Solid performance and fancy lighting for under £40. Any observant follower of the PC gaming market will have noticed the trend towards equipping peripherals with RGB lighting. The convergence of many gaming products in terms of performance means the extra customisability provided by RGB lighting makes for an interesting differentiator.

Corsair has been a leading light for RGB innovation. Back at CES 2014 the company revealed its prototype Vengeance K70 RGB keyboard, which finally made it to retail in September 2014. The pioneering use of Cherry MX RGB switches represented the first time a mechanical switch had a baked-in LED. Such an implementation allowed Corsair to circumvent previous reliability issues of LED keyboards by shielding the LED from ESD inside the switch, rather than exposing it on the main PCB.