Corsair K60 is the Honda Civic of mechanical keyboards (review)

Hey guys, I couldn’t be hap­pi­er to tear apart these key­boards in front of y’all and give my hon­est opin­ion on them, but I’m run­ning out of key­boards! So let me know which ones I should look at next. 🙂

Can you change the Light Set­tings, or is it just one Setting?🤔

How do I put it in bios mode for ps4

Caught my atten­tion when you men­tioned civic😂😂

Hon­da Civic. I hope I don’t heat some­one the key­board at 3am

Any­one else just thinks this review is very trash and clear­ly biased.

Uh my Ctrl key cap broke somehow

sounds like a mem­brane ngl

I wish the echo was­nt there

i did­n’t real­ize i press my keys like a crazy per­son because i just got this key­board and i feel like i am fight­ing with it!

Ive had the k60 for a while and some of my num­ber keys on the 4th row are finiky. I press one num­ber key and inst­ed of one num­ber on screen it gives me 3 of the same num­ber. I dont know if the switch is going out or the spring has lost tention.

I actu­al­ly real­ly like my K60. I tend to type loud­ly and bang on the space bar, so the weight is a non-issue for me. The typ­ing expe­ri­ence is real­ly pleas­ant and I actu­al­ly pre­fer to use it when I’m going to be writ­ing for sev­er­al hours at a time. Gam­ing with it is noth­ing to write home about, but the RGB is perty.

I real­ly wish CNET would do a review on the rea­son their Meta­crit­ic scores are the exact INVERSE of actu­al user scores.…..that would be some­thing lol. Ahh­hh wish­ful think­ing.… like wish­ing a Con­gres­sion­al pan­el would bring an Ubisoft/EA exec in front of them for a laun­dry list of bad practices…mehhh I digress.

I love the K60.

My first mechan­i­cal key­board. I got the low pro­file switch­es and they are awe­some, I’m even more hap­py since not every­one seems to be hap­py with the vio­la switch­es (but when I was buy­ing the key­board it was a 50/50 for me)

The only thing I’m miss­ing from my K55 in terms of func­tion are media keys and maybe macro keys, but I’m plan­ning to get a steamdeck to get those func­tions any­way with­out hav­ing a huge key­board on my desk.

Great review, although I would’ve hoped you includ­ed the low-pro­file one too, since my expe­ri­ence with that is dif­fer­ent to your kin­da neg­a­tive expe­ri­ence with the vio­la switch­es. Greetings 🙂

My k60 has a weird boingy met­al spring sound along with the click­ing, is it broken?

I baught it for 25$ because my Wal­mart was remod­el­ing and had elec­tron­ics on clear­ance lol

For 70 you get the Chi­nese Sharkoon with either Red/Brown or Blue switch­es. Mine just arrived and can’t believe how good it is. Nev­er again 150$ for a keyboard.

why he say­ing cor­sair like that

I’ve had the key­board with VIOLA switch­es for a while and let me give my opin­ion on it.

REGARDING THE SMOOTHNESS OF THE SWITCHES: When I was look­ing for the red switch­es I want­ed lin­ear­i­ty and low actu­a­tion force. Unfor­tu­nate­ly CORSAIR man­ages very high prices for key­boards with RED switch­es, so when I saw this new VIOLA at a low price (well… not at all low real­ly) and that is very sim­i­lar to the RED ones, I was very excit­ed, BUT it hap­pens that Although the actu­a­tion force for the VIOLA is 45 g (the same as the RED) it is only for its first stroke because after the first two mil­lime­ters the force ris­es to 75 g which is high (espe­cial­ly for those of us who are used to do all the trav­el of the switch). CONCLUSION: It is not a soft switch. It is HARD and gen­er­ates tired­ness after a while of use.

