I built a gaming PC a few years back, and about a year ago I picked up a fairly expensive video card to max a few games I was playing at the time. About a week after that the mother board, power supply, and video card all got fried by lightning. It was a bout 8 months before I got another computer, (went with a macbook pro), so I know what it is like, sorry to hear it.
But like the others said, try the keyboard on the PS3. I was going to do that for FFXIV whenever it released.