Gigabyte Aivia K8100 Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of a product that you probably will not be able to figure
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out what it is at all if i don't uh show
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you this this text right here so like on the front there's like
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okay we're gonna try and figure out what all this stuff is so there's a sword
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handcuffs sigh like a hammer warhammer
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another sword another more different sword like a fighter plane a tank a
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bazooka a sniper rifle a rocket launcher
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a um bullpup uh three grenades a stealth fighter or
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bomber bomber sorry sorry uh helicopter like friggin like missiles like on a
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boat or something like they're on a boat a boat a submarine another more
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different boat a different tank a different fighter a sort of sword an axe
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a grenade acai and another sword it is a gaming
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keyboard intended for all these different purposes i mean handcuffs what game
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involves handcuffs um
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so let's have a look at all the different things that we have on the box
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two ways cored out so you can actually manage your cables durable braided
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cotton corn corn cord cotton corn cotton candy candy corn
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gold plated usb connector led backlight illumination with on off switch twin usb
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2.0 ports on the two sides you know what let's actually get the keyboard open
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because that way i can show you all these features on the keyboard itself as
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we go which is a sensible way to do unboxings sometimes on boxers on the
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youtube they like oh this is the black version
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it's available in red and yellow sometimes unboxers on the youtube they
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just like take forever to actually get the product out of the out of the box
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and i know i'm guilty of that at times at times i'm the worst about that
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but uh whatever
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you make an unboxing channel bam okay key remover tool these are
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really handy if you have to remove your keys then you'll have one
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replacement wasd keys
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okay i'm sure we'll find out why when we look closer at the box
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ah there's the braided cord looks very nice
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gold plating in there which is valuable gold plating out here which doesn't do a
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whole lot remember gold plating is good for uh good for connectivity not necessarily
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conductivity silver plating would actually be better for conductivity
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incidentally so would copper i believe but
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gold is malleable and is also very resistant to
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corrosion so no matter how long a gold plated connector sits around it will never
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corrode and it will always make good contact
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also makes it able to do more plugs and unplugs look at that i haven't seen a
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keyboard cover in a while there's a uh
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dvd that you should probably ignore get the latest from Gigabyte
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in terms of software here we go so i haven't seen a
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keyboard cover like a dust cover like this in a long time check that out
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very nice once again
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use protection very good in fact oh look at that you
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can even leave it on i remember these the ones that you just like left on and use the keyboard so you don't get like
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uh you know like like cheesy uh cheese in between the keys which is
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really hard to get out you know like cheetos when you use when you eat
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cheetos and then you use your keyboard right away you can get like the bit the crumbs like stuck around your fingers
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and then you type and it knocks it into the keyboard and it's really hard to get it out so this is i mean this is a
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problem many gamers face so i'm glad that Gigabyte has engineered a solution
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to this excellent okay what do we got
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g keys programmable keys with an indentation on there not an indentation
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a bump on this one so you can easily feel which is which that's very nice
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three modes for the g keys we've also got uh mute
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and yeah we're gonna have to figure out what those are
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ham touch and slide volume control sweet
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interruption free volume control device during engaged gaming activity computer
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stays in current mode without going in and out of games keep the sensor on the far left or the far right volume will
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increase or decrease linearly very cool
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very cool indeed ghost macro engine five macro keys per mode to make up to 25
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sets of macros with a total of five modes change modes easily with mode button on the keyboard we already saw
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that one four megabit onboard memory enables up to 100 programmable macro sets
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predefined key button to switch between easily software features ease drag and
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drop function as you guys know gaming keyboards often come down to the
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software now this is unique this i actually want to like sort of see see
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what i think of
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okay you know what i can't
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i can't actually feel that much of a difference when typing but Gigabyte has
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specifically engineered the keyboard to have different
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force required for different keys on the keyboard so the lightest keys are your
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shifts your
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z and x all these ones that you have to hit with your pinky while you're gaming
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your heaviest keys are your space your control your wasd and your top four
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number keys which you're usually mashing with a ring finger or middle finger or
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an index finger whichever the case may be your medium keys are sort of mostly your
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typing stuff so whether this makes that much of a
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difference for gaming hard to say but there you go at least they're thinking about it 20 anti-ghosting keys so i
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press up to 20 of these at a time without any ghosting so if you guys know
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what ghosting means ghosting occurs when you press two keys and then
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it registers of like a third random keystroke it usually happens with more
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than two though it's more like five or six at a time
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so most people don't have more than like six
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keys matched at a given time unless they use their face to type
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but hey there it is gift
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silicone keyboard protector and additional wasd alternatives
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so i guess these are like um
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oh nice they have like a soft touch feel like um oh that's kind of neat so they
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feel a little bit different so i guess you can find them more easily so let's
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have a look at the rest so there's your num lock light caps lock light scroll lock light there's your mute
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more buttons it's a membrane keyboard so the key
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switches aren't really anything to write home about although what they've done
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with the different elastic force is going to be sort of i people will either love it or hate it i think
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kind of feature there you go membrane keys
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put that back on cover up the membranes um the wrist rest
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on this is actually fairly unique i've only seen one other keyboard and like a
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gaming keyboard that has a wrist rest like this and that's the steelseries 7g
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and my wife actually uses the 7g and refuses to use any other keyboard not
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because she particularly likes the feel of the keys and the typing experience
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because but because she loves the big wrist rest and
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yeah it's it's actually it's one of those things once again you love it or you hate it but if you love it then
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well love it it's good here we have the cable management stuff
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so you can either come out in the middle or on the side we also have
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flip stands with rubber grips on this side so you can add rubber grips on this
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side so it's not going to move anywhere you've got actually lots of little rubber grippy-ness all over the keypad
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or all over the keyboard this is awesome look at this this is actually screwed on
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instead of using cheesy plastic clips okay how many of you out there own a g15
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how many of you out there broke the wrist rest off your g15 i did
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i didn't even know this but slick just put up his hand because it was cheesy
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and it used little horrible plastic clips this is amazing this is
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engineering a solution to a problem that people have
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very good job Gigabyte um so i think that pretty much covers it
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the avia from Gigabyte
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oh yeah incidentally there's a couple more usb ports here they have rubber plugs in them there's sort of oh no
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sorry that here and here
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so you can plug in your mouse or like usb drive nothing oh there's your light
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on and off switch for the backlight and i'm just i'm heading this way so that i
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can plug in the keyboard slick doesn't have to follow me you can just look at the
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keyboard um so that we can see the backlight
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come on let me just make sure it's done
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oh it's on yeah okay give me a sec give me a sec we've got a lot of lights on
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here select you want to have a look at the light actually no nevermind we'll see our horrible studio
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uh so i'm just going to turn the lights down so you guys can see the red
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backlight on this black keyboard so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first look at the in this Gigabyte gaming keyboard
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