Introduction

The CORSAIR K70 RGB MK.2 Low Profile keyboard is not a new release, in case you were wondering why the company is putting this out so soon after their recently announced K95 Platinum XT. I had originally planned on covering this alongside the non-low profile K70 RGB MK.2 keyboards, but CORSAIR released a bunch of different products in my review categories and corrupted files from the original review draft meant this review had to take a seat on the backburner until now. Here we are then, finally taking a look at the year+ old launch with the power of hindsight and price cuts in hand, and thanks again to CORSAIR for sending along the review sample.


CORSAIR is clearly shying away from discrete names for their keyboards with precedence given to the Kxx naming scheme to keep things simple. In general, the larger the number in the model name, the higher up in the keyboard product portfolio it is placed. Their popular K70 series is a fantastic full-size keyboard which has evolved to have lots of features that were previously on the larger flagship K95 sans the column of dedicated macro keys. The original K70 RGB was also the first RGB mechanical keyboard, albeit with only 512 colors per key, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle when that came to light. With the MK.2 revisions, we saw true 8-bit lighting across the R/G/B channels for 16.8 M colors per LED, and the SKUs without a low profile employed Cherry MX RGB switches to good effect. Cherry had back then also announced new low-profile mechanical switches CORSAIR had a timed exclusive on. Today, we have more keyboards on the market using the Cherry MX Low Profile Red RGB switch, but the K70 RGB MK.2 Low Profile has another trick up its sleeve for even 2020. Do read the entire review to find out more—we begin with a look at the specifications below.

Specifications