thank you to Logitech and Discord for sending us to PAX East 2016 this year to
check out all of their stuff check out the link in the video description down below so today at Corsair we're checking
out their Rapid Fire keyboards they have a k70 non RGB they have a K65 RGB and a
k70 RGB now what makes them rapid fire
is the new Cherry MX speed switch so in
the non-RGB ones it's just the MX speed and in the RGB ones it's the MX feed RGB
what makes this switch cool is its activation distance and its total track
travel distance so it activates at 1.2 mm instead of the standard 2 mm that you
would find on a cherry switch and its overall travel distance is 3.4 mm
instead of the overall normal 4 mm for a cherry switch so normally with most
these switches you're pressing it down further and it's actuating further down
the Press which is at exactly halfway and now it's much faster and you can
feel it this is the first time I've been able to try it in person and it is
definitely a faster typing experience in terms of how it feels though
like in terms of how it feels outside of just how far down you have to press it
it's pretty much like a Cherry MX red but not exactly it's a 45 G actuation
Force just like a Cherry MX red but it does feel heavier and I'm getting the
yeah it feels heavier from pretty much everyone that I've talked to that's tried it and some Corsair employees so
I'm not entirely sure what's going on there I'd like to look more into that
later on maybe with a quarter test or whatever and then it's also a linear
switch so that part does feel like an MX red personally not my kind of thing
although it is really nice to have that fast of a keyboard I do like feeling my
actuation Force so I'm still going to lean towards a brown or a blue but I am
kind of in a minority as I do believe Cherry MX Reds are the most common
switch out there and if you are a fan of a red switch I would actually recommend
this cuz it's faster and it doesn't feel bad at all it's interesting to see this
come on to the market I'm assuming this is ha's answer to the RoR G which is
notorious in a good way for having a fast overall typing experience so we'll
see how that response works if you guys are interested check out Corsair.com
winar Rapidfire they're giving away three of these Rapidfire keyboards and
the contest is going on for about a month so you should be able to enter
basically whenever you see this video as long as you're not looking at it in like halfway through 2016 or 2017 or
something like that also if you want a good deal on a keyboard you can get I
believe it's 15% off if when you purchase at Corsair.com you use the code
PAX East 2016 so I just found that on
like their table somewhere so hopefully they don't mind me telling everyone on
the internet that there's a special offer code for PAX East all right guys let me know what you
think of the Cherry MX speed on Twitter at Luke LFR or in the comments Down
Below on this video thank you again for Logitech for sending us here this year
if you want to see all of their products like racing wheels and keyboards and
mice and headsets and all that kind of stuff check them out in the link in the video description down below also thank
you to Discord who are awesome and have like free voice and chat servers and
we're like hey you guys should like go to PAX East and we'll sponsor you and
stuff I don't know they're pretty cool they're also in the link the video description down below you want to check
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