Welcome to a much demanded unboxing. This is the Corsair Vengeance K60. So,
yes, Corsair finally has pretty much a full set of peripherals. They've got
your speakers, your headphones, your keyboards, and your mice. Actually, I
have a mouse here, too, but we're not doing that one just yet. Um, so we're
going to show the keyboard. So, Corsair is all about gaming. We've known this
from pretty much day one. Uh when when it was just memory and
then oh wow I'm g I'm know I'm gonna get it wrong when I try and tell you guys
sort of the order of the categories they expanded into but uh power
supply and then cases and then cooling
and then audio. I'm probably missing something.
Corsair does so many things these days,
but what is most exceptional about Corsair, in my opinion, is the fact that
they do pretty much everything well. I can't think of very many Corsair
products that I've had the opportunity to play around with or to check out that
I haven't been really impressed by. So, let's go over what are the overall specs
of this keyboard first. So, this is a mechanical keyboard. You ask pretty much
any serious gamer or serious typist and they're going to tell you mechanical key
switches are pretty much a must on any high-end keyboard. So, these are using
Cherry MX red mechanical key switches. Really, which which mechanical key
switches feel good to you comes down to the personal preference of the typist
themselves. Some are louder and some are less loud than others. Um, some have
sort of a longer travel time to register the keystrokes. Some have a shorter
travel time. Corsair believes that the red key switches are ideal for gaming.
So that's why they've used those for this particular uh keyboard. This one,
this is more of the FPS version of this keyboard. Comes with contoured textured
WD key caps. So you can see those right here. I'll show you those once we open
it up. Full key matrix anti- ghosting. So anti- ghosting means that no matter
what combination of keys you press, you're not going to get any accidental
uh unintended keystrokes register. This
can happen with less premium keyboards.
And uh what what it tends to occur is
while you are typing quickly and you press two or three keyboards together
while you're while you're going while you're in the middle of something, it'll actually register an extra keystroke uh
because of the way that the keyboard is communicating via USB to the computer
itself. So they've implemented anti- ghosting as well as 20key rollover. So,
you hear a lot of talk about um how many key rollover. So, what does that mean?
Uh we've seen up to N key rollover on PS2 keyboards and Corsair says they
could actually implement N key rollover with USB on this particular keyboard
which is a very neat feature. Um however, they went with 20 because the
reality of it is unless you're operating your keyboard like with your ARM and
your face, you're probably not going to press more than 20 keys at a time. So,
what that rollover spec means is how many
keys you can hold down. Hold on, let's
see how many I can press at a given time
before they will stop registering each
new one that you press down. So, for gamers, it's fairly common to be holding
down shift and tab and jumping. And I I
don't know, maybe you're playing like an older style game and maybe you're actually using these for uh you know,
your jump and your crouch or something. And then this is you're moving around, maybe you're playing a 2D sidescroller.
It's fairly common for a gamer to hold down eight or more keys at a time. Uh
whereas the normal uh the normal rollover for like cheaper keyboards does
not allow you to necessarily have every one of those keystrokes be registered.
So that's why that's an important feature. What else we got here? So the
contoured texture WD key caps. I'll show you those in a minute. They're right
here. I haven't forgotten. Full key matrix um anti- ghosting. Yep. Multiple
key presses won't jam you up. Lets every keystroke get through. Professional
grade brushed aluminum chassis with laser edge keys. Love that. I'll show you guys that closely. Uh soft cushioned
contoured wrist rest and I'll show you that in a minute as well. I just want to
make sure that I do not forget anything here because this is a keyboard that uh
a lot of people have requested that I take a look at. So I don't want to miss
anything. So here is the wrist rest. So what makes this the more FPSoriented
product versus the K90 which is more of
the MMO oriented product? And I will show you guys what makes it that this
guy is all about comfort when you're using your left hand to game,
which here we go. Is facilitated by things like this
wrist rest guy right here, which I'm just going to try to figure out how to
put back together because I actually do not know.
There we go. Okay. And this guy goes under here. So, it's got a bit actually
I'll show you this first. So, it's got like a soft kind of rubberized feely
thing here with uh see this little dimply surface. I guess that's to help
keep uh sweat from accumulating and making the surface slippery, which is
kind of nice. This part's hard plastic as well as this part right here. This
serves as a carrying case for the keys that you are not using at any given
time. And then there are latches right on the bottom here. I'll show you those once I've got it attached here that
allow you to put this right here so that your hand rests comfortably right here
for gaming. The MMO version of the keyboard has a bunch of buttons over
here which the FPS version doesn't have. And the MMO version doesn't come with
this rest which is designed especially for FPS gamers whose mouse hands are
over here and whose keyboard hands sit right here. It can be quite easily
attached and detached. So, you just pull it off like that. And I'm just going to
show you guys the spot on the bottom where it goes. Just like that. While I'm
on the bottom here, I'll show you guys what you've got in terms of adjustable
feet for your comfort. So, you can raise up your keyboard a little bit. You can
slant your keyboard this way if you want. You can slant your
keyboard this way if you want. And if you're not using any of the feet, you've
got four rubber feet here, as well as two rubber feet here to keep the
keyboard from slipping around. although it's quite heavy, so I don't think you're going to have too many problems
with it moving around unintentionally. Comes with a 2-year warranty. I just
want to show you guys the included um
connectors. So, we've got the keyboard USB as well as the built-in hub
USB. So, the hub has your Oh, looks like
it's just the one. Okay. So, that's where you plug in your
mouse. All right. So, let's uh Yeah,
let's have a look at these keys here. So, what you want to do is you take your
included key remover, which was in here. I don't know if you guys saw me take
that out. And you just pull off the keys like this. You can clearly see the
cherry red switches, so named for their red color. All right. And then you just
go ahead and take your contoured rubberized keys and you replace your WD.
