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hot swap what is it why should you care well i care because i have a lot of

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different switches and i want to put them inside different keyboards and if i

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can't do that and i've got to like solder them and desolder them it's a

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real pain in the ass however that's why i was so excited about the k70 RGB pro

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mini wireless is because Corsair is finally doing hot swap sockets so let's

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take a look at this thing let's open it up let's see if it's still worth the

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kind of eye watering 180 price tag it

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comes in two switch types i think there's a cherry reds and speed RGB

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silver which is what we've got both of those are linear but the beauty of hot

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swap is that you can buy this board and you can put whatever you want in it you

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should note that there are some switches that don't quite fit in cherry style

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switch pins like otemu there's a couple other guys like all of the

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analog stuff from wooding those the switches that go in those aren't going

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to fit in here but otherwise let's see we got our keyboard let's look at that

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later what else comes in the box what's in the box that's what i want to know

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you got a safety information i don't know how keyboards are dangerous but you

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never know we've got a cable we've got some accessories this is great for

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anyone who doesn't already have stuff like this we have what appears to be a

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switch puller we got a little Corsair logo and then we get uh i think this is

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meant for like RGB shine through or something that's why it's got the oh

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yeah the light kind of comes through you get a detachable cable which is another

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problem that i have with these big manufacturers they just give you a cable

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and what happens if the cable breaks you're just hooped unless you know how to solder it otherwise it's just a

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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

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half now this thing is supposed to be crazy fast that's actually one of the

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big advantages from buying from a brand like Corsair or razer that i haven't

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seen a ton of in the more niche like mechanical keyboard space is that most

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of those that you're gonna buy are gonna be around a kilohertz which is perfectly

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fine uh but the thing about these guys is if you're like trying to be an

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esports gamer or something these guys are gonna boast eight kilohertz polling

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rate if it's wired which is crazy fast

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also if you want fast but still wireless

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the slipstream stuff can do up to two kilohertz if we flip it over we got some

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nice handy dandy feet and then we've got like a power switch

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oh it lights up they've got this like one solid band of RGB going around i

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think it looks like the entire device which is great otherwise

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it's okay i mean these are just speed silvers i

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bet you if you threw in something a little nicer and you can

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thanks to hot swap uh this thing would actually sound and feel a lot better a

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lot of people might also want this for iq like if you're just 100 into the

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Corsair family and you want to use iq for all your RGB then honestly this is

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kind of the board for you unless you like need tkl or full size how are the

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stabs

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i don't know if these are screw in stabilizers it does look like they're

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using some kind of like proprietary thing from Corsair and it looks like it

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just unclips like i've got the one end

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unclipped no problem and i bet you if i took this top housing off i'd be able to

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just pull the rest of it off so if you buy this thing please look into lubing

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your own stabilizers you're not going to get this like really high pitch

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rattle that you're hearing there but honestly

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it sounds and feels okay the biggest hang up that i think a lot of people

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might have is the layout 60 is a little small

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even for me personally i like about a 65 where you get something like maybe your

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arrow keys but a lot of people do love it so whatever that's totally okay i

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love the uh transparent switches and i love the

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line of RGB the diffused light that they've got around the side here i think

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that's great and it's really easy to see everything it's per key RGB and they've

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got north facing leds for those of you who care about that as for like the

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quality of the rest of the materials i think that they're saying that this is an aluminum chassis

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but it's mostly plastic it might just be this top plate here

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that's aluminum but yeah the rest like this is definitely plastic this is

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definitely plastic so i'd really have to take it apart to

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verify whatever claims they're making otherwise you know it doesn't have like

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a ton of flex though like there's definitely some and it's not super hefty so if you're

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looking for that like thick cnc aluminum

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with like no flex and it's like five plus pounds you're not gonna find that

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here however if you want portability and just like ease of use it's definitely

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at least an option these days let me take a switch off you take this guy and

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just kind of go oop and it'll click once the little

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clips have gone past the edge of the keycap pull it up just like

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that so then you take your switch puller and you see these tiny little clips

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right here there's one on the top and then there's one on the bottom and what

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you want to do is just kind of get it in there and then squeeze together and pull i

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really like this switch puller but it works so as you can see here it's a

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three pin and not a five pin board so if you have some switches that have the

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little side clips on the side here that are clearly missing then you're not going to

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be able to fit it in this board there's quite a bit of like wobble in the casing

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so i don't know how much i like these actual speed silvers you can see the top

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part of the casing has wiggle room you can fix that if you wanted to buy

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some switch films or something you can just take them apart throw the film in

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on one and then clamp it back down together and they sound kind of scratchy

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so i don't think they're lubed honestly if you're

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gonna go and spend 180 on a keyboard you might as well spend another like 20 30

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bucks on some lube and grease why not let me throw this guy on see how good

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the RGB shines through yeah it's not bad i still hate the

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stabilizers but i like the shine through on the keycap they're double shot pvt so

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they're not going to wear out super quickly or get super shiny with use

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probably my biggest problem is that you can really hear the ping

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like when you're typing you don't hear it too much unless you hit the space bar

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so spacebar is always a little louder but speaking of typing let's do a quick

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typing test on it and see how it feels whoa something's wrong oh caps lock is

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on okay one thing about 60 to remember is that

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there's no f row so to do any kind of f key stuff i've got to hit function and

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then a number key so like function five is f5 to refresh a page speaking of

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hitting the function key to hit alternate keys if you look at the legend

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like this that basically indicates what that does when you're hitting the

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function key there's actually two function keys because there's like fn

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and then there's function two on this guys you can go function function two

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and then press something for a bunch of macros if you wanted to configure

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anything

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oh no

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i want 1 12 98 that's not bad that's like kind of middle ground for me i

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usually do over 100 but less than like 120 130. yeah it's fine i think the

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sound is like okay at best it sounds like a mechanical keyboard

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does it sound like a good mechanical keyboard

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no there's a ton of rattling and stuff going on it's kind of frustrating

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because Corsair and logitech and razer like and there's other companies too but

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like they've been making keyboards for so long when they first started making

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mechanicals it was cool like it was it

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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

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they have competition now with other competitors like kikron who just have

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stock not always but they're better than you know a lot of the other boutique

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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

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like can't simply move to hot swap and expect to all of a

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sudden move a ton of units i think it's a good step forward and i hope to see

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more improvements from them but the reality is when you're paying another

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company like 180 dollars and you're getting uh aluminum chassis and foam and

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silicone and decent switches there's nothing wrong with these speed silvers

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they're okay and you know gatorons aren't like a ton better than cherry in

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any way with the like slipstream stuff and with

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the RGB and the iq compatibility stuff i

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would love to see Corsair just step up their game like one more notch and give

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me basically this keyboard but with a better

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foaming solution on the inside of the keyboard like the pcb just doesn't look

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super high end if you look at it it just kind of looks plain looking something

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about this white like plain pcb just doesn't excite me but

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maybe i'm being elitist is this the keyboard for you it could be it's not

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bad and with hot swap you know you can really fix a lot on it

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would i buy it for a hundred and eighty dollars probably not

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almost definitely not but i don't use Corsair stuff i'm also super picky i

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don't like 60 and i'm not crazy about wireless i don't mind hooking up through

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a cable because i like how my pretty custom cable looks so it could be for

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you but unfortunately it's not really for me although

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you know two steps forward one step back thanks for watching everyone that's

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short circuits the k70 pro mini RGB

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wireless it's a hell of a name if you like this one check out our video on the

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zoom 65 ee essential edition it's like the same price a little cheaper even and

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you kind of get a better quality board but you know it's missing some of the features that the big guys offer