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all right dick fans welcome back to another week of text here on TECA tomorrow first up a really nice keyboard and the people over at Coursera now yes of course they're did provide this keyboard for the review but there is no money exchanged between us I was not paid to review just provide the product to bring that information to you now this is the k95 RGB platinum so pretty much the top-of-the-line keyboard from the folks over at Corsair this thing's made of top-line aluminum aircraft that's right aluminum aircraft actually it's made of a high-grade aircraft aluminum or aluminium as I know that people overseas say now aluminium although I know it's correct it's really kind of weird thing to say but hey I'll say it because I know people here every time I say luminaires like stupid American but oh well that's the story we say it over here but we've got it in there so this thing's made of high quality materials it has a bunch of programmable keys it lights up every key individual RGB just basically like I said this is like the Coupe DeVille Cadillac rolls-royce of keyboards so with that said let's see what it's all about so first off let's check out actually what comes in the box so you get the keyboard itself you get a bunch of different keys too so this way you can change the keys to be whatever you want them to be and just a little tool that comes includes you can pop those keys off easily and they're easily replaced you also get the wrist pad and that's pretty much it inside the box the detachable wrist plate even though it's not talked about very often on this model it's very nice you have clips right here that you simply clip into the bottom of your keyboard and then you have a double-sided face so that magnetically attaches one side is much softer one side is harder so no matter what kind of risk pad you like you're going to find it right here the t95 platinum is made out of a single piece of aircraft-grade anodized brushed aluminum this thing is built to withstand a lifetime of gaming its lightweight its rugged and this is necessary for a keyboard that's going to see a lot of action as far as the looks code generally it looks like any other keyboard that you've pretty much seen out there I mean let's just face it most keyboards are going to have a standard design where the keys are laid out you're going to have a few differences in the programming and the way things work but the way they look is kind of the same on all keyboards now so all time media controls are located up on the right hand side and these were all enhanced on this keyboard so that everything works with the programming so you can operate all your music and everything flawlessly through those controls also on the top left hand side of the keyboard we see the lighting mode button the next button is brightness and then after that you have the windows lock key button and as you put the k95 onto its face you can see if there's also cable management so if you're plugging something into your USB pastor you can keep those messy cables out of the way the keys on the k95 are also something very unique in partnership with Cherry the Corsair k95 RGB platinum utilizes new MX speed RGB mechanical key switches now these are designed specifically to meet the demands of hardcore gamers an ultra-fast 1.2 millimeter actuation point and a light 45 gram activation force make them ideal for split second key presses or clutch gaming moments with every millisecond counts and if you're wondering will these keys ever go bad well it comes with a 15 million keystroke guarantee so I think it'll be a lot of gaming before it breaks on you one unique feature of the K 95 Platinum is light edge now this is a 19th owned independently controlled light bar running along the top edge of the keyboard and wrapping around the corners what's really cool though is that this lighting accent can be programmed with very complex lighting effects independent from the effects being executed on the main keyboard matrix for an example you can have all the keys doing their own effect like a rainbow effect and you can also have the light bar doing something all on its own so separate animations on each one so that's kind of nifty probably the best feature of all though for gamers is the ability of the k95 platinum to have every key to be fully programmable for in-game actions what's even cooler however is a special place was reserved for six dedicated GPS lined up along the left edge of the keyboard the carefully defined position of the six dedicated textured G keys as well as a concert and textured key caps on them are supposed to deliver the best gaming performance and they're supposed to do without fatigue or any accent no tea presses the gamer can also take advantage of those G keys to assign them for their most often use macros keyboard shortcuts or kiri maps the choice is yours and for gamers out there who don't have either a long enough cord who don't want to plug them actually into the PC you can plug the mouse right into the keyboard through the USB pass-through port with 100% anti-ghosting and full Q over effects you never have to worry about hitting too many keys or having the keyboard not respond to your command now earlier we did the unboxing we showed you some different keys now these are the FPS and MOBA keycap sets these are textured and contoured key caps that provide maximum grip and enhanced keel which means that they actually feel a little bit different than the other keys on the keyboard and these are like the WASD keys and you can see that we've changed these out and they look at different color actually than the standard keys as well instead of being black they're actually great so they stand out very well on the keyboard now this next feature I don't know how much will actually affect mini gamers out there some people going to be like oh hell to the S is the absolute best thing there is it would be like and that's no big deal but you can actually have three fully programmable profiles in the keyboard that are actually inside of it you don't have to program using any software or anything else you program into the keyboard itself and you can take the keyboard anywhere you want and have those same programs ready for you wherever you are at its heart the k95 RGB platinum is a platform which utilizes the low power and fast 32-bit ARM Cortex processor which together with eight megabytes of onboard flash storage and high performance LED display controls is capable of driving the most immersed dynamic LED backlighting effects and the most complex macros ever before available of course there are calls this technology Hardware macro and lighting playback this technology allows the imager to save any backlighting effects even the most complicated and multi level in-game macros can be saved to the onboard memory and played back without any need for external software and although the k95 platinum does come with a lot of options to be pre-programmed onto the keyboard itself with the Q software you can program anything you want and you can do much more sophisticated programming using the Q software and it's really easy to use and operate once it's installed you just open it up on your PC and everything's right there in front of you to be able to adjust you can adjust all the individual colors of each and key you can adjust the brightness of each key you can adjust pretty much the color spectrum of each key and basically it's almost I feel almost unlimited possibilities I'm going to try and see in the future if I can actually use the lighting effects to try to write something on the keyboard itself I think that would be really cool so those are pretty much all the specs and how the keyboard looks the k95 RGB platinum like I said before is supposed to be the creme de la creme keyboard out there fully programmable across the board macro Keys lighting effect comfortable wrist pad now all that sounds good on paper but how does it actually feel them what is the comfort level when you're in game personally I thought it was very very nice to use all the keys are very responsive and since you have such a low threshold to make it activate you don't feel like you're slamming the keys down and making that big loud clacking noise that you paired with some of the previous keys that come on mechanical keyboards I mean let's face it some of those cheery keys make a real banging sound when you're playing on them and I don't particularly like that if your user who doesn't like that and you like to smooth operation I think you'll very much like the way the k95 platinum feels so alright gamers and tech fans there you have it Corsairs RGB k95 platinum the badass of the badass if you're a gamer out there and you want the uber keyboard that has everything under the hood then this is something you'd want to want to look for because you can program every key individually to do what you want to do you could program the color of it you can program how bright it is great multimedia controls the bar that's on there for scrolling and doing everything is really nice it's comfortable it plays well if you like mechanical keyboards but you don't like all the noise I think you're going to really enjoy this unit now the cavity this thing is though is it does come to market at $200 so gamers out there on the budget are gonna be like wow I can almost buy a PC but if you're somebody out there and you're like a professional gamer you just take your gaming seriously that's all you do you're going to want the best of the best there are a lot of keyboard manufacturers out there and making keyboards I know you guys can have left two comments I want to see them down below so I know the people gonna say they like this one I like that one and I welcome that kind of thing I definitely want to hear your guys opinions on what's going on so I know you guys been watching Tekken tomorrow down below that like button there'll be more information if you want to click on the button check out more information them or maybe purchase one for yourself check out more stuff on them before you make that decision though because I'm one guy and there's lots of the guys out there but honestly I give this key a double thumbs up it was a hundred and forty nine dollars I would say it's like wow totally worth jumping on two hundred dollars I have to admit a little expensive for most gamers budgets but hey if you want the best the best price means Jack diddly to you you're just going to get so see you guys back in the channel for more tech here on TECA tomorrow