 Welcome to my unboxing of a product that you probably will not be able to figure out what it is at all if I don't show you this this text right here. So like on the front there's like okay we're gonna try and figure out what all this stuff is. So there's a sword, handcuffs, scythe, like a hammer, war hammer, another sword, another more different sword, like a fighter plane, a tank, a bazooka, a sniper rifle, a rocket launcher, a bullpup, three grenades, a stealth fighter or bomber, bomber, sorry, sorry, a helicopter, like friggin missiles like on a boat or something like they're on a boat, a boat, a submarine, another more different boat, a different tank, a different fighter, a sword, a sword, an axe, a grenade, a scythe, and another sword. It is a gaming keyboard intended for all these different purposes. I mean handcuffs, what game involves handcuffs? So let's have a look at all the different things that we have on the box. Two ways cord out so you can actually manage your cables, durable braided cotton corn, corn cord, cotton corn, cotton candy, candy corn, gold plated USB connector, LED backlight illumination with on off switch, twin USB 2.0 ports on the two sides. You know what, let's actually get the keyboard open because that way I can show you all these features on the keyboard itself as we go, which is a sensible way to do unboxings. Sometimes unboxers on the YouTube, they like, oh this is the black version, it's available in red and yellow. Sometimes unboxers on the YouTube, they just like take forever to actually get the product out of the box, and I know I'm guilty of that at times. At times I'm the worst about that, but whatever. You make an unboxing channel. Damn, okay. Key remover tool, these are really handy if you have to remove your keys then you'll have one. Replacement WASD keys. Okay, I'm sure we'll find out why when we look closer at the box. There's the braided cord, looks very nice. Gold plating in there, which is valuable. Gold plating out here, which doesn't do a whole lot. Remember gold plating is good for connectivity, not necessarily conductivity. Silver plating would actually be better for conductivity, incidentally so would copper I believe, but gold is malleable and is also very resistant to corrosion. So no matter how long a gold plated connector sits around, it will never corrode and it will always make good contact. Also makes it able to do more plugs and unplugs. Look at that, I haven't seen a keyboard cover in a while. There's a DVD that you should probably ignore, but the latest from GIGABYTE. In terms of software, here we go. So I haven't seen a keyboard cover like this in a long time. Check that out. Very nice. Once again, use protection. Very good. In fact, oh look at that, you can even leave it on. I remember these, the ones that you just left on and used the keyboard so you don't get cheesy cheese in between the keys, which is really hard to get out. Cheetos, when you eat Cheetos and then you use your keyboard right away, you can get like the bit, the crumbs like stuck around your fingers and then you type and it knocks it into the keyboard and it's really hard to get it out. So this is, I mean this is a problem many gamers face. So I'm glad that GIGABYTE has engineered a solution to this. Excellent. Okay, what do we got? G keys, programmable keys with an indentation on there, not an indentation, a bump on this one so you can easily feel which is which. That's very nice. Three modes for the G keys. We've also got mute and yeah, we're gonna have to figure out what those are. Touch and slide volume control, sweet. Interruption free volume control device during engaged gaming activity. Computer stays in current mode without going in and out of games. Keep the sensor on the far left or the far right. Volume will increase or decrease linearly. Very cool. Very cool indeed. Ghost macro engine, five macro keys per mode to make up to 25 sets of macros with a total of five modes. Change modes easily with mode button on the keyboard. We already saw that one. Four megabit onboard memory enables up to 100 programmable macro sets. Predefined key or button to switch between easily. Software features easy to use. Drag and drop function. As you guys know, gaming keyboards often come down to the software. Now this is unique. This I actually want to like sort of see what I think of. Okay, you know what? I can't actually feel that much of a difference when typing, but Gigabyte has specifically engineered the keyboard to have different force required for different keys on the keyboard. So the lightest keys are your shifts, your Z and X, all these ones that you have to hit with your pinkie while you're gaming. Your heaviest keys are your space, your control, your WASD, and your top four number keys, which you're usually mashing with a ring finger or a middle finger or an index finger, whichever the case may be. Your medium keys are sort of most of your typing stuff. So whether this makes that much of a difference for gaming, hard to say, but there you go. At least they're thinking about it. 20 anti-ghosting keys, so press up to 20 of these at a time without any ghosting. So if you guys know what ghosting means, ghosting occurs when you press two keys and then it registers like a third random keystroke. It usually happens with more than two though. It's more like five or six at a time. So most people don't have more than like six keys mashed at a given time unless they use their face to type. But hey, there it is. Gift silicone keyboard protector and additional WASD alternatives. So I guess these are like, oh nice, they have like a soft touch feel. Like, oh that's kind of neat. So they feel a little bit different. So I guess you can find them more easily. So let's have a look at the rest. There's your num lock light, caps lock light, scroll lock light, there's your mute, more buttons. It's a membrane keyboard so the key switches aren't really anything to write home about. Although what they've done with the different elastic force is going to be sort of, people will either love it or hate it I think, kind of feature. There you go, membrane keys. Put that back on. Cover up the membranes. The wrist rest on this is actually fairly unique. I've only seen one other keyboard, like a gaming keyboard, that has a wrist rest like this and that's the SteelSeries 7G. And my wife actually uses the 7G and refuses to use any other keyboard, not because she particularly likes the feel of the keys and the typing experience, but because she loves the big wrist rest. And yeah, it's actually, it's one of those things. Once again, you love it or you hate it, but if you love it, then well, you love it and it's good. Here we have the cable management stuff so you can either come out in the middle or on the side. We also have flip stands with rubber grips on this side so you can and rubber grips on this side so it's not going to move anywhere. You've got actually lots of little rubber grippy-ness all over the keypad or all over the keyboard. This is awesome. Look at this. This is actually screwed on instead of using cheesy plastic clips. Okay, how many of you out there own a G15? How many of you out there broke the wrist rest off your G15? I did. I didn't even know this, but Slick just put up his hand because it was cheesy and it used little horrible plastic clips. This is amazing. This is engineering a solution to a problem that people have. Very good job, Gigabyte. So I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Avia from Gigabyte. Oh yeah, incidentally, there's a couple more USB ports here. They have rubber plugs in them. Oh no, sorry. That here and here. So you can plug in your mouse or like a USB drive. Nothing. Oh, there's your light on and off switch for the backlight. And I'm just I'm heading this way so that I can plug in the keyboard. Slick doesn't have to follow me. You can just look at the keyboard so that we can see the backlight. Let me just make sure it's on. Oh, it's on. Yeah. Okay. Give me a sec. Give me a sec. We've got a lot of lights on in here. Slick, do you want to have a look at the light? Actually, no. Never mind. We'll see our horrible studio. So I'm just going to turn the lights down so you guys can see the red backlight on this black keyboard. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at this Gigabyte Gainium keyboard. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos. 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