Corsair K95 Platinum RGB Mechanical USB Gaming Keyboard (Cherry MX Brown Switches, Per Key Multicolour RGB Backlighting, Dual-Sided Soft Touch Wrist Rest, UK Layout) - Black

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The difference probably isn’t something you have to worry about unless you’re a young, prolific gamer who plans to hold onto their keyboard for decades.

Unfortunately, the ABS keycaps feel a bit cheap, but there's a newer model, the Corsair K95 PLATINUM XT, with double-shot PBT caps if you prefer.The refurbished warranty is our way of demonstrating that we are completely happy with the spec of that product and judge it entirely fit for purpose. The K95 RGB Platinum XT features, like its predecessor, Cherry MX Brown or Cherry MX Speed switches, but it also offers the choice of Cherry MX Blue.

For instance, when a set item drops, a wave of green lights runs from the center of the keyboard to either side to alert you. The Actions menu is where all your custom macros and commands are, and you can see which are associated with each profile as well as the global library. Though you may have to fiddle with things a bit to figure out how to accomplish some specific tasks (particularly with iCUE), there’s a ton of functionality here that lets you do a whole lot with your keyboard.These extras add a lot of functionality—the profile-switch button even lights up to indicate which profile you're using, a surprisingly rare and helpful feature. In her spare time she dabbles in bicycle maintenance, creative writing, playing board games, and emulating old PC titles for modern machines.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). As someone who jumps between Windows and Mac often and has an Apple Arcade subscription, it's nice to have Corsair gear serve as a universal option, especially when it works as well as the K95 XT. Like the original, the K95 RGB Platinum XT is a superb, top-of-the-line keyboard for gamers who are willing to spend a lot to get a lot.The Ducky Shine 7 and the Corsair K95 PLATINUM have similar overall performance, but they offer very different features. PCMag is obsessed with culture and tech, offering smart, spirited coverage of the products and innovations that shape our connected lives and the digital trends that keep us talking. Textured keys for WASD and QWERDF caps are also included, to help your fingers find their place in FPS or MOBA titles. The PBT keycaps are also really nice, it’s cool to see a big brand such as Corsair use such high-quality material.

You may have read or seen his tech and gaming coverage at IGN, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Variety, Digital Trends, and, of course, PCMag.Dedicated volume and multimedia controls allow you to adjust your audio without interrupting your game. If you’ve used one of Corsair’s high-end mechanical keyboards in the last few years, you pretty much know what to expect in terms of physical design here. As you probably would have guessed, the Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT is a reworking of the Corsair K95 RGB Platinum. If you'd like to know more about the impact of using Speed Sliver, I'd urge you to read that earlier review, linked above. I prefer Blue switches for typing, which made the K95 RGB Platinum XT excellent for my daily writing and editing tasks.