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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware i am getting back into the swing of things today with an unboxing and an overview in a bit of a review of this wireless gaming kit that corsair sent over they were like hey Paul we have a bunch of new wireless stuff if you guys checked out my CES 2018 coverage you might have seen a bit of coverage there they wanted me to take a look at it directly so they sent me this big old box I'm gonna take everything out of here I know we have the k63 where I list mechanical gaming keyboard in here and let's see what else they've included as well yeah of course their logo we are greeted with oh this is an actual hold on nevermind I did it wrong unboxing fail flipping is not the method inside we have the k63 of course Wireless mechanical keyboard made to use on the couch and also be mechanical we have the dark core RGB special edition right here Wireless Gaming Mouse with RGB of course there void Pro RGB very nice wireless gaming headset from Corsair oh look they've included a little this is the course their survivor stealth which is just a USB Drive this is a 32 gig USB 3 one is this stuff so rounding things out this right here is the K 63 gaming lap for dand this is actually made to go with the case 63 gaming so that you can use it on the couch in a living room environments so I'm definitely gonna be testing that out and then we have the mm 1000 right here which is extremely controversial this is one of the most expensive gaming mouse mats that you might ever encounter yourself that that's because it comes to the cheese spot and we've already made plenty of jokes about the cheese spot there but because the dark core RGB special edition can do wireless Qi charging you can take it and park it on the chief spot and then you can charge it there it also comes with the dongle adapter and that kind of thing so we'll get that out of the box and check it out in just a second so now a quick look at the retail box says k6eid Wireless one millisecond response time when it's connect via the standard RF wireless function you can also do Bluetooth connection with this which is really nice it's gonna take it on the go and connect it up to a laptop or something like that bluetooth response time is a bit slower it's about 7.5 milliseconds at minimum probably about more more like 8 but you also have some cool features here 128-bit AES encryption capable so that's helpful if you're concerned about wireless security it can do encryption within the device now let's get perky blue LED backlighting on these keys not our GB and I believe that's just because if they'd included RGB not only would it be more complicated on the software side to control it but it's probably gonna use more power too so they wanted to make sure the keyboard would stay powered and charged for quite a long time Cherry MX red switches of course and then let's go ahead and take this out of the box you're going to control this keyboards functions with the Corsair utility engine software the q software which I have downloaded on the system right over here so we can at least take a quick look at that and then internally we got the keyboard no wire I'm so used to like taking keyboard out and you have to fish the wire out of this part but that's not including a manual a USB cable a little clip it's an adapter so you can use the USB cable as an extension if you want to you get a wrist rest here's the Wi-Fi adapter as well alright this dress goes on like so it's got a bit of rubberized texture on it for your wrists and then because this is capable of connecting in multiple different ways you of course have the USB cable that's included there as well now here in the back you actually have an on/off switch and then there's a USB port that's actually a mini USB connector if I was going to begin critiquing this that would be my first area of critique these connectors are not durable so but you're only gonna need to plug it in while charging so I guess maybe or maybe not it's a good choice but I would have preferred USB type-c but you do get a decent length of USB cable there and there's an adaptor that you can plug into the end of it so you can use that to actually reposition your USB receiver so if you want you can take that and position it somewhere in your living room or living space if you're using this on an HTP see where it gets a better reception for example or if you have eh TPC tucked away plug that in right there or of course unplug that little thing and just plug that directly into the keyboard in order to charge it up keyboard itself is pretty standard QWERTY layout it is 10 keyless and again less Keys means it's a little bit more portable if you're gonna take a wireless keyboard on-the-go portability is a factor and then of course without those extra keys there it means you don't need lights for those keys which means it's gonna help hopefully improve battery life having that not there versus there now I've really introduced that's without the power switch switched on the keyboard won't function that kind of makes sense actually so if you have the power switch off and the keyboard plugged in it will charge and a little power indicator light here will indicate that but if you want to use it plugged in turn it on once it's on you can see the lights light up and that's nice and pretty this is off that is 33% and that is 66% they can go brighter than that actually it can go up to 100% but by default in order to conserve battery life Corsair has kept this at a 66% max brightness you can go into the Corsair utility an engine software and adjust that to get hundred percent brightness if that's your thing if you have it at