Drevo Tyrfing V2 Tenkeyless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review - Tech4Gamers

Drevo have sent us their popular TKL keyboard for Drevo Tyrfing V2 Review. The V2 in the naming convention clearly indicates that it is a second version of the Tyrfing with main differentiation being the RGB lighting on the V2. This drevo tyrfing v2 review is available in US/DE/UK/FR/IT/RU layouts depending upon the region of the availability. It is a 87/88-key TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. These keyboards have Red/Blue/Black/Brown Outemo switches. Keyboard's color is black.

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Drevo Tyrfing V2 Review

Drevo has sent us 88-key Outemo Red switch version in UK layout. Drevo's focus is to bring their products with no compromise on quality yet at affordable prices and Tyrfing V2 is no exception to that. Drevo is marketing this drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard among the best TKL Mechanical Gaming keyboards under $60/£49.99 price bracket.

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Tyrfing V2 RGB TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Specifications

Drevo Tyrfing V2 Packaging and Unboxing

The keyboard comes in a black/yellow colors cardboard box. The top side of the packing box has a black color background. Drevo's brand name and logo are printed in the middle followed by the Tyrfing name.

The backside of the packing box has the specifications of the keyboard printed on the left side. Company's contact info is printed on the bottom left side. The keyboard's diagram is printed in the main section.

It has three groups of the keys bordered in green, blue and red colors. Green color bordered group is showing the Function keys, Blue color bordered group is showing the Lighting keys and the red color bordered group is showing the Macro keys.

The left and the right sides have a yellow color background and DREVO is printed in the middle on both sides.

The opening cover side has a solid yellow color background. The model of the keyboard is printed in the middle. It is an 88-key mechanical gaming keyboard.

The rear side of the packing box has a yellow color background. The serial no sticker of the keyboard is pasted on the leftmost side. There is an info label pasted right next to the serial no label. Its top side has 5 flags of the countries. Each flag represents the corresponding layout. Ours has UK layout as indicated by the black color dot under the flag.

The bottom side has white and black color keycaps followed by the four switches each of different color. White and Black color keycaps indicate the color of the keyboard. Ours is in black color and Red Outemo switch as indicated by the black color dots under them. There are 14 lighting effects on this drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard. Salient features of the keyboard are printed on the right side along with the system requirements which are Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 and PC/Laptop with a USB port.

Let's open the box. The keyboard is wrapped in a transparent sheet and tucked between black color Styrofoam pads. There is a black color cover on the top side of the keyboard hiding the USB cable of the keyboard underneath it. Drive the Revolution is printed on top of it. There is a black color container pasted on the underside of the top cover. It has a Drevo sticker, user manual, and Warranty guide.

Drevo offers 30 days money back service and lifetime tech support. The user can return the product within 10 days after the delivery date for any reason. The users can contact their user friendly customer support at [email protected]. I really appreciate the presentation of the keyboard and seems like Drevo knows how to do it effectively.

Drevo Tyrfing Accessories and Contents

These include:

• 1x keyboard
• 1x Keycap remover
• 1x sticker
• 1x User Manual
• 1x Warranty Guide

The comprehensive user manual has a nice layout. It is multilingual and starts with the specifications and guides the user on how to use macros and enable customize lighting effects along with the possible key combinations

Drevo has provided a dual key puller, with a Drevo brand name embossed on the solid surface.

Drevo Tyrfing 87-key Closer Look

The Drevo Tyrfing V2 is a simple and compact mechanical gaming keyboard with all the bells and the whistles that a gamer could think of. Not only it is providing all the necessary features that a regular mechanical gaming keyboard has but also has RGB lighting with 14 preset effects to it making it one heck of a good deal for any gamer who is looking to the best combination of the price, form and function.

This is not all as Drevo has provided a comprehensive yet simple to use software to control the keyboard functionality and lighting effects as well. Let's take a closer look at the keyboard.