REGARDING THE SPACING BETWEEN KEYCAPS: WHEN KEYCAPS have a low pro­file, the spac­ing dis­tances between key and key (note, I am not talk­ing about the dis­tance between key and key but the dis­tance that sep­a­rates one key from the oth­er or between key and key ) are decreased so you are more like­ly to acci­den­tal­ly press the key next to it. It took me a long time to get used to this. (In par­tic­u­lar, I have been chang­ing many of the KEYCAPS for those of anoth­er key­board that I have that are high pro­file to try to improve the user expe­ri­ence a bit). CONCLUSION: This key­board is more prone to typ­ing error

REGARDING THE PRICE OF THE KEYBOARD: the price of this key­board is more than 400,000 Colom­bian pesos (about 85 USD). Oth­er key­boards on the mar­ket come ready with CHERRY MX RED switch­es and cost even less. The real­i­ty is that from my point of view the cost / ben­e­fit ratio in the acqui­si­tion of this key­board (CORSAIR K60 PRO with VIOLA switch­es) is not sat­is­fac­to­ry. I have con­sult­ed about this type of switch­es and I think they have not been used in oth­er key­boards on the mar­ket (at least for my coun­try) and… it must be for a rea­son, right?

REGARDING THE SOUND OF THE SWITCHES: Although it is true that they are qui­eter than the Browns and the blues (sim­i­lar to the RED) dur­ing typ­ing with the VIOLA a clamp sound like a BELL is felt at the end of the run which is quite annoying.

REGARDING QUALITY: (with­out tak­ing into account the large num­ber of neg­a­tive com­ments on the net­works about the dou­ble fin­ger­ings for some keys with these switch­es, some switch­es that have only been used for a few days and no longer work, etc.). Par­tic­u­lar­ly on my key­board the space­bar switch stopped work­ing inter­mit­tent­ly and I had to exchange it with the Scr­Lk switch because I could­n’t know where to find replace­ments for these switches.

In accor­dance with the above, I con­sid­er that THE PURCHASE of this key­board with VIOLA switch­es IS NOT JUSTIFIED (espe­cial­ly if you are going to use it large­ly for typ­ing / pro­gram­ming / devel­op­ing for whose appli­ca­tions the fatigue in the fin­gers after long days feels enough already).

Sev­er­al days ago I con­tact­ed the CORSAIR brand to express my dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the prod­uct and my request to exchange for anoth­er key­board that does not have this type of switch­es, but they have not yet respond­ed) When you go from a mem­brane key­board to a mechan­i­cal key­board and you use this K60 with VIOLA switch­es the expe­ri­ence is cer­tain­ly pleas­ant. Cap­ti­vates the RGB and a bit the pseu­do smooth­ness that these switch­es offer. But for those of us who have already worked with oth­er mechan­i­cal key­boards with MX RED switch­es, or oth­er types such as BROWN, BLUE of any brand, we real­ize that buy­ing this K60 mod­el is a very bad deci­sion. And when I say “this K60 mod­el” I mean that after this mod­el, CORSAIR brought it out again, but not with the same type of VIOLA switch­es, but with low Pro­file and oth­er acces­sories such as the wrist rest (actu­al­ly, I haven’t Could­n’t find anoth­er key­board in the world that has VIOLA switch­es on it, plus you can’t get replace­ments). Obvi­ous­ly they were aware of the error and tried to cor­rect it, but those of us who did not con­sult less accu­rate reviews of the key­board and more objec­tive reviews made the mis­take of acquir­ing it. Mine, for exam­ple, I have in a fight so they can change it. When I com­plained about the dis­sat­is­fac­tion in the user expe­ri­ence (it can­not be that a key has to be pressed with 75 grams for the total trav­el) the switch­es had not begun to fail. But now one switch does­n’t work and anoth­er one is repeat­ing the fingering.

The expe­ri­ence with this key­board is real­ly depressing!

Mr. CHERRY: could you help me? I know that there have not been key­boards with this type of switch again, except for those that have been man­u­fac­tured since 2020.

i man­aged to find mine on sale for $30! cant com­plain at all

I just got my K60 RGB Pro today. Am using it now. Real­ly lik­ing the qui­et lin­ear action.

After a few days of using the K60 I felt the typ­ing expe­ri­ence was awful and retired it back to its box. I must’ve been high on some­thing when I bought 2 of these at once. The 2nd one remains in its unopened box. The Glo­ri­ous Full Size is imo per­fect. I’ve got 4 of ’em.

IDK a damn thing about mechan­i­cal key­boards for gam­ing or typ­ing. My plain key­board died, and the K60 was on sale for $35. I did­n’t hes­i­tate for a second.

Call­ing hold­ing down a but­ton excru­ci­at­ing is just… Sad… Maybe be a lit­tle less dra­mat­ic or start work­ing on grip strength because that’s absurd