hey guys Harrison here and today I'm
going to be doing a bit unboxing and
sort of a first impression of the
Corsair K65 RGB mechanical keyboard
alrighty guys and here it is.
so the K65 RGB rapid-fire keyboard. so
you can see it is RGB so it's got
individually addressable LEDs under
every single key on the keyboard and
that means that you know you can
individually light up every single key
to get this awesome rainbow effect as
well as loads of other colored effects,
individual color zones if you want, super
awesome. it's also a 60% keyboard that's
what's the k65 which means, you can
see there's no number pad over there but
we'll get to that when we open it up but
the main feature of this keyboard is
actually the Cherry MX speed switches. So
you can see down here it's got a little
diagram and you can see that they
actually have almost half the travel
time of standard switches which means
that you actually be able to press them
much faster than normal switches maybe
giving you that edge in your games and
that's about it for the front, looking on
the sides not a whole lot on the box
just some information and (hahaha)the keyboard
layout is English which is a plus that's
normally the first thing I look for in a
keyboard so it's good that this one has it.
Onto the back just some more
information on the switches you can see
again that diagram on the speed as well
as information about the lighting and
also a really awesome feature, USB
pass-through which means that you plug
it into the computer with this cord here
and will actually give you an extra USB
port for quick access which is super
cool but that's about it for the box let
me get my knife and we can open this up
here we go though the actual box inside
the box which also in fact came inside a
box. Took us a while but we're in there
now and I've imagined it opens this
way, yep.
opening it up here we go so straight away
greeted with that keyboard. Ooh, okay
that's interesting we'll get to that.
under here we have the cable
if we can get that out, get rid of that
and also this is awesome they have the
extra keys here you can see that key cap
pull up and then the keys are actually
swappable on the keyboard and they've
included some so WASD Q&E as well as
just another set of WASD keys so you can
swap those so you can find them quickly in
games or whatever. that's awesome I'll
just put those over here to the side
we've got this big as cable it's pretty
massive I don't really know if you can
see that that well but compared to a
normal USB cable it's about double the
size in like thickness, girth if you (haha) know
what I mean but I will take this out and
you can see here If just put them
if i just put them there.
we've got a bit of a manual warranty
whatever warranty again get rid of that
and it's also got this cool wrist rest
hope you can see that we can attach that
but this will just give you
somewhere to put your wrist i suppose
for some extra comfort. so you can get
this out of the way get rid of those bags
so we've got the wrist rest
and the main attraction the keyboard. So if
I can (aaaah) there's quite a lot of packaging
here if I can get it all out. here we go
so put the wrist rest over there here is
the keyborad with a (ooh) are you ready are you ready
(aah) so you can see yeah
as I was saying it is a 60% keyboard so it
means that it is lacking the number pad
you can see there. apart from that though I
actually really like it the keys it's a
bit hard to see but they actually rest
off the back place quite a bit and give
it a really awesome look which I like a
lot another thing I like that corsair
does with their keyboards is these media
controls buttons up here so you've got
backlight brightness for the keys I
imagine volume mute which is a really
good button to have and also volume up
and down on the larger keyboards they actually
have a scroll wheel to scroll up and
down to change the volume but this one
just has some buttons and fair enough it
doesn't really have a whole of a space
left. And that's it there's not a whole lot
to it - honestly. the spacebar has a bit
of a texture you can see that it's got a
different texture to the rest of the
keys which is pretty cool and now for
the actual key switches just feeling
them it feels like well if you've never
used the mechanical keyboard that will be a
bit hard to explain if you've never used
a mechanical keyboard they, compared to
membrane keyboards which is the normal
ones well first of all they're pretty
expensive this one was about 150 dollars
if you want to pick one up
I'll leave a link to that in
the description but um yeah they're
pretty expensive this one costing about
150 dollars so they're not cheap but
the other difference between membrane
keyboards and mechanical ones is that
the switches actually travel smoother
I'd say like you know how a membranes
they're sort of either off or on like you
press down or up. these ones they sort of
slide up and down which I mean
doesn't sound a lot but they're pretty
awesome and they also last a lot longer
these keys are rated at 50 million
presses same as all the other Cherry MX
keys. 50 million key presses which is a lot
the actual MX speed switches now this is
new for Cherry I think I'm pretty sure
it's new for this keyboard actually um
they feel interesting they feel like
they feel similar to Red's
MX Reds but they almost just feel like
there's less I mean obviously there's
less travel distance but it feels like
they've just taken MX Reds and put like
a plate underneath to reduce the amount
of travel distance they have and then
