Introduction

Would you believe it's been over five months since our last CORSAIR keyboard review? The US-based brand has always managed to keep me busy with its product releases and 2024 is shaping up to have multiple CORSAIR keyboards being covered here on TechPowerUp. Expect to see a few kits, some switches, and of course fully pre-built keyboards, as is the case today. I've given CORSAIR a hard time in the past for its confusing keyboard lineup, and it seems the brand has decided to simplify things to an extent. As of today, there are four CORSAIR keyboard series in their own words—K55 (entry level gaming), K65 (small form factor), K70 (performance gaming), and K100 (top-tier innovation and design). Each series may still have different layouts and form factors but at least there's a general idea now. So when I tell you we'll be looking at the K65 Plus Wireless keyboard today, you will know right away to expect a small form factor keyboard.


I hope that context was useful because when I first heard the product name, my first instinct was to expect a 65% form factor keyboard. Instead, this is clearly a 75% keyboard with the dedicated Fn key row as well. CORSAIR is aiming directly at the enthusiast keyboard market with this product given how it has pretty much everything we've been seeing in popular pre-built keyboards coming out of Asia. There's the volume wheel—actually a multi-function dial—in the top right corner, a two-tone keycap set, the expected RGB lighting, hybrid wireless connectivity, hot-swap switch sockets, first-party switches, integrated dampening, and even screw-in pre-lubed stabilizers! If it were not for the CORSAIR branding, this may well have been mistaken for a keyboard from another brand. In a first for CORSAIR, the keycaps appear to be opaque too, so there is definitely a lot to examine here. Let's thank CORSAIR for providing a review sample to TechPowerUp and begin our review with a look at the product specifications in the table below.

Specifications