zero percent brightness like this you'll get about 75 hours of battery life on a full charge 33 percent brightness to get about 25 hours and 66 percent brightness you can get about 15 hours if you do crank it all the way up to a hundred you'll get about 10 hours of battery life even at a high percent brightness that's still a decent amount of battery life for most play sessions of course you'd probably want to plug it in and charge it after that beyond that you got some media control keys up here in the top left as well as the top right forward back stop all that good stuff volume up and down as well as a mute button you don't get the roller here like you do with some of the other hand Corsair keyboards so that is a trade-off there and then of course Cherry MX switches so if you pull off the Escape key here you can see the red Cherry MX which they're they're going to have this in red out of the gates and then based on feedback from customers and if people want them they may also include other types of choice which is as well yes some additional functions you can access via a function key down there so a home and an application switch and zoom up here you also have wireless enable or disable right here so the 2.4 gigahertz wireless mode you can access right there or Bluetooth mode you can turn on and off also there is a PC sleep function that's available there as well the wireless LED indicator is up here and it will function in different modes if it's white and solid that means it's connected and everything's ok it'll be blue and solid if it's connected via bluetooth the light will also blink if it's having any problems with connectivity and there's some troubleshooting steps you can take in the manual to to deal with that also just discovered in the manual you can use function + f11 to give yourself an immediate indication of the current battery level so right now it's just flashing green because I'm plugged in via USB power so if I were to unplug that we can see these immediately turn to whites it's flashing lights on the Wi-Fi connectivity because it's not connected to anything whites on the actual power indicator here indicates that it's it's medium to full charge I'm gonna set this aside and leave it to continue charging we'll go ahead and open up the rest of this stuff I'm gonna not open the void Pro right now because that's been out for a little bit and I've already got one so here's the dark core RGB special edition Mouse let's take a quick look at this one so here's a look at everything in the box with the dark core RGB couple manuals here for how to use it and we also have a USB cable once again micro USB I'd love to see some USB C on these these came with the same wireless adapter as well as a little adapter for the cable so you can plug it in directly if you want to but you can pop this little little finger rest here and add this one on so if you like a pinky rest or a index finger rest whatever whatever you want to set there now this is wireless just like the case 63 of course and it will need its own little bungle in order to connect so you are going to be able to connect both of these at the same time but you'll have to eat up 2 of your USB ports which is pretty normal for connecting up a couple of peripherals but over here again just like the case 63 we can switch back and forth between 2.4 gigahertz Wireless mode and Bluetooth wireless mode via a switch down here and of course just an on/off so so you can turn the mouse itself on or off you can now also plug in the micro USB cable right here front and that will allow you to use this in Wired mode so again just like k63 then making sure you can use this wirelessly but if you want to plug it in if you're low on battery you can do that and keep playing and you won't have to wait for it to charge or that that sort of thing beyond that this is a relatively new design I would say from Corsair when it comes to their mice something that we haven't seen exactly before of course when it comes to mice there's not a whole lot of differences that you can make from one to the other but up here you got left and right click you get forward and back that's up here for your thumb you also have a dpi switcher rolling mouse wheel and then over here you have sort of a unique little thumb pad as well as a directional pad that's on the side so you can click in the middle or you can click on the sides of that pad as well to go forward or back with your thumb which can be useful so it's got a bit of textured grip right here for the palm rest as well as a little bit down here where your thumb would rest that's it's nice to have as well just anecdotally putting it in my hand right now for the first time it's pretty comfy now if you're wondering what makes that dart core a special edition it is because it has the Qi charging that's integrated as well according to Coursera even with the chief spot on here it charges just as fast as it does when it's plugged in so that I thought was was pretty interesting granted you need a specific spot on the mousepad in order to charge it but the fact they're able to get that's quickness of charging it's pretty impressive anyway that's everything that comes in this box all right so there is your everything that comes with the mm 1003 three guides I don't know why any more documentation for this and otherwise but you get a decently long braided cable with two plugs on the end so USB two and a USB three it looks like is why not let me peel this plastic off real quick top so guys I've spent a few minutes just messing around with this to see if I can make sure everything's working functionally the mouse appears to be behaving when we first plugged it in via the USB it wasn't working but after