Razer Tartarus v2 Gaming Keypad: Mecha-Membrane Key Switches – 32 Programmable Keys – Customizable Chroma RGB Lighting – Programmable Macros -…
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- High-Performance Mecha-Membrane Switches: Provides the tactile feedback of mechanical key press on a comfortable, soft-cushioned, membrane, rubber dome switch suitable for gaming
- 32 Mecha-Membrane Keys for More Hotkeys and Actions: Perfect for gaming or integrating into creative workflows with fully programmable keys
- Thumbpad for Improved Movement Controls: The 8-way directional thumbpad allows for more natural controls for console-oriented players and a more ergonomic experience
- Fully Programmable Macros: Razer Hypershift allows for all keys and keypress combinations to be remapped to execute complex commands
- Ultimate Personalization & Gaming Immersion with Razer Chroma: Fully syncs with popular games, Razer hardware, Philips Hue, and gear from 30 plus partners; supports 16 8 million colors on individually backlit keys
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Razer Tartarus v2 Gaming Keypad: Mecha-Membrane Key Switches – 32 Programmable Keys – Customizable Chroma RGB Lighting – Programmable Macros -…
Original price was: $79.99.$69.99Current price is: $69.99.
Guillaume –
OK j’adore cette bebelle… mais Razer fait de la cochonnerie depuis un certain temps (tout leur produit mon lâcher après un an ou moins, souris, keyboard)….. J’ai acheté un premier qui m’a lâché après un mois…. Moi je répare de l’électronique…Donc je l’ai démonté…les pièces utilisées dans le joystick sont des boutons de souris de mauvaise qualité (kailh CMI873101D01-3) la pièce de métal qui fait le contact brise (non réparable doit changer le bouton) … Donc j’ai retourné le produit et là j’ai fait des recherches pour trouver un autre clavier à main, autre que Razer…. Il y a peu alternative, car Logitech on discontinué le leur, donc j’ai tenté de voir si je pouvais avoir les pièces de rechange… seulement en paquet de 25 000 directs de chine… Après un certain temps, j’ai trouvé une équivalence et commandé 50 pièces (omron) et racheté un autre Tartare V2 en me disant, il va repriser d’ici un mois ou deux, mais je changerai les pièces…. Donc excellent produit si tu n’utilises pas le joystick ou si tu pratiques la soudure lol……comme moi!!! (j’ai mis une image d’un morceau de métal similaire, il case et ne s’écrase pas dans Tartarus)
Ryan L Stone –
BLUF: D-pad switch broke in less than 2 months and I have to wait 5-6 weeks for a replacement, or pay for a replacement to be sent to me.
I’ve been a longtime buyer of Razer products, but unfortunately it looks like their quality control is not what it used to be, and it is absolutely apparent that their help desk / customer service is much, much worse. As a longtime user of the Tartarus game pad (all the way back to the Belkin N52), I was super excited to see the Tartarus V2 come out…especially since they brought a true D-pad back to the V2 like the old Nostromo had. I pre-ordered the V2 in NOV17 and received at the end of DEC17. By mid-FEB18, one of the d-pad switches failed (it stopped clicking, felt ‘mushy’ and would either not work, or be stuck on). I emailed Razer support and waited for over a week. I re-emailed them asking for a status update, and finally received an email back asking to see a movie of the issue and to fill-in a form. I sent the movie and form the same day and continued to wait another week with no response. I sent 2 more emails asking for a status and finally just called their help-line. After an ~45-60 min call with a help desk agent I was told that they would send me a label (~1 week), I would need to ship back my broken product and wait for their staff to inspect it/etc. (~1-2 weeks) and then they would ship me a new one (~1 week). I pushed back and said that I’ve already been waiting nearly 3 weeks to get this fixed so they offered up the “non standard” replacement approach, but that could only be done by their Tier 2 help desk…who would get back to me within 24-48 hours. Two days later (this morning 3/1/2018), I received an email that said they would send me a new product and a shipping label, but would require that I pay them first ($79.99 +tax) as a ‘guarantee’, and would hold my funds until they received the broken product back, plus an additional 10-15 business days. At this point, it’s looking like it will be ~1.5-2 months since my product broke for me to receive a replacement and I’ll have to pay twice for it and *hope* they reimbursement my funds in a timely manner.
I’m not sure what has changed at Razer, but my only other experience with their help desk and replacement process was completely different. I had a switch fail on one of my Black Widow Ultimate keyboards a few years back and was contacted by a rep in less than 2 days, was told they would send me a new keyboard out the same day, and all I had to do was send them a picture of my keyboard cable being cut in half. I was super impressed with how easy it was and had a new keyboard in my hands within days. It’s clear *something* has changed, and unfortunately, not in favor of the customer.
Eileen –
What a wonderful device! I don’t use it for gaming. I use it for digital drawing/photo editing. It took about a day of time and research; I meticulously mapped controls that I use constantly for digital drawing into two kep maps on this device. For example, the scroll wheel changes the digital brush size. The space bar is my undo button. The various other keys change the brush type; I have an erase, create new layer, undo, redo and take-a-scree-shot v button as well as a volume and skip song control. It’s wonderful! But boy, did it take some time! Well worth it though! Now, I have memorized the key map layout and gotten used to the button placement. I am so fast with this gaming keyboard now. I press buttons for controls without even thinking about it. I now can no longer digitally draw comfortably without it. When I draw on my iPad, I crave the use of this device! I have used it on both Windows and Mac. The only drawback on Mac that I see is that I can’t take advantage of the option that allows automatic input of text. You press one button, and the predetermined text automatically appears. That option does not work on my Mac, but it works on Windows. Gosh! It would have been so useful, as I rename many layers constantly the same in every drawing such as “background” or “base color”, “shadow.” But oh well. Perhaps it will become available in the future. I hope they never stop selling this. When my device finally gives out in ten years (hopefully), I don’t know what I’ll do. Maybe I should buy two or three more now just in case…
David D. –
UPDATE: Razer support and I have been talking and the issue is being escalated up to the engineers to see if there is a widespread problem in the firmware. I will keep this updated as the issue is investigated. I STILL think this product is worth your investment, but be way that there might be a few kinks to work out still.
