Corsair RBG Owners Club

Joe! · 25 Aug 2015 at 20:44

Kelah said:
Really considering the jump to a mechanical keyboard with the K70, but worried about all these problems.

Should I take the plunge or wait for the next gen?

What problems are you specifically speaking about?

I've had a Corsair K70 RGB since the beginning of the year, I have had no problems at all, just a little annoyed with the CUE software as listed above.

I love the keyboard, I loved the switches being above the backplate so it's easy to clean with canned air, I love the clean look and the media scroll wheel is actually pretty hard to find on a good mechanical keyboard, it's definitely a good purchase from me.

The LED issues are only present on the K95 as far as I'm aware, but I haven't spent much time on this thread at all.. And even if they do fail, Corsair are pretty prompt with their RMA service. Greybeard has said there have been no bad batches of RGB keys, ever, so if you are worried, just spend the little extra on the RGB

Greybeard · 26 Aug 2015 at 08:51

Joe! said:
If there's one thing I want, it's for CUE to have the ability to update without me having to go to the website, select my peripheral type, scroll the list for the applicable product, manually download the .zip, extract the zip and then install it, as if it's the first time I'm doing it.

That, or the ability to turn auto updates off.

/semirant

That doesn't sound right. Correct me If I'm wrong, but AFAIK CUE version 1.8 or higher should already have an auto update in the SW that will not require you to go to our website for update. What CUE version are you using?

EDIT: You are right, it is manual download for the SW, you get a notification then you need to go to our website. I was thinking about FW update - that's automatic update within the SW. Sorry about that.

Greybeard · 26 Aug 2015 at 08:57

andrewohare said:
I have the k95 with the m65 mouse and just ordered the wireless void rgb headset

Grats!

You'll love the new CUE LINK feature. KB, mouse, and VOID all sync'd up.

roge8014 · 26 Aug 2015 at 09:47

Greybeard said:
That doesn't sound right. Correct me If I'm wrong, but AFAIK CUE version 1.8 or higher should already have an auto update in the SW that will not require you to go to our website for update. What CUE version are you using?

EDIT: You are right, it is manual download for the SW, you get a notification then you need to go to our website. I was thinking about FW update - that's automatic update within the SW. Sorry about that.

Both the CUE and LINK software are the same - both tell you a new update is available, but having to remember which software is needing an update having to choose the item (keyboard/mouse/cooler) and then the software download, is long winded. If the CUE or LINK won't have auto update then can't we have a direct link (from the update notification) to the updated software at least?

andrewohare · 26 Aug 2015 at 20:53

Greybeard said:
Grats! You'll love the new CUE LINK feature. KB, mouse, and VOID all sync'd up.

Yeah its pretty awesome!

Joe! · 26 Aug 2015 at 21:51

Greybeard said:
EDIT: You are right, it is manual download for the SW, you get a notification then you need to go to our website. I was thinking about FW update - that's automatic update within the SW. Sorry about that.

Yeah... Sorry if it came across badly, I didn't mean for it to.

I was happy when I saw a little notification saying it was going to be automatically updated, but then I got the manual update box afterwards and I was pretty disappointed. I didn't realise the first was firmware.

As stated in this thread, the Link software does this too, apparently - It would be really nice if they had auto update features.

traveyb · 29 Aug 2015 at 10:58

K70 Red Cherry still out of stock

When are we expecting some?

Andygully · 2 Sep 2015 at 12:40

just picked up a k70 rgb after having a k60 that had no lights at all and im pretty impressed with it so far.

Greybeard · 3 Sep 2015 at 00:28

Andygully said:
just picked up a k70 rgb after having a k60 that had no lights at all and im pretty impressed with it so far.

Nice! Glad to hear that

Have you played around with the lighting profiles yet? lots of cool profiles here; http://gaming.corsair.com/en-us/rgbshare/profile-listing?type=k70#page=1&sortby=downloads

Joe! · 3 Sep 2015 at 04:22

Any idea if we will ever get K70 RGBs with Blue switches?

I heard something about production being stopped on them due to defective switches or something along those lines, but I never knew how true it was, if at all. I've had my Red keyboard for a few months and I'm starting to dislike the switches.

smilertoo · 3 Sep 2015 at 15:03

As far as i know brown switches have the same feel as blue, but no little click.

Greybeard · 9 Sep 2015 at 09:28

Joe! said:
Any idea if we will ever get K70 RGBs with Blue switches?

I heard something about production being stopped on them due to defective switches or something along those lines, but I never knew how true it was, if at all. I've had my Red keyboard for a few months and I'm starting to dislike the switches.

Yes, that is correct, we did stop production of the blues but not because they are defective. It was due to the low demand compared to the Reds and Browns. Official statement can be found here; http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showpost.php?p=751211&postcount=86]

smilertoo said:
As far as i know brown switches have the same feel as blue, but no little click.

Correct, almost like the Blues in terms of actuation force minus the clicking sound. It's pretty much the compromise between the Reds and Blues.

Joe! · 9 Sep 2015 at 09:35

Greybeard said:
Yes, that is correct, we did stop production of the blues but not because they are defective. It was due to the low demand compared to the Reds and Browns. Official statement can be found here; http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showpost.php?p=751211&postcount=86]

Ahh I recall that a while ago. I probably interpreted low yield as a low amount of them being good enough to put in a keyboard

Cheers as always, Greybeard.

russell664 · 9 Sep 2015 at 13:12

I have my k70 RGB with red switches, however, I find the keys bottoming out easily, so would there be any rubber stops to buy at all? The keyboard is lovely to type on, but the bottoming out in games is annoying.

Twirlywoos · 9 Sep 2015 at 15:30

russell664 said:
I have my k70 RGB with red switches, however, I find the keys bottoming out easily, so would there be any rubber stops to buy at all? The keyboard is lovely to type on, but the bottoming out in games is annoying.

that doesn't make sense, if they bottom out easily then a heavier switch would help all the o-ring will do is dampen the noise when you bottom out

russell664 · 10 Sep 2015 at 13:47

I meant the noise mainly buddy.

The noise if quite annoying overall.

Twirlywoos · 10 Sep 2015 at 14:45

russell664 said:
I meant the noise mainly buddy.

The noise if quite annoying overall.

with cherry reds?

lube the whole switch assembly and add o-rings.

ShiWarrior · 10 Sep 2015 at 16:45

got a question that we have in another thread, can someone confirm ?

Can the K70 or K95 (also the RGB models) are these USB 3 or USB 2? and can you plug just one USB cable in and not the other ?

Ireheart · 10 Sep 2015 at 17:45

I have a Corsair k95 RGB Red, best keyboard i have ever had, but then prior to that i had a standard cheap trust keyboard.

smilertoo · 10 Sep 2015 at 21:50

pretty sure its 1 usb3...or 2 usb2.