PowerColor Enters Uncharted Territory with Its 1st Keyboard

Device sales of graphics cards dropped from over 20 million for every quarter a little about a ten years back to close to 10 to 12 million for every quarter currently. Even though normal offering costs of these boards greater tangible, makers of graphics adapters are incredibly inclined to provide other types of merchandise. PowerColor was among the a couple suppliers targeted entirely on graphics playing cards, till this 7 days when it introduced its initial keyboard.

To develop its first mechanical gaming keyboard, PowerColor teamed up with two renowned experts: Kailh, a maker of switches, and Ducky, a maker of keyboards as very well as ultra-strong higher-excellent keycaps. The PowerColor x Ducky A single 2 SF RGB is a compact 65% keyboard that uses Kailh’s Box White (tactile and clicky with a 3.6-mm journey) or Brown (tactile, but not clicky) mechanical switches (rated for up to 50 million presses) with doubleshot aspect-printed PBT keycaps and is made by Ducky. 

The compact keyboard has five rows (indicating there are no F keys and no numpad) and an addressable LED within just about every essential. The unit can record macros and has an Fn important to entry F keys, volume controls, and manage items like brightness.

Due to the fact the solution is developed for gamers, PowerColor bundles it with 10 additional red keycaps to make them visually distinguishable from other 10 keys. Also, there are 4 extra black alternative keycaps (for Esc, Del, PgUp, and PgDnkeys) and just one replacement keycap for the space critical. To make it less complicated to replace keys, PowerColor x Ducky One 2 SF RGB ships with a keycap puller. The keyboard connects to the Pc making use of a replaceable USB Type-C to Style-A cable.

PowerColor’s initial keyboard primarily addresses enthusiasts of the organization with its special type. To that stop, it is not particularly stunning that the company teamed up with a contract maker of keyboards as this is effectively an experimental products that will reveal the prospective of the PowerColor brand name on the sector of gaming peripherals. If Tul, the operator of the brand, finds the keyboard a achievement, expect other products of this variety to arise in the long term. 

The PowerColor x Ducky 1 2 SF RGB is accessible promptly from the firm’s resellers for $109. The initial purchasers to get the item will also get PowerColor’s signature Red Satan Keycap (valued at $49.99) featuring a standing Crimson Satan symbol carved with aluminum anode know-how.