Corsair K60 Review – £110 “Budget” Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

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This is Corsair’s brand new, “budget” mechanical gaming keyboard, the K60 Pro RGB. I say budget in quotes there because this is retailing for £110. Since when is over 100 pounds budget? Lets hope it’s got the features and quality to back that price tag up, something we’re gonna see in this video so stick around. But first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

So, the K60 Pro. On the face of it, it looks pretty good. RGB everywhere, as you’d expect. A brushed aluminium backplate with a stylish but subtle Corsair logo on the side, and a minimalist design otherwise. The keys are all in the right place, it’s a full size so you’ve got a number pad and all, and even comes with Cherry brand switches.

But when you take a peek under the cover, or in this case, under the ABS plastic key caps, you’ll find that instead of Cherry MX switches it’s actually rocking Cherry Violas. You’d be forgiven if you said you’ve never heard of them before, I’ll be honest neither had I until I got this, but basically they are budget mechanical switches from Cherry launched in January this year that supposedly have a distinctive switching characteristic: a two-stage, linear actuation that’s been defined as “CrossLinear” by CHERRY. Marketing BS aside, what that means is for the majority of the travel it’s a light 45g switch, then when you make contact, just 4mm off from the bottom, it becomes a heavier 75g switch as the springy metal contacter bends flat.

The end result is, if you are hammer typing, you don’t notice or mind too much, but the second you game on it, well it just felt… revolting. It felt like the key switch was made of custard or something, it really didn’t feel good at all and since it’s a gaming keyboard, that pretty much rules it out for me. It’s the smooth roll on motion you get when walking around, especially the A and D keys, it felt pretty horrible to me and not something I could use long term.

What makes it worse though is even when you are typing on it, it’s loud – but more importantly, it has a metal ringing noise every time you let go of a key, have a listen…

That would drive me mad, every time you hit the spacebar to jump in game it’d twang. I really couldn’t. And remember, this would cost you £110. Oh, and remember I mentioned the key caps were ABS? Well most fancy keyboards use PBT, and while some do use ABS still, these ones, possibly their paint, feel incredibly cheap. They’re thin, and feel tacky, something I don’t want to say about a keyboard at this price.

I know it’s a nit-pick, but even the cable is the cheap thin nasty plastic type rather than a braided or soft cable, it’s the little things that add up for me. Another thing that adds up is the lack of an included wrist rest. It’s got the mounting points for it, but you have to pay another tenner to get that with the “SE” model and again at that price it feels like we are really being nickel and dimed.

A little over 4 years ago, I reviewed a Corsair Strafe. That would have cost you, oh look at that £110. That had genuine cherry switches, a solid construction and even a freaking USB pass through. How come 4 years have gone by and the products have gotten worse for the price? A quick look on Amazon will show you a wealth of keyboards sporting Cherry MX clones, some of which are even regarded as better, for as low as £30, and even people like Logitech with their G PRO sit at just £110. This should be £80 AND use standard MX switches.

Corsair does have the edge when it comes to software, but the thing is that since it doesn’t have any extra keys or features, the only reason you’d install iCUE is to change the RGB, so I’m not sure that’s much of a selling point on this one.

I think there is a little too much good competition in the mechanical keyboard market for this to be as expensive as it is. Heck, even the Wooting One, a ten-keyless analogue switch board with some amazing and unique features is only £20 more, and like I said there is a wealth of unbranded options available too. The thing is, you can buy genuine Cherry MX switches on Alibaba for 20p per switch, and I’m sure someone like Corsair has an even better deal, so these Viola switches can’t be all that much cheaper, and yet it’s being sold at the same price as standard ones. That doesn’t seem right to me.

As a keyboard, it doesn’t suit me. You might like the keyswitches a bit more, that is always heavily down to personal preference, but I don’t think you can argue that as a value proposition, this really makes sense. But maybe I’m missing something, so if I am, feel free to let me know in the comments below, and let me know your thoughts on it too.