Cooler Master NovaTouch TKL Review – The Keyboard We’ve Been Waiting For

Cooler Master’s no stranger to peripherals; when mechanical switches became the hottest thing overnight, it wasted no time getting into the lab to make sure it created products people yearned for. The company’s just-released NovaTouch TKL highlights that goal, with its “Hybrid Capacitive” switch – one that really, really surprised us.

Here at Techgage, we have reviewed many different keyboards and keyboard types – from mechanical to membrane to scissor. Rule of thumb: mechanical are the most popular for gamers and enthusiasts, and up to this point, CHERRY MX has been the go-to switch type. CHERRY MX offers a variety of flavors of its mechanical switches, designated by color. The differences between some of them are subtle – whereas some of them are not so. They vary in feel and audible feedback – how hard or how gently you have to depress the switch.

Today we are going to be looking at something different. Cooler Master’s NovaTouch TKL is using some new switches dubbed “Hybrid Capacitive”. How do these work, and how are they different from other switches? These are good questions, so let’s figure out the answers.

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