kaminaree
4 de junio de 2026
not what i expected
when razer was first establishing itself i was a pretty fervent supporter of them but the quality declined pretty bad over a short period of time and i swore razer off for good. that being said, a good friend i game with was singing razer's praises one day and i was doing my naysaying as i do. i am the type to pay $200 for the special edition keychron walnut chassis HE oand not even use it as a daily driver. i've built probably 45 or 50 keyboards at this point ranging from budget $70 builds to highly custom builds for like $400. i LOVE keyboards.that being said, this keyboard actually blew me away. spending $150 on a razer keyboard to me is what the high school counselor referred to as "risky behavior that leads to painful consequences".i'll start off on a note for the builders such as myself, yes, you read that correctly, a HOT SWAPPABLE RAZER KEYBOARD. this is important info for a later point.keycaps and LEDS are great. ordered keycaps with the keyboard and i don't think i'll end up using them. the stock keycaps have a very nice subtle texture to them and the shine through for the LED is spot on, with a nicely tuned glow beyond them, the light bleeds out nice and diffused from under the keycaps. lighting is a straight up win imo.comes with a very cool USB-C "hub" with a VERY generous length cable that you can plug into your PC and then plug the dongle into. i imagine this is to maximize convenience when switching between cable/wireless modes. you just detach the hub part with the dongle inside and plug the cable into the board to charge then just reattach and bam. a matter of a couple seconds. very cool.software is complete, but sort of convoluted and does have moments of instability. i think i have pretty much fixed the instability, but while using this keyboard with a newly purchased Naga V2, it seemed the 2.4ghz hyperspeed dongles started interfering with each other? got to the point where i lost complete control of my mouse for several moments at a time at a 5 minute interval. my party in FFXIV wasn't thrilled when their WHM just stopped being able to keep people alive. A FEW THINGS I DID THAT SEEM TO HAVE FIXED THE PROBLEM:after i had been using the keyboard for a while and i started having the worst issues with my mouse (affected the worst by far), i checked the software and was met by a firmware update for the keyboard. i downloaded and installed it, the keyboard hasn't had a problem since. mouse was still atrocious. at this time i'll say that i have had the mouse a few days now and have intermittently had problems with it to the point of considering a return but i am persistent. anyways, after the update i took both the mouse and keyboard dongles out of the rear IO of my pc and plugged them into USB 3.0 ports on my case's front panel. mouse hasn't had a problem since. so, i didn't really "troubleshoot" or document my process to fixing it, but between the firmware update on the keyboard and switching both dongles into other ports, it seems to be perfectly functional now.also might be worth noting that i am runnign an ASUS ProArt board and all of the rear IOP ports are USB A 3.2 or USB-C 20-40gbps, idk if maybe that's a little too much for a standard dongle, admittedly i know very little about the details of USB ports and devices, it wouldn't surprise me though to find out that a 3.2 port is putting too much power through the dongle?razer's peripheral management software(suite lol), (now the caveats), there are like 4 apps to manage your razer ecosystem if you want to make the most out of the razer ecosystem. pretty much half of it is completely unneeded for anyone without standard ARGB lighting to sync to like Govee or Phillips etc etc. what sucks is the two bits of software that i would argue are a requirement, is two bits of software. all of the software is part of a hub/launcher that actually looks nice and runs well, but needing to code a LAUNCHER to manage even a single peripheral feels like several steps back in terms of ARGB tech. oh well, small gripe, the software has a near 0 footprint on my system resources and it hasn't cause compatibility issues. aside from these gripes which i'll consider minor due to the fact that the software is not necessarily bloatware in spite of being modular and it is very light weight. even if you were inclined to make use of every app razer offers, it won't impact a mid level pc. the apps are next to none. incredible functionality. macros are EASY to record, all of my peripherals have access to Hypershift modifiers because of my Tartarus V2 which has literally doubled the amount of space i have for keybinds. being able to push down one comfortable key to double my mouse inputs BY ITSELF imo would sell me completely, these are just a couple of the things available to you.HOTSWAPPABLEthis keyboard has incredible macro potential and types very well. haven't gotten the PCB to ghost yet or act adversely in any way. these factors combines with the fact you can import your favorite switches, GAME CHANGER. i have wanted a pcb with software like this with hotswaps for a very long time, this is exactly what i wanted.Ver másVer menos
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