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this video is brought to you by the intel core i7 4770k unlocked processor if you're a speed freak added until 3500 series SSD to your Haswell system for a truly enthusiast class experience alright guys that's it Corsair listens to everything that pretty much well everything that I thought was wrong with the original K 60 this my friends is the K 70 in one of its configurations so we're going to start with the things that carried over from the K 60 which this is sort of you can tell it in is inspired by the K 60 because you've got the replacement key caps that have the contour so you can find them more easily when you're not looking at it it still has that aluminum backplane that really makes Corsairs keyboards not only feel extremely rigid but also be built extremely solidly and look extremely cool and all that good stuff and she started here to those here's those key cats that come with it there we go it also has a wrist rest but it's missing the little sort of you know not stromal thing that goes with the WASD keys so I'm not really convinced that too many people would have used anyway and it still has here we go anyway this one in particular has Thierry MX red switches a little more on that in a moment there we go it has built-in media keys which I think are among the best dedicated media keys out there just because I love volume wheels so much and this one has like a nice just textured metal finish to it mute as well as stop back play pause and forward it has a windows lock button and okay more on this in a moment that is a backlight control button and it still has a USB pass-through now okay all of yeah right so it still has 100% anti-ghosting and I think that's pretty much it so what has Corsair improved on the K 70 number one all mechanical keys f1 to f12 and these keys over here no longer had any rubber dome key switches so the keyboard is fully mechanical now also check this out guys it is available hmm with a backlight so we've got a red backlight one right over here there we go that has a black finish oh yeah did I mention it's available with different finishes on the aluminum backplane now which I personally think the red and black looks absolutely gorgeous although the classic blue and silver Corsair mechanical keyboard thing is not a bad thing either not only that but it is available with a variety of key switches now so you are no longer limited to Cherry MX red now the ones that I have here in front of me you can always tell the key switches in use by simply popping them off if they're cherry Keys then they are going to be color coded the type of key switch that they happen to be I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys the blue version here if I can find that USB plug there we go so you can always tell like that but there will be versions of the keyboards available that use other key switches so blue and brown which we're going to call the slick Edition and the Linus Edition will also be available a mess is really exciting to me because Corsairs build quality on their keyboards is outstanding there's almost no flex to the things whatsoever making them well yeah outstanding but the only thing holding me back in the past was the fact that they use cherry MX Reds they have a very unique look because the keys are significantly higher above the first visible part of the keyboard then you'll see on most other keyboards and what this does is it gives the backlight more of an of an under glow effect that I personally think looks absolutely outstanding on their keyboards whether it's in blue or red now on the back of the keyboard you can see that we've got a couple more options in terms of elevating it so you can elevate it here drop that down there's rubber feet here you can elevate it at the back just like that and you can attach or remove the wrist rest at will they've got a bit of a different system for this it's plastic now instead of metal but it still does feel quite strong so I'm not too worried about it and then also at the back you've got different bottle switches so this should improve the compatibility of the keyboard which I personally think is a very positive thing and that was one of the issues that people have with the original k 90 and the k 60 and the reason for that is that in order to do things like 100% anti-ghosting or multi key rollover over USB you have to place them you have to play around with the way the keyboard works a little bit and sometimes this decreased compatibility now with the case 70 Coursera has managed to enable 100% anti-ghosting and n key rollover meaning you can roll over as many keys as you want which is very very cool but they've implemented that bio switch in order to improve compatibility they've also changed some textures so you can see the space bar has a bit of a textured feel to it now that looks quite different from the older one and they have added of course new replacement key caps so I'm going to switch over to our red one here I'll show you guys that one instead I'm going to swap that USB plug there we go and I'm going to show you how I have swapped out the WASD keys and the 1 2 3 4 5 6 keys up at the top here the idea behind these is if you can see the contour see this this curved shape here between these keys I hope you can see that if you see the contour the idea is you should be able to find your way back to WASD and to the 1 2 3 4 5 6 keys without looking more easily now the ones on the k60 had a very rubber feel to them a rubber finish to them that I personally didn't find that appealing but these are more of a hard plastic there you go and they're much more similar feeling to the rest of the keys on the keyboard so you can still rely on the shape to find them but you don't have to deal with the fact that they have a bit of a different texture to them which I personally found a little bit obnoxious and I didn't I didn't really want to use that feature now last but not least this is the CUDA grass of this particular keyboard it has off low medium and high backlight levels ok so you're not that impressed yet but it also has this feature which I personally think is pretty friggin cool check that out so we have set up this keyboard already to only have the arrow keys windows keys not that one WASD keys and the 1 2 3 4 5 6 keys illuminated you can eliminate any combination of keys that you so desire I say I want my escape key and I want all of these on all I have to do is hold down this button set it up the way I like it so you know I want like a cross here then I hold it down again and voila it is now set and it will remember those settings so you can have whatever combination of lighting that you want and you can switch between completely backlit and only backlit where you want it to be very very cool thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Corsair k70 don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos let us know in the comments under the video or better yet in the Linus tech tips community forum which will be linked in the video description what'd you think of the k70 has Corsair hit the nail on the head this time you let us know but I think that they actually did very very cool stuff