Cherry MX meets Mystic Light. Any PC gaming manufacturer worth its salt understands the need to play in the peripheral market. These are the devices that consumers interact with on a regular basis, and heck, if you already offer motherboards and graphics cards, it makes perfect sense to extend your design language to keyboards and mice.

MSI is of this line of thinking and has updated its vast range of gaming gear with the launch of the Vigor GK80 and GK70 mechanical keyboards. The latter, MSRP $129, adopts a tenkeyless format for those who prefer a minimalist form factor. In for review today is the full-size GK80, priced at $169 (