INTRODUCTION

   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 always been the backbone in terms of sales for most manufacturers in the PC industry so it really goes without saying that there's no shortage of such devices in the market currently. However as more and more products flood the market competition becomes more fierce and in order to keep up (and in some cases stay on top) several manufacturers choose to upgrade their already bestselling products. CORSAIR is one such manufacturer and today we'll be taking a thorough look at the recently released K70 RGB MK.2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard.

   Founded in 1994, CORSAIR supplies high-performance products purchased primarily by PC gaming enthusiasts who build their own PCs or buy pre-assembled customized systems. The company's award-winning products include DDR3 and DDR4 memory upgrades, computer cases, PC cooling products, gaming headsets, gaming keyboards, gaming mice, power supply units, USB flash drives, solid-state drives and system monitoring and control devices.

   Both the original K70 RGB and the K70 RGB MK.2 share a great number of features including Cherry MX RGB switches (available with Red, Blue, Brown, Speed and Silent), aircraft-grade anodized brushed aluminum frame, 100% anti-ghosting with full-Key rollover (NKRO), 1000Hz polling rate, six dedicated media control keys, detachable full-length soft touch wrist rest, macro commands (no dedicated macro keys), per-key RGB backlighting and an onboard ARM processor. The upgraded K70 RGB MK.2 mechanical gaming keyboard however takes things even further by featuring a USB 2.0 pass-through port (something consumers have always wanted from the K70 line), improved RGB lighting system (largely thanks to extra LEDs and the 8MB of onboard memory) and several extra MOBA and FPS keycaps. So let's move forward with our review and see what CORSAIR has been working on for the past year.