![]() ![]() Don’t worry if you’re not interested in spending hours tweaking the lighting on your keyboards either. Modders are still wrapping their heads around the new possibilities, but more layers mean more complexity and better lighting effects overall. This opens the door to intricate lighting animations. The K70 RGB Pro now supports up to 20 layers of lighting effects. The AXON processor makes that more true than ever. I’ve said for years that Corsair’s iCUE software is tantamount to the Adobe Photoshop of the RGB keyboard world. ![]() It’s also a degree of assurance that the keyboard will stand ready to nail every keystroke, regardless of circumstance. The K70 RGB Pro scans for keystrokes far faster than any human could input them, but it’s a pleasant level of overkill in keeping with a $160-170 gaming keyboard and gives it parity against competing boards like the Razer Huntsman V2 ( reviewed here ). Now, do you need this level of scanning? Of course not. Corsair clocks this at <0.25ms of average latency when ranked against the 1ms of traditional 1000Hz keyboards. No matter how fast you type, the K70 RGB Pro will pick up every single keystroke. This starts with a boost to an 8000Hz polling rate and 4000Hz scan rate for the keys. ![]() This processor is far more efficient than the traditional ARM processor found on other high-end gaming keyboards and allows the K70 to do what it does best, even better. The real upgrades come under the hood with the new hyper-threaded AXON processor. There’s also a tournament switch that locks macros and lighting. The forehead has a longer glossy area for a touch of sleekness and to conceal the Caps, Num, and Scroll lock indicators. There are some fit and finish improvements: the wrist rest has been reconfigured with a new texture and logo, the secondary controls for profile switching, lighting, and muting the volume are now flush and the volume roller has been refined with a black finish and triangle grip pattern. At a cursory glance, you could be forgiven for not noticing this is a completely new keyboard from the last K70. With the RGB Pro, Corsair carries through those series stalwarts and builds upon them to earn its “Pro” moniker.Īs is often the case for product lines, many of the upgrades are incremental. Since it’s inception, the staples have remained the same: a full-size layout (Numpadless versions are denoted with “TKL”), genuine Cherry key switches, dedicated media controls, an aluminum top plate, and a floating key design to show off that sweet, sweet in-switch lighting. The Corsair K70 is as familiar a gaming keyboard as exists in the industry today.
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