INTRODUCTION

   Membrane based keyboards may not be as popular today as their mechanical based counterparts but due to their far longer life in the market they do have some advantages including lower noise levels coming from their keys (depends of course on whether or not audible feedback is important to you), reduced weight (not a rule however) and in some cases even resistance to dust and liquids (from time to time we have seen such models). Certainly mechanical switches are far more durable (not written in stone however since we have seen mechanical switches fail much faster than membrane ones) but dust and water resistance is something we've always wanted to see more with mechanical keyboards. Well it seems that our good friends over at CORSAIR feel the exact same way as we do since they recently released the dust and spill resistant K68 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard.

   Founded in 1994, CORSAIR supplies high-performance products purchased primarily by PC gaming enthusiasts who build their own PCs or buy pre-assembled customized systems. The company's award-winning products include DDR3 and DDR4 memory upgrades, computer cases, PC cooling products, gaming headsets, gaming keyboards, gaming mice, power supply units, USB flash drives, solid-state drives and system monitoring and control devices.

   The K68 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard by CORSAIR (updated version of the single LED color K68 mechanical gaming keyboard released a while back) is fitted with gold plated Cherry MX Red switches (linear, smooth) and features per-key RGB illumination for its keys (13 available effects with 4 brightness levels), 100% anti-ghosting with full N-key rollover, 32-bit ARM Cortex processor, 1000Hz polling rate, dedicated media keys, detachable wrist-rest and support for CORSAIR's Utility Engine (CUE) software. Still it's strongest selling point (at least for us) is its IP32 certification which means it’s somewhat resistant against water (CORSAIR also claims it's dust resistant and although that might be true still it's not included in the IP32 certification). Unfortunately the K68 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is far from waterproof (now that would be something) but having rendered useless quite a few keyboards in my life (mechanical and membrane ones) by dropping water and/or soda on them (as I’m sure many have) even this IP32 certification means a lot.