installing the courser utility engine software it does appear to be working so I've got it set up in Wireless mode right now and I've also installed the courser utility engine software over here so we can at least give you a quick initial rundown of sort of how it works I also got the MM 1000 up and running here to when I initially plug this in I also thought it didn't work but that was because it only really lights up and does anything when you're using it so the Qi charger right here you might be able to tell is lit up green that's because it's it's not charging anything but it's detected there and when you actually put a Qi charging device there such as the mouse it will detect it start flashing green and that will let you know that your device is charging the mouse will light up white by default and flash every so often while it's charging as well now beyond that this has a pass through a USB 3 pass through as well so I just plugged in my little survivor stealth back there to make sure that was working properly and yes it is so that gives you just an easily accessible USB port that's on your desktop or of course connect that up to your mouse for example if you or something else so you might need to charge there just nice to have that extra piece there I also mentioned in my CES coverage is that you come with it comes a little Qi adapter here so for any USB charging device you can use this to charge it with the g-spot and it comes with the USB micro by default but it also comes with a little lightning adapter there for iPhones or a little type C adapter here so you can use this to connect if you have a USB type-c device it's the only type C plug in this box unfortunately and then of course you just plug that into your smartphone and put that above and then it should start charging yay starting to charge now practically speaking I don't know how much more practical this is then say just taking a USB plug and plugging in your phone and charging it you're still plugging something in so perhaps the viability of the wireless Ness goes out the window somewhat but the Qi charging is still pretty fun and I think honestly you're probably going to mostly be using it to charge up your mouse it's just a question of whether it's worth the cost of this mouse and this mouse pad in order to get that functionality it's pretty cool though when it comes to the software though as you can see over here the actions sub menu you can add sets of actions so you reassign your left click middle click profile switch and everything that also it gives you a little indicator of what each button actually is including that sniper button in the middle and the forward and backward rock buttons that you have on either side beyond that lighting effects here can also be added so you can just default it to a rainbow or of course you can use the more advanced functions to set up your own lighting effects dpi modes over here you can use those to switch between by assigning DPI switch functions on the mouse and then you can also do angle snapping here enhance a point your precision I usually don't go for those but if you like them they are available and then of course you can use the same software to control or your k63 Wireless so same sets of functions here you can set up macros via the actions tab you can do lighting effects here as much presets available via this drop down menu visor rain pulse you can change the opacity and speed by default and then of course this advanced button up here you can always check to get into some more of the advanced settings which I am NOT going to get into because that would take too much time finally for performance you can set what wind lock does and a couple other the specific functions like disabling the Windows key and wireless encryption if you don't like the wireless encryption you can turn it off it does add a very very small amount of latency but it's really negligible but of course what good are wireless peripherals if you can't sit and play games for hours on end while you're on the couch in your living room because that's what wireless mice and keyboards are made for right well lots of us use controllers wireless controllers to a game on the on the couch but the gaming lat board is an accessory you can buy this separately from the k63 or you can buy a package that comes with both of them together but it basically is a flat board it's got some cushioning on the bottom it's got a flat spot to use your mouse and it's got a full slot as specifically designed to hold the k63 it's got a stand-in of this little box right here includes bezel clips and those aren't meant to retain the k63 in place it's got a wrist rest here with some rubber texture on it it's got a nice Corsair mouse mat over on this side no wireless Qi charging or anything like that but the bottom is all memory foam cushioning let's say you can actually set it on your lap make it nice and comfy it's a little bit breathable there as well so in order to install are just gonna remove the existing wrist rest crappy wrist dress that it came with I'll pop it up here wraps it down snaps into place hey that was pretty simple it is held in at the top just by these little plastic tabs it rotates so it's got a little knot a couple notches and just snap in like so and that holds our pretty securely actually these are just little plastic tabs so basically if these ever snap off if you're you know removing it and putting it back on these are just replacements so you can snap them in there these pieces are actually for the bottom here so if these little catches ever snap off you've at least got a few replacements you can remove these bottom ones with a Phillips head screw down there and pop those back in in case