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I've long believed that hardware can make you a better gamer,

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but when it comes to 8,000 Hertz polling rate keyboards

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and mice, I've been a bit dubious. So when Corsair decided to sponsor this video,

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so we could check out the K70 Pro TKL

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with their version of Snapchat, I said, we'll give it a try.

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After we open the box, we've got our typical warranty guide,

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we've got our safety and compliance information,

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and then we've got the keyboard just right on top here.

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Let's look at everything else first, because 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.

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Ooh, I like the paper packaging with the Corsair logo.

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I do really like the look of the logo here, but I kind of wish they'd maybe put it up here

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instead of right in the center, because it is magnetized, by the way,

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but one of the problems that might encounter is, if you go and you move over just a little bit,

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you're gonna edge of your palm, just gonna touch it, it's not the worst,

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it's totally fine, but Corsair, just move it. I like it, I like the style.

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I like the rest of the wrist rest, to be honest. I like this design they've got going on,

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this little texture pattern that they have here. Feels nice, comfortable, squishy, just enough give.

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I'm not big on granite or wood wrist rest, personally.

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I like a nice foam one, they're nice and soft. There's only one other thing in here, and it is long.

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It's probably about six feet, 5.5? No, it's more than 5.5.

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All right, it's got the MGX Hyperdrive Magnetic Switches,

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but then it's not all the Hyperdrive Magnetic Switches.

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The F keys are regular, so that's really cool.

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With these being magnetic and Hall Effect, that means that we can change all of our actuation points.

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We've looked at this a lot in the past with other keyboards that have kind of done it first,

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but especially with SnapTap becoming dominant in the FPS scene, it's gonna give you

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that kind of fine-tuned control. Let's say you want to action the key

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as soon as you basically press it. So Feather Touch, boom, it's down.

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And then the nice thing is what it can also do is, basically once it's stopped going down,

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the moment it lifts, it'll reset. So instead of having to go up all the way,

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I can take my finger off this key just slightly and then push down into action again right away.

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But while I'm a gamer, what I care more about is the look and the feel and the sound of my keyboard

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as I type on it and game on it and do everything in between.

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So how does it actually, you know, it's really,

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it's kind of better than I was expecting. I know that this is sponsored, but I mean, you guys will be able to hear it

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and make your own judgment call here. But my biggest pet peeve on most keyboards

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is the stabilizers, particularly the spacebar.

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No rattle, or at least very little. I can't really make any out.

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Enter has got a little bit, just the teensiest shift as well.

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But it's really, you know, the spacebar is usually, because you're touching the spacebar all the time,

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you know, every, between every word. And as for the sound, aside from, you know,

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checking out the stabilizers,

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the rest of it sounds pretty decent. They've got two layers of sound dampening silicone,

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which really helps with this version versus the previous ones that did not.

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I'm not gonna lie to you guys. It's not my favorite keyboard in terms of sound.

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It's not the most amazing sounding one, but the thing is, companies like Corsair,

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their keyboards have come so far in the last few years. They've had to play catch up,

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but they've kind of done it admirably. And I've got to say,

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this is like good enough for most people, especially when what you're really looking for

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is that eight kilohertz polling rate and those hall effects switches.

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It feels okay too. They're linear, they're pre-looped already,

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which has been so much better in the last year or two

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when it comes to buying switches. I used to actually recommend against factory pre-loob

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because they didn't do a good job. Or if it was a good job, it'd be fine on some switches

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and then really bad on others. So it's just kind of all over the place, but it feels like that's been fine tuned

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over the last year or two. But that's all the hall effect switches.

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How are the F keys? Cause those use another one. Those use their plasma switches.

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And these are just regular linears.

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Sure, they're fine. Also pre-looped from the factory. Keycaps are a double shot PBT,

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although you can get the ABS version. We'll talk about price later,

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but the ABS one is 10 bucks cheaper. In my humble opinion,

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I think you should just get the PBT, spend the extra $10, but to each of their own.

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And then they've got their classic brushed aluminum finish.

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I'm not crazy about the brushed aluminum. You guys, please just stop brushing the aluminum.

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Just make it aluminum. I do like the stamped Corsair logo here.

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And then I 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.

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But 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 were just a tad more satisfying.

