14 DAY TRIAL // Coming to make its own contribution to the gaming peripheral market, Gigabyte had prepared a new keyboard that packs a variety of features, one of the more prominent ones being the use of keys with three different keystroke forces.
While the Truly Ergonomic Keyboard is out trying to promote what it describes as a seemingly ideal, symmetric design, Gigabyte is advertising the Aivia K8100.
The keyboard combines the benefits of such things as touch and slide volume control, the GHOST macro engine, anti-ghosting keys and, of course, an ergonomic keystroke design.
Basically, the company threw in a whole slew of features meant to make this Aivia K8100 worthy of being called a gaming keyboard.
There are three built-in keystroke forces, namely 70 grams, 60 grams and 50 grams, distributed unevenly,
The keys most often used in games, such as W, A, S, D, SPACE or the arrow keys, among others, are assigned a 70 grams elastic force.
Likewise, Tab, Caps-Lock and Shift, plus a few others, come with 50 grams elastic force. The rest boast the 60 grams elastic force.
The aforementioned GHOST engine allows the end-user to program up to 100 macro sets thanks to the on-board memory of 4 Mb.
Also, the so-called anti-ghosting function lets up to 20 keys be pressed simultaneously without any issues.
“Gamers hate it when a command is lost or misread during gaming battles. GIGABYTE successfully incorporates 20 anti-ghosting keys to ensure no interference when multiple keys are pressed whereas a standard USB keyboard is limited to about 6 simultaneous buttons. Gamers can press up to 20 simultaneous buttons without the “ghosting” effect,” states the press release.
The newcomer measures 490 (L) x 263 (W) 32.8 (H), weighs 1.3 kilograms and can already be found up for pre-order in Europe, priced at 41.53 Euro.
