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okay so check this out we all know that there are just a ton of mechanical keyboards on the market and what differentiates these models from others is really not a lot it's usually just very small features the biggest being the different kind of keys that they have now today we're gonna be taking a look at the k68 keyboard now this is a mechanical keyboard featuring MX red switches from the people over at Corsair and there are actually two models to this particular keyboard there's the k68 standard which just has standard red back lights no RGB and then there's the case 68 RGB which features their cue software so you can change all the lights it's got a lot of different features but like I said the main real feature are the MX red switches if you guys have you ever used them before they're not too tactile they're not too bouncy they're kind of like right in the middle I feel of everything and this particular keyboard is a full-size keyboard so not only do you get the keyboard itself with all your normal keys you also get the numpad as well some people prefer that some people like smaller ones I like a full-size keyboard now the really big thing that's being pushed by Corsair but the K 68 I believe is its ability to be water and dust resistant now this is something that's a little bit strange to me and we'll get back to that two minutes so first of all let's just take a look at the keyboard as you guys can see it's just got the standard layout of most keyboards out there now another thing that makes this keyboard cool is it does have complete dedicated audio controls so you can mute pause all that stuff all from your keyboard you have to go you know you don't have to go on to your computer get into a program to change all that stuff you can do it all from the comfort of your keyboard which is pretty nice especially if like you're in game or something and you don't want to mess that you it's really nice as it be able to hit those controls and change the properties that you want now this particular keyboard also comes with removable rest I like the rest some people don't like them they remove them but for me personally it just makes my hand sit very easy on the keyboard also some people like to keep their keyboard completely flat I like to have my keyboard at an angle so it is a good thing this particular keyboard like most of them out there has a little feet that will allow you to tilt the keyboard because at an angle for me it's just honestly a much more comfortable or deal now here's the thing that I'm kind of tripping on because it says that it's dust and water resistant okay let's go there now if you look up the IP rating it basically says for like mist and light dust okay well if I was going to be looking at a keyboard I'm sorry of course I don't mean to kick you but honestly I mean I'm not gonna take my keyboard out in the rain so what's you know what's the really the big deal of being you know mist resistant or whatever how many people are gonna be standing around their shower in the rain playing on the keyboard what I really was expecting was more of a type of thing where if you spilled a drink you know onto the keyboard that the keyboard would keep going on forever and ever and ever so let's just real quick let's knock some water on this keyboard like a normal user would do and let's see if it actually fails okay so here we have it folks glass water Elric and the k68 RGB now most people I know will probably spill their drink you know onto the keyboard me myself I'm just going to pour the water on there and let's see what happens so we got the water the water is all on the keyboard take the keyboard making a mess up here on my desk but you guys can see beyond the mess that this keyboard can take a whole glass of water on it and still function with that a problem so that's a thumbs up so okay you guys can see it passes the water test the keyboards still up and running a little bit wet mind you but it's still up and ring and that's important because if you're playing a game or something you're doing something that's important to you and you accidentally knock over your drink or something into your keyboard in a lot of ways you're going to be screwed especially if it's like a Pepsi or coke or one of those products as a bunch of syrup in it the problem isn't so much with the liquid it's all of that sugar and caramel and all that crap that's inside of it that makes your keys all sticky and nasty that's why I only used water now obviously if you do spill your Pepsi and stuff like that the keys are all removable you guys can see underneath the different different keys so you can remove all the keys off the keyboard you can hand dry it off and do all that stuff to keep your keyboard you know up and running so it does seem like it works a little bit better and the IP because the way that the IP no protection reads off it only seems like you know drizzling rain or a little bit of dust and that's really to me not what I'd really be looking for but the fact that you can spill your drink in it and then clean it up afterwards that to me is a really big deal now another thing is you get 100% key rollover it means no ghosting none of those problems it's wherever you can hit all the keys at the same time your keyboard is not gonna freak out or do anything you know how it is when you're in game you're doing a bunch of stuff a lot of times you can hit the wrong keys and stuff you don't want to hit the wrong key Beebop back out the windows screen or just make a big mistake because you know you're just doing the wrong thing so and that that also is something that's pretty nice both k68 feature a thousand Hertz polling rate and the two different models are priced like this the standard version is actually under $100 it's on sale right now for $89 so it's sub hundred dollars from mechanical keyboard which seems like his you know it's starting to be right around the perfect price range for mechanical keyboards and they first came out they were two three hundred dollars we've seen the price go down and down and down and down and now the RG model it's a hundred and $19 so we have two different models to choose from I want to be Asti folks I'm kind of getting burned out on the RGB thing I mean it's just everywhere all the time I have a gaming system in my room it's all corsair stuff pretty much and everything just blinking all the time I mean yeah you can tone it down and stuff with all these blinking lights and all this stuff it's almost like being in a disco I mean so the days of just having your PC you know look cool and stuff has gone a whole another level now everything's got RGB your mouse has RGB helped pretty soon your mouse pads gonna have RGB your monitor is gonna have our GB heck your butts gonna have RGB you're gonna be born with RGB coming right out your butt so it's just everywhere now at the end of the day you have to ask yourself okay I want to keyboard that's mechanical I want it to be comfortable I want it to last a long time and I want just work perfectly with everything that I'm doing so like I said before the keyboard is very comfortable to use there are some Corsair keyboards out there that have like a weird WASD configuration and those are great for gaming but when you're trying to type and do stuff like that it becomes a major pain the button I don't enjoy it whatsoever now with the k-6 data RGB I'm able to type and do my normal stuff it's not totally perfect for I'd like to be like a typing keyboard I actually know if you guys remember this but I like a Sai tech keyboard this company when I had business but the SciTech keyboards were unbelievable they were just so spongy and nice to type on it just felt like you were typing you know on unlike unlike water I don't put her Saigon soft pillows it was just so nice and none of the really mechanical keyboards that I've seen that have come out actually do typing as well as that but the k68 RGB it's still pretty cool it's not the greatest thing like I said for doing typing but it'll still work for you no problem in game it functions no problem whatsoever if you want to like change all the lighting and do all that stuff you can do all that through the cue software so make sure that you guys download the cue software I don't believe that there's actually a CD driver in the box you're gonna have to hop on the internet to get that particular you know driver if you don't have the Internet well then I guess you'll have to you know either pick it off your phone or go to a friend's house to get that but if you want to do all the RGB lighting and stuff you're going to have to download the cue software so that's it folks - keyboards k68 standard k68 RGB coming to market one in $89 one at 119 dollars not a whole lot of outlandish features just enough features to keep you in game keep you comfortable and be able to play your games without issue so I mark you guys been watching Tekken tomorrow if you guys are looking for a keyboard like this hey we'll have a link down there below that like button you guys know what to do and if you're not sub K I'd love this - you guys back here on the channel peace