Mechanical keyboards have come to practically dominate the current gaming peripherals market. With hundreds of manufacturers offering myriads of products, almost every user can easily find at least one product that suits their wants and needs. Despite that, there is still a sub-segment of this market that is greatly unexploited – wireless keyboards. There are many trade-offs that impact the feasibility of wireless mechanical keyboards, especially backlit ones. None of those concerns stopped Corsair from releasing the K63, a wireless version of the venerable tenkeyless K65.

Corsair is one of the largest players in today’s gaming peripherals market. The company has held several exclusive deals with Cherry, the most reputable manufacturer of mechanical key switches, allowing them to slightly outpace their competition. Today we are taking a look at their first wireless mechanical keyboard, the K63. Derived from the company's popular K65 keyboard, the K63 is intended to be a natural extension of the family, producing a mechanical keyboard that be used in environments where a wired keyboard isn't practical.

Overall, the K63 is not just a wireless keyboard, but is in fact a tri-mode keyboard: it can operate via Bluetooth, over 2.4GHz using an included USB wireless adapter, or it can be plugged in directly to a USB port. A wired fallback option is pretty typical for wireless peripherals, however supporting multiple wireless methods is a bit less orthodox. In the case of Corsair's wireless peripherals, the company has made a habit of supporting both Bluetooth and their own 2.4GHz link as a lower-latency option, and that is once again exactly what they have done for the K63.

Finally, along with the K63 keyboard itself, Corsair also supplied us with their Ironclaw wireless gaming mouse. As a keyboard on its own isn't terribly useful without a mouse, Corsair makes both, and they have provided both for us to be able to evaluate the practicability of a fully wireless gaming desktop.

Packaging and Bundle

We received the K63 in a sturdy cardboard box that is covered by a thinner, glossy exterior packaging. The packaging is dark with yellow accents and focused on a picture of the keyboard itself, which has been Corsair’s aesthetic trademark for years.

 

Inside the box we found the typical quick-start guide and warranty leaflets, a detachable micro USB cable, the 2.4GHz USB adapter, and one micro USB-B to USB-A adapter. There is no keycap puller or extra textured keycaps supplied with this model.

Despite the portability-focused design, Corsair does supply a full wrist rest alongside with the K63. It mimics the excellent wrist rest that we first saw on the K95 RGB Platinum, but it is smaller and the contact surface is not removable. It is soft to the touch and comfortable, yet the friction is great enough to keep a palm from slipping.

The Corsair K63 Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
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  • Tchamber - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link

    I meant ergonomic mechanical keyboard.
  • MehUsernameAlreadyExists - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link

    Yeah, unfortunately there is pretty much only the Ergodox. I have one, it’s great for typing but it’s expensive and unnecessarily big. Most of the thumb keys and the two columns in the middle are too hard to reach to be usable (and I’m a 1.8m tall male).
  • toyota - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link

    Wow clearly no effort was done to actually check the real prices. The MSRP of this Wireless k63 is most certainly not 80 bucks and it is never been on sale for $50. That is the wired version that goes for that price.
  • Korguz - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link

    heh.. that keyboard seems to be around the $150 cdn mark here.... and your complaining about the MSRP being $80 US ??? thats a suggested price from corsair, a store is free to charge what ever they want for the product :-)
  • catavalon21 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link

    "None of those concerns stopped Corsair from releasing the K63, a wireless version of the venerable tenkeyless K65."

    It's also a wireless version of the wired K63. Unfortunate Corsair has wired and wireless versions of the same keyboard with the same model number.
  • YB1064 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link

    $80 for a keyboard? Ridiculous. You can pick up a mechanical Reddragon Kuma on Amazon for less than half the price.
  • Korguz - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link

    "Reddragon Kuma " never heard of them, cheap, no name brand ??
  • YB1064 - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link

    https://www.amazon.com/Redragon-K552-Mechanical-Ke...

    Keys are more responsive than the Corsair I have at home. :-/
  • Korguz - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link

    must be cheaply made in other areas then. cause there must be a reason its so cheap. still wouldnt buy it
  • Morawka - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link

    I had to sell all my Corsair gear because iCUE would crash all my computer's USB ports 3-4 times a day, oftentimes during the worst possible moment. I've lost homework, countless hours of lost progress in games, and occasionally the USB ports fail to initialize, forcing me to do a hard reboot. It's a pretty widespread problem and it seems Corsair is either unwilling or unable to fix it.

    A lot of people give Razer crap for their Chroma software, but iCue is 10 times worse in my experience.

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