Can Corsair's LEGEND continue? - K70 RGB Pro Keyboard
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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3,610 words · ~18 min read
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(keyboard clicking) - [Jono] You have such a kill me face.
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- You know, what's more fun than opening one keyboard? Opening four of them.
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Well, kind of it's the same keyboard but we've got four different switches.
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It's the K70 RGB Pro from Corsair.
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It works with all of their IQ stuff. So if you're really big on the Corsair family,
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then this can be the keyboard for you. In terms of like features,
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you know it's feature rich. Like I think this one goes up to eight kilohertz.
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It's got their axon software, and stuff for like super low latency processing
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and high polling rates and stuff. Double shot PBT key caps like, oh, this is all in the box.
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Yeah, it's got a durable, aluminum frame, and I'm sure the switches all feel fine.
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They're all just cherry. So, we've got cherry blue, cherry brown, cherry red,
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RGB speed silver. So, silent red is the fifth type,
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and that's the one we didn't get today. I love the press the advantage.
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Eight kilohertz is fast, but it's like going from like one millisecond
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to like 0.25 millisecond. Like it's such a minor thing at that point
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that was it real detectable by humans? (upbeat music)
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Yeah, so it's got the eight kilohertz pulling right on here, full NKRO press as many keys as you want at the same time,
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they'll all go through. Anti ghosting eight megabytes of onboard storage
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with dynamic profile. You can store like 50 different profiles on these things
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as long as they're not too complex. The more come complex they are,
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the fewer profiles, 'cause it's more data for a more complex one.
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- [Brandon] Open the box! - I'm getting there. I'm almost there.
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I'm so close. - [Jono] Just open the box. - I'm just checking and yeah okay.
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So packaging's fine. It's got everything attached already
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because I don't think this is hot swap which irks me because ASUS has a keyboard
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that's hot swap now, so like these guys can do it.
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Charge me $10 more for hot swap. I don't care. I will gladly pay for it.
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- [Jono] What's hot swap? - Hot swap is literally just like take a switch puller, pull the switch out, put it in.
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'Cause these little pins just stick in the holes. I want it. That's all I know.
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- [Jono] Good for repairability too. - Yeah, totally repairability 'cause yeah, if like say,
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if one switch eventually starts to fail, then with a solder keyboard
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you've gotta like take it all apart and desolder that switch
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and then replace it, which is a pain. This thing goes for 160 or 170 dollars
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depending on the type of switch. I think the standard like cherry brown and red
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are like one 160. And then if you get the speed silvers or the silent reds
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it's 170, it's got flip up feet on the back, which is great.
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I, oh, and I think it's got two. Yeah, it's got two options. That's the shorter option.
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That's the taller option. And you just flip up these feet for whatever you want
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which is great. I think pretty much all keyboards.
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Yeah, I mean most should have them even expensive ones, I wouldn't mind having
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just like additional feet that I can flip up 'cause sometimes you like different typing angles.
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- I just use a notepad. - You put it on a notepad yeah.
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They added a bunch of cable management stuff here, which is cool.
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They're a little thin but the one nice thing that I'm actually pretty excited
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about for this guy is that it has a detachable USB-C cable.
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I think the old K70 didn't, I'm pretty sure it was just like a straight
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like it's wired in and that's that, if your cable ever breaks, you're hooped.
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You can also if you wanted to buy a fancy custom keyboard cable
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and use that and make your setup just look a little nicer. So this is what we're talking,
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you know, it's, this is ours from CableMod. We got a bunch on top of their old, like custom PSU cables,
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they're now doing custom keyboard cables or just use a regular USB cable.
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You know what? And they included one. Let's see what else is in the box? This is a safety information guide.
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I don't need that. Oh yeah. Okay, so it comes with the magnetic wrist rest.
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How magnetic is it? The magnet is actually pretty strong. It's not super easy to take it off
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and I love how it just, well you gotta line it up good but hey, there it goes, it just clips right into place.
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I'm not a big fan of the material personally.
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It's like a plasticky kind of feel and it's textured.
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And I personally prefer just like a nice soft memory foam wrist rest.
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I'm not crazy about it. I'm actually gonna just take it off. As for the cable you get
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it's not coiled or anything, but it is sleeved in some kind of fabric.
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So you're not going to be dealing
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with that like gross plasticky feel cable
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that a lot of keyboards come with. This is becoming more and more standard.
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Plug it in. - [Jono] You are not amused at all by this cable. - Plug it in.
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No. There's a port here. Oh, there's like a tournament switch.
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And when I read that, I was like what the is a tournament switch? Tournament mode basically sets it
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to like a single profile that doesn't use any macros.
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It also changes your RGB to like a single light.
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I think it's pointless. But they're basically saying that it's to distract you less.
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It is nice in the sense that like say you use a lot of macros,
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like you're video editing or something like that. Or you're playing a lot of like WoW, MOBAs or MMOs
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that use a lot of macros. You can just flick that switch and you don't have to worry about any weird macros
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that you have set up. It's got a bunch of media keys. There's like a volume scroll, which is nice
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and a mute button, actually really like the mute button. And what are these guys?
