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Welcome to a much demanded unboxing. This is the Corsair Vengeance K60. So,

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yes, Corsair finally has pretty much a full set of peripherals. They've got

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your speakers, your headphones, your keyboards, and your mice. Actually, I

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have a mouse here, too, but we're not doing that one just yet. Um, so we're

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going to show the keyboard. So, Corsair is all about gaming. We've known this

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from pretty much day one. Uh when when it was just memory and

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then oh wow I'm g I'm know I'm gonna get it wrong when I try and tell you guys

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sort of the order of the categories they expanded into but uh power

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supply and then cases and then cooling

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and then audio. I'm probably missing something.

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Corsair does so many things these days,

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but what is most exceptional about Corsair, in my opinion, is the fact that

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they do pretty much everything well. I can't think of very many Corsair

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products that I've had the opportunity to play around with or to check out that

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I haven't been really impressed by. So, let's go over what are the overall specs

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of this keyboard first. So, this is a mechanical keyboard. You ask pretty much

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any serious gamer or serious typist and they're going to tell you mechanical key

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switches are pretty much a must on any high-end keyboard. So, these are using

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Cherry MX red mechanical key switches. Really, which which mechanical key

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switches feel good to you comes down to the personal preference of the typist

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themselves. Some are louder and some are less loud than others. Um, some have

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sort of a longer travel time to register the keystrokes. Some have a shorter

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travel time. Corsair believes that the red key switches are ideal for gaming.

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So that's why they've used those for this particular uh keyboard. This one,

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this is more of the FPS version of this keyboard. Comes with contoured textured

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WD key caps. So you can see those right here. I'll show you those once we open

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it up. Full key matrix anti- ghosting. So anti- ghosting means that no matter

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what combination of keys you press, you're not going to get any accidental

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uh unintended keystrokes register. This

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can happen with less premium keyboards.

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And uh what what it tends to occur is

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while you are typing quickly and you press two or three keyboards together

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while you're while you're going while you're in the middle of something, it'll actually register an extra keystroke uh

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because of the way that the keyboard is communicating via USB to the computer

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itself. So they've implemented anti- ghosting as well as 20key rollover. So,

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you hear a lot of talk about um how many key rollover. So, what does that mean?

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Uh we've seen up to N key rollover on PS2 keyboards and Corsair says they

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could actually implement N key rollover with USB on this particular keyboard

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which is a very neat feature. Um however, they went with 20 because the

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reality of it is unless you're operating your keyboard like with your ARM and

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your face, you're probably not going to press more than 20 keys at a time. So,

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what that rollover spec means is how many

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keys you can hold down. Hold on, let's

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see how many I can press at a given time

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before they will stop registering each

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new one that you press down. So, for gamers, it's fairly common to be holding

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down shift and tab and jumping. And I I

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don't know, maybe you're playing like an older style game and maybe you're actually using these for uh you know,

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your jump and your crouch or something. And then this is you're moving around, maybe you're playing a 2D sidescroller.

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It's fairly common for a gamer to hold down eight or more keys at a time. Uh

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whereas the normal uh the normal rollover for like cheaper keyboards does

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not allow you to necessarily have every one of those keystrokes be registered.

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So that's why that's an important feature. What else we got here? So the

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contoured texture WD key caps. I'll show you those in a minute. They're right

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here. I haven't forgotten. Full key matrix um anti- ghosting. Yep. Multiple

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key presses won't jam you up. Lets every keystroke get through. Professional

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grade brushed aluminum chassis with laser edge keys. Love that. I'll show you guys that closely. Uh soft cushioned

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contoured wrist rest and I'll show you that in a minute as well. I just want to

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make sure that I do not forget anything here because this is a keyboard that uh

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a lot of people have requested that I take a look at. So I don't want to miss

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anything. So here is the wrist rest. So what makes this the more FPSoriented

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product versus the K90 which is more of

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the MMO oriented product? And I will show you guys what makes it that this

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guy is all about comfort when you're using your left hand to game,

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which here we go. Is facilitated by things like this

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wrist rest guy right here, which I'm just going to try to figure out how to

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put back together because I actually do not know.

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There we go. Okay. And this guy goes under here. So, it's got a bit actually

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I'll show you this first. So, it's got like a soft kind of rubberized feely

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thing here with uh see this little dimply surface. I guess that's to help

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keep uh sweat from accumulating and making the surface slippery, which is

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kind of nice. This part's hard plastic as well as this part right here. This

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serves as a carrying case for the keys that you are not using at any given

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time. And then there are latches right on the bottom here. I'll show you those once I've got it attached here that

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allow you to put this right here so that your hand rests comfortably right here

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for gaming. The MMO version of the keyboard has a bunch of buttons over

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here which the FPS version doesn't have. And the MMO version doesn't come with

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this rest which is designed especially for FPS gamers whose mouse hands are

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over here and whose keyboard hands sit right here. It can be quite easily

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attached and detached. So, you just pull it off like that. And I'm just going to

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show you guys the spot on the bottom where it goes. Just like that. While I'm

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on the bottom here, I'll show you guys what you've got in terms of adjustable

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feet for your comfort. So, you can raise up your keyboard a little bit. You can

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slant your keyboard this way if you want. You can slant your

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keyboard this way if you want. And if you're not using any of the feet, you've

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got four rubber feet here, as well as two rubber feet here to keep the

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keyboard from slipping around. although it's quite heavy, so I don't think you're going to have too many problems

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with it moving around unintentionally. Comes with a 2-year warranty. I just

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want to show you guys the included um

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connectors. So, we've got the keyboard USB as well as the built-in hub

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USB. So, the hub has your Oh, looks like

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it's just the one. Okay. So, that's where you plug in your

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mouse. All right. So, let's uh Yeah,

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let's have a look at these keys here. So, what you want to do is you take your

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included key remover, which was in here. I don't know if you guys saw me take

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that out. And you just pull off the keys like this. You can clearly see the

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cherry red switches, so named for their red color. All right. And then you just

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go ahead and take your contoured rubberized keys and you replace your WD.

