Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and this is the Corsair k70 Pro Mini wireless this is a
60 mechanical gaming keyboard from Corsair and obviously a wireless one hence the name and this
is an interesting board which in this video I'm going to be taking apart in various different ways
swapping out the keycaps for things like double shot PBT keycap set that you can see here and also
shown off a number of interesting highlights to it I'll get to in a minute as well as doing a sound
test naturally at the end I also want to talk to you about the various different things of interest
not least of which is the RGB lighting bar that runs around the outside but also the hot
swappable switches that's right this is the first time Corsair has done a hot swappable keyboard
meaning you can swap out with Cherry MX style switches and change the feel of the keyboard not
only the look of it but also the feedback from it and other things now this comes with a choice of
two switches as standard red linear switches or Cherry MX speed silver which have the 1.2
millimeter actuation so the faster ones I'll label the specs in the description but this is the red
linear setup so this has Cherry MX RGB red linear switches on it and I'll leave a sound test at the
end but fairly standard switches but now you have the option of changing out those switches and more
on that in a minute but as you'll see also has some of the same highlights to the Corsair k65
RGB Mini which I unboxed and reviewed a while back and I'll leave a link to that in the description
now at the time I was taken by the k65 RGB Mini because of its very much RGB design you can see
it here a staggeringly good looking keyboard even out of the box as standard you can see that
it has a white back plate so I really let that RGB shine through and I was struck by how nice
looking that keyboard was unfortunately the k70 Pro Mini wireless doesn't seem to offer the same
level of RGB lighting it doesn't have that same back plate what it does have as you can see is PBT
double shot keycaps so you have got that durable design there you also have some nice illumination
around the edges so you can see there's basically a edge lit area all the way around which gives you
some RGB lighting there you obviously have some bleed from underneath the keycaps as well on the
rear you'll notice there's a power switch USB-C charging plug and a port for your USB dongle when
you're not using it uses 2.4 gigahertz wireless connection but it also has three different
Bluetooth connectivity options so you can connect up to three different Bluetooth devices and use
it in that way so what you're seeing already is a number of interesting features about this keyboard
beyond that it also has 8 000 Hertz polling rate a 4 000 Hertz key scanning capability it
will also work with both console and PC and so you have plenty of different connection options here
and all sorts of other things up to 50 on-board profiles and 20 layers of RGB lighting effects
in terms of what you get out of the battery as well is able to manage up to 32 hours with the
RGB turned on and up to 200 with it turned off including the box you see they get USB-C cable you
also have a replaceable Corsair logo keycap and an accented space bar which I think looks really nice
and it's worth swapping that out if nothing else you'll also see that you have not only the keycap
puller but also the key switch puller as well although there are obviously no extra key switches
included as standard a little dock for the 2.4 gigahertz to keep that safe when you're not using
it and then obviously you can connect up to your PC and that will give you the low latency fast
response that you want with the 2.4 gigahertz slipstream wireless connectivity so I've been
using this keyboard for a little while and I'm happy to report that I was actually quite pleased
with it although it uses Cherry MX switches which aren't the fanciest by any means I thought it was
a little bit nicer than the k65 I've already said that it's not as nice in terms of the RGB lighting
and you can see what I mean here with these sort of close-up shots the RGB just doesn't shine
through as well there are a number of on-board controls though being a 60 keyboard it means
that some of the functions are buried in the other key so you see you press and hold the function key
and you can change the onboard lighting for example you can cycle through different modes by
pressing c you can also adjust the direction and brightness by pressing x and v and b and you can
tweak other things there are a lot of other custom options in there as well you can change around
various different settings on the keyboard and it gives you the flexibility to do a lot of things
sometimes it's a bit of a faff I'll be honest certain things are a bit of a pain to do for
example something as simple as pressing delete means you have to press the function key
and the backspace button well that's the trade-off with a 60 keyboard
it becomes a little bit more finicky however as I said already PBT double shot keycaps is standard
on this one there are different layouts it's worth bearing that in mind and check the one you're
purchasing because some of them have polycarbonate keycap sets instead but this as you can see is
the thicker PBT so it should last longer and that's part of the reason why the RGB doesn't
shine through quite so well this keyboard is compatible with PC Mac mobile Xbox and Playstation
and there's actually a dedicated Playstation mode I'll leave more detail in that in the description
but I've obviously been using it on PC because that is where I get my game on now this keyboard
naturally works with iCue software where you can customize a lot of the settings I've said
already it has 50 on board profiles are possible but there's also a lot of hardware level things
so you can do onboard macro recording although there's no dedicated keys you can actually set
up and record macros on the fly you also have loads of different hardware level controls
and simple things of interest which I'll show a bit later on it includes really detailed things
like the ability to control mouse movement from the function level of the key presses you can
also press the function key and the enter key and get a idea of how much battery you have left
simple by RGB lighting flashing on the enter key which is pretty interesting
so a little thought has gone into a lot of different features on this keyboard
and I really like that there's a lot of little hidden things on that midi obvious obviously has a
really good spec to it in terms of the 8 000 Hertz polling rate to deliver really good fast actuation
and fast signal strength to your PC to ensure that you're getting a really good response out
of it and it certainly has been very responsive and also you have a lot of customization potential
with the switches which I'll cover in a bit more depth in a minute but there's a lot of
flexibility here as well and as you can see a very premium keyboard actually not the most expensive
I've seen for what's on offer here there's a lot of different things now removable USB-C cable
naturally and they say that you can charge it fully in about three to five hours depending on
the power source so not fast charging necessarily but what I've found is you don't need to plug it
in that much and obviously also it's designed to last depending on the sort of levels and
brightness of the RGB lighting that you're using so if you have a lot of RGB then it won't last
as long but frankly the RGB is not that impressive as standard anyway now if you put the k70
