Beautiful, functional and innovative, the Corsair K70 RGB Mk.2 is a gaming keyboard that has something for everyone.

Gorgeous design; Key switch selection; High-quality components; Helpful extra features

Expensive

RGB lighting is by far the hottest "trend" right now not only in the gaming peripherals market (both for PC's and consoles) but virtually in the electronics industry as a whole. Granted there are quite a few people out there who may not care much about RGB lighting but gamers and enthusiasts have...

- Excellent Build Quality; - Cherry MX Red Mechanical Switches (50 Million Actuations; - Full RGB Key Illumination (Custom Effects/Individual Key Color; - USB 2.0 Pass Through; - 8MB Built In Memory; - Detachable Wrist Rest; - Up To 104 Macro Keys; - Corsair iCUE Software (Available Settings; -...

- No Dedicated Macro Keys; - Price (For Some; - No BIOS/Polling Rate Switch

When looking for a premium keyboard, it's easy to filter out the keyboards that won't meet your needs based on their set of features. When finally making your decision, it's often the little details that will set a keyboard apart.

Summer is one of the busiest times for peripheral manufacturers. On one side of the spectrum you have teens on break from school looking to add to their arsenal of gaming. The other side of this spectrum is the remainder of the demographic with their post Computex hype, looking to get the newest and...

Some will agree with me, others will think the opposite and say it's more of the same, I quite like K70 series update. The K70 RGB MK.2 is a non-complicated no fuzz keyboard that functions well, you plug it in and immediately you'll enjoy it.

Remember the first K70 RGB keyboard from Corsair This second-gen version is even better.

High quality construction; Improved media controls; Even better RGB than gen 1

Two USB cables to plug in; Only one USB port

Sometimes the best way to ensure success is not to mess with what works. After using the K70 RGB MK.2 for a short while, I'll echo our own Nathan Wasson's impressions of the Strafe MK.2 .

The Corsair K70 has been around for a number of years now, with several different variations and improvements in that time, however they were all just small, incremental adjustments not worthy of a new version number. Today, that changes, with the Corsair K70 RGB MK.2.

+ Lovely; uniform RGB lighting; + Dedicated media controls + volume roller; + Cable routing underneath; + Has USB 2.0 passthrough; + Excellent iCUE software; + Wide choice of Cherry MX key switches available; + 8MB onboard memory + dedicated profile switch; + Feels solid; Neutral; +- Plastic wrist...

The Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 borrows the premium features from the K95 Platinum and levels the build quality in this series.

Powerful software support; USB passthrough port

Too expensive

So, yeah, this thing's pretty awesome! The competition will have a lot of catching up to do if it wants to match what Cherry and Corsair have created in the new K70 Low Profile Rapidfire Keyboard.

Unmatched industrial design; sublime switch actuation; silent operation; amazing RGB lighting effects

Software is comprehensive but as clunky as ever