Corsair Gaming K95 RGB PLATINUM review

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Mechanical Cherry Keys

Let's have a peek at the mechanical switches & keys and explain what that is all about, as you can swap them out if needed/required/wished for. The K95 keyboard houses Cherry MX Brown or the new SPEED switches.

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Our keyboard houses SPEED Cherry MX switches. Cherry offers many switches these days with Silent and Speed being the new ones. 

  • Cherry MX Black - Linear switch with Actuation Force: 60g (40g-80g overall)
  • Cherry MX Brown Switches - Tactile Switch with Actuation Force: 45g (55g Peak Force)
  • Cherry MX Blue Switches - Tactile & Clicky with Actuation Force: 50g (60g Peak Force)
  • Cherry MX Red Switches  - Linear Switch with Actuation Force: 45g
  • Cherry MX SPEED Switches - Linear Switch with Actuation Force: 45g
  • For the Silent MX model switches we have, these are based on the Red variant with 45g of actuation force.

Each color switch feels different and Corsair actually has this keyboard available in several color switches (for your personal preference). Cherry Red I think still is the most common preferred switch, the SPEED MX switches have the same actuation. 
 

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Back-lighting on a Cherry MX switch is much sharper than that of a membrane keyboard because each key is lit by an individual LED and not in an array. This means if you remove the keycap, you should see an LED directly under it that maximizes the lighting effect. 

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The keys overall are curved a little and are fairly slippery which gives them a unique feel. Above, I replace the WASD keys with included curved and rugged ones. You can easily install the rugged keys by using the supplied key cap puller tool, just pull them up gently and they'll be lifted out of place. Cherry MX mechanical switches are intended for fast, efficient gaming action with 45g actuation force. It's all about customization with mechanical keyboards. Heck, if you game intensely and the letters fade away, you want to be able to replace the keys right?
  

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The K95 keyboard has a block of 6 G-keys located to the left side, you can assign macros to them. We'll look at that in a tidbit with the software. The G-Keys are located quite a bit closer to the normal function keys and inevitably you'll likely press a G-key by accident where you wanted to press the shift key as they are close together. We are a bit surprised about the 6 G-keys, that was 18 on the previous model. Then again, all keys are programmable. 
 

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There we go, that's like an injection of Bada-bing Bada-BLING my man. But since we see it activated here, let's talk about the LED back-lighting a little shall we? 

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