Review: Corsair Strafe Mechanical Keyboard

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/13/2015 02:37 PM | source: | 10 comment(s)

We review the Corsair Strafe, a new LED backlight and animated Cherry MX Red mechanical keyboard that offers great value, it's quite customizable as well. The Strafe comes with Cherry key switches and red LED back-lighting, that is per-key configurable. There are some more options and features improved with this basis and concept as it has a trick or two encompassed in the new design as well. Let's have a peek shall we?

Check the teaser video below and read the full review here.

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Fox2232
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#5141166 Posted on: 08/13/2015 09:56 AM

Price is good, but I do not like red back light.
This solution they used is actually close to 3-color LED.

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#5141175 Posted on: 08/13/2015 10:22 AM

Seems like a lovely keyboard, but that yellow plug :bang:

I do hope they also release a TKL version, as I am in the market for one. The k65 rgb is just to too expensive for me.

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#5141278 Posted on: 08/13/2015 02:47 PM

I hate Reds.....Had a K70 with them and got rid of it. Now I use a Deck Hassium Pro with Browns at home for gaming and a POK3R with Blues at work.

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#5141292 Posted on: 08/13/2015 03:27 PM

From what I've seen in stores here there is a brown cherry version too.
(The Logitech G710+ that I had as my first mechanical keyboard unfortunately met with the liquid substance known as water and didn't recover from the resulting shock so now I'm using a K95 from Corsair, I have no need to replace anything but this is probably what I would use if the current one breaks anything more than popping a few of the LED lights. - seems to be a common issue across a range of Corsair's keyboard products.)

EDIT: Checked again and the product ID for the MX Red key one is "CH-9000088-ND" and the brown version is "CH-9000092-ND"

(Red: http://www.webhallen.com/se-sv/datorer_och_tillbehor/223356-corsair_gaming_strafe )

(Brown: http://www.webhallen.com/se-sv/datorer_och_tillbehor/224626-corsair_gaming_strafe )

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#5141322 Posted on: 08/13/2015 04:10 PM

Reds are the worst membrane keyboards have more feedback then reds, reds are the definition of a mushy key.

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