

Featuring Corsair’s AXON processing, this board can go up to an 8,000Hz polling rate, meaning that it scans the board every. While in iCUE, there are other settings that can be tweaked on the K70 RGB Pro. The lighting didn’t blow me away as super bright, but in dim settings, it was plenty visible. Similar to Razer’s Synapse, you can add layers and dial in some custom lighting to specific keys, or you can just run with a generic setup like I usually do. Inside Corsair’s iCUE software, things can get pretty technical for lighting.
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Lighting and iCUEĪs a gaming keyboard, the K70 RGB Pro has per-key RGB lighting. Don’t get me wrong – it’s fine, but it’s not going to impress those who are used to a more premium typing feel and sound. So while the K70 isn’t terrible for typing, I also don’t think I can say it’s a great typing experience. It doesn’t sound as thick and substantial as the HyperX Alloy Origins 65 with Aqua tactile switches. There is a bit of a rattle in the stabilizers like the space bar, shift keys, and backspace, but the keys themselves feel and sound okay. Overall the typing experience is okay, but it’s nothing to write home about. Corsair K70 RGB Pro: How’s the typing experience Shine-through seems to be good on most of the keys with a few issues on some small legends like CTRL. The font is large and legible, but some of the keys, like the numbers, are a little more gamery when it comes to design. They feature a textured finish that isn’t too slippery and will also help prevent showing wear over time. Doubleshot PBT keycapsĬorsair is using double-shot PBT keycaps which are great for durability. I like a bit of feel when I press a key but clicky switches are a bit much for me.Ĭherry MX Brown switches have a light 55g actuation force, 2.0mm actuation distance, and 4.0mm total travel distance.

There isn’t much to say about the switches as these are kind of the industry standard. The last two are $10 more than the standard options. I went with brown tactile switches, but there are also options for blue clicky, red linear, speed, and silent. Cherry MX switchesĬorsair offers a wide array of Cherry MX switches for the K70 RGB Pro. It even has a plastic lock that can be flipped up to ensure that it doesn’t get turned off by accident. When this is enabled, the keyboard will be a static color to minimize distractions as well as disable accidental macro activations. Tournament switchĪnother feature near the detachable cable is the tournament switch.

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First is a profile button, then a brightness button with five different steps for RGB, and finally a lock button that will lock out functions like Alt-Tab and the Windows button for use while gaming. In the upper left of the keyboard, Corsair has added three more buttons. Profile, brightness, and system lock controls It adjusts the system audio by 2 steps at a time with smooth motion overall without physical steps. The volume roller has a nice texture to it and is easy to find and use. Farther up on the raised portion of the keyboard at the top is a rolling volume control and a mute button. Above the num pad are physical buttons to play, pause, stop and skip tracks. The K70 RGB Pro features a nice assortment of media keys. For such a large keyboard, there isn’t much flex in the body, which makes it feel more premium. Altogether, this makes the keyboard feel really solid. The K70 RGB Pro features an aluminum frame with a brushed metal finish across the top. Surrounding the Corsair logo is a glass portion that also houses some small light indicators for icons like the lock button, caps, scroll lock, and num lock. There is a discrete K70 logo on the bottom left of the board and an illuminated Corsair logo near the top. Other than that, Corsair keeps things pretty neat and tidy with the design of the K70 RGB Pro. Though not as large as the K100 which features additional macro keys on the left side of the keyboard, the added space at the top of the keyboard makes the overall footprint fairly large.
