The Corsair K70 RGB Pro is Corsair's attempt at wooing both the amateur and professional gamer with equipment that is durable, capable, and has unique features geared towards in person tournaments. The combination of high customizability, programmability, and build quality make this a strong consideration for anyone looking for a mechanical gaming keyboard.The K70 RGB Pro’s box is rather unassuming. The normal Corsair yellow affair with an exhortation to ‘Press the Advantage” adoring the front edge. AXON branding tells you about it’s fast processing, and both the aluminum frame and PBT double shot keycaps are listed. Besides the wrist rest and cable, there isn’t much inside the box.The K70 is a relatively no frills keyboard. There are no screens, dedicated macro ... MoreThe Corsair K70 RGB Pro is Corsair's attempt at wooing both the amateur and professional gamer with equipment that is durable, capable, and has unique features geared towards in person tournaments. The combination of high customizability, programmability, and build quality make this a strong consideration for anyone looking for a mechanical gaming keyboard.The K70 RGB Pro’s box is rather unassuming. The normal Corsair yellow affair with an exhortation to ‘Press the Advantage” adoring the front edge. AXON branding tells you about it’s fast processing, and both the aluminum frame and PBT double shot keycaps are listed. Besides the wrist rest and cable, there isn’t much inside the box.The K70 is a relatively no frills keyboard. There are no screens, dedicated macro keys, or USB pass through ports. The detachable USB-C cord is a huge boon for travel and makes replacing it pretty easy. Pulling out the board from the box, its weighty aluminum frame is a stand out feature. It not only keeps the board stable on your desk, but allows the keyboard a very solid feel. There is an interesting resonation from the keyboard when typing. This ping is slightly annoying, but you might be able to put o-rings or something else to quiet it down. It’s really only obvious when you’re striking the keys harder, which if you choose the speed silver keys is not necessary at all.In fact, the speed silver keys actuation point is so high you can almost float your fingers over the keys. As a quick note - this keyboard can be bought with different keys, but the speed silvers are much like MX Red’s in that they are linear and 45cN resistance, but their actuation point is really really high. If you rest your fingers too heavily you’ll trigger a key press. For most this won’t be a problem though.Besides the mechanical tendencies, there are a lot of interesting features. Obviously the 8000Hz polling rate seems like an obvious call out, but whether or not that’s a real advantage is debatable (out of the box it’s configured with a 1000Hz polling rate) But what is interesting is the dedicated on board processor that makes it possible. There is a lot that can be programmed on the keyboard hardware, avoiding even needing iCue (Corsair’s excellent software) running. Both lighting and macros can be programmed on board and thus travel with the keyboard. There is 8MB of storage dedicated to holding programming and lighting, which is great. This is a really nice feature if you’re bringing your keyboard to another computer or potentially console. Need to disable these hardware features for a tournament? There’s a dedicated switch on the back that turns off everything but the basics. The magnetic wrist rest is nothing to write home about, but definitely is a nice touch. The K95’s inserts I prefer, but this rest is still comfortable.Besides the basics, there are dedicated media keys, an awesome volume rocker (with dedicated mute switch), a profile switcher (which seamlessly swaps profiles on iCue for all your devices), brightness switch, and gaming lock mode (which can disable the windows key, but also other keyboard shortcuts like alt+tab).The double shot PBT keycaps are an amazing touch. PBT is known to resist your standard wear and tear that create a smooth shiny surface on your lesser ABS plastics. The result is a durable and consistent feeling keycap. I’m very impressed by the quality, and I’m also impressed at Corsair ensuring that this keyboard’s layout is a standard layout and not the weird asymmetric control/win/alt found on many previous keyboards preventing customization of keycaps. Obviously someone at Corsair heard those complaints and made a standard bottom row.The lighting of course is the best in the business. Besides having direct integration with other Corsair products, the lighting itself is even, and high quality - due to the standard MX RGB switches. Per key backlight control, with more presets, patterns, and profiles than your imagination can handle. The font on the keycaps is quite legible and fairly non-gamery.How does it perform for gaming? Well, my standard affair of StarCraft 2 and CS:GO were good. The short travel required for the speed silver keys was apparent and I found myself striking less hard than with my MX Brown’s (my usual preferred key). The standard layout helped me find modifier keys faster and the PBT keycaps meant my fingers weren’t sticking to the keys.So at the price point, Corsair’s K70 RGB Pro offers quite a bit of features that improve over many of its previous offerings. Others may have screens, or features that might be less important to you - but Corsair’s keyboard offerings are the real deal. You get legit cherry switches, excellent software features, excellent hardware processing, a metal backplate, PBT keycaps, and a sweet volume rocker. What’s not to like? I can highly recommend this keyboard!

