BRAND NEW Cherry MX Speed Switches! - Corsair Booth, PAX East 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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thank you to Logitech and Discord for sending us to PAX East 2016 this year to
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check out all of their stuff check out the link in the video description down below so today at Corsair we're checking
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out their Rapid Fire keyboards they have a k70 non RGB they have a K65 RGB and a
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k70 RGB now what makes them rapid fire
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is the new Cherry MX speed switch so in
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the non-RGB ones it's just the MX speed and in the RGB ones it's the MX feed RGB
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what makes this switch cool is its activation distance and its total track
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travel distance so it activates at 1.2 mm instead of the standard 2 mm that you
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would find on a cherry switch and its overall travel distance is 3.4 mm
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instead of the overall normal 4 mm for a cherry switch so normally with most
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these switches you're pressing it down further and it's actuating further down
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the Press which is at exactly halfway and now it's much faster and you can
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feel it this is the first time I've been able to try it in person and it is
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definitely a faster typing experience in terms of how it feels though
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like in terms of how it feels outside of just how far down you have to press it
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it's pretty much like a Cherry MX red but not exactly it's a 45 G actuation
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Force just like a Cherry MX red but it does feel heavier and I'm getting the
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yeah it feels heavier from pretty much everyone that I've talked to that's tried it and some Corsair employees so
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I'm not entirely sure what's going on there I'd like to look more into that
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later on maybe with a quarter test or whatever and then it's also a linear
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switch so that part does feel like an MX red personally not my kind of thing
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although it is really nice to have that fast of a keyboard I do like feeling my
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actuation Force so I'm still going to lean towards a brown or a blue but I am
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kind of in a minority as I do believe Cherry MX Reds are the most common
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switch out there and if you are a fan of a red switch I would actually recommend
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this cuz it's faster and it doesn't feel bad at all it's interesting to see this
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come on to the market I'm assuming this is ha's answer to the RoR G which is
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notorious in a good way for having a fast overall typing experience so we'll
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see how that response works if you guys are interested check out Corsair.com
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winar Rapidfire they're giving away three of these Rapidfire keyboards and
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the contest is going on for about a month so you should be able to enter
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basically whenever you see this video as long as you're not looking at it in like halfway through 2016 or 2017 or
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something like that also if you want a good deal on a keyboard you can get I
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believe it's 15% off if when you purchase at Corsair.com you use the code
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PAX East 2016 so I just found that on
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like their table somewhere so hopefully they don't mind me telling everyone on
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the internet that there's a special offer code for PAX East all right guys let me know what you
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think of the Cherry MX speed on Twitter at Luke LFR or in the comments Down
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Below on this video thank you again for Logitech for sending us here this year
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if you want to see all of their products like racing wheels and keyboards and
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mice and headsets and all that kind of stuff check them out in the link in the video description down below also thank
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you to Discord who are awesome and have like free voice and chat servers and
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we're like hey you guys should like go to PAX East and we'll sponsor you and
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stuff I don't know they're pretty cool they're also in the link the video description down below you want to check
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out them that'll be awesome get subscribed if you want to see all the rest of our pack SE 2016 content and
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I'll see you next time