The EVGA Z20 mechanical keyboard on sale for $75 can sense your approach

The EVGA Z20 keyboard was just introduced in February, but it has already dropped in price drastically from that original $175 MSRP. Today you can get the Z20 mechanical keyboard on sale for $74.99. It has been selling for around $130 the last month or so with some jumps back up to that MSRP. It has never gone as low as today’s deal. The same keyboard is going for $123 at Newegg and even more at other retailers. Get it for a bargain today. You can choose between clicky or linear Light Strike LK optical mechanical switches, and get either one at this discounted price.

The Z20 has some unique and interesting features for a gaming keyboard. For one thing, it has a Time-of-Flight sensor on the front. This system acts as a proximity detector and can tell when you’re approaching, letting your keyboard wake up your PC system just as you’re sitting down to start using it. You can use EVGA’s software to make this sensor do a lot of different things. You can adjust its range, but more importantly you can change its functionality. The sensor can adjust your lighting effects or it can lock and unlock your computer or go as far as putting it to sleep or waking it up. The choices are yours.

One of the other unique features of the Z20 keyboard is the 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 microprocessor inside that lets it reach a 4,000 Hz report rate. Advanced polling rates are becoming a bigger and bigger trend in 2021 as we’ve seen through other updated product lineups like the Razer Viper gaming mouse. The result is a much faster keyboard with no latency.

The keyboard itself has dedicated macro keys for executing advanced commands on-the-fly, a volume scroll wheel for easy adjustments even while gaming, and multimedia keys. It has a 3.5mm audio port, USB passthrough for connecting extra peripherals, and full per-key RGB backlighting you can customize. There is also a detachable wrist rest.