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I also really like the angle of the case and how the edges are nice and clean.

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It's just a plastic chassis on top underneath this kind of brushed aluminum top plate here.

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And they've got USB-C. And then on the back of the keyboard,

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we've got this pretty cool, just Corsair logo in the middle for looks.

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And then as per usual, when it comes to the big name brands and keyboards,

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they've got adjustable feet. Something else to note is that's a good,

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that's incredibly satisfying. They're also what feels to be a very durable,

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nice rubber feel so that they're not gonna, it's not gonna slip very much.

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Like I'm really pushing on this thing here. In terms of durability though, it's pretty solid.

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There's like really not a lot of flex at all. I'm actually surprised. I was expecting a bit more decently heavy,

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but not too heavy. I kind of wish it was wireless, but then the weight would go up with the included battery.

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And one of the big benefits of going with a keyboard

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like this is you can just go to a store and buy it. Like you can just walk in the best buy and buy one.

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You don't have to sign up for a group order. You don't have to order something online.

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Just walk in, hand the guy your credit card or cash

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and walk out with your brand new keyboard. But let's try it out, you know, properly.

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We'll 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 go.

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108, 97%, that's not too bad. I've been slowed down a little bit

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because I'm used to typing on Chicklet-style keyboards right now. I've been using my laptop quite a bit.

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Also, I have a flat XDA low profile kind of set at home

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that I've been really enjoying. And I really like this.

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The RGB is nice. It shines through really nicely, nice and bright,

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nice and colorful. I love the blue. I don't know if it's just because of the white

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and gray and aluminum that it's kind of illuminating,

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but I really like the tone of the RGB or the hue of the color.

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I will say Corsair IQ, it's great.

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Is it kind of frustrating sometimes? Yes, but it works.

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It's pretty cool. You hit function, all the lights turn off except for like your FRO and Windows and FN.

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Let's open IQ. Check out some of the Hall Effect customization you can do

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because they say that you can go anywhere from 0.1 to four millimeters of actuation.

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And they've actually suggested that we go anywhere from 0.4 to 3.6.

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You could go as low or as high as you want, I guess, but somewhere in the middle is usually about right.

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The other thing is you can change that in 0.1 millimeter increments.

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So let's open IQ and take a, ooh, lighting effects.

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New features exclusively for the Corsair K70 Pro RGB TKL

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keyboard. Okay, click on the control dial.

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Rotate the control dial left and right to adjust brightness.

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Let's turn it all the way, oh, that was fast. Okay, I'd like a few more steps,

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but I guess you actually don't really need it, like four or five steps or whatever's here is good.

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That's honestly pretty sweet. Okay, what else? Press on to turn on the brightness, press again.

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Oh, okay, and this just turns it on or off. That's great. The toggle turns the mode on, switch the toggle

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to the right to activate horizontal scrolling.

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Control dial colors are unique and indicate the current mode. Yellow stands for horizontal scrolling, for example.

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Oh, okay, let's see if this actually works. Let's open a page.

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Oh, what? Okay, that's pretty cool.

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Okay, so if I hit FNF12,

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oh yeah, it's back to volume. So there's vertical scrolling, volume control,

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brightness control, horizontal scrolling, and zoom. You can turn zoom on.

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And then you can turn all of these on or off. So say you just want to cycle

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between vertical and horizontal scrolling. You don't set the volume with this. You've got like a GoXLR, I mean, they're dead now,

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but you've got some other kind of media control system

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in place and you just want vertical horizontal scrolling. You turn those two on, FNF12, boom.

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You swap between the two. That's really cool, actually. I'm gonna try the zoom mode.

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What?

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It's kind of features like that you don't tend to get with boutique boards.

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Yes, you all of a sudden have QMKVIA and you can do whatever you want,

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but also I'm lazy and I just want to like tick a switch

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in an app that tells me, hey, you've enabled this thing instead of setting up a bunch of macros

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and doing it myself. Time to set up key actuations.

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Customize the response speed for each one. You can start by adding a new actuation preset.

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Select the key you want. During the tutorial, please select the T key.

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Select the color you want to customize your color indicator.

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Oh, that's neat. Primary actuation point can be customized from 0.1 to four millimeters.

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Use the slider or enter the exact value. What I do love though here

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is that they've got a little handy visualization for you.

