Corsair Vengeance K90 Keyboard

Build Quality

The construction quality of the board is excellent. The brushed aluminum looks great and makes the board very rigid and sturdy. The keycaps are a little strange at first because they are extremely smooth with no texture at all but they also feel very solid.

The bottom of the board has a rubber foot in each corner to help keep it from moving during an intense gaming session. One problem that I noticed was that when the feet are flipped up like in the right side picture, you lose the rear rubber contact. And because the feet are not rubber coated, the board has a much higher tendency to move around. This is greatly reduced by using the wrist rest which also has rubber feet.

The mechanical switches are obviously the big draw of the K90. Corsair decided to go with the Cherry MX Red switches which are basically a “lighter” version of the more popular MX Black switch. The Reds require very little force to push, a constant 45 grams, as opposed to the Blacks which are 40g at the top and 80g at the bottom of the stroke. Which switch is the best is purely personal preference. We will discuss more on this is the testing section.

The USB cord is 2 meters long and fully braided. One thing that surprised me when I pulled the K90 out of the box was that it has two USB connectors, one for the keyboard itself and one for the pass-through port in the back. The cable and connectors, like the rest of the board, is very high quality.

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