Customers often highlight the exceptional typing feel and overall performance of the VANGUARD PRO 96 keyboard. Many appreciate the switch smoothness, comfortable wrist rest, low noise level, and vibrant, customizable RGB lighting. However, some users have noted issues with software compatibility and screen utility. Additionally, a few have reported problems with the key layout.
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Pros mentioned:
Typing feel
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great keyboard, lacks software
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Hoenslty this is a great keyboard. Something a little different due to its hall effect keys. But i mean it is a new thing to keyboards. The feeling is amazing and the responivness is amazing. Only thing is the software which really lacks but it has to be due to it being very recently made. It honestly doesnt deter from it much at all.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Noise level, Typing feel
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best keyboard ive ever owned.
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Posted . Owned for 4 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Thia keyboard is fantastic, all of the customization that it includes is next level, the typing action is super smooth. And quiet! Also the lcd screen is fun to customize.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Switch performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Greatest Mainstream Keyboard?
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I upgraded from a 60% Keyboard, because I needed as much functionality as possible. I went with this keyboard because it has all the keys you need, but it's also good on space. You get hotswappable switches, but the switches supplied are prelubed, and are Hall Effect, and SOUND AMAZING.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Build quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good keyboard ok software
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The keyboard itself is very good quality and comfortable to use the only issue I have is the software which can be a bit unintuitive and has forgotten some of my presets with the screen on the keyboard resetting to default at times
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Noise level, Rgb lighting
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great keyboard
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great keyboard and silent. 8k polling. Good RGB. Best over both worlds between tkl and having a 10 key
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Typing feel
Cons mentioned:
Software compatibility
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Keyboard is very good software id very bad
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I love this keyboard the typing is so smooth and the keys are very nice the only issue is the software side this does not work with icue so you need to use thier webhub which is a horrible app that will reset your whole keyboard very often
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Build quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
icue not needed good keyboard
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
love the keyboard it sounds great looks amazing and the dial is a fun twist to the board with many different things it can control but don't be deceived you don't need the corsair icue program you just need the corsair web hub to customize this keyboard i haven't played with the game mode setting but the 1k polling rate is nice for games that may require more precise touch and the 5 programable keys are nice too i haven't done anything with them either
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Typing feel
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Keyboard
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This keyboard is amazing. Great tactial feel and extremely responsive
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
works well but lack of proper software support
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
works great and is very responsive but corsair has not yet updated icue so the usability is limited. you can change lights and kinda change the keys on the side through the corsair web hub but it has the tendancy to be very slow and buggy and has occasionally made the keyboard stop working while trying to change things until i factory reset it
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Software compatibility
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Buggy software but very high quality
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Pros
-Satisfying key switches
-Rotary Dial
-Programmable Buttons
-Comfortable wrist rest
Cons
-Buggy and confusing software that requires Icue to be closed
-Hall Effect is buggy with 0.01 actuation
-LCD Screen GIFS are buggy and do not loop properly and cannot be customized
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Build quality
Cons mentioned:
Software compatibility
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Amazing keyboard, sucky software but future promis
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great feel and build, amazing as a keyboard BUT the website software used to actually make the keyboard into a powerful gaming keyboard is really subpar and glitchy. There are rumors of it being able to be adjusted on iCue which would be great and warrant this keyboard 5 stars. I dont think the screen is needed in my opinion lol
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Typing feel
Cons mentioned:
Software compatibility
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Hated the webhub app
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
review I did on 9/28/25
although typing on the keyboard feels great, the software sucks. I did do the update for the device at the time.
they completely ditched their ICUE app and went with a super buggy webhub app that does not work at all
Pros:
I like how it feels when I type on the keyboard
Cons:
Webhub is seriously buggy,
any settings I make takes forever to save or load,
unable to upload custom gif to the 320x170 lcd screen since it bugs out when uploading then freezes the webhub app,
it deleted all my custom keyboard settings twice, and I had to factory reset once just to get app to work again
webhub app only works on certain browsers, and even then sometimes does not recognize the keyboard and I have to plug unplug until it recognize the keyboard
would have liked it to work with ICUE app, but it does not.
lighting effects constantly bugs out or does not even work
In the end after trying out for a few days I returned it.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome keyboard. Web interface for settings.
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Got this keyboard because I had a gift card. Didn’t think it would be night and day difference from my Corsair K70 RGB. The smaller size helps with fatigue when gaming for more than a few hours and the web interface for changing settings on the keyboard is much better than installing another software that I won’t use often.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Hair Trigger
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Awesome keyboard. The keys are incredibly sensitive, so you have to be very light handed when playing. Still good but not as good for sausage fingers. Keyboard has a webUI so its not integrated into ICUE as of yet, and its hard to find instruction on where to find the webapp.
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Software compatibility
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
No ICUE support, First keyboard malfunctioned
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Overall I love the keyboard. BUT it does not have ICUE support, was told it would eventually. For now your stuck with Corsair Web Hub, not a fan but it works kinda. Currently on my second keyboard as my first had a problem when my computer wouldn't recognize my device when plugged in and the keyboard didnt even light up. Corsair support was very helpful though and I got a replacement sent to me after sending the other one.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Typing feel
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Smooth as butter, and quiet as it too.
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This keyboard has been great to use over the few weeks I've had it so far. It's incredibly smooth to type on as the Hall effect keys make typing feel much more satisfying then just hitting a switch. The screen is also nice, however still feels like a gimmick as you can't display anything useful on it when idle such as CPU info. Same with the side buttons and gamer mode, they don't do much of anything given the current state of iCue. Still, great keyboard that of it went on sale I'd recommend.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Build quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good keyboard... but sum things to point out.
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Heavy, feels solid and well built. Super sensitive inputs so watch out will react even to the slightest nudge. Not wireless and not icue compatible. Uses a online portable to customize RGB and macros keep that in mind as it will not sync up to your other corsair hardware(maybe they will add an update that changes that.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Overall great
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great keyboard overall. The feel of the keys as well as all the extra utilities provided are great. The wrist pad is very comfortable and feels like it will hold up. As of now it doesnt have a direct addon for icue but a web app instead (needed to update). The left shift is short so i often hit the up arrow key instead of left shift (just something you have to get used to)
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Build quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Quality keyboard.
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Was able to compare several gaming keyboards at Best Buy and found this one to have all the features I was looking for. Quality board and seamless integration. The smaller footprint works great and I like the programmable buttons being on the left side. The wrist wrest is awesome (plush and comfortable).
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Typing feel
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Its clicky
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I love this new keyboard. Satisfaction and clicks guranteed. Fast and response