hot swap what is it why should you care well i care because i have a lot of
different switches and i want to put them inside different keyboards and if i
can't do that and i've got to like solder them and desolder them it's a
real pain in the ass however that's why i was so excited about the k70 RGB pro
mini wireless is because Corsair is finally doing hot swap sockets so let's
take a look at this thing let's open it up let's see if it's still worth the
kind of eye watering 180 price tag it
comes in two switch types i think there's a cherry reds and speed RGB
silver which is what we've got both of those are linear but the beauty of hot
swap is that you can buy this board and you can put whatever you want in it you
should note that there are some switches that don't quite fit in cherry style
switch pins like otemu there's a couple other guys like all of the
analog stuff from wooding those the switches that go in those aren't going
to fit in here but otherwise let's see we got our keyboard let's look at that
later what else comes in the box what's in the box that's what i want to know
you got a safety information i don't know how keyboards are dangerous but you
never know we've got a cable we've got some accessories this is great for
anyone who doesn't already have stuff like this we have what appears to be a
switch puller we got a little Corsair logo and then we get uh i think this is
meant for like RGB shine through or something that's why it's got the oh
yeah the light kind of comes through you get a detachable cable which is another
problem that i have with these big manufacturers they just give you a cable
and what happens if the cable breaks you're just hooped unless you know how to solder it otherwise it's just a
typical sleeved usbc to usb a cable ah
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it's so light wow it's under a kilo it's 624 grams which is like a pound and a
half now this thing is supposed to be crazy fast that's actually one of the
big advantages from buying from a brand like Corsair or razer that i haven't
seen a ton of in the more niche like mechanical keyboard space is that most
of those that you're gonna buy are gonna be around a kilohertz which is perfectly
fine uh but the thing about these guys is if you're like trying to be an
esports gamer or something these guys are gonna boast eight kilohertz polling
rate if it's wired which is crazy fast
also if you want fast but still wireless
the slipstream stuff can do up to two kilohertz if we flip it over we got some
nice handy dandy feet and then we've got like a power switch
oh it lights up they've got this like one solid band of RGB going around i
think it looks like the entire device which is great otherwise
it's okay i mean these are just speed silvers i
bet you if you threw in something a little nicer and you can
thanks to hot swap uh this thing would actually sound and feel a lot better a
lot of people might also want this for iq like if you're just 100 into the
Corsair family and you want to use iq for all your RGB then honestly this is
kind of the board for you unless you like need tkl or full size how are the
stabs
i don't know if these are screw in stabilizers it does look like they're
using some kind of like proprietary thing from Corsair and it looks like it
just unclips like i've got the one end
unclipped no problem and i bet you if i took this top housing off i'd be able to
just pull the rest of it off so if you buy this thing please look into lubing
your own stabilizers you're not going to get this like really high pitch
rattle that you're hearing there but honestly
it sounds and feels okay the biggest hang up that i think a lot of people
might have is the layout 60 is a little small
even for me personally i like about a 65 where you get something like maybe your
arrow keys but a lot of people do love it so whatever that's totally okay i
love the uh transparent switches and i love the
line of RGB the diffused light that they've got around the side here i think
that's great and it's really easy to see everything it's per key RGB and they've
got north facing leds for those of you who care about that as for like the
quality of the rest of the materials i think that they're saying that this is an aluminum chassis
but it's mostly plastic it might just be this top plate here
that's aluminum but yeah the rest like this is definitely plastic this is
definitely plastic so i'd really have to take it apart to
verify whatever claims they're making otherwise you know it doesn't have like
a ton of flex though like there's definitely some and it's not super hefty so if you're
looking for that like thick cnc aluminum
with like no flex and it's like five plus pounds you're not gonna find that
here however if you want portability and just like ease of use it's definitely
at least an option these days let me take a switch off you take this guy and
just kind of go oop and it'll click once the little
clips have gone past the edge of the keycap pull it up just like
that so then you take your switch puller and you see these tiny little clips
right here there's one on the top and then there's one on the bottom and what
you want to do is just kind of get it in there and then squeeze together and pull i
really like this switch puller but it works so as you can see here it's a
three pin and not a five pin board so if you have some switches that have the
little side clips on the side here that are clearly missing then you're not going to
be able to fit it in this board there's quite a bit of like wobble in the casing
so i don't know how much i like these actual speed silvers you can see the top
part of the casing has wiggle room you can fix that if you wanted to buy
some switch films or something you can just take them apart throw the film in
on one and then clamp it back down together and they sound kind of scratchy
so i don't think they're lubed honestly if you're
gonna go and spend 180 on a keyboard you might as well spend another like 20 30
bucks on some lube and grease why not let me throw this guy on see how good
the RGB shines through yeah it's not bad i still hate the
stabilizers but i like the shine through on the keycap they're double shot pvt so
they're not going to wear out super quickly or get super shiny with use
probably my biggest problem is that you can really hear the ping
like when you're typing you don't hear it too much unless you hit the space bar
so spacebar is always a little louder but speaking of typing let's do a quick
typing test on it and see how it feels whoa something's wrong oh caps lock is
on okay one thing about 60 to remember is that
there's no f row so to do any kind of f key stuff i've got to hit function and
then a number key so like function five is f5 to refresh a page speaking of
hitting the function key to hit alternate keys if you look at the legend
like this that basically indicates what that does when you're hitting the
function key there's actually two function keys because there's like fn
and then there's function two on this guys you can go function function two
and then press something for a bunch of macros if you wanted to configure
anything
oh no
i want 1 12 98 that's not bad that's like kind of middle ground for me i
usually do over 100 but less than like 120 130. yeah it's fine i think the
sound is like okay at best it sounds like a mechanical keyboard
does it sound like a good mechanical keyboard
no there's a ton of rattling and stuff going on it's kind of frustrating
because Corsair and logitech and razer like and there's other companies too but
like they've been making keyboards for so long when they first started making
mechanicals it was cool like it was it
was great you know you could choose any of the brands you'd probably be fine this is like at least 10 years ago but
they have competition now with other competitors like kikron who just have
stock not always but they're better than you know a lot of the other boutique
sites that only they do a group buy or they do a single order and then they're all gone so Corsair and logitech and the
like can't simply move to hot swap and expect to all of a
sudden move a ton of units i think it's a good step forward and i hope to see
more improvements from them but the reality is when you're paying another
company like 180 dollars and you're getting uh aluminum chassis and foam and
silicone and decent switches there's nothing wrong with these speed silvers
they're okay and you know gatorons aren't like a ton better than cherry in
any way with the like slipstream stuff and with
the RGB and the iq compatibility stuff i
would love to see Corsair just step up their game like one more notch and give
me basically this keyboard but with a better
foaming solution on the inside of the keyboard like the pcb just doesn't look
super high end if you look at it it just kind of looks plain looking something
about this white like plain pcb just doesn't excite me but
maybe i'm being elitist is this the keyboard for you it could be it's not
bad and with hot swap you know you can really fix a lot on it
would i buy it for a hundred and eighty dollars probably not
almost definitely not but i don't use Corsair stuff i'm also super picky i
don't like 60 and i'm not crazy about wireless i don't mind hooking up through
a cable because i like how my pretty custom cable looks so it could be for
you but unfortunately it's not really for me although
you know two steps forward one step back thanks for watching everyone that's
short circuits the k70 pro mini RGB
wireless it's a hell of a name if you like this one check out our video on the
zoom 65 ee essential edition it's like the same price a little cheaper even and
you kind of get a better quality board but you know it's missing some of the features that the big guys offer