EVGA TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSING SYSTEM
The Z20 keyboard features a ToF proximity sensor, this detects user movement to trigger the system awake or to send it to sleep.
4K Hz report rate
The Z20 Keyboard is powered by a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 core microprocessor to support a 4K Hz report rate. Offering the most advanced gaming keyboard experience, 4K Hz is 4x more responsive and inputs can be more precise.
LIGHT UP YOUR GAMING EXPERIENCE
MACRO CONTROL & MULTIMEDIA FUNCTION
DEDICATED MACRO KEY
Five dedicated and programmable Macro E keys, customizable via the UNLEASH RGB software.
VOLUME SCROLL WHEEL & MULTIMEDIA KEYS
Dedicated volume wheel and media keys give you full control at your fingertips.
Illuminate
The EVGA Z20 keyboard brilliantly outshines the competion with fully-customizable *Per-Key* RGB LEDs, with left & right edge RGB Light bar customization to fit any color scheme. The Z Series LED backlighting can be configured via the EVGA UNLEASH RGB software, and multiple lighting effects can be instantly dimmed or brightened via the LED brightness function combination keys.
EVGA UNLEASH RGB Software
Lighting Effect
The Lighting Effect Panel allows you to control the Z20‘s 7 pre-set modes, and customize 6 different lighting zones. Customize buttons to turn effects on and off, to change effects, and even preview the lighting before saving. Set a custom lighting profile to fit your personality with *per-key* customization.
The Z20 keyboard is equipped with Light Strike LK Optical Mechanical switches with a low 1.5 mm travel to actuation, generating 25% faster response time compared to traditional mechanical switches. Featuring your choice of Linear or Clicky keys with N-key rollover to ensure that you get exactly the type of feedback and experience you want.
Optical-Mech. Linear
Switch Color: Dark Gray
Switch Type: Linear and Silent
Travel: 3.0mm
Actuation: 1.5mm
Actuation Force: 45g
Operating Life: 100M
Key Debounce Time: < 0.5 ms
Specification
Switch
Optical Mechanical Switches
Durability: 100 million keypresses
0.5 ms debouncing time
Total travel distance: 3.0 mm
Actuation distance: 1.5 mm
Actuation force: 40 g
Design
Connection Type: USB 2.0
5 dedicated E-keys
3.5 mm Audio Jack
ToF Sensing System
RGB Lighting: Side light bars / per key
4 Indicator LED
Dimensions:
- Width: 5.94 in / 151 mm
- Length: 18.58 in / 472 mm
- Height: 1.5 in / 38 mm
- Weight: 2.49 lbs / 1.13 kg
Micro Processor
Keyboard Report Rate: 4K Hz (0.25 ms)
32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 core
Pros: The keyboard itself is very wonderful. The clickyness of it reminds me of the old IBM model M clicky sounds. The TOF sensor is more than a mere gimmick that actually works and works well. The macro keys are another reason to look into this keyboard. I wasnt sure about optical switches until I used them and now wont be switching back. However
Cons: The Unleash RGB software is pretty bad. I downloaded it and plugged in the keyboard and the software would just force quit. I couldnt get it to stay open no matter how or where I plugged it in. Reboots and cold starts didnt help at all. I got older versions of the software and nothing helped. I went online and found plenty of others saying the same thing. That the keyboard needs a firmware update, and if your windows install was pretty old it wouldnt work properly. I read somewhere that support told people to reinstall Windows and the. It should work. If true, that is completely unacceptable. One workaround that I found and I tried and it eventually worked, was to install windows in a VM, download the software, and do the firmware update on the VM, and then it should work just fine on the host machine. It worked for me, but I almost bricked the keyboard doing the update because something happened to the VM and it froze up. I lost all lights and it wouldnt register in the software. I didnt give it enough ram and only one core so that was my bad. But I got get it back and the firmware updated and everything is fine now. I had the same experience with the x17 mouse, but that will be in its own review. EVGA, If your listening, fix your software. Gamers Nexus advertises for you and your keyboards, and Im going to email Steve and Co. and share with them my own experience and links to the many other customers that are having the same problems that hes running ads for. Please just fix your broken software.
Overall Review: Great keyboard, horrible software.