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Oh, that's a profile button to change your profile. And I think that's brightness.
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I dunno what the lock button does. Like I lock something, sure, but I don't know what.
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It does fit in the cable channel but it's like really tight.
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You've really gotta press it to get it in there. - [Brandon] Set it and forget it.
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- Yeah, set it and forget it. Put this on your desk. Spend 10 minutes pushing cables
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into tiny, tiny cable channels. I think these need to be wider.
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For instance, I'm having a bit of trouble getting it past the points that are supposed to like hold it in place.
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I do like how there's a bunch of different options. I can go out that way. You can go out that way.
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You can go across like that's great. Honestly, good luck getting it in there
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without some kind of tool. Like my fingers are already a tiny bit sore just from trying to press it in.
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So I'm just not gonna use those. Ooh, this is nice. See I already like the feet.
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(keyboard clicking)
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It's okay. So the whole wrist rest thing is debatable actually,
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basically you wanna keep your fingers at the right angle when you're typing,
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you don't wanna overextend. So you don't want them down kinda like this,
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basically this is bad, this is good.
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But you also don't want to like keep your wrist resting on something.
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You just don't wanna like have this weird kind of angled wrist movement.
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That'll lead to carpel tunnel probably. It's actually got a bit more flex
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than I was expecting for an aluminum chassis. It's hard to see.
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Well, I guess you can kind of see it on the camera. It's more of a feel thing, but I can like genuinely feel it
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kind of shift here and there. I'm not a huge fan of how they feel,
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like they don't feel bad but they're a little rough. In terms of sound it's fine.
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(keyboard clicking) Sounds pretty hollow. It doesn't sound like there's any kind of like foam
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or any filming or anything in here.
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I'll be honest, it's a little disappointing in 2022.
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So there's a screw here. Are these not hot swap?
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Well, take this off. I know I didn't break it.
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Okay, I don't think it's hot swap but it kind of feels a little loose in there.
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Usually I find with soldered on switches, there are a lot like there's not as much wiggle or give
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when you go to just touch the switch itself.
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Either way there is a screw right there.
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So we'd have to take out that one and then I'm sure there's, yeah, there's another one there.
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There's another one right here. Another one here. Probably a couple more around the top.
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Yeah, there's one right there. So it looks like you can unscrew all this and take it apart
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but you've gotta take off a very good chunk of key caps to do so.
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I like the look of it. I actually really like the gray and like the clear housing and stuff.
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One thing I didn't notice earlier is that while these buttons up here
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are like these weird clicky, yeah, it's like a mouse click, that's what it is.
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But then these ones here are like a different,
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it's similar but different. I don't know how to explain it. They're quieter, which is kind of nice, but these are great.
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I actually, I did, they're so kind of hidden 'cause they're a little down
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from this top part where the roller is and where the like lock and profile buttons are
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that I didn't even notice them just above the num pad right away. I would actually really like to see this design
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implemented a bit more often on full keyboards because you don't, there's not a ton of luxury options
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that have like a bunch of media keys on them.
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But yeah, look how much nicer it looks now.
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It's not yet, it's not the best like color combination here but it just looks nicer in general.
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- [Brandon] How much is that cable? - I think these are like 80 bucks or a hundred bucks or something.
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- [Brandon] Oh my God. Plouffe!
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- [Jono] How is the RGB so far? - Oh you know what? It's not as bright as I was expecting.
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Brightness button that lowers it. Okay, how do I turn it up?
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There we go. It is bright in here and red isn't the brightest color.
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See, it looks like the tournament lock. I forgot that I turned it on. Flick that off though.
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Get off of here. Yeah, see now we got more colors and stuff. Now it's just alternating
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and like honestly on camera with this direct top down angle,
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I think it looks pretty good. Oh yeah that's better. In a yeah, in a dark room
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or even in just like your normally lit living room or desk area, whatever this should look pretty nice.
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One thing I noticed is like this little lock icon.
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I don't know what it's doing. - [Jono] Is it a lock Windows button?
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- Yeah, it's a lock the Windows button. Good job, Jono. It's not a feature I'd pay to have,
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but it's definitely one that if it was included, I would probably use it.
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I think it's just kind of cycling through colors and stuff but there's like 50 modes or like 50 profiles
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that you can set up and it's using iCUE. So as long as you're using their software,
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I'm sure you can customize this to do basically whatever you want when it comes to RGB.
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Whether that's like it slowly cycles between modes or like a breathing effect or like anything,
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honestly, it can probably do it. And, go.
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Oh no I'm already doing so bad.
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It's okay, 117, 97%. I really screwed up at the start.
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I don't know what was going on, but. - [Jono] You suck. - I suck today at least.
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Maybe the speed silvers just aren't for me. Hello RGB red.
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The amount of times where I've had to just move my keyboard
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to a different PC or something like that. And it's real nice to just take a cable
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and plug it in and not have to get under my desk and change the cable out.
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Yeah, I'm a big fan. Okay, so let's try this again but with the reds,
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I already like the way it sounds more. 111, 97%, I could have gone a little faster, but.
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This sounds better to me. It's it's pretty close.
