used to typing on chicklet style keyboards right now I've been using my

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laptop quite a bit uh also I have a flat

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uh XDA low profile kind of set at home

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that I've been really enjoying and I really like this the RGB is nice it

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shines through really nicely nice and bright nice and colorful I love the blue

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um I don't know if it's just because of the white and gray and aluminum that

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it's kind of Illuminating uh but I really like the tone of the RGB or the

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Hue of the color I will say Corsair IQ

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it's great is it kind of frustrating sometimes yes but it works it's pretty

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cool you hit function all the lights turn off except for like your FR row and Windows and FN uh let's open IQ check

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out some of the hall effect customization you can do because they

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say that you can go anywhere from .1 to

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4 mm of actuation and they've actually suggested that we go anywhere from4 to

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3.6 you could go as low or as high as you want I guess but somewhere in the

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middle is usually about right the other thing is you can change that in .1 mm

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increments so let's open IQ and take a o

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lighting effects new feat features exclusively for the Corsair k70 Pro RGB

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tkl keyboard Okay click on the oh control dial rotate the control dial

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left and right to adjust brightness let's turn all the way oh that was fast

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okay I'd like a few more steps but I I guess you actually don't really need it

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like four or five steps or whatever's here is good that's honestly pretty

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sweet okay what else press on to turn on the brightness press again oh okay and

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this just turns it on or off that's great the toggle turns the mode on

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switch the toggle to the right to activate horizontal scrolling control

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dial colors are unique and indicate the current mode yellow stands for

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horizontal scrolling for example oh okay let's okay let's see if this actually

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works let's open a page what okay that's pretty cool okay

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so if I hit FN F12 oh yeah it's back to volume so

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there's vertical scrolling volume control brightness control horizontal

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scrolling and zoom you can turn zoom on and then you can turn all of these on or

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off so say you just want to cycle between vertical and horizontal scrolling you don't set the volume with

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this you've got like a goxlr I mean they're dead now but you've got some other kind of media control system in

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place and you just want vertical hor horizontal scrolling you turn those two

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on FN F12 boom you swap between the two

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that's really cool actually I'm going to try the zoom

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mode what it's kind of features like that

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that you don't tend to get with Boutique boards yes you all of a sudden have qmk

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via and you can do whatever you you want but also I'm lazy and I just want to

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like tick a switch in an app that tells me hey you've enabled this thing instead

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of setting up a bunch of macros and doing it myself time to set up key

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actuations customize the response ped for each one you can start by adding a

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new actuation preset select the key you want during the tutorial please select

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the T key select the color you want to customize your color indicator oh that's

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neat primary actuation Point can be customized from 0.1 to 4 mm use the

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slider or enter the exact value what I do love though here is that they've got

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a little handy visualization for you so

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let's say I want to set it to one now I see that it's going to apply when I'm

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about that far deep and if I set it to four it's further down so that's

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actually pretty cool and then oh you you can just use the slider Okay cool so

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we've got our reset Point here and you can change that as well to whatever you

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want Oh and it visualizes it and everything that's right cuz it's got

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flash tap which is corsair's version so we can set it to just below there so as

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long as I come above that point it should reset which is pretty and then

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rapid trigger oh yeah separate press release sensitivity I'll be honest you

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guys this is the sort of thing that me

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as a non- customizer kind of person is I

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don't know how much I'd sit here and Tinker with I think that I would probably unbox this keyboard hook it up

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to my computer and then use it but for everyone who loves this sort of thing

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which there's a lot of you they let you do just about whatever you want so it's

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pretty good in that regard what I need to do though is make sure game mode is

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on because for some reason game mode doesn't start on by default oh yeah I

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can change my polling right now 8,000

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Hertz yeah I mean let's be real 1,000 htz is good enough for the vast majority

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of people when we're talking about going from 1 millisecond to .125 millisecond

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yeah that's way faster 100% most of you aren't going to really feel it however

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if you're gaming and you're playing in FPS and you need literally that half of

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a millisecond or less to determine who's the winner I mean technically

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that's going to win let's see activate wind lock yes brightness Max yes static

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color enforced no actually you know I will keep that on I like it as a good

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visual indicator to tell you hey you're in game mode now I kind of wish game

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mode was just enabled by default it does lock out a few Keys like windlock and

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other macros that you might have so I guess if you're going to go from using

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macros and something to wanting to play FPS games you'll want to go to game mode

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but without this on I can't change the polling rate I don't think oh yeah I can

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higher us pull okay yeah don't show this ever again I don't care if higher USB

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pulling raids take more power select anyway one of the other cool things is

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how it's doing all of this processing to enable 8,000 HZ polling rates and Flash

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tap and all of that stuff without getting super confused is it's got an

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axon processor on board love to see it now we got a game on it I have to

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actually try flash tab can't play Counterstrike as much as I'd like to

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because w w it's banned if we try to use

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you should be able to disable game mode

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and play Counter Strike on this keyboard

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however I'm pretty sure if you go in with flash tap enabled you'll get a

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vacban or you'll at least get a warning so just buy or beware be careful that's

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why they made it so obvious that like yes I am clearly in game mode flash tap

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is enabled you can jiggle peek guys I wish I had the dynamic cursor that CS2

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has wow I suck I haven't played in so long got that guy hey and you know how I

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got that guy with flash tab if I didn't have flash tab I wouldn't have killed

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him that's not true at all and the thing about having a keyboard and a mouse

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that's just perfectly responsive with 8 ktz it's going to do exactly what you

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want when you want is this the keyboard for me do I want to get back into

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competitive Shooters not particularly but is it absolutely a solid choice if

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you do want to play competitive shooters or you just want like the next part of

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your IQ setup I think it's a really solid option it sounds pretty good it

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feels pretty good I can jiggle Peak I mean I could before cuz I played

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Counterstrike for like I don't know a couple thousand hours no big deal but if

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you don't have that capability and

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you're trying to just get into the scene now this could give you that edge is it

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going to make you better gamer not exactly but is it going to make sure

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that you've got the same Edge that everyone else does yes and it'll make

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sure that you can never blame the peripherals for your poor gaming

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performance anymore you can only blame yourself like me right now if you want

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to pick up the Corsair k70 Pro tkl you can get it with abs key caps for

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$179.99 but I really think that you should just spend that 10 extra bucks

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and pay $189.99 for the PBT key caps if

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this is the keyboard for you I don't know if it's the right keyboard for me but I'll tell you this much it makes me

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want to play Shooters again thanks for watching this ShortCircuit thanks of course s for sponsoring this video if

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you want to check it out we'll have links in the description below and make

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sure you stay tuned for the next one