Corsair Vengeance K95 keyboard review

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Once connected and the PC powered up, subtlety. No flashing bright LEDs, just tiny white LEDs indicating caps-lock, scroll-lock and num-lock. There's another button for the keyboard's back-lit keys, which can be adjusted in three brightness modes and off. A third button will allow you to select, all, none or WASD & 1 to 6 keys being lit. If you hold the 'keyboard' button for a few seconds, you can individually lit up the keys as per your preference.

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There's not much going on at the backside. We mentioned the rubber feet already. You can use stand-offs as well to allow a little more height and create an angled position. Here you can clip on the wrist rest as well.

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The K95 uses a dark and very nicely braided cable that is roughly two meters in length. It is however very 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. Let me show you that:

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So here you can see that the backside of the keyboard has a USB port on it to plug in your mouse or flash drive which is a nice feature. To the right you can see a BIOS switch, as explained this allows you to reduce the polling rate from 1000Hz to 500, 250 or 125Hz, or even strip it back to a basic BIOS mode. Corsair states that this is basically just to aid compatibility with some BIOSes. So in general very few people will ever need to touch the switch. 

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