TheOverclocker Issue 41 | Page 43

either your mouse is plugged in here or a USB thumb drive, but not both. It’s a wasted opportunity as just one more port would go a long way into making what is an already great keyboard even better. Another thing I noticed is that in as much as the LED lighting has been improved, around the edges of the keyboard where the light strip is situated, the LEDs aren’t able to pull off a simple configuration such as setting all LEDs to white. If you try to make this light bar a single colour, you’ll get some blue, green and some other colours coming through, and this is especially true for the corners and sides. A pure white is simply not possible. I’m unsure as to what causes this, but it if you notice this on your brand new $200 keyboard, it could sully the experience a little. Every other colour configuration works though. Other than these two things, there’s nothing else that I’d find objectionable on the K95 Platinum. As I said before, every feature presented here you could point to on another keyboard. The issue, however, is that they just don’t come together with this much attention to detail, build quality and of course software support. It is this specific combination that makes the price tag plausible. This keyboard is without a doubt the premium model that would likely be used on an ultra- high-end PC or notebook. As such, one has to appreciate the approach that CORSAIR has taken. The K95 Platinum isn’t selling RGB features, as advanced as they have become. It’s selling an entire experience, at