Its a Corsair board which is well built. This particular board only comes in the OPX switch, but I wanted the color to match the rest of my computer. I would not recommend this for a general purpose keyboard as the activation point of the switches are extremely sensitive. Personally, I am also not comfortable with the travel distance of the switches. They are shorter than I am used to.If you are into opening keyboards up and changing switches, just know this PCB is not the same as the MX Cherry versions. If you enjoy a quick board for gaming, I would recommend it (like MX silvers). However, if you rest your fingers on keys and go into games, expect accidental activations. Also, if anything happens to a key, you will have an extremely difficult time finding an opx ... MoreIts a Corsair board which is well built. This particular board only comes in the OPX switch, but I wanted the color to match the rest of my computer. I would not recommend this for a general purpose keyboard as the activation point of the switches are extremely sensitive. Personally, I am also not comfortable with the travel distance of the switches. They are shorter than I am used to.If you are into opening keyboards up and changing switches, just know this PCB is not the same as the MX Cherry versions. If you enjoy a quick board for gaming, I would recommend it (like MX silvers). However, if you rest your fingers on keys and go into games, expect accidental activations. Also, if anything happens to a key, you will have an extremely difficult time finding an opx switch. Corsair customer service was good to me in the past. So that will likely be your only avenue. That or a cheap used one for spare parts.Lastly, the sound profile of these new K70 pro keyboards all have a ring to them. Flick the bottom of the case and you'll hear it. Typing creates the sound. I have put sound dampening material in mine, but it still has a ring. It is coming from the metal plate. There are other options now on the market that have surpassed Corsair. They are still a very good keyboards and the RGB LEDs match up to their iCue software and really allow personalization, for those who care about that.

My gaming desktop came with a subpar keyboard so I really wanted a quality full size gaming keyboard that not only had good performance specs but also felt good. This Corsair K70 Pro keyboard has an aluminum frame so its rock solid and the keys have the slight indent to let you know you are aligned on the keys. The Cherry MX mechanical keys have a nice springy responsiveness so when you hit the key there is no doubt its actuated. When I first started playing games on this keyboard I had to rethink some of my FPS moves because the keys would respond so fast that I would often over step my intended position. Driving got to be comical because I was oversteering by using the same techniques and pressures that I was using on the old keyboard. I can’t tell if it’s the ... MoreMy gaming desktop came with a subpar keyboard so I really wanted a quality full size gaming keyboard that not only had good performance specs but also felt good. This Corsair K70 Pro keyboard has an aluminum frame so its rock solid and the keys have the slight indent to let you know you are aligned on the keys. The Cherry MX mechanical keys have a nice springy responsiveness so when you hit the key there is no doubt its actuated. When I first started playing games on this keyboard I had to rethink some of my FPS moves because the keys would respond so fast that I would often over step my intended position. Driving got to be comical because I was oversteering by using the same techniques and pressures that I was using on the old keyboard. I can’t tell if it’s the Corsair’s AXON with Hyper processing which is supposed to be 4 times faster than other gaming keyboards or just the smooth actuation of these keys but one thing is certain this keyboard is comfortable and it responds. The only downside is that this keyboard does not have a USB pass through port nor does it have any dedicated macro buttons. My mouse and headphones are wireless so the lack of a USB port was not important to me. Using the profile Hotkey is not quite as convenient as dedicated macro buttons but it works well enough for me. Note also that this keyboard does not include FPS and MOBA textured keycap sets, all the keys have the same texture. Overall I am very happy with this keyboard which I use for gaming and work, its everything I was looking for in a keyboard.This keyboard is packed with features whether it’s for gaming or watching videos or just office work. To me the most important thing is whether the keys feel good and are easy to find without looking. When you are in the middle of a game the last thing you want to do is lose time trying to find the right key. For me the indents in the top of the keys, the keytop size and spacing just feel natural. Corsair gives you the ability to configure macros and/or reassign keys via the keyboard hardware or using the Corsair iCUE software. The hardware macros can be recorded on the fly and saved to function keys. There is a Profile Hotkey for selecting profiles and a Macro Record Indicator built into the keyboard. The software profiles are set up and controlled from within iCUE. You can set up to 50 different profiles with custom macros, actions and lighting effects. The profiles can be stored inside the keyboard’s memory so that you can quickly switch profiles without having to use the iCUE software. With the iCUE software you can configure the RGB color patterns down to the key or you can use one of the many already configured in the software. The ability to light down to the key allows you to highlight the keys you need for a specific tasks or games. You can also use the iCUE software to sync your lighting effects to other Corsair products. Corsair also includes a Windows lock key that disables the Windows key on the keyboard as well as a Tournament Switch on the back that disables all the custom profiles for competition play. The keyboard comes with a nice magnetic palm rest and like most keyboards you can adjust the height to meet your needs. Most keyboards come with media keys as does this one but Corsair ups the game by including a volume roller control, a quick turn and the volume is set. The volume roller is one of those items you never knew you needed until you get it and then it becomes a must have item. The keyboard attaches via a USB-C to USB-A six foot braided cable provided.