Corsair K55 CORE RGB Membrane Wired Gaming Keyboard
Corsair K55 CORE RGB Membrane Wired Gaming Keyboard – Quiet, Responsive Switches – Spill Resistance – Ten-Zone RGB – Media Keys – iCUE Compatible – QWERTY UK – PC, Mac – Black
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| Weight: | 752 g |
| Dimensions: | 45.13 x 14.15 x 3.5 cm; 752 Grams |
| Brand: | Corsair |
| Model: | CH-9226C65-UK |
| Colour: | Black |
| Manufacture: | Corsair |
| Dimensions: | 45.13 x 14.15 x 3.5 cm; 752 Grams |
Gorgeous lights, supreme build quality for the price point, comfy to use, macro keys are so useful I don’t know how I did without them! If this is in your price range and you are looking for a new keyboard – this is your best option. The membrane is so responsive and chunky feeling, I love this keyboard.
Keyboard looks good, feels good, but has a glaring issue: the key, what has the second image printed on it for the SHIFT key is actually reversed. Meaning for example the shift-1 is the exclamation mark. All keyboard has the exclamation mark printed ABOVE the 1, this has it BELOW… And it’s not clear from description.
Yes, it can be used, yes, it can be get used to, but why go opposite, what supposed to be? Shift means higher/above, so the keys ought to be printed accordingly. Some keyboard doesn’t even write “shift” on the keyboard, just print an up arrow.
/facepalm
Giving 4 stars as the light doest not shine bright through the characters of the keys, numbers and letters are kinda dull even on brightest setting.
Had a logitech keyboard and the light was much brighter through the keys so can see the letters and numbers much better.
Software to manage the rgb can be a pain and whilst the purple in the pattern is a nice deep vibrant colour when it’s just a solid purple light I can’t get it to that colour instead is a much whiter shade that looks washed out which is a shame. Function wise can’t fault it but it’s key selling point is the rgb imo and that’s a bit lacklustre
This keyboard lets see I had the same one before and have just worn it out my only issue I had with the old one is the plastic prongs you have to bend together slightly to get the wrist rest pad off are made of plastic and break so easy the same goes for the little legs on the bottom at the back that considering they fold away so have movement are also made of crappy cheap plastic and also break if you are not mindful whenever you need to move the keyboard.
This is not related to the product directly but I bought this keyboard as part of a bundle offer with the other item being a Corsair Harpoon wired RGB mouse and they are not being delivered together and I feel on the page you buy the bundle offer on it should be made VERY CLEAR THAT THIS COULD BE THE CASE BY MAYBE USING CAPITALS LIKE I AM HERE.
Kind Regards
Mr Hadenough
This has greased the wheels of my gaming success. Though, I have to say… it is going to take me some time to get used to these macro buttons on the left. I used to have a mechanical keyboard by Corsair and now that I have this as a replacement, I keep moving my hand to the wrong section of the keyboard, placing my hands over Q, A, CAPS, S thinking I am over W, A, S, D and I keep pressing the top left G1 macro key when I am intending to press escape. I am used to using the red light as an unconscious guide to help me position my hands, which now I need to un-learn and get to grips with these G keys being the first thing my hand and eye sees.
One criticism I can make is, the zones for the lights make no sense. They literally just split it up into even parts. The only zone that does make sense is the numeric keypad is a zone of it’s own. I would have prefered to turn the lights off on the macro section, but I cannot, because the first zone crosses the G keys, all the way over Q, W, and possibly E if I recall. So, I kind of wish I had gone with the version above this so that I could have altered on a per-key basis. Not a deal breaker but the zones should have been made to make sense, not just an even split into sections.
I do like this keyboard but it is going to take some muscle memory learning curves to get around.
While not a bad keyboard do your homework if you use iCue for other products. All the lights on the keyboard turn off every time the iCue utility loads and this can only be fixed by unplugging the keyboard and then plugging it back in.
NOTE: If all the forum posts I read are true Corsair no longer support this product.
If I didn’t need the iCue software for my mouse and headphones then this would have been a fantastic buy as it is a high quality keyboard for the price. I have no idea why the iCue software doesn’t allow you to just ignore Corsair items it has detected, that would seem to be an easy solution as the keyboard does retain settings in the hardware but these are overridden by the software.
In conclusion, I would certainly recommend this if you don’t need to use the iCue software, but chances are if you are considering this it is because you already have other Corsair products and are likely to end up returning it like myself.
My first impression was that I’d ordered the wrong keyboard (again). Somehow I managed to order a German one the first time. The values on the keys when shift is used are not displayed in the usual UK keyboard format. The shifted value is shown below the unshifted value, instead of above. It’s not the end of the world, but it takes some getting used to. It’s fine for the number keys, but a nuisance for brackets and symbols, if you’re not a typist..
Also, it took some figuring out how to stop the mad lighting effect and get a nice solid light blue colour.
That said, it’s a nice keyboard (a bit noisy, despite the blurb on the box) and the icue software (that I only found out about when Googling how to stop the bloomin’ lights flashing) has some very useful key and compatible mouse assignment functions.
An instruction manual or some obvious link to an online one would be useful, as this is not your basic keyboard and has more functionality than meets the eye.
*** Pro’s ***
– The keyboard comes with a rest for your wrists which is an amazing feature as it prevents you from getting strain or uncomfortable hands
– The keyboard offers RGB customisability that can be synced with the iCue system giving you the option to have profiles for the RGB colours
– The keyboard has macro buttons that you can map on the iCue software to create complex macros and simple macros
– Keyboard comes with volume control which allows you to skip songs, pause them, and increase total computer volume
– Keys feel nice to use even though they’re not mechanical
– Quite a large keyboard but it’s perfect for an optimal keyboard layout
*** Con’s ***
– Even though it has RGB, it’s not as customisable as you’d expect, instead of having each key able to be mapped out it has 3 sections that work as one mappable area each
– The keys aren’t mechanical and for the price it should be, might be worth spending a little extra to get a better keyboard in my opinion
Areas to improve:
– Make it so that every key on the keyboard is able to be mapped as a separate LED
– Make the keyboard mechanical instead of the weird thing that it is so the option to swap out switches is available
I love this keyboard, and even though it might not be my dream keyboard it works very very well. The macros are useful and they’re something I use in my every day life, and I find the RGB lights to be a nice addition.