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welcome to a much demanded unboxing this is the Corsair Vengeance k60 so yes Corsair finally has pretty much a full set of peripherals they've got your speakers your headphones your keyboards and your mice actually I have a mouse here too but we're not doing that one just yet so we're going to show the keyboard so Corsair is all about gaming we've known this from pretty much day one when when it was just memory and then oh I know I'm gonna get it wrong when I try and tell you guys it's sort of the order of the categories they expend it into but power supply and then cases and then cooling and then audio I'm probably missing something Corsair does so many things these days but what is most exceptional about Corsair in my opinion is the fact that they do pretty much everything well I can't think of very many course or products that have had the opportunity to play around with or to check out that I haven't been really impressed by so let's go over what are the overall specs of this keyboard first so this is a mechanical keyboard yes pretty much any serious gamer or serious typist and they're gonna tell you mechanical key switches are pretty much a must on any high-end keyboard so these are using cherry MX red mechanical key switches really which which mechanical key switches feel good to you comes down to the personal preference of the typist themselves soms are louder and some are less loud than others some have sort of a longer travel time to register the keystrokes jump some have the shorter travel time Corsair believes that the red key switches are ideal for gaming so that's why they've used those for this particular keyboard this one this is more of the FPS version of this keyboard comes with contoured textured WASD key cap so you can see those right here I'll show you those once we open it up full key matrix anti-ghosting so anti-ghosting means that no matter what combination of easy press you're not going to get any accidental unintended keystrokes registered this can happen with less premium keyboards and what what it tends to occur is while you are typing quickly and you press two or three keyboards together while you're while you're going while you're in the middle of something it'll actually register an extra keystroke because of the way that the keyboard is communicating via USB to the computer itself so they've implemented anti-ghosting as well as twenty key rollover so you hear a lot of talk about how many key rollover so what does that mean we've seen up to n key rollover on ps2 keyboards and Corsair says they could actually implement and he roll over with USB on this particular keyboard which is a very neat feature however they went with 20 because the reality of it is unless you're operating your keyboard like with your arm and your face you're probably not gonna press more than 20 keys at a time so what that rollover spec means is how many keys you can hold down come on let's see how many I suppress at a given time before they will stop registering each new one that you press down so for gamers it's fairly common to be holding down shift and tab and jumping and I don't know maybe you're playing like an older style game and maybe you're actually using these for you know your jump in your pouch or something and then this is you're moving around maybe you're playing a 2d side-scroller it's fairly common for a gamer to hold down eight or more keys at a time whereas the normal the normal roll over for like cheaper keyboards does not allow you to necessarily have every one of those keystrokes be registered so that's why that's an important feature what else we got here so the contoured textured WASD key caps I'll show you those in a minute they're right here I haven't forgotten bulky matrix uhm anti-ghosting yeah multiple key presses won't jam you up let's every keystroke get through professional-grade brushed aluminum chassis with laser etched keys love that I'll show you guys that closely soft cushioned contoured wrist rest and I'll show you that in a minute as well I just want to make sure that I do not forget anything here because this is a keyboard that a lot of people requested that I take a look at so I don't want to miss anything so here is the wrist rest so what makes this the more FPS oriented product versus the k9t which is more of the MMO oriented product and I will show you guys what makes it that this guy is all about comfort when you're using your left hand to game which here we go is facilitated by things like this wrist rest guy right here which I'm just going to try to figure out how to put back together because I actually do not know okay and this guy goes under here so it's got a bit actually I'll show you this first so it's got like a soft kind of rubberized feely thing here with see this little dimply surface I guess that's to help keep a sweat from accumulating and making the surface slippery which is kind of nice this parts hard plastic as well as this part right here this serves as a carrying case for the keys that you are not using at any given time and then there are latches right on the bottom here I'll show you those once I've got it attached here that allow you to put this right here so that your hand rests comfortably right here for gaming the MMO version of the keyboard has a bunch of buttons over here which the FPS version doesn't have and the MMO version doesn't come with this rest which is designed especially for FPS gamers whose Mouse hands are over here and whose keyboard hands sit right here it can be quite easily attached and detached so you just pull it off like that and then I'm just gonna show you guys the spot on the bottom where it goes just like that while I'm on the bottom here I'll show you guys what you've got in terms of adjustable feet for your comfort so you can raise up your keyboard a little bit you can slant your keyboard this way if you want you can slant your keyboard this way if you want and if you're not using any of the feet you've got four rubber feet here as well as two rubber feet here to keep the keyboard from slipping around although it's quite heavy so I don't think you're gonna have too many problems with it moving around uh ninten chili comes with a two-year warranty I just want