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StrangeGeek

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  1. I understand where you are coming from, but having a keyboard that can detach from its cable and be used on the lap isn't the best idea with this board once you consider the size of it (full size + macros) and the weight (around 1.5 kg/3.3 pounds), it becomes very cumbersome, very quickly. For example, pick up your k100 off the desk and hold it in your hands for a while, you will start to notice it gets pretty heavy. The TKL with the magnetic numpad feels kind of like a gimmick to me, how many people are just going to leave it on the right side? Especially when you consider the GIANT seam that will run down the entirety of the board just to allow you to swap it. My original K95 RGB (yes, the first one with 18 macros) had the same style seam separating the macro cluster from the rest of the board. To be honest, it looked kind of cheap looking, as if they just took a k70 and added macros to it especially once you notice that the head and the foot of the macro portion were plastic, not brushed metal. Now that I have a Corsair keyboard that has no seam (K95 Platinum), which itself is getting a little old, you really do appreciate the clean, seamless design. That being said, I do recognise the potential for removable numpads, such as using the board and numpad for work, and then detaching the numpad for gaming. Problems with this are, as I mentioned a giant, jarring seam on the keyboard at the opposite direction from the grain of the brushed metal, and also potential wearing-out of the contacts and mounting system if someone is constantly attaching and detaching their numpad. As for the wrist rest, seems like this is only a fault on some boards. [ame] [/ame] At 6:30, he attaches the wrist rest and raises the feet, there isn't any play in it whatsoever. Every video I can find on the k100 shows no play in the wrist rest apart from this: [ame] [/ame] At 10:08, you can see the massive amounts of play in the wrist rest, although oddly, he does not comment on it at all. From this, its possible you received a faulty board, or rather, wrist rest. Send in a ticket to Corsair and they should be able to solve the issue.
  2. Surely suggestion 6 is not on all k100 keyboards, right Corsair? There is no way you (Corsair) designed a $230 USD keyboard that has the wrist rest forced off the desk when the feet are raised. How does a design fault as huge as this go unnoticed and make its way into mass production? Especially considering the potentially large amounts of people who would have worked on this product. This is the type of quality we consumers expect with keyboards no more than $10. This 'lifting wrist rest' issue, as I will call it, is a complete deal-breaker. Even more so when you consider several factors such as the price, the reputation of Corsair's mechanical keyboards and the quality of the rest of the product described by reviewers and consumers alike. I do hope that this design fault is an issue unique (or at least rare) to Titan's keyboard. If anyone reading this happens to have a k100, could you please confirm if this is present in your board? As for suggestions 2 and 7: Personally, I don't care for the likes of detachable cables or TKL layouts as I use the number pad constantly and I find having to charge a keyboard that is going to sit in place permanently a rather large annoyance and completely unnecessary. Regards.
  3. Funny enough, this exact thing occurred to me just a few hours ago. The exact same keys and the same yellow/orange tint to it with a severe flicker. I was considering buying another board entirely considering all the issues this one has, and then this issue just now nearly pushed me to buy a new keyboard until I saw your post. It must be a software issue since it has happened on two separate keyboards at pretty much the same time.
  4. Typical. They have no interest in improving this has been going on since the k70 lux. Mine are also doing the same but they've been doing that since I bought the keyboard and I've stopped caring about it.
  5. Doesn't look like Corsair has any interest in making a keyboard with a niche market. They only have interest in people buying as much of their products as possible, and this design limits that somewhat. This explains their reluctance to create any outstanding products and to improve their awful quality control in my experience but I won't get into that. As for your design, I feel like most keyboard 'enthusiasts' (I cringe at the word every time) would love a design like this being offered by a big brand, but the KB enthusiast market is not that large compared to everyone else they are trying to cater for, and as I said, they don't seem to have any interest accommodating to the enthusiast market.
  6. The whole reason you buy a k95 is because you want everything that can possibly fit practically onto a keyboard. Although saying that it would be nice if they came out with a 'professional' oriented keyboard with an SD card slot, USB 3 pass-through port, an additional 3 more rows of macro keys (24 designated macro keys) and an all-metal body. This design completely goes against the 'have everything you could possibly need' trait and the very reason the k95 exists. Trying to turn a k95 specifically into a smaller keyboard is just a purely laughable concept, no offence. I can understand and do see the potential market for a small form-factor keyboard with designated macro keys but calling it a k95 or a k100 is illogical. Instead it should be called k85 or something similar.