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It's deeper though. Just a little bit I think.
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Let's do the clickys before we get to the Browns
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so that I'm not stuck typing on clickys for the rest of this.
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(plastic crinkle) I gotta say I'm not a big fan of the brushed aluminum look.
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I'd personally prefer like a nice, weird texture
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or just flat aluminum that doesn't have a texture to it at all.
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(Jono laughs) Yeah.
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- [Jono] You have such a kill me face. (keyboard clicking)
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The soul of a man who just died. - I don't like it.
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I don't like the way they sound like it's this like high pitched click, like click,
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click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. I don't mind tactiles, but there's something about clickys that feel a little different to me.
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It's like you can feel the click. Let's not use the blues,
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if you like clickys, hey, that's great. Do whatever you want.
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I don't like them. The infamous and industry standard kind of,
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cherry browns. - [Brandon] The best! - The one and only.
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Don't get me wrong, I think I like the linears more, but like these feel okay.
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They still feel better than the clickys and the blues.
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Keyboards like this, there's nothing wrong with them, but it's just we've seen all of this development
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in the industry over the last like 10 years or so and this is a nice step, this detachable USB-C cable.
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But I really wanna see, now that we've seen it in other brands,
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I would really like to see hot swap in like pretty much every board going forward.
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I'll pay the extra 10 bucks, whatever they wanna charge. (keyboard clicks)
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(upbeat music) 108, 97.
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Wow, it's like 97% accuracy on every single test. I think honestly, a big part of why I'm not doing better
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is actually, I'm not using their wrist rest.
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And I almost always have one at home. As for the sound and feel,
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yeah, I think the brown sound good and feel okay. You could upgrade this a bit though.
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Like you could open this up and you could loop the stabilizers at the very least. I think that would go a long way.
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If you're willing to go that far on something like this you're probably better off just spending
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about the same amount of money or even just like 50 bucks more in getting a kit.
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The one nice thing is that you, it is a full keyboard.
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So if you do need like your num pad and all of your F keys and the media keys, it is nice.
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I want more premium boards to stop messing around with knobs.
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Out with the knob and in with the media keys. That's what I say.
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So you go to performance mode. I don't see where to change it. Maybe it's in device settings.
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Okay, yeah. So go to device settings in iCUE
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and then you've got a bunch of options. You can go write down 125 Hertz, 8 kilohertz, baby.
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Go back into device settings to confirm that we're at 8 kilohertz now.
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Oh, you can change the debounce time. Debouncing is the process of eliminating the possibility
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of the production of rippled signals after a single keypress resulting in a more consistent movement.
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A debounce method is available that corresponds to the cause
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since several various factors can cause a key to stutter.
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Yeah, it's got turn tournament mode backing color. Oh, so you can change the color for tournament mode.
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You can add as many profiles as you want. Say if profile, I can keep going.
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Apparently you can add like 50 of these and I'm just doing the same profile so it's not really changing anything anyway.
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Oh, brightness, crank it, cool. So I guess my one complaint
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about the RGB software is there might be presets
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in like function plus something else to change it manually.
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There's not a bunch of just like here's a preset, here's a preset.
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Yeah, it looks like WASD is a different color than the rest of 'em and cord of.
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This is the kind of thing that you can sit here and tinker with for like literally hours and change whatever lighting you want.
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It's great if you want that level of customizability but I'm the kind of guy who just like sets it to blue
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and leaves it on my desk. So it's up to you. But if you're looking to like sync a bunch of stuff
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like your case and your keyboard and like whatever peripherals are on your desk,
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'cause of course there makes a whole line of products like that. Boom, you can do that, it's great.
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So it's got eight megabytes of onboard memory, I think. And that means that you can save a bunch
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of these profiles directly to the keyboard. And so when you take it somewhere,
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it'll already be synced up the way you want it to be, which is handy.
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I honestly kind of wish that more keyboards had onboard memory for stuff like that.
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All right, we'll do our final typing test at 8 kilohertz
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to see if it truly makes any kind of difference,
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but let's go. - [Jono] Distraction!
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(cartoon scream) - No, not another one.
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I did okay here, 98 words per minute, 98% accuracy.
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I'm gonna blame the bananas that Jono threw at me for the speed reduction,
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but yeah for weight and size, it's a pretty standard size.
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It's basically a full keyboard with a little bit extra
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on top here for like the Corsair logo and the little on-screen display
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that shows a couple things like the lock button. Plus you've got your like media scroller here
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which does work great by the way, like it's on and it's working. In terms of weight, I think they said like two pounds.
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It's like 1.1 kilo or something like that. How many bananas is it?
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Three quarters of a banana tall, basically two bananas long
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with a little bit in the middle for the cable. Thanks for watching guys, this was the Corsair K70 Pro RGB.
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It goes for 160 to 170 US dollars.
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If you're looking for a decent RGB mechanical keyboard
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in that price range, then you know maybe take a look at this.
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The detachable USB-C cable is a nice step in the right direction, in my opinion.
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If you want to look at another video of ours we just unboxed an ASUS keyboard that had hot swap on it.
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So maybe take a look there.
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Thanks for watching.