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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well so it has been one hell of a new year so far for the PC market we had a CES that was barren of new and interesting tech the once beloved Intel is now on everyone's poop list and memory and GPU prices are at an all-time high but amidst all these events nothing came as more of a surprise in late January when Corsair launched another RGB keyboard can you say shocker okay so maybe this wasn't the most unthinkable thing to have happen this year but the k68 RGB does mark the company's first RGB keyboard with IP 32 dust and spill protection you may remember that the K 68 they launched last year was spill proof but only had red LED backlighting which totally sucks unless you love red and only read the board features 100% Cherry MX switches and fully integrates with the Q software but users can also switch through a plethora of lighting effects using the function and number keys the secondary arrow key functions even let you adjust the speed and direction of those effects on the fly you're probably familiar with all the other good stuff like multimedia buttons windows lock key brightness adjustment fold-out feet 100% anti-ghosting and full and key rollover but the feature I'm focusing on today is the board's alleged spill resistance I want to know how much flooding can this thing actually handle before it goes off the deep end to find out I'll put the k68 RGB through a series of three staged accidents each one more severe than the last well the keyboard survived all three levels or will it be sent to a watery grave let's plunge into our first scenario to find out Oh No what a terrible accident well that was unfortunate but I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes so if you guys are wondering why I'm wearing a different shirt now than I was earlier in the video it's because we're actually in the next day I gave the keyboard a proper 1213 hours to fully dry before plugging it in again so we're about to do that now this is the first time I'm plugging it in alright plugged in looks like the backlighting is on that's a good sign it's a very good sign but oh and it looks like was that there before the little apostrophe when did that happen - that happened right when I plugged it in did it accidentally press a key all right I'm gonna I'm gonna just go for some typing here hello my name is Kyle and I have a book now a lot of these are typos that's not I'll let you know what if it's a typo or if it's the keyboard acting funky do a couple enters lalala my wife just walked through the door and she didn't say hi to me you know oh there she is there she is hey honey we're just doing I'm doing some testing with the keyboard that we spilled water on yesterday and it is working perfectly oh those type on me guys guys guys we have passed stage 1 level 1 is clear all right we can now move on to our second accident which is gonna be as I mentioned before a little bit bigger than the last one let's go ahead and see what's up with that oh no I'm falling well that was a doozy I apologize for my actions back there and believe it or not that happens on a regular base almost every day but you know what all I care about at this point is whether or not this keyboard is still working so once again I fired up WordPad we've plugged in the keyboard already and it seems the RGB backlighting is working perfectly fine no issues no misfires in WordPad so far let's go ahead and type something what's that one quote they always make you read at the optometrist it's like the quick brown fox jumped over the moon and slapped him in the face hey that worked nice if this keyboard stops working properly I will give away 10 of my GTX ten ATT eyes it's just a test guys okay - gee golly is a funny expression that no one should use let's do some numbers in here one two three four five six seven eight nine zero and we'll do all the things yep and there's work in numpads looking good all the numbers here above our main keyboard area oh nine zero yep everything's looking good guys whew we have cleared level two holy crap this thing just keeps on truckin so I think at this point the only thing left to do is to put it through accident number three so on that note good luck little guy you're gonna need it all right third and final typing test ladies and gentlemen I have already plugged the keyboard in it doesn't look like there are any sort of misfires here in our WordPad so I'm just gonna go ahead and start typing let's do the American flag what's that thing called oh yeah I pledge allegiance I forget how to spell allegiance I'm dumb too the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible well I forgot it that's all I know with liberty and justice for all hey it's working it's actually working all right you know what you know what I haven't tested yet is like the number pad so one two three four five six seven eight nine zero and then all the signs here and then these numbers right four five six seven eight nine zero everything's everything looks fine I'm assuming that since we got every key wet if some of these keys work then pretty much all of them do this thing is working flawlessly and that's pretty much all she wrote folks we have concluded my wacky experiment here and this thing has passed all three spills with flying colors regardless of how accidental those spills may have been this thing is holding up pretty well and has definitely proven itself to be quite resistant to the everyday or maybe not so everyday spill so good job Corsair obviously this isn't one of their flagship high-end keyboards so you're probably be able to find it for a slightly lower price then something like the k95 RGB platinum of course you're foregoing some of the premium features like a volume scroll wheel or an aluminum body this one's plastic but still very durable in its own right and yeah guys that's it let me know what you think about this thing in the comments below feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoy these kinds of silly silly little tests that I throw into the videos every once in a while and subscribe to the channel and all that jazz you can also check me out on floatplane to watch all my content a week early without ads I'll drop a link for that in the description below guys thank you all for watching have a good one and I will see you guys in the next video