Gaming K95 RGB Platinum

The K95 RGB Platinum is a beautiful keyboard with excellent switches, top-tier lighting, and one of the biggest footprints you’ll ever find. And it’s still smaller than the old K90!

-- As reviewed by PCWorld
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Product details

  • Per-key RGB backlighting and a 19-zone LightEdge across the top of the keyboard delivers dynamic and vibrant lighting effects with near-limitless customization
  • Tuned for low noise operation even at full load; MTBF hours
  • Gain an in-game advantage with six dedicated macro keys fully programmable for complex macros and key remaps or swap to the included S-key keycaps and program special streaming commands through Elgato Stream Deck software
  • Cherry MX Speed RGB Silver mechanical key switches provide ultra-fast 1.2 millimeter actuation and proven reliability with 100 million keystrokes
  • A detachable soft textured cushioned leatherette palm rest offers the plush comfort to breeze through marathon gaming sessions

PROS

+ Slimmed down from the old K90
+ Cherry MX Speed switches are as fast as Corsair claims
+ Top-tier RGB lighting

CONS

- Extremely expensive
- Still an enormous keyboard
- Blocky typeface used on each key

Expert reviews and ratings

By PCWorld on August 14, 2017
The K95 RGB Platinum is a beautiful keyboard with excellent switches, top-tier lighting, and one of the biggest footprints you’ll ever find. And it’s still smaller than the old K90!
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