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PowerColor Partners With Ducky for Its First Keyboard

The mechanical gaming keyboard includes a free Red Devil keycap if you're quick.

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PowerColor is a name we've associated with graphics cards for the past 24 years, but the Taiwanese company is branching out to offer a mechanical gaming keyboard.

A partnership with Ducky, a well-known professional keyboard manufacturer also based in Taiwan, has resulted in the special edition PowerColor x Ducky One 2 SF RGB Keyboard, which PowerColor says is "specially tailored and designed for gamers."

The PowerColor x Ducky One 2 SF RGB is a 65% compact mechanical keyboard using Kalih BOX White/Brown switches (guaranteed for at least 50 million key presses), 16.8 million per-key custom RGB lighting, a detachable USB-C cable, and a keycap puller with extra keycaps. The keyboard also boasts anti-ghosting, N-key rollover, and uses doubleshot side-printed PBT keycaps (this involves two plastics being molded together to form each keycap).

As to why it's being called a special edition, PowerColor decided that for a limited time a free Red Devil keycap will be included with the keyboard. Usually the Red Devil costs $49.99, and certainly makes the keyboard look more unique. Tom's Hardware confirmed the keyboard costs $109 and should be available immediately from resellers. Depending on how well it sells and what owners think, we may need to get used to PowerColor launching new keyboards over the next few years.

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