Corsair Gets Wet At Computex – Water Resistant Keyboards, Chassis Concepts, RGB & Custom Waterloops

This year at Computex, Corsair is protecting you against involuntary fluid intake, while at the same time, expanding its range of water cooling solutions. There are more chassis with tempered glass, plus a whole new generation of RGB-mania with SYNC IT for, well, synchronizing all those RGB lights across not just your PC, but your peripherals too.

Gaming keyboards are awesome, especially the ones to come out of Corsair. While the mechanical craze has not abated over the years, RGB took over with a torrent of lighting effects, pulses and phases. This RGB fixation has led many to ponder, what’s the next step? Well, it comes from solving a problem older than computers, and that’s involuntary work-based fluid experiments – I’m talking spills here.

I’m pretty sure everyone, at some point, has either spilt or knocked over a large cup or glass of something, over their keyboard. It doesn’t take a lot, but that small (or large) amount of fluid can cause all kinds of crazy behavior. I have fond memories of a time where an impulsive reflex knocked over my precious beer, with a fair amount going over the keyboard. This resulted in completely random keys appearing when typing – convincing my team that I wasn’t drunk proved to be… problematic.

Thankfully, Corsair has something that is sure to tickle the fancies of a number of growing electronic athletes that need to keep hydrated – the K68 mechanical keyboard. It’s a fairly typical keyboard for modern gamers with its CHERRY MX Red switches, full backlight (no RGB, sorry), fully programmable with CUE software, and so on. Each key however, is individually sealed with silicone rubber, making the whole board water and dust resistant. It’s IP32 rated, so you can’t use it fully submerged, but it should be good enough to keep water (or beer) out of the keys.

Also on display were a number of concept cases with the new ‘in’ material of choice, tempered glass. Corsair took its much-loved Graphite 780T and then finished it off in carbon fiber and curved glass, also showing off some cool new water cooling gear. Beside it though was a real light show of a beast, Concept Slate, which is a dual tower chassis for mounting two full systems, complete with two 480mm radiators in the front, plus mounting brackets up top. In total, Slate can support up to 34 (not a typo) fans.

Inside each chassis was a light show controlled by Corsair’s new SYNC IT, a full RGB synchronization suite for not just the fan lights, but also it hydro-coolers, mice, keyboards, headsets, light strips, and with help from MSI, select motherboards.

Corsair will also be making its way into the custom waterloop scene with its own range of water blocks, fittings and radiators, competing with the likes of EK. They will come as full kits initially, with an estimated launch time of around late summer/autumn time, including kits for GPUs. We look forward to that some time in the future