alongside the k65 you'll see there's not that much outwardly different about the two the positioning
of things like the USB-C port slightly different obviously the back plate that I've already shown
you with the white RGB backlighting effect sort of bouncing off there it's obviously different k65 is
a wired keyboard naturally so it's not as good and I think it sits a bit higher you can see the
casing is a little bit thicker and I think that's probably why I found the k70 to be more pleasant
it's not as nice looking perhaps out of the box but it's more comfortable typing experience
because I feel like the body sits a little bit lower and that's the setup there now if you're
wondering about my key layout this is a U.K. version that's why I've got a small left shift and
a large enter key just bear that in mind when you see me change out the keycaps in a while you may
well have a different setup now perhaps the most interesting thing about this is the hot swappable
key switches so as standard you have the Cherry MX switches but you can swap them out if you want to
so there's the option to upgrade the keyboard this is obviously an extra expense there are no
switches included in the box but you do have the little puller to pull them out and you'll see that
basically use this tool to grab them on the top and bottom and then give them a little bit of a
yank this is pretty exciting because you don't see many main brand keyboards delivering hot
swappable switches I've seen NZXT do this recently so it's pretty cool to see Corsair doing it now
maybe we'll see some of the other companies doing it in the near future so you can see that they're
relatively easy to remove no soldering required this gives you an upgrade option
one downside that I found almost immediately was that this is only a three pin setup so with Cherry
MX style switches you can usually get three or five pin switch setups and here's a close look at
the Cherry MX RGB reds and you can see basically it has a large stem in the middle then it has
two metal prongs that give you the connection and then obviously actuate and send a signal to the PC
what you will find is that other switches sometimes have five pin so you can see novel
keys creams here and these are lubed so I wanted to use these because they'll be nice and quiet
and have a better sound to them and a better feel unfortunately they're five pin so they wouldn't
actually be possible to put in here so I can actually do what I wanted to do so that's a real
shame but something to bear in mind I think keep in mind if you are thinking about upgrading your
switches you need to make sure that they're three pin not five because the fives won't fit unless
you cut off some of the legs just cut off a couple of the pins which would be horrific and would take
ages and I wouldn't recommend it but you can see that's something to keep in mind now I've recently
done a Royal Kludge keyboard and that was a five pin so you could see me taking a Gataron yellow
switch out of that one and you'll notice that that has two extra holes versus the Corsair one
on either side of the middle stem so that gives you more options in terms of what switches you can
put in however there are still other options out there so you can see the Gataron yellows that I've
actually just pulled out do actually only have three pins in them so it's possible to use those
as an alternative they are linear switches and my original plan was to lube up some switches and to
make sure that they sound better and they have a smooth action to them so the Gataron yellows
are actually a similar spec to the Cherry MX is but they have a linear cell which is a bit
smoother and if you take them apart as I'm doing here and then just put in some lube which I've
done previously and I'll link to a video in the description where I did lu up some key switches
for a better result then you get a much better overall feel to them and I will leave a link to
better guides from other more intelligent people than myself on this but you can basically lube up
linear switches and make them really sound good and Cherry MX which is a kind of rattly and a
bit noisy now one of the things about the k70 is I found the space bar to be particularly loud on
this one and it's certainly not the quietest or the nicest keyboard I've heard I'll leave
a sound test at the end but what I have found is it's not the most obnoxious either certainly
not mega rattly or completely horrible to type on it's been a pretty decent experience but you can
if you do find it not very present you can obviously swap out the switches
and upgrade things yourself naturally you'd have to be a bit more aggressive taking it
apart if you want to get to the stabilizers or perhaps to do anything else a bit more extreme
but for your average user the ability to swap out some of the switches even just replacing ones that
come defective over time is obviously a brilliant way to keep the keyboard running and running well
or just to simply swipe out some of them so you might want to swap out WASD for example
now from various different angles you can see the extra layer of functions you'll see there
are loads of extra functions programmed into this keyboard in a variety of different places
you look at the qwerty WASD key setup here for example and you'll see what I was talking about
earlier on so you actually have the ability to control mouse movement and button clicks
on your keyboard with a function press and then this area of the keyboard
you can basically replace your mouse which is fairly curious you'll see t y and g allows you
to switch between the three different Bluetooth profiles so you can connect up three different
Bluetooth devices and then switch into those modes from here you also have media playback
buttons directional arrows and other things all set up already for you which is pretty interesting
the RGB lighting I think looks nicer from the sides than it does from the top as standard
you can see that lighting bar there allowing for some nice RGB lighting however it is layerable
and I may show off some of this at the end and t is what you can do but what I want to demonstrate
quickly is how much difference different keycaps make so you can see this is the blue
keycaps from Corsair PBT double shot ones and then I've thrown some pink around the middle as
well just out of curiosity to see how it looks and I was switching between the various modes
again because these are double shot they don't let through quite as much of the RGB lighting but if
you throw on something like Steelseries prism keycaps these are pudding keycaps they really
let it shine and I think this actually really it changes the look and feel of the keyboard it looks
a lot nicer with this setup it really lets the RGB come through in the various different effects
and it's a shame that Corsair didn't include keycaps like this is standard because it made
a big difference but it does show you the level of customization potential you have if you have a
standard bottom row layout you can obviously swap out the keycaps in a variety of different ways
and change through loads of different options to personalize the look and feel of your keyboard
at some expense I'll leave links to all the different keycap sets in the description so you
can check them out for yourself and obviously all the specs I'll leave down there as well so pretty
interesting setup so far and now I'm gonna let you hear the key sounds smash subscribe if you've
enjoyed this video let me know in the comments if you've got any questions thanks for watching