to show you guys the included connectors so we've got the keyboard USB as well as the built-in hub USB so the hub has your thumb looks like it's just the one okay so that's where you plug in your mouse alright so let's uh yeah let's have a look at these keys here so what you want to do is you take your included key remover which was in here I don't know if you guys let me take that out and you just pull off the cue like this you can clearly see the cherry red switches so named for their red color alright and then you just go ahead and take your contoured rubberized keys and you replace your WASD now check this out this is what they mean by contoured each one of these keys is actually oh shoot I just installed that one upside down that's the thing about s is it's hard to tell which way it is intended to be oriented so there you go put those on like that so now you can very easily feel without looking can you see from that angle how these are actually curved towards the center there you go yeah now you can see that so these are contoured so you can very easily feel which are your WASD keys and which ones are not and the same goes actually for the number keys up here you can see that one is actually curved the opposite way from 6 so this could actually be very useful for MMO gamers as well so when you're looking for that particular potion you can easily feel up here okay which one is it okay that's too far that's my number 6 belt spot or whatever the case may be so that's kind of a neat feature let's have a look at the overall layout they haven't done anything that I would consider to be a cardinal sin here long shift keys long backspace key and full-size Enter key I am just you know it kills me to see otherwise awesome keyboards like say for example the 7g with something like a short backspace key great for gaming not ideal for typists who have small hands like myself because I can barely reach this I definitely can't reach that while keeping my fingers on the keys now something a lot of people have sort of made I think an inordinate amount of fuss about with this keyboard is the fact that is not fully mechanical that's right so these keys this whole block is mechanical these ones are mechanical that means they use the Cherry MX switches so those are the expensive type switches and the number keys are all mechanical however the F keys as well as these keys are non mechanical now one thing I would like to see Corsair change around if they ever do a rev two is I would like to see the Delete key and the escapees be mechanical but honestly for all this stuff up here and the insert homepage up it doesn't make that much of a difference you know you can actually hear the difference in mechanical keys so check this out I'm hitting those with exactly the same force this gives me a much more sort of satisfying response versus something like that it feels more spongy that's because it's not a mechanical key switch so up here we've got a Windows key lock we've also got our number caps and scroll lock indicator LEDs we've got media functions so we've got stop back play pause as well as forward there's your volume wheel I love the way they've implemented this it's very very nice to to touch as well as a mute key um you know what we're not going to be able to do this video without plugging this thing in because it has an awesome blue LED backlight which looks fantastic off of the brushed aluminum base so what Corsairs done here as you can see the entire keyboard is going to be super easy to clean you just use a can of dust off because instead of leaving little recesses actually I'm gonna pull up my my 7g here again to show you guys instead of having all these little recesses in here that you can't clean things out of very easily Corsair has given you full access to the entire inner workings of the keyboard you can actually pull almost every key off and easily get any sort of dust or hair or anything that accumulates in it out of it that's kind of neat as well it also gives it kind of a really cool look I love the brushed aluminum finish hair if you have a good look at that yep you have okay good let's see if I've missed anything else in terms of spec gaming rust with soft touch surface tin user installable sculpted FPS keys so yeah that included WASD as well the one two six numbers and don't forget you can store all of those keys inside this handy rest little labeled spots as well as your spot for the Installer and uninstaller windows lock Cherry MX if you're interested in the specs of the Cherry MX red mechanical key switches there you go they do have gold contacts and they're rated for 50 million operations so yes this keyboard will last you a very very very long time so let's go ahead and drag it over to the computer so that I can plug it into a USB port and show you guys how wicked this thing looks when you actually plug it in so it looks like I was mistaken the k60 does not have the backlight the k9d does the only one I've actually used so far as the king 90 so yeah I've sort of misremembered which one had which but either way I think that pretty much concludes it I think we're done with the K 60 here thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the Corsair Vengeance k 60 FPS gaming keyboard don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips for more boxing's reviews and other computer videos and now that I've actually used both of them I would have to say that if it came down to it I would probably choose the K 90 with the backlight rims with the backlight as well as the additional programmable buttons on the left hand side versus the K 60 even though the K 60 is less expensive they'll both provide a very good typing experience they've both got the laser etched keys which are never going to wear out no matter what because those letters are etched right into the key caps themselves rather than being something that can be worn off actually a perfect example is if you check out this 7 G over here here where you can clearly see which keys get used a lot more or less than the other ones yeah that's pretty obvious so you can see all of the numbered keys are much less bright than this SteelSeries logo right here so don't forget to subscribe to latest tech tips from unboxings reviews another computer video