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Fantastic keyboard
By Chuck on Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2021
This keyboard IMO is the best of the best. Yea, it is a bit more expensive than other out there, but you are getting more. You get an option of many different Cherry MX keys(I went with Blue), a USB pass through, GREAT RGB lighting, added macro keys and a VERY comfortable wrist rest. I have tried the Razer Blackwidow V3 and the Elite. Both are good keyboards, but the Elite, while it had a nice wrist rest(magnetic) had black key bases so it's RGB lighting is dim and the V3, which does have good RGB lighting, didn't have the USB pass through and came with a hard plastic wrist rest that doesn't attach , in any way, to the keyboard(no magnets or anything, it just sits there). The green Razer keey were pretty good but no match for the feel and sound of true Cherry MX Blue keys. Another thing I love about the K95 is the ability to load lighting profiles directly to the keyboard so you do NOT need to be running iCue to get the lighting effects you want. This is a nice thing to have when you want to run a minimized set up for gaming or move the keyboard to another computer. Razer has none of this. On top of this, the light really blows Razer out of the water. With the exception of the Blackwidow V3, all Razer RGB keyboards seem dim and under lit compared to Corsair. The translucent key bases make all the difference. Plus this has an added RGB light bar at the top of the keyboard for an extra add effect, which looks awesome. And the Corsair log is at the top of the keyboard, so it does NOT get hidden by the write rest, unlike Razer's keyboards, which have the log at the bottom. The one (big) minus I will give Corsair is iCue. It is a big step behind Razer in programmability. It seems to take a lot more steps to accomplish what is easily done in Razer's Synapse. Plus, if you have multiple Razer devices, it allows you to group the devices so when you set a lighting profile, it applies to ALL devices. In iCue, you have to set the lighting profile for EACH device independently, which is a complete waste of time. To add to this, while Corsair has profiles that you can load to the keyboard directly, you have to program them in it's own HARDWARE tab and you CANNOT copy regular lighting profiles to the Hardware tab. So you basically have to program the light profile TWICE. Another waste of time. Pros Solid construction choice of different Cherry MX keys USB pass through GREAT and BRIGHT RGB lighting, with added light bar and logo at top, which won't get blocked by wrist rest Macro keys Nicely padded wrist rest Cons iCue - Corsair really needs to step it up and look at how Razer does Synapse as there are many head scratching things in iCue. All in all this is a great keyboard. If you are after great RBG lighting and added macro keys, get this. Just be prepared for some extra effort needed for iCue.
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Very nice keyboard, shockingly bad software issue
By Occasionally Honest on Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2022
The great: - Cherry MX Blue keys rock - Dedicated macro keys - Nice lighting - Volume knob - Seems like a high quality overall keyboard. The egregious: Their iCUE software causes audio stuttering. It is present on every application: media players playing local video and audio files, Amazon Music, YouTube, other media streaming services... everything! It was a huge waste of time trying to determine iCUE was the issue. Corsair has known about it for over a year and they still have not fixed it. To quote the solution: 1. Open the iCUE installation folder and locate "Corsair.Service.CpuIdRemote64.exe" 2. Kill the Corsair CpuIdRemote process with the task manager or any process manager 3. Quickly change that file extension to anything you want, for example "Corsair.Service.CpuIdRemote64.exe.dumb", this will prevent the service from restarting 4. Enjoy I got the Corsair after going through a bunch of different keyboards: - Das Keyboard Model S (great keyboard, Cherry MX keys, but no backlighting, and no volume knob - I tried the one with the volume knob and didn't like it for a forgotten reason); - Razer Black Widow (nice keyboard, no volume knob, got it at least a half a decade ago and from what I recall, I just don't use it because it doesn't have a volume knob); - G.Skill KM780 ($100, nice keyboard, Cherry MX keys, macro keys, backlighting, volume knob, I went through two and they usually lasted about a couple of years for various reasons, it is no longer available); - Redragon K580 ($50, lighting, clicky keys, macro keys, volume knob, it had a couple of issues with some keys, so I returned it); - Microsoft Surface ($85, soft keys, portable, Bluetooth, with soft non-clicky keys for conference calls and web meetings, not a fan: it quickly started having Bluetooth issues and you cannot even give such a relatively expensive keyboard away on eBay); and - Logitech MX Keys ($110, great backlit Bluetooth keyboard, I swap this in to replace a Cherry MX keyboard for conference calls and web meetings because it has soft non-clicky keys so you don't annoy listeners, it also has an extra little perk of dedicated buttons for pairing it with multiple devices). I got this $200 Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT in an attempt to ensure everything was rock solid and high quality. So far, everything has been pretty great... Aside from the big headache it caused with the audio. So much for spending a lot of $ to try to get a product without issues. Since I finally figured out the audio problem, I am keeping it because it is otherwise a great keyboard. (You might be wondering why I keep mentioning the volume knob, and that is simply because all the websites, streaming services, local media players, web meetings often have different volume settings. Thus, you might have the volume up for one service and then open another service that blows your ears off or open a webpage that you didn't expect to start playing loud audio. A dedicated volume knob is the quickest way of setting the volume to a reasonable level and I filter my searches for keyboards with volume knobs).
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