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So let's say I want to set it to one. Now I see that it's gonna apply

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when I'm about that far deep. And if I set it to four, it's further down.

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So that's actually pretty cool. And then, oh, you can just use the slider.

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Okay, cool. So we've got our reset point here and you can change that as well to whatever you want.

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Oh, it visualizes it and everything. That's right, because it's got flash tap,

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which is Corsair's version. So we can set it to just below there.

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So as long as I come above that point, it should reset, which is pretty cool.

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And then rapid trigger. Oh yeah, separate press, release sensitivity.

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I'll be honest, you guys, this is the sort of thing

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that me as a non-customizer kind of person is,

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I don't know how much I'd sit here and tinker with. I think that I would probably unbox this keyboard,

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hook it up 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.

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So it's pretty good in that regard. What I need to do though,

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is make sure game mode is on. Because for some reason, game mode doesn't start on by default.

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Oh yeah, I can change my polling right now. 8,000 Hertz.

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Yeah, I mean, let's be real. 1,000 Hertz is good enough for the vast majority of people.

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When we're talking about going from one millisecond to point one to five millisecond.

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Yeah, that's way faster, 100%. Most of you aren't gonna really feel it.

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However, if you're gaming and you're playing in FPS

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and you need literally that half of a millisecond or less

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to determine who's the winner. I mean, technically, that's gonna win.

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Let's see, activate win lock. Yes, brightness max. Yes, static color enforced.

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No, actually, you know, I will keep that on. I like it as a good visual indicator

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to tell you, hey, you're in game mode now. I kind of wish game mode was just enabled by default.

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It does lock out a few keys, like win lock and other macros that you might have.

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So I guess if you're gonna go from using macros and something to wanting to play FPS games,

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you'll wanna go to game mode. But without this on, I can't change the polling rate, I don't think.

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Oh yeah, I can. Hire a USB, okay, yeah, don't show this ever again.

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I don't care if hire USB polling rates take more power, select anyway.

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One of the other cool things is how it's doing all of this processing to enable

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8,000 Hertz polling rates and flash tap and all of that stuff without getting super confused

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is it's got an axon processor on board. Love to see it.

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Now we got a game on it. I have to actually try flash tap. Can't play Counter Strike as much as I'd like to

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because womp, womp, it's banned. If we try to use, you should be able to disable game mode

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and play Counter Strike on this keyboard. However, I'm pretty sure if you go in with flash tap enabled,

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you'll get a VAC ban or you'll at least get a warning. So just buyer or beware, be careful.

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That's why they made it so obvious that like, yes, I am clearly in game mode.

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Flash tap is enabled. You can jiggle peak guys.

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I wish I had the dynamic cursor that CS2 has. Wow, I suck.

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I haven't played in so long. Got that guy. And you know how I got that guy with flash tap.

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If I didn't have flash tap, I wouldn't have killed him. That's not true at all.

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And the thing about having a keyboard and a mouse

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that's just perfectly responsive with eight kilohertz,

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it's gonna do exactly what you want when you want. Is this the keyboard for me?

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Do I wanna get back into competitive shooters? Not particularly.

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But is it absolutely a solid choice

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if you do wanna play competitive shooters or you just want like the next part of your IQ setup?

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I think it's a really solid option. It sounds pretty good.

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It feels pretty good. I can jiggle peak. I mean, I could before,

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because I've played Counter Strike for like, I don't know, a couple thousand hours, no big deal.

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But if you don't have that capability

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and you're trying to just get into the scene now, this could give you that edge.

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Is it gonna make you better gamer? Not exactly, but is it gonna make sure

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that you've got the same edge that everyone else does?

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Yes, and it'll make sure that you can never blame the peripherals

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for your poor gaming performance anymore. You can only blame yourself like me right now.

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If you wanna pick up the Corsair K70 Pro TKL, you can get it with ABS keycaps for 179.99.

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But I really think that you should just spend that 10 extra bucks and pay 189.99 for the PPT keycaps

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if 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.

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It makes me wanna play shooters again. Thanks for watching this ShortCircuit. Thanks Corsair for sponsoring this video.

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If you wanna check it out, we'll have links in the description below and make sure you stay tuned for the next one.