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Now, check this out. This is what they mean by

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contoured. Each one of these keys is actually Oh, shoot. I just installed

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that one upside down. That's the thing about S is it's hard to tell which way

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it is intended to be oriented. So there you go. Put those on like that. So now

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you can very easily feel without looking. Can you see from that angle how

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these are actually uh curved towards the center? There you go. Yeah, now you can

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see that. So these are contoured. So you can very easily feel which are your WD

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keys and which ones are not. And the same goes actually for the number keys

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up here. You can see that one is actually curved the opposite way

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from six. So, this could actually be very useful for MMO gamers as well. So,

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when you're looking for that particular potion, you can easily feel up here. Oh,

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okay. Which one is it? Oh. Oh, that. Okay, that's too far. That's my number

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six belt spot or whatever the case may be. So, that's kind of a neat feature.

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Um, let's have a look at the overall layout. They haven't done anything that

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I would consider to be a cardinal sin here. long shift keys, long backspace

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key, and full-sized enter key. I am just

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it kills me to see otherwise awesome keyboards like say for example the 7G

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with something like a short backspace key. Great for gaming. Um not ideal for

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typists who have small hands like myself because I can barely reach this. I

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definitely can't reach that while keeping my fingers on the keys. Now,

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something a lot of people have sort of made, I think, um, an inordinate amount

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of fuss about with this keyboard is the fact that it is not fully mechanical.

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That's right. So, these keys, this whole

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block is mechanical. These ones are mechanical. That means they use the

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Cherry MX switches. So, those are the expensive type switches. And the number

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keys are all mechanical. However, the F keys as well as these keys are non-

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mechanical. Now, one thing I would like to see Corsair change around if they

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ever do a Rev 2 is I would like to see the delete key and the escape keys be

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mechanical. But honestly, for all this stuff up here and the insert homepage

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up, it doesn't make that much of a difference. You know, you can actually hear the difference in mechanical keys.

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So, check this

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out. I'm hitting those with exactly the same force. This gives me a much more

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sort of satisfying response versus something like that. It feels more

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spongy. That's because it's not a mechanical key switch. So up here we've

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got a Windows key lock. We've also got our number caps and scroll lock

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indicator LEDs. We've got media functions. So we've got stop, back,

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play, pause, as well as forward. There's your volume wheel. I love the way

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they've implemented this. It's very very nice to to touch. As well as a mute

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key. Um, you know what? We're we're not going to be able to do this video

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without plugging this thing in because it has an awesome blue LED backlight

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which looks fantastic off of the brushed aluminum base. So, what Corsair's done

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here, as you can see, the entire keyboard is going to be super easy to

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clean. You just use a can of dust off because instead of leaving little

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recesses, actually, I'm going to pull out my uh my 7G here again to show you

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guys. Instead of having all these little recesses in here that you can't clean

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things out of very easily, Corsair has given you full access to the entire

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inner workings of the keyboard. You can actually pull almost every key off and

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easily uh get any sort of dust or hair or anything that accumulates in it out

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of it. So, that's kind of neat as well. It also gives it kind of a really cool

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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

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I've missed anything else in terms of spec. uh gaming rest with soft touch

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surface, 10 user installable sculpted FPS keys. So yeah, that included WD as

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well as the 126 numbers. And uh don't

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forget you can store all of those keys inside this handy rest little labeled

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spots as well as your spot for the key installer and uninstaller. Windows lock

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Cherry MX. Um if you're interested in the specs of the Cherry MX red

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mechanical key switches, there you go. They do have gold contacts and they're rated for 50 million operations. So,

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yes, this keyboard will last you a very, very, very long time. So, let's go ahead

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and drag it over to a computer so that I can plug it into a USB port and show you

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guys how wicked this thing looks when you actually plug it in. So, it looks

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like I was mistaken. The K60 does not have the backlight. The K90 does. The

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only one I've actually used so far is the K90. So, uh, yeah, I've sort of

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misremembered which one had which. But either way, I think that pretty much

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concludes it. I think we're done with the K60 here. Thank you for checking out

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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

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the K90 with the backlight. Oops. With the backlight as

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well as the additional programmable buttons on the left hand side, uh versus

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the K60. Even though the K60 is less expensive, they'll both provide a very

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good typing experience. They've both got the laser etched keys which are never

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going to wear out no matter what because those letters are etched right into the

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key caps themselves rather than being something that can be worn off.

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Actually, a perfect example is if you check out uh this 7G over

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here, over here where you can clearly see which

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keys get used a lot more or less than the other ones. Yeah, that's pretty

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obvious. So, you can see all of the numbered keys are much less bright than

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this Steel Series logo right here. So, don't forget to subscribe to Lest Tech

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