  7. Verified. Try a firmware reset or contact support.
  8. Doesn't matter. Even Corsair's 'premium' PBTs crack. I had two sets go completely unusable with the amount they were cracked. Customer support was extremely helpful in replacing both sets. Sadly they have started to crack again. I cannot convince myself that this is human error. Pre lux keyboards had good keycaps which I have used for well over a year and zero cracks anywhere. Contrast that with the P key cracking on all four sides, from the base of stem to the tip, in under a month. Until Corsair investigates this issue, which has been ongoing since the lux boards, I'm afraid a mandatory replacement with quality keycaps is inevitable. Either that or stay away from their keyboards altogether.
  9. This was true, but if you enter the lighting tab, you will notice that you can only have one effect. The strange thing is that on old profiles that were made when you could customise the zones a bit more, the multiple lighting effects work just fine, even though you can only see one lighting effect. It has been like this for a few builds and not sure if it will ever get fixed.
  10. The K55's wrist rest is quite small, roughly 5 - 6 cm, like the 1st gen K95/K70. K70 MK2 has a similar wrist rest to the K95 Platinum. Only difference is that there is no rubber piece, meaning that it's just straight plastic with rubber coating. In terms of width, it should be about 4 key rows thick or about 8cm. If you were to get the black version, I would suggest purchasing a K95P instead. This keyboard has a more comfortable wrist rest with the magnetic, two-sided rubber piece mentioned earlier. You also get the addition of the "light edge" and 6 extra macro keys. The macro keys are useful for playing some games, or what I use them for, productivity (e.g. blender/photoshop or something) or system commands.
  11. Looks like your green LEDs died. Did the LEDs start flickering like that after you updated the firmware and do they do that with iCUE off?
  12. Q1 - If a profile is linked to a program, then the profile will start automatically once you open/select the assigned program. Q2 - There is not much delay in profile switching, maybe .3-.6 seconds?. If you have or are planning to buy a Corsair mouse with a sniper button like the Dark Core, then the 'start profile when pressed' option can be used like a secondary layer of macros assigned to that sniper button. This completely negates the need for a two keyboard setup (one for typing, other for macros) or the need for a keyboard with 18 macro keys (K95 RGB OG), and you can instead buy a smaller keyboard like the K70 or the K95 Platinum if you are anything like me and want dedicated macros regardless of software layers. Also, if you are debating whether to get the K95P over the K70, or vice versa, the Platinum has a much better wrist rest that actually has rubber instead of that rubber coating like the K70's one.
  13. Try doing a clean install of iCUE (uninstall, delete registry entries and reinstall). If that does nothing, then open a support ticket with Corsair and they should be able to help you out.
  14. May I ask, how is this your only keyboard? Do you not have another lying around somewhere? If the issue is bothering you that much, just return in to best buy in exchange for the same model or a different one. Don't quote me on this as I have no idea if best buy has a policy similar to this or not since I do not reside in North America. I do agree with what gstarwars said: Although I would not attempt to 'fix' the keyboard by opening it up and voiding the 2 year warranty. I would not be inclined to believe this is of Corsair's fault, necessarily. Metal does ping when it is struck. This is a physical property of metals, and even though you might be able do dampen it by a significant margin, you will never bypass this fully. Additionally, how bad is the ping? Could you compose a quick video showing how loud it is and what keys are affected, if not all?
  15. There's not much that anyone can do other than tell you to get a refund or RMA the keyboard and wait for the replacement. The metal ping is perfectly normal for a metal keyboard, I assume this is your first mech keyboard, as most have a metal backplate that, in most cases, will cause ping, just various amounts of it. This could be annoying and undesirable to previous rubber dome users. For example, I bought a family member a K95 Platinum a few years ago that I won't name for privacy reasons, and another for myself a few weeks ago. Both have 'ping', but mine is a bit less audible compared to the other. This is probably because a different revision as there are some differences between the 2017 K95P and the 2019 K95P, at least in my experience. A Strafe RGB that another family member owns also exhibits signs of the metal 'ping', but again a bit less than the Platinum keyboards seem to have. I should also stress, if you are not hitting the keys hard, and cannot hear the ping when typing normally (not hitting the keys with the force of a black hole) than its fine. if you can hear quite a lot, even under normal use, with headphones on etc, than it's worth considering going through the RMA process. Corsair's RMA team have been reliable and helpful in my experience and should be of same assistance to you.
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