Qpad MK-85 & MK-50 Gaming Keyboards Look To Put Extra Power In Your PC Gaming Experience

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I love gaming peripherals. I really do. It’s great to see what kind of hardware places can come up with in a bid to make your gaming experience better or more immersive or even just more entertaining. And the Qpad MK-50, and its direct counterpart the MK-85, look to offer up a whole lot more in the way of options than you might have ever expected a keyboard to put up.

It’s been a good long while since we last heard anything out of Qpad, so this makes it even more of a reason to take a look at these two new pieces of hardware. Both keyboards will offer up what’s described as “full n-key rollover”, which means the keyboard can recognize as many simultaneous key strikes as your hands can actually pull off, and will do so over a USB connection. Qpad reportedly calls this a first for mechanical keyboard. But that’s not all you’ll get in here–you’ll also get the Cherry MX Red key switches, and these give neither tactile nor audible feedback, which means they’ll need precious little in the way of touching to make them activate. This is huge in the FPS circles.

And if you like that, the MK-85 will not only offer up all of that, but they’ll also throw in individual red LED backlights, a set of programmable keys, ports for your audio gear and headphones on the keyboard itself and a USB hub.

Now, the pricing. These will make their debut at Sweden’s Dreamhack festival, and you’ll be able to pick up the MK-50 for $106.87 US. The MK-85, meanwhile, will take the price all the way up to $200.50, but won’t start shipping until December.

Pretty impressive, though dropping $100-$200 on a keyboard seems a bit like a bad idea to me, especially when they’re not even ergonomic, but for really hardcore PC gamers out there this might make more sense.

So what do you guys think? Are the Qpad MK-50 and MK-85 strictly for the hardcore gamer with plenty of disposable income? Are they well suited for most any gamer? Or do you think they’re just a bad idea altogether and should be disregarded? No matter what you think, we want to hear from you, and the comments section below is just the place to fill us in!