Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad
$69.99
$129.99
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Condition: New
Color: Mercury White
Style: Tartarus Pro - Optical Switches
Top positive review
36 people found this helpful
I like this thing. A lot.
By NastyB on Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2020
I am loving this thing. I have always been a controller guy until I bought Doom Eternal, and it was obvious from the very first level that this game was made with mouse and keyboard in mind and I decided it was time to make the switch and I'm really glad I did. I stopped playing the game and waited for this to arrive, along with the Corsair Harpoon gaming mouse. It took A LONG time to start feeling comfortable with the new set up but once it started to click it made all the difference in the game. The learning curve for me was huge, maybe the biggest one I've had to go through in decades for gaming, but it was worth it. This keypad is great. I bought this used from a seller here, something I don't normally do but the price was more than half off the new price and I knew it was a gamble that I might not take to it and go back to controller, which would have made this a waste of money. I feel like I got lucky, the used product of this looks brand new and is in great shape, and since it worked out and I ended up loving the keypad it was money well spent. I specifically went with the Tartarus because I really liked the idea of having the thumb stick, and I feel like that was a good move. In Doom Eternal, now I can control the Slayer in a way I'm already familiar with while freeing up the rest of the keyboard and my fingers to the different melee attacks and switching equipment. That way I don't have to move my fingers all over the keyboard as I normally would have had to, fumbling around hoping I hit the right keys. The learning curve was huge for sure and for awhile, I probably put in enough time in the first three levels over and over again trying to get accustomed to the new control style as it would take someone else to actually beat the entire campaign, but once it all clicked, I can't imagine playing a game like this any other way and I already knew from the first level that a controller was a huge disadvantage. In regards to the quality of the actual device- it's solid. The keys all have a great feel and click to them, and the thumb stick has the exact same feel. It feels like pushing a key on the board with the mechanical click and all in every direction, it's great feedback to know you're pushing it in the right direction and for learning how to use it. It's also very comfortable to use, and the wrist rest beneath the keyboard reduces any normal strain I would feel by hovering my hand over a typical keyboard. And lastly if you care, the rgb lighting on this is good and bright and every color in the rainbow is represented just fine. I don't care that much about this, but I know some freaks do so there you go. To summarize, this purchase was worth every penny. The keyboard is solid, it feels solid, it is quality. The thumb stick works great and I really struggle to find anything to complain about here. I can see this falling short on games with tons of keybinds, and Doom Eternal is really pushing it in that regard, but it still worked out great with just enough keys to accommodate all the things you need to do. Purchasing this along with a gaming mouse has changed the way I play a game like this and for the better. Highly recommended, especially if you can get one at the used price I did if it shows up at your door in the condition mine did. On a quick side note I do want to point out that Windows 10 by default had this keypad configured to shut down randomly to preserve power in the device settings. You're going to want to figure out how to go into the USB options and make sure to uncheck the box letting Windows do that because if you don't this will disconnect randomly out of nowhere for like fifteen seconds here and there, and obviously that is not ideal unless you like losing due to some technical crap.
Top critical review
I wouldn't use this if you gave it to me for free.
By Asiano Montoya on Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2025
Friends were raving about this. Bought it for wow to hopefully alleviate hand cramps I get when playing melee classes with high apm. The keys were strange and couldn't tell when I had "pressed" the key. The wrist guard made my hand sit too high off desk which actually made the fatigue worse. I could run several keys before I cramped up with regular keyboard but I would start cramping within a few minutes using this. Removing the wrist rest helped but then it was just uncomfortable. The thumb stick was atrocious. You have to move the stick in a direction not intuitive to the direction you are moving which made it awkward. To move forward you move the thumbstick up to the left. You can rebind this but the other option which is sort of down and to the right is also an awkward direction to use to move forward. The thumb stick also made it hard to fit my hand comfortably so had to remove it and just use D-pad but that was not super easy to use. My movement was not precise even after using it for awhile which got me killed a few times. I tried using the keypad for movement and then using the D-pad for abilities but the way it works made it again awkward and my key presses were not precise with it and I would hit the wrong bind often. The scroll wheel was bad. It is positioned in a strange position and I would rather have just had a key there. I use shift and ctrl modifiers for my mouse and so assigned them to keys on the keypad located in a similar position. For my hand size this meant my hand was mostly locked to this position so I couldn't reach most keys easily. Not having space for jump I had to find another button. The one under thumb is the logical choice but if using the thumbstick/dpad to move then you cant easily move and jump. I could move it to my mouse but I already use all my buttons there and jumping with my mouse just feels unintuitive as I am controlling all movement with my left hand so splitting the task into right and left hands just weird but I did try it. Using the button under the thumbstick to jump meant I could no use the dpad to move or for abilities if I was jumping with that. I tried it for nearly a month but I could just not build the muscle memory for it. It was not ergonomic which is why I purchased it in the first place. Suffice it to say all my friends who recommended it just decided I was strange because I didn't love it. In a reddit post I read a comment in which someone said, "how many pro wow players do you see using a Tartarus?" When I watch them I almost never see them using a Tartarus. There are a few streamers that do but this poster was correct, its not really a thing you see. If it was so much better the pros would use it. Even pros sponsored by Razer don't use them. The quality also seems lacking like it might break in a year.
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