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I've already powered the keyboard on, caps-lock, scroll-lock, and Num-lock are lit in white. There's another button for the keyboards back-lit (red) keys, which can be adjusted in three brightness modes and off.
The location of all function keys like Windows, Light dimming, and light effects also have been relocated more to a left position. Also different is the Corsair logo, now embedded into the frame, and RGB lighted. In the past, this was simply a badge glued on there. These all are subtle differences, but they certainly do improve the aesthetics.
Above I am showing you the 'OLD' model K70 RGB Rapidfire backside, now let's have a look at the new one as it proofs, really the design has been overhauled:
As you can see, massive change. Corsair has added rubber padding strips on the keyboard base and wrist rest, for an even better mount on the desktop. That X in there is not related to a popular film series, however, you could have for example a mouse wire leading out of the wrist rest, and guide the writing to the backside though there. While I am not sure if anybody would use that, I can't oppose it either. I like clever little things and things that make you go oooh. You can use standoffs as well to allow a little more height and create an angled position. You can clip on the wrist rest as well as remove is, and not use it. The K70 RGB MK.2 is a heavyweight product, and combined with rubber feet will prevent you from the keyboard sliding away. It has a firm grip on my desktop.
The K70 RGB MK.2 (Rapidfiyaaaaaah) uses a dark and nicely braided cable that is a proper two meters in length. It is, however, a bit thick, something I personally dislike a little. What's the reason for that you might wonder? Well, you probably spotted it already but there are two USB connectors at the end of the cable. One is for the keyboard, of course, the other is being used as a pass-through for say your headset our mouse. At the backside, you will spot an extra USB connector you can now use.
The previous models had a BIOS switch at the backside, it allowed you to configure the polling rate from 1000Hz to 500, 250 or 125Hz, this function now has been moved into software, and can be altered with iCUE software. This is basically just to aid compatibility with some BIOSes. So in general, very few people will ever need to touch the switch.