moved up actuator which honestly I
imagine is what they've done that's sort
of the whole point of this. They
actually feel, I like the way they feel
they feel quite nice definitely not the
blues I'm used to on my day to day
keyboard you can see cherry MX blues
but you know much quieter smoother and
for games I think they'll be a lot
better just a lot smoother quicker which
you'd expect for MX speeds
apart from that though there's not a
whole lot to this keyboard you can see
here the USB pass-through and they've
also got different BIOS settings for
the keyboard which is pretty awesome. It's
got internal memory so it'll store
those and you can got four different
BIOS settings so you can change between
those and normally
it'll just change what some of the keys
do change sort of color profiles or
whatever which is awesome
apart from that the these set of keys
over here I love how they're laid out
you can see on some keyboards like the
one I showed before they all get
smooshed into here which can be terrible
but I like what Corsair has done by
putting them separated out here maybe
taking up a bit more space on your desk
but personally I prefer this layout. let
me get the wrist rest here we go
try and attach the wrist rest never done
this before on a keyboard so see how
that goes it looks like it just clips in
like so there we go so this is
what it looks like with the wrist rest
attached and honestly I do I like
this as well without it it feels like
the keyboard is a bit high it doesn't
have if i show you the back oh sorry
it does have adjustable feet as well to
raise it up so you can see then they've
got a rubber on the end which is very
nice but the wrist rest helps to sort of
give it that lean if you know what I
mean so that when it doesn't feel like
there's a massive gap between your desk
and your keyboard which I like and it will
also mean if you're playing games for a
while, you know csgo for six hours
straight that your hands won't get as
tired holding them up which I also like.
apart from that the cables are nice and
braided I do like the wrist rest it's got
this soft touch coating the font of the
keys honestly I think is a bit ugly not
much else I can say about that really
these are cherry MX switches and its
a standard layout so you can replace
them which is really nice probably will
honestly the font is just
what gets me, it's not the nicest that's
alright though and then you've just got
some lights up here these buttons which
I like and that about wraps it up so
just for a little size comparison
without the wrist rest you can see here
is my normal keyboard and here we've got
the K65 and you can see that compared
to this keyboard the K65 is a whole lot
larger almost like 40% larger and I mean
fair enough this keyword has everything
squashed together and this does spread
it out and I suppose it's just up to you
which what sort of features you're after
in your keyboard keyboards like this
sort of more compact 60% keyboards or I
suppose almost 40% keyboards will be
better for taking travelling taking
on-the-go and you know slipping
it into a backpack
whereas these keyboard might be a bit harder to
travel with there's still a whole lot
smaller than full-size keyboards but
just something to consider maybe a bit
heavier definitely a little bit heavier
and a bit harder to slip into a backpack
that's still manageable.
alright so I've just plugged in this
keyboard so you can see the light and so
you can see each key the light shines
through and also the lights turn on for
these buttons as well which is cool and
yep so it has three brightness levels so
you can see it off and then one, two and three
which is good. By default WASD is lit up
white which is fair enough for
playing games whereas the rest of the
keyboard is red and that's one of the
things you can do with this keyboard
individually lighting keys so you can
have you know if you're using Photoshop
you can have different keys lit up for
different shortcuts games for the
different hotkeys or whatever.
one thing I've noticed is that Corsair
keyboards normally have lots of macro
keys but obviously , the k65 is meant to be
smaller so none of those. I've noticed
while doing some short typing test that
it gives okay to type on but they just
don't feel as satisfying as you know
back to
MX blues here they just don't travel as
far they are quieter so if you're
trying to type in you know a library or
something maybe it's a bit better but
they just don't have that satisfying
travel and it can sometimes be a bit
confusing as to whether you've actually
pressed the switch or not. one thing I
have noticed is that I know I said I
didn't like the font but I sort of
understand why Corsair chosen it now a bit
more I think. It's not the best
looking but for gaming when you just
want to see you know which key you're
pressing it's much better I think. easier
to just sort of see and recognize fast
the key which is I suppose the main
thing you want for gaming. So by
cutting open these spare keys if we just
get them out let's grab this one I just
want to show you that these actually are
textured the same as the spacebar so you
can replace which one, e, you can replace
these and you'll get that textured feel
so it's easier to find so they're all
smooth but if you change it you'll be
able to pick up that texture with your
fingers and it'll be a bit easier to
find when you're looking at the screen
instead of your keyboard which is a nice
addition. So guys thanks for watching I
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