Corsair K70 Core RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review
Up Close
Corsair K70 Core Up Close
The Corsair K70 Core comes with their familiar yellow packaging, as well as all the clear pieces of information you require. An impressive element is the support for the current gen consoles. Anyone who’s typed with a pad will appreciate this.
Additionally we here at OC3D appreciate Corsair’s use of paper instead of plastic. Overall, there is too much plastic in the world. Given that most of us tear the bag open and never see it again, why not go with paper. Good work, Corsair. Keep it up before we drown in a sea of plastic.
Once you’ve freed the Corsair K70 Core from it’s box you’ll see we have the version with a wrist rest here. This is an optional extra. It’s evidentally useful to have, but instead we still recommend a squidgier one. Your wrists will thank you. Chiefly the thing you notice is the big dial on the top right. If you’re familiar with Corsair keyboards you’ll be used to the volume barrel previously seen here. Because we’ve now a dial you can do much more as we’ll soon see. The cable is attached and non-removeable. Just a thing to note if you prefer your own colour choice in cabling.
The underside is simple, with basically just the height adjustment feet to play with.
Because of the texture of the rubber used they quickly pick up any dust around. Just something to note. This photo is only after we’ve taken it out of the box and moved it for the pictures you see above. We shall shortly get dusting.
Things to Press
As we’ll see on the lighting page the dial doesn’t light up. However, it has got the classic Corsair yellow colouring on it. Since we’re talking about lighting things, the lock indicators are altogether white, with no customisation.
What really separates the K70 Core from its siblings is the use of the Corsair MLX Red switches. Boasting a linear response and furthermore ‘pre-lubed’, they respond similarly to the Cherry MX Speed switches. They’re correspondingly very light to actuate, and very quiet in use.
Commonly the Fn key combines with the F-keys to control profiles, locking of those nuisance keys, and adjusting your media player.
Fn+F12 cycles the dial through its various modes as you’re about to see on the next page. This handily changes colour to indicate its current state, so you don’t accidently mute yourself when you’re trying to adjust the lighting.