Drevo tyrfing v2 review is 88-key TKL (Ten Key Less) design. It is compact build but without any compromise on the build quality. For our readers who are not well versed with TKL concept, this keyboard does not have a numpad. Hence it has less surface area making its design to be more compact and light weight. The dimension of the keyboard is 359x135x38mm with weight of 760±20gm. The keycaps are made of ABS material.

Please note that there are differences in the keycap material for the US version and EU versions. The US versions have double shot legend in 87 keys with ANSI whereas the EU versions have laser marking legend in 88 keys with ISO. The keys layout is in UK legend hence we get to see a large size Enter key on this drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard. Make sure to check out the regional layouts available before buying the keyboard.

There are 26 keys that work in combination with the Fn to give stated outcome. Pressing them without the Fn key would give their normal output. The keys are almost in the same order as we see on any other standard mechanical keyboard except where the difference comes from the UK layout in particular. This drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard has RGB LED lighting and I have found the lighting effects on this keyboard subtle and pleasing to eyes. Light is diffused very well across the keys and they don't spread over.

This drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard does not have dedicated media keys but this is expected given its size and TKL design format but Drevo has not skipped the multimedia implementation what so ever. There are dedicated keys for multimedia that work in tandem with the Fn key. Fn is a major key on this keyboard controlling the aspects of defining/accessing Macros, changing lighting effects as well as creating new lighting effects from scratch, locking the Windows Start key.

As soon as you press the Fn key the combination keys got light up in the white LED regardless of the current lighting effect. This is definitely a handy feature giving the user a visual aid. Below mentioned table is showing the combination keys and their stated outcome when pressed along with Fn key.

Key Combination	Output
Fn+Win	Locks/Unlocks the Windows key
Fn+F1	Loads the Music player
Fn+F2	Decrease the Volume
Fn+F3	Increases the Volume
Fn+F4	Mute/Unmute the Volume
Fn+F5	Stops the current playing track
Fn+F6	Loads the previous track
Fn+F7	Play/Pause the current track
Fn+F8	Next Track
Fn+F9	Loads the default Email Client
Fn+F10	Loads the default web browser
Fn+F11	Loads the calculator app
Fn+F12	Activates the Macro keys
Fn+Insert	Toggles between these lighting effects: ·         Advanced Reactive Mode ·         Ripple Mode ·         Cursor Mode ·         Aurora Mode ·         Water Drop Mode
Fn+Home	Activates the Radar Mode lighting effect
Fn+Pg Up	Activates the Meteor Mode lighting effect
Fn+Del	Toggles between these lighting modes: ·         Spectrum Mode ·         Breathing Mode ·         Marquee Mode ·         Stars Mode
Fn+End	Toggles between these lighting modes: ·         Reactive Mode ·         Halo Mode
Fn+Pg Dn	Activates Waves Mode with 4 directions
Fn+ <	Increases the speed of the lighting effect. This will not work in Static mode
Fn+ >	Decreases the speed of the lighting effect. This will not work in Static mode
Fn+ ^	Increases the brightness of the lighting
Fn+ ˅	Decreases the brightness of the lighting
Fn+PRTSC	The light of trigger areas changes between 9 single colors. Pressing Fn+PRTSC will change the backlight of the complete keyboard to a single color in spectrum mode.
Fn+SCRLK	The color of background light changes between 9 single colors.
Fn+PAUSE	The light of trigger areas presents colorful effects

The keyboard has a metallic housing with the brushed aluminum plate covering the PCB on the top side of the keyboard. Keys are almost in a floating way layout. On the right side we have a group of three lock keys which are Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Pause on the top side. Under these keys there is a group of 6 keys having Insert, Home and Page Up keys in the first row and the Del, End and Page Down keys in the second row.

At the bottom we have arrow keys. All these keys have dual functionality as is indicated by double markings on each key. The top marking indicates their regular functions whereas the bottom markings can be triggered using the combination of these keys with the Fn key as described in the table above.

The top side of the keyboard has a typical layout. It is starting with