Gigabyte Aivia K8100 gaming keyboard review

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Gigabyte Aivia 8100

Included with your K8100 is a silicon keyboard protector so you don't get dust in the keys when it's not in use. Well, I'd like to see anyone actually use it, but the sentiment surely is nice.

Gigabyte Aivia 8100

Very popular for mouse's these days, and now implemented on they keyboard, roughly 2 Meters of a braided cloth cable, not rubber. I'm very glad the keyboard is wired. Wired is much more responsive, faster and less laggy than wireless of course. Especially in a hefty gaming spree these are the things that really matter.

Gigabyte Aivia 8100

On the top-left side of the keyboard are programmable macro keys and mode switch key. The macro keys are a soft-press keys that you have to go out of your way to switch, and using the included Ghost Macro Engine Software which we'll show you later on.

With the help of that software you can program the five keys with up to five different profiles, effectively giving you a total of 25 different programmable actions (that you have to access five at a time.)

A pulsing "Mode" button at the top left of the keyboard changes color to go with a certain "profile" you programmed the macro keys in, a visual indicator is very handy alright. .

Gigabyte Aivia 8100

The right side does not have any additional  function or macro buttons, but we do spot the little arrows there, let's touch them and see what happens ...

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