While the product itself is an awesome product, and has the potential for so many different things in the pc gaming space – it has a fatal flaw at the moment. It is either software related or something faulty with how the switches work, in that you will occasionally get a phantom input. For example, you’re strafing left and right – and suddenly you will just keep strafing in one direction until you press that key again. This is a pretty big deal, and I’m surprised it was allowed to release like this. I’ve been in contact with razer support – but no dice yet. I will update this review if the problem is sorted out, but otherwise I will probably be returning this keypad sadly. I really, really like it – but if I am paying 129$ for less than half a keyboard, it better work flawlessly.
CRubio –
I have owned two other Nostromos in the past. The original was made by Belkin and the first gen made by Razor. After several years I finally decided to upgrade my older model as it’s started having trouble syncing with the Razor Synapse. Well I bought this and was excited to use it. I took it out of the box and immediately realized this was not made for a woman’s hand. No problem as it is adjustable. WRONG! Even on the smallest setting I’d have to grow another knuckle length to be able to rest my wrist on the pad and reach the first row. The larger setting appears to be made for some sort of Orangutan hybrid. Sadly I have to return this and pray that someone will decide to make a gaming keypad for women’s/normal size hands.
K. Gill –
I used an N52TE for many years for playing MMOs. I replaced it with an Orbweaver, which I used for about a year. I didn’t really like it though, it didn’t feel as comfortable in my hand, and the thumb joystick was awkward. Then I saw this. It’s almost identical physically to the N52TE, but has an extra row buttons on top. They’re kind of hard to reach, and not all that useful, but still nice to have. It feels the same as my old pad did in my hand though.
My main grip with it is Razer Synapse. This unit doesn’t have onboard memory, so you have to have Razer Synapse running. It has minimized games while I was playing them to let me there’s an update available. I find that very annoying. Also, I can’t just take it and plug and just have my keybinds setup the way I want them. I have to install Synapse on that machine and configure it.
Richard Scott-Noble –
New to pc gaming, I find a normal keyboard too uncomfortable.
This keypad helps, due to the raising of the palm.
Software is intuitive and the lighting is very customisable.
Its not high grade enough for the lights beneath the keys to be individual – you will get a bit of ‘bleed’ between the colours (the V2 Pro fixes this issue with a more defined lighting set up – but for an extra £50 just for that and a more of an analogue feel to the key presses, the V2 will do me fine).
The main downside is it is too light overall, I am constantly sliding this device across the table. No amount of rubber stops can hold this in place, and the rubber feet underneath don’t really have much of an anti-slip property. Still getting used to it, so maybe over time I wont be as heavy handed with it.
Easy to customise macros and key presses to individual keys – so using things like Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects is great as you can have CTRL+Z, or SHIFT+CTRL+Z on their own keys – not really saving that much time, just makes things a hell of a lot easier.
Would recommend
phil –
was well excited whenit arrived, so many functions to play around. All buttons are able to be set up to what you need.
Only bad thing i had, was that my hand crampt up after 30mins of use and made gaming not fun than. But this might be just me as i played 9 years on consol and only recently converted to PC gaming (even struggle at times with Keyboard)
Saku –
He tenido una mala experiencia con este dispositivo. Debido al mal funcionamiento pedí un remplazo por recomendación de Soporte técnico de Razer y el remplazo también presentó los mismos errores de mal funcionamiento, los cuales no son problemas electrónicos como me dijo el fabricante, es problema del software que controla este dispositivo (Synapse3) que está en fase BETA desde hace mas de un año.
Es importante mencionar que TartarusV2 necesita de Synapse3 para poder programar las funciones: Macros, iluminación y creación de perfiles por juego, etc.
Synapse3 es el único software disponible para utilizar Tartarus V2 por lo tanto, es parte del producto que compré y esta lleno de errores y problemas.
Decidí conservar el remplazo del producto que me dio Amazon, porque conservo la esperanza de que en algún momento Razer solucione los problemas de su software Synapse3 y cuando esto ocurra TartarusV2 será un buen dispositivo.
ACTUALIZACIÓN
Razer ha actualizado Synapse3 corrigiendo la mayoría de los problemas que me molestaban de este producto, ha funcionado casi al 100%, sin embargo una direccional de D-PAD ha comenzado a fallar a solo 12 meses de uso. Este problema ya lo había leído en algunas valoraciones; que el Dpad tiene mala calidad y que en poco tiempo falla.
No compres este producto, amenos que tengas dinero y voluntad de comprar uno nuevo cada 12 meses.
ACTUALIZACIÓN NOV. 2020
He comprado Tartarus Pro, con la esperanza de que tenga una mejor fabricación. Adquirí el producto en Marzo del 2020 y en Noviembre del mismo año ya presenta fallos en el Dpad igual que el Tartarus v2 que compre en 2018.
No recomiendo invertir un centavo en este producto, Razer me ha demostrado fabricarlos con mala calidad.