Logun Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Hi; I'm reading up on the new K95 released at CES this year but aside from it being a black finish I'm not sure I see the difference between that and the K90? Can anyone fill me in? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 8, 2013 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 8, 2013 The K95 is 100% fully mechanical and you can now program which key is lit. As I maintained though, the cost does go up as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Curious as to why there was no new on a new FPS ie K65 or is this because of the Raptor Gaming purchase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryld Baenre Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Corsair should do a tradeup program like EVGA does with video cards. I would trade up my k90 in a heart beat for what should have been done from the get go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rourke Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 any month they think it'll be released? just finished my build. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted January 8, 2013 Administrators Share Posted January 8, 2013 any month they think it'll be released? just finished my build. xD http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/CES-2013-Corsair-Next-Gen-Vengeance-Series-Gaming-Keyboards-Mice-Mouse-Mats-and-He The Vengeance K95 Gaming Keyboard will be available at a retailer near you in January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Corsair should do a tradeup program like EVGA does with video cards. I would trade up my k90 in a heart beat for what should have been done from the get go. People will buy a refurbished video card. I don't know about you, but I've seen enough disgusting keyboards in IT, I wouldn't buy refurbished keyboard or mouse, no matter HOW much it's been cleaned, eeewwww... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinx Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 The K95 is the keyboard I was expecting from Corsair on their first go round. Will definitely be picking one up on release. Thanks for listening to your customers :) Just please don't do a Razer and charge us our souls for one :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 9, 2013 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 9, 2013 The K95 is the keyboard I was expecting from Corsair on their first go round. Will definitely be picking one up on release. Thanks for listening to your customers :) Just please don't do a Razer and charge us our souls for one :D I'm sure some of it is to help their profit margin, however, Cherry switches are definitely not cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yos Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 The K95 is 100% fully mechanical and you can now program which key is lit. As I maintained though, the cost does go up as a result. I think I will blindly take and buy it.. After that drink a lot of water everyday to fill my stomach 'til my paycheck in.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerbrik Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I was very excited when I saw this, until I noticed they use Cherry Reds. Give an option for Browns and I'll buy it the first day it's available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futzy Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Corsair should do a tradeup program like EVGA does with video cards. I would trade up my k90 in a heart beat for what should have been done from the get go. Yes, I would love to see an option like this. I want to continue using my K60 but I cannot do so in a proper manner considering the sticking keys issue. They should absolutely offer a program to replace k90s with k95s, or k60s with k65s if there will be one, or to pay the cost difference between the models instead of full price, in order to make up for the issue. The sticking keys issue should never have existed, but that would at least alleviate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theroot Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Hey Ram Guy, Can you please put a bug in the Quality Testers head before you guys release the K95. The K60 and K90 both suffered from several bugs when released, some are still present. Some people still have BIOS and Windows Boot screen issues, and there's still random keyrepeat issues that happen even in bios. (to name a few) I might consider upgrading to this, if you can assure me these are fixed. Otherwise wasting another 100-150$ on a buggy keyboard that may never get fixed, doesn't seem wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Jason Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 theroot, The K95 features a bios and report rate switch which is located near the USB hub on the keyboard. If your boards bios does not recognize the keyboard, you can switch the keyboard into bios mode. You also now have the ability to switch the polling rate of the keyboard. Our office in Tapai has been working with Asus and Gigabyte among others to assure that motherboard bios teams can make the upgrades so gaming keyboards will work in bios. So far we have already seen a number of bios updates from Asus that fix our keyboards working in bios. We added the switch because it does take time for them to upgrade. I can assure you we have been working in great detail on the issue of repeat key that some users are experiencing. We have been doing extensive testing internally with firmware updates. We have also been working with select external customers who have the issue. At this time I cant not give you a firm update on when the update will be available, but can assure you its our top priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratosrally Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Thanks for giving us some details on how the K95 functions. Still enjoying my K60 and M60 and am keeping my fingers crossed that the repeat issue fix comes soon, as it's the only occasional glitch keeping me from total nirvana! :D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbSoluTc Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I think Corsair should fix the issues with the K60 that they have been promising since release before doing ANOTHER keyboard. That's just my opinion. Sadly, it looks like the K95 still has the plastic F key section and the armrest is built in - can't be removed? Why on both aspects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 14, 2013 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 14, 2013 The arm-rest is removable. I don't understand what you mean by the plastic F-keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted January 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted January 15, 2013 F keys as in Function keys (F1 .. F12) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratosrally Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I think he's referring to the macro keys on the left... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 15, 2013 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 15, 2013 The G-Keys? They're also mechanical though yes, they are plastic but not any different from the other keys in that regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked_sick Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Hi all, I got my K90 for some time, and it works very well for me - i did not experienced any issues with it so far, so i dont know what is that complaining about. :) If we're talking about new features in upcoming K95. I'm excited about full mechanical change, since it will be really much more comfortable. - My question is will there be more onboard (/hardware) memory in this model? Are you looking for possibility to pack up more profiles in next releases? The reason is that i used it not for gamming but programming actually :D (but i would lie if i'd tell that i don't switching to gaming from times to times) :) Anyway - i think you should add one drawback in manual software playback function, that it does have noticeable delay, and hardware playback doesnt have such issue. :) - Second thing is which G-Keys part and keyboard become "one solid piece" because in k90 G-Keys placement is kind of plastic, fragile part which seems to me that it is easy to break. I saw some interviews, but most of the time your PR guys are talking about light instead of real functionallities, which is kind of funny : D And one more thing! Please think about shipping some *-NA layouts to Europe countries (i'm not sure how about other here, but here in Poland i couldn't find it in any (e-)store!) and i end up buying that keyboard directly in US and congratz for debut with so well developed hardware, beside keyboard this year i bought 2x packs of RAM, ssd and keyboard from Corsair : D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthorange Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Really loving the look of this keyboard, Wish it had a cherry black option though. When can we expect to see this badboy on the market?!!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob AC Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 You know, when I was looking for a Cherry MX type mechanical type keyboard last year the choices were far and few. Now fast forward one year late and they are everywhere! It seems every manufacturer is coming out with their own version. Touch typists and gamers rejoice. I still dig the unique brushed aluminum look of the original K90 though. I can use it as a skateboard if it ever grenades on me. heh Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satman Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 when are they gonna release the new keyboards in europe? i want the k95!!!i got the k90 but want the k95! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taeZaKi Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Is the backlight color for the K95 blue or white? Can't tell on some of the videos I've watched online... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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