 This video is brought to you by the Intel Core i7 4770K unlocked processor. If you're a speed freak, add an Intel 3500 series SSD to your Haswell system for a truly enthusiast class experience. Alright guys, that's it. Corsair listened to everything that pretty much, well everything that I thought was wrong with the original K60. This my friends is the K70 in one of its configurations. So we're going to start with the things that carried over from the K60, which this is sort of, you can tell it is inspired by the K60, because you've got the replacement keycaps that have the contours so you can find them more easily when you're not looking at it. It still has that aluminum backplane that really makes Corsair's keyboards not only feel extremely rigid, but also be built extremely solidly and look extremely cool and all that good stuff. And sort of here's those keycaps that come with it. There we go. It also has a wrist rest, but it's missing the little sort of, you know, Nostromo thing that goes with the WASD keys, that I'm not really convinced that too many people would have used anyway. And it still has, here we go, anyway, this one in particular has Cherry MX red switches, although more on that in a moment. There we go. It has built-in media keys, which I think are among the best dedicated media keys out there, just because I love volume wheels so much. And this one has like a nice just textured metal finish to it. Mute as well as stop, back, play, pause and forward. It has a Windows lock button and, okay, more on this in a moment. That is a backlight control button and it still has a USB pass-through. Now, okay, all of, oh yeah, right, so it still has 100% anti-ghosting and I think that's pretty much it. So what has Corsair improved on the K70? Number one, all mechanical keys, F1 to F12 and these keys over here no longer have any rubber dome key switches. So the keyboard is fully mechanical now. Also, check this out guys, it is available with a backlight. So we've got a red backlight one right over here. There we go. That has a black finish. Oh yeah, did I mention it's available with different finishes on the aluminum backplane now, which I personally think the red and black looks absolutely gorgeous. Although the classic blue and silver Corsair mechanical keyboard thing is not a bad thing either. Not only that, but it is available with a variety of key switches now. So you are no longer limited to Cherry MX Red. Now, the ones that I have here in front of me, you can always tell the key switches in use by simply popping them off. If they're Cherry keys, then they are going to be color-coded, the type of key switch that they happen to be. I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys the blue version here. Let's see if I can find that USB plug. There we go. So you can always tell like that, but there will be versions of the keyboards available that use other key switches. So blue and brown, which we're going to call the slick edition and the linus edition will also be available. And this is really exciting to me because Corsairs build quality on their keyboards is outstanding. There's almost no flex to the things whatsoever, making them well, yeah, outstanding. But the only thing holding me back in the past was the fact that they use Cherry MX Red. They have a very unique look because the keys are significantly higher above the first visible part of the keyboard than you'll see on most other keyboards. And what this does is it gives the backlight more of an of an underglow effect that I personally think looks absolutely outstanding on their keyboards, whether it's in blue or red. Now on the back of the keyboard, you can see that we've got a couple more options in terms of elevating it. So you can elevate it here and drop that down. There's rubber feet here. You can elevate it at the back just like that. And you can attach or remove the wrist rest at will. They've got a bit of a different system for this. It's plastic now instead of metal, but it still does feel quite strong. So I'm not too worried about it. And then also at the back, you've got different bio switches. So this should improve the compatibility of the keyboard, which I personally think is a very positive thing. And that was one of the issues that people had with the original K90 and the K60. And the reason for that is that in order to do things like 100% anti-ghosting or multi-key rollover over USB, you have to play some, you have to play around with the way the keyboard works a little bit. And sometimes this decreased compatibility. Now with the K70, Corsair has managed to enable 100% anti-ghosting and N key rollover, meaning you can rollover as many keys as you want, which is very, very cool, but they've implemented that bio switch in order to improve compatibility. They've also changed some textures. So you can see the space bar has a bit of a textured feel to it now that looks quite different from the older one. And they have added, of course, new replacement key caps. So I'm going to switch over to our red one here and show you guys that one instead. I'm just going to swap that USB plug. There we go. And I'm going to show you how I have swapped out the WASD keys and the 123456 keys up at the top here. The idea behind these is if you can see the contour, see this curved shape here between these keys. I hope you can see that. If you see the contour, the idea is you should be able to find your way back to WASD and to the 123456 keys without looking more easily. Now, the ones on the K60 had a very rubber feel to them, a rubber finish to them that I personally didn't find that appealing. But these are more of a hard plastic. There you go. And they're much more similar feeling to the rest of the keys on the keyboard. So you can still rely on the shape to find them, but you don't have to deal with the fact that they have a bit of a different texture to them, which I personally found a little bit obnoxious. And I didn't really want to use that feature. Now, last but not least, this is the coup de grace of this particular keyboard. It has off, low, medium, and high backlight levels. Okay. So you're not that impressed yet, but it also has this feature, which I personally think is pretty frigging cool. Check that out. So we have set up this keyboard already to only have the arrow keys, windows keys. Okay. Not that one. W A S D keys and the 123456 keys illuminated, but you can eliminate any combination of keys that you so desire. I say I want my escape key and I want all of these on. All I have to do is hold down this button, set it up the way I like it. So, you know, I want like a cross here. Then I hold it down again and voila, it is now set and it will remember those settings. So you can have whatever combination of lighting that you want and you can switch between completely backlit and only backlit where you want it to be. Very, very cool. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Corsair K70. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Let us know in the comments under the video or better yet in the Linus Tech Tips community forum, which will be linked in the video description, what you think of the K70. Has Corsair hit the nail on the head this time? You let us know, but I think that they actually did. Very, very cool stuff.