The current holder of the fastest keyboard crown, this svelte but heavy contraption looks good on a desk and doesn’t cost the Earth, but complex setup and guides only in Chinese can make it challenging.
Some translation required
Wired keyboards can feel old-fashioned
ESportsBeat's got your back
Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you. Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware.
Mchose, you’ll be pleased to hear, is not a Scottish garden products company, a new and particularly rubbery burger, or an unintelligible rapper you’ll despair of The Young People liking, but a Chinese manufacturer of computer accessories including keyboards, headphones, and the most enormous wireless mouse receiver I’ve ever seen. Honestly, the mouse that thing pairs with must be MASSIVE.
On to the Ace 68 Turbo, which isn’t particularly big but is a 68-key gaming keyboard with Mount Tai GT HE magnetic switches.
Switches that the Zhishi Intelligent Technology Company, whose name is printed on the back as the manufacturer, has chosen to package in a nicely made but completely unopenable box. If you were the sort of child who tore their presents open on Christmas morning like a xenomorph rampaging through a hapless spaceship crew, then sharpen your claws and prepare to get stuck in.
Finding a way to peel the end open will become a priority, and you’ll eventually be able to slide the sheath off and expose the inner packaging, which flips open to unveil a sheet of stickers, a key-puller, a dust cover, some spare keys and switches and eventually a keyboard that’s shrink-wrapped in a layer of plastic. Get that off, and the Ace 68 Turbo is revealed.
This isn’t a website about cardboard boxes, except when it is , so that’s enough about the packaging. This is, as PCG announced to a jubilant world back in November, the world's first keyboard with a 16 kHz polling rate enabled by a 512 MHz dual-core microcontroller, something that reduces latency by a few thousandths of a second (0.02 ms), and which it’s debatable anyone really needs or will ever notice.
if (window.sliceHydrationLazy) {
console.error('%c FTE ','background: #9306F9; color: #ffffff','no lazy slice hydration function available');