EPTCorsair Vengeance K90 Review (Red Switches) - Page 2
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velocitygirl
United Kingdom64 Posts
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
Kinda funny we here in Australia speaks and writes UK english yet our keyboard is American :/ | ||
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jwcdis
7 Posts
On January 29 2012 12:21 haduken wrote: Nice OP. Btw, no PS2 converter for the USB? Kinda funny we here in Australia speaks and writes UK english yet our keyboard is American :/ Unfortunately this keyboard does not come with PS2 Converter for USB. The reason why is because the this keyboard uses 2 USB connectors rather than 1 giving this keyboard 20 Key rollover. For anyone familiar with the ps2 protocol a data packrat contains about 8 bits of relevant information. This usually allows for 8 keyrollover which is what you typically see for standard USB keyboards. Using 2 USB buses... well gives you more. In the end, by whatever firmware means they were able to develop something really nice that no one has done yet for their ASIC/Microcontroller. | ||
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jwcdis
7 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/77WOG.png) Pictured above is the K60 which is pretty much the same The keys were you can easily notice fading are S and L. Additionally, D F C V O are starting to fade out a little but its hard to see. Compare to a key like G which hasn't started to fade yet. | ||
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Cinim
Denmark866 Posts
Haven't tried it, but doesn't looks like anything for me, at all :s | ||
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velocitygirl
United Kingdom64 Posts
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Medrea
10003 Posts
For a keyboard of that price, this is just stupid and a huge waste of consumer money. I have no idea what they were thinking. The keycaps on the mechanical keys are not even double injected! Shameful at that price. Response time of 1 ms, they are practically lying here because debounce time on most keyboards is about 5 ms with each keyboard also being polled approximately 200hz, rendering true 1hz response time an impossibility. Pure marketing fluff in my eyes. Also doesnt come with a PS/2 adapter, and I suspect it wont work with a PS/2 connection, so that's a point to consider as well for those that appreciate full NKRO, or basic hardware interrupting. These would all be fine since the keyboard itself seems to have no issues at all, but for the cost there are way better products out there. Especially for users who can get away with tenkeyless or without macro keys, which Blizzard has banned the use of in SC2 anyway. Well written OP by the way. Don't let my criticism make you think otherwise. | ||
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velocitygirl
United Kingdom64 Posts
On January 30 2012 09:41 Medrea wrote: Rubber dome function keys instead of mechanical is cheesy beyond all get out. For a keyboard of that price, this is just stupid and a huge waste of consumer money. I have no idea what they were thinking. The keycaps on the mechanical keys are not even double injected! Shameful at that price. Response time of 1 ms, they are practically lying here because debounce time on most keyboards is about 5 ms with each keyboard also being polled approximately 200hz, rendering true 1hz response time an impossibility. Pure marketing fluff in my eyes. Also doesnt come with a PS/2 adapter, and I suspect it wont work with a PS/2 connection, so that's a point to consider as well for those that appreciate full NKRO, or basic hardware interrupting. These would all be fine since the keyboard itself seems to have no issues at all, but for the cost there are way better products out there. Especially for users who can get away with tenkeyless or without macro keys, which Blizzard has banned the use of in SC2 anyway. Well written OP by the way. Don't let my criticism make you think otherwise. Yeah, 1 ms polling is quite useless - you know that the majority of the time you poll nothing will occur. It doesn't come with a PS/2 adapter because most of its functionality won't work over PS/2... lighting, USB port, macro keys, etc. I do have a PS/2 adapter from one of my Leopolds (or Filco, I don't know), but I can't test it out as I don't have a PS/2 port on my motherboard. I'll have to try it on my flat-mate's later. Do get in contact with Corsair regarding this keyboard - if the response they get is "Great keyboard, but rubber dome function keys is a bad idea", then you can bet their next model will have a full set of mechanicals. | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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velocitygirl
United Kingdom64 Posts
On January 31 2012 02:36 GreEny K wrote: Great review. Personally, I think there is too much on this keyboard. I wouldn't need all those macro keys and the wrist support and all that stuff. I like my keyboards simple, which is why I love the Zowie Celeritas, it's simple and gets the job done. If I come across this board at some point, then I would try it out, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get one. The M60 also exists; it's the same keyboard without the macro keys and full wrist rest, and it's a lot cheaper. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CH-900004-EU-Vengeance-Performance-Mechanical/dp/B005ZNR05A/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1328017668&sr=1-1 | ||
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Josh_rakoons
United Kingdom1158 Posts
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velocitygirl
United Kingdom64 Posts
On January 31 2012 22:57 Josh_rakoons wrote: Macro keys are pretty much useless and are banned from competitive offline tournaments True, true. There's little you'd need to use macro keys in starcraft for, though. Or at least, there's nothing that you would need that couldn't be rebound to one of the main board keys. | ||
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kleetzor
Germany360 Posts
Go to: http://www.corsair.com/support/ and fill the RMA. I did this and got an answer about 10 minutes later. Im still waiting for the formular that needs to be filled and sent to them. Anyone think this info is threadworthy? If so, open a new one, or just post this info in any other thread were the issues with the K60 have been discussed. Ps: i LOVED the k60  , sucks Corsair didnt get some stuff straight from the get-go | ||
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