Now, check this out. This is what they mean by
contoured. Each one of these keys is actually Oh, shoot. I just installed
that one upside down. That's the thing about S is it's hard to tell which way
it is intended to be oriented. So there you go. Put those on like that. So now
you can very easily feel without looking. Can you see from that angle how
these are actually uh curved towards the center? There you go. Yeah, now you can
see that. So these are contoured. So you can very easily feel which are your WD
keys and which ones are not. And the same goes actually for the number keys
up here. You can see that one is actually curved the opposite way
from six. So, this could actually be very useful for MMO gamers as well. So,
when you're looking for that particular potion, you can easily feel up here. Oh,
okay. Which one is it? Oh. Oh, that. Okay, that's too far. That's my number
six belt spot or whatever the case may be. So, that's kind of a neat feature.
Um, let's have a look at the overall layout. They haven't done anything that
I would consider to be a cardinal sin here. long shift keys, long backspace
key, and full-sized enter key. I am just
it kills me to see otherwise awesome keyboards like say for example the 7G
with something like a short backspace key. Great for gaming. Um not ideal for
typists who have small hands like myself because I can barely reach this. I
definitely can't reach that while keeping my fingers on the keys. Now,
something a lot of people have sort of made, I think, um, an inordinate amount
of fuss about with this keyboard is the fact that it is not fully mechanical.
That's right. So, these keys, this whole
block is mechanical. These ones are mechanical. That means they use the
Cherry MX switches. So, those are the expensive type switches. And the number
keys are all mechanical. However, the F keys as well as these keys are non-
mechanical. Now, one thing I would like to see Corsair change around if they
ever do a Rev 2 is I would like to see the delete key and the escape keys be
mechanical. But honestly, for all this stuff up here and the insert homepage
up, it doesn't make that much of a difference. You know, you can actually hear the difference in mechanical keys.
So, check this
out. I'm hitting those with exactly the same force. This gives me a much more
sort of satisfying response versus something like that. It feels more
spongy. That's because it's not a mechanical key switch. So up here we've
got a Windows key lock. We've also got our number caps and scroll lock
indicator LEDs. We've got media functions. So we've got stop, back,
play, pause, as well as forward. There's your volume wheel. I love the way
they've implemented this. It's very very nice to to touch. As well as a mute
key. Um, you know what? We're we're not going to be able to do this video
without plugging this thing in because it has an awesome blue LED backlight
which looks fantastic off of the brushed aluminum base. So, what Corsair's done
here, as you can see, the entire keyboard is going to be super easy to
clean. You just use a can of dust off because instead of leaving little
recesses, actually, I'm going to pull out my uh my 7G here again to show you
guys. Instead of having all these little recesses in here that you can't clean
things out of very easily, Corsair has given you full access to the entire
inner workings of the keyboard. You can actually pull almost every key off and
easily uh get any sort of dust or hair or anything that accumulates in it out
of it. So, that's kind of neat as well. It also gives it kind of a really cool
look. I love the brushed aluminum finish here. Have you had a good look at that yet? You have. Okay, good. Let's see if
I've missed anything else in terms of spec. uh gaming rest with soft touch
surface, 10 user installable sculpted FPS keys. So yeah, that included WD as
well as the 126 numbers. And uh don't
forget you can store all of those keys inside this handy rest little labeled
spots as well as your spot for the key installer and uninstaller. Windows lock
Cherry MX. Um if you're interested in the specs of the Cherry MX red
mechanical key switches, there you go. They do have gold contacts and they're rated for 50 million operations. So,
yes, this keyboard will last you a very, very, very long time. So, let's go ahead
and drag it over to a computer so that I can plug it into a USB port and show you
guys how wicked this thing looks when you actually plug it in. So, it looks
like I was mistaken. The K60 does not have the backlight. The K90 does. The
only one I've actually used so far is the K90. So, uh, yeah, I've sort of
misremembered which one had which. But either way, I think that pretty much
concludes it. I think we're done with the K60 here. Thank you for checking out
my unboxing and first look at the Corsair Vengeance K60 FPS gaming
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now that I've actually used both of them, I would have to say that if it came down to it, I would probably choose
the K90 with the backlight. Oops. With the backlight as
well as the additional programmable buttons on the left hand side, uh versus
the K60. Even though the K60 is less expensive, they'll both provide a very
good typing experience. They've both got the laser etched keys which are never
going to wear out no matter what because those letters are etched right into the
key caps themselves rather than being something that can be worn off.
Actually, a perfect example is if you check out uh this 7G over
here, over here where you can clearly see which
keys get used a lot more or less than the other ones. Yeah, that's pretty
obvious. So, you can see all of the numbered keys are much less bright than
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