The thicker, more durable PBT keycaps are generally harder and more expensive to produce in huge quantity. Instead of having a hard textured plastic on the top, the new wrist rest is now padded with plush foam to offer more comfort to the users.Īll stock keycaps are made from PBT ( Polybutylene terephthalate) plastic with double-shot molded legends. It is detachable and connects to the keyboard using the two clips underneath. Be careful with the slightly different keyboard layouts and the narrower Windows key, before purchasing replacement keycaps.Ĭorsair has done some upgrades to the wrist rest for the K95 RGB PLATINUM XT. Every key on the keyboard is individually lit by the RGB LED inside the translucent plastic housing.Īftermarket keycaps can be used, as long as they are compatible with standard Cherry MX stem and stabilizer design. Our particular K95 RGB PLATINUM XT sample is equipped with genuine Cherry MX Speed (Silver) switches, but you can choose to have Cherry MX Brown and Blue as well. The K95 RGB PLATINUM XT uses the floating-key design, where all the keycaps and switches are installed on top of the thick aluminum top plate without any side bezels. The feet can be flipped to lift up the keyboard slightly for a better typing position. It is not designed to be very portable with a weight of 1.31 kg.Īpart from the sticker at the back, there are two cable channels for users to route their mouse and headset cables under the keyboard.Įvery corner is fitted with a big anti-slip rubber pad. It has a width of 46.5 cm, a depth of 17.1 cm and a height of 3.6 cm. Identical with its older brother, the K95 RGB PLATINUM XT is a full-sized 104-key, with dedicated macro and media keys. Corsair K95 RGB PLATINUM XT Mechanical Keyboard You can also find a specification list with information, like physical dimensions and weight.įor accessories, there are a quick start guide, some additional keycaps, a keycap removal tool and a wrist rest. The Corsair’s motto “PLAY THROUGH WHATEVER” for keyboards is printed in large comic fonts. Several key features are mentioned in four different languages. Photos of the keyboard are shown in both the front and back. The hard cardboard box sports the same design with most Corsair gaming products, in black and bright yellow colors. Let’s see if the keyboard can live up to its “flagship” status. Compared to the original K95 model, it brings a series of improvements, as well as the new integration with the Elgato Stream Deck Software. For storage, Corsair has gone with Cypress Semiconductors' Spansion FL-1K 64 Mbit (8 MByte) flash memory, which is more than enough.īefore we take a look at the driver, be advised that disassembly will void the warranty and that TechPowerUp is not liable for any damages incurred if you decide to go ahead and do so anyway.After three years, Corsair finally refreshed their top-of-the-line mechanical keyboard in the lineup with the K95 RGB PLATINUM XT. While a step up from the NXP LPC11U3x series used in Corsair's previous keyboards, including the K70 RGB LUX or RAPIDFIRE, it still forces Corsair to limit what the hardware profiles can do. The processor is an NXP LPC11U68JBD100 32-bit ARM Cortex unit with up to 256 kB flash memory, 36 kB SRAM data memory, and 4 kB EEPROM on board. There are three separate ISSI IS31F元732 FxLED drivers for individual PWM control in 256 steps for lighting as per R, G, B, which makes for a total of 16.8 M colors without any flickering or color shifts. This is also why Corsair changed the font on their keycaps recently. In the end, it is mostly a tie as the most important factor is still the keycap - the bigger the legends, the more light passes through. Some competitors, such as Cooler Master and Ducky, have adopted a multi-PCB layout with LEDs on their own PCB to get around this restriction. On the flip side, Corsair is limited by space and had to accommodate LEDs that are small enough to fit here. The LEDs are directly below the switches on the PCB's upper side, putting them right next to the switch housing, which diffuses the light, thus keeping them bright. There is a single PCB here, and as with most keyboards these days, it does have multiple layers. The switches are attached to the PCB through the aluminum plate making them plate-mounted, which makes it impossible to take the switches apart without de-soldering them off the PCB. The primary PCB, as with the daughter PCBs, is green in color, and the soldering is generally well done with no issues spotted on this sample.
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