It's just the keyboard that's apparently lost it's lighting. All those other Corsair RGB devices are lighting up and working properly.
K95 RGB PLATINUM REPLACEMENT LIGHT PRO
Not sure what I did, if anything, to stop it.Īll my other Corsair iCUE devices are working fine (Obsidian 1000D, 10 LL120s, 3 LL140s, an H150i, Vengeance RGB Pro ram, Harpoon RGB mouse). So much more convenient than buttons.For some reason, my K95 RGB Platinum keyboard isn't lighting up. Seriously: A volume roller is indispensable now that I’ve used one. Regardless, the K95 RGB Platinum is a beautiful keyboard with excellent switches, top-tier lighting, and what I still consider the industry standard for media keys. That’s make-or-break territory for some people. The fact remains, however, that you can find comparable boards for quite a bit cheaper, including G.Skill’s Cherry RGB-equipped Ripjaws KM780, a K70 knockoff which, despite some questionable aesthetic choices, also retails for a lot less ( $140 on Amazon). Sure, the light ribbon across the top is a nice touch, the brushed aluminum backplate is as classy as ever, and the keyboard feels high-end. You can find some niche enthusiast boards for more (the beloved Happy Hacking Professional2 goes for upwards of $220 typically), but $200 is really expensive.Īnd in the case of the K95 RGB Platinum, it doesn’t seem incredibly deserved. That tops the list, at least as far as gaming keyboards are concerned. This really is the luxury car of keyboards, coming in at a list price of $200 (although you can currently find it for $160 on Amazon). The biggest problem with the K95 RGB Platinum is, I suspect, the price. Personally, I find the small speed boost isn’t worth the increase in errors, but I suspect I’d feel differently if I used the keyboard primarily for gaming instead of typing. If you like how lightweight MX Reds are, there’s no reason not to get Speeds/Silvers on the K95 RGB Platinum. And it’s a linear switch, which means it’s difficult to hit the actuation point without simply bottoming out the key anyway. We’re talking about a change in actuation of a single millimeter, more or less. In practice, MX Speeds feel…pretty much like Reds. The latter requires the same feathery 45cN of force as MX Reds, but with a shorter actuation point of 1.2mm. The K95 RGB Platinum is also interesting in that it’s only offered in a few configurations: the traditional tactile bump of the Cherry MX Brown or the ultra-light Cherry MX Speed (also known as Silver). It’s bright and colorful, but also means you get quite a bit of light leakage on the keyboard’s facing edge. This is why the lettering on the K95 RGB Platinum (as well as Razer’s Cherry-type switches) is offset towards the top of each key.Ĭorsair takes this one step further, surrounding the LED with translucent plastic all around. While Logitech’s Romer-G switches, for instance, house the LED in the center of the key and build the switch around it, Cherry’s “stem” design means the LED is embedded above the key. In other words: Your choices are pretty limited, if you want both RGB lighting and Cherry’s reputation for quality switches. G.Skill’s Ripjaws KM780 is the only mainstream keyboard I’ve seen use Cherry RGB switches aside from Corsair. Razer, Logitech, SteelSeries-most of the other major peripheral manufacturers-use proprietary switches, at least for their RGB models. It’s worth noting that Corsair’s still one of the only companies to use RGB switches from fan-favorite Cherry.
It’s not a major feature, and likely useless to anyone who owns a separate wrist rest, but I appreciated the small luxury. There’s now a double-sided rubber insert, one side textured and the other smooth, which slots into a plastic frame. The new K95 is decidedly more game-y.Ĭorsair also redid the wrist rest. I’m not a huge fan, personally-I liked the semi-professional look of Corsair’s older K70, and that it blended with both home and office. That process started with the Strafe, was folded into last year’s K70 Rapidfire, and now found its way to the K95. While previous editions of the K70/K95 used a thin and clean sans-serif type on the keys, Corsair has been slowly moving all its keyboards to a blockier typeface. (You can replace WASD and other keys with the same, if you’d like.) As for the macro keys, they’ve been given the faux-steel texture Corsair uses on its Strafe line. The K95 RGB Platinum is one solid backplate, giving it a more purposeful look. The old K90/95 had this weird trench between the backplates for the main keyboard and the macro keys, making it look like a K70 board that had been Frankensteined with 18 more keys-which for all I know, it was. Whether it’s a cost-cutting measure, another sign that the era of macro keys is coming to a close, or just a straightforward change in design direction, there’s no disputing that it looks better.
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