you have breakage happening that's it I think it is about time for a play test and I just happened to have a living room with an HTP see still in the works so let's go ahead and give this a shout out thing alright guys so I've been doing a bit of play testing with this setup out here in the living room and I will say it's pretty functional it's did a pretty good job most of the time if I'm gonna play video games in the living room I'm gonna use something like this Xbox 360 controller just because it's a little bit more conducive to the living room gameplay experience it's a bit more reminiscent of your console gaming and this does the job for a decent amount of games i've been playing Final Fantasies 10 out here for the past couple weeks it does a good job but it's not like Universal there's lots of games that are designed to be played with a mouse and keyboard so the first game I tried that was doom doom was actually designed to be played with the mouse and keyboard not a controller so that's a great example of a game that you really would need a setup similar to this in order to play with now I will say that while the response time just anecdotally seems to be pretty fast there is a tiny tiny bit of delay and I mainly notice this when I first actually got the mouse connected and just moving the mouse around in the operating system a little bit it's just a tiny tiny bit delay and it gives you that slight floatiness feeling but once I actually got into doom actually found that that kind of went away just because the more the fluidity of the gameplay sort of took over a little bit more moving around just seemed a little bit more natural oh god you're not gonna play as precise of aiming as you would with the typical desktop setup where you have a wired mouse that has no latency when it comes to response time or that kind of thing but it got the job done and I got through a couple levels and it's definitely easily passable and probably wouldn't even notice that delay if you're more used to playing in a living room environment or with wireless peripherals it's only the comparison to the direct connected wired peripherals like you'd have on a desktop PC that you're really seeing any sort of fallback now compare that to the next game I pulled up which was sip 6 and this is one of my favorite games and definitely a game that you could easily play in the living room because it's turn-based it's not quite as fast paced and you don't necessarily need to be as accurate with your mouse as you're moving it around in order to point on things and click on things it's not quite like aiming to get a headshot in an FPS game so here I just loaded up a quick game playing this China and again just one of those experiences where it's a difference but Pleasant when it comes to playing out in the living room on a big 4k 65 inch TV as compared to sitting at a desk and whereas both sides definitely have their advantages it's really nice to be able just sit down in the living room and play on the HDTV see speak of the HTTP see yes I will still be working on that and bring you guys more updates on that very soon and I will say as far as being comfortable because that's obviously a big feature of like the lap board aspect it's it's comfortable comfortably on the knees and I would imagine to be able to play here for a while not quite as long as like sitting at a desktop because I think economics start to slide a little bit like if you're gonna lean back and play like this so that kind of thing it's functional but you're just that you're probably going to start to introduce a little bit more wrist strain because of the angles you're at and that kind of thing but so you probably won't be able to play for quite as long as the gaming session as you would at a desk where you have a little bit better economics where you're sitting up straight with your arms at the right angles and everything there but it's comfortable enough and definitely the combination of the k63 lab board and the dart core se makes a great solution for giving you the Premium gaming feel like with the mechanical keyboard and like a nicer gaming mouse as compared to say other solutions like I don't know does this count all that said my first impressions are good this is definitely a very viable solution for gaming in the living room so thumbs up alright guys that is going to wrap it up for this video on Corsairs new set of wireless gaming peripherals the k63 wireless mechanical keyboard with cherry MX red switches the lap board add-on accessory for that of course for gaming in the living room we've got the dark core special edition RGB wireless gaming mouse with Qi charging and of course the mm 1000 wireless Qi charging mouse pad which also has the USB pass-through which is kind of nice Corsair has been making peripherals for quite a while now and they do a very good job at them so I think taking their expertise and dumping into products like these has led to some pretty compelling products they do tend to be a little bit more expensive though when it comes to that Wireless functionality so it really depends on whether you really want that and really need that in order to enhance your gaming experience whether you're gaming on a desktop or gaming in the living room I think Corsairs done a good job and I'm gonna leave it up to you guys to decide whether or not the price lives up to the product quality when it comes to these specific products I would be interested to see a little bit more direct testing with like a high-speed camera of the response time from both the mouse and the keyboard but hopefully gamers Nexus might handle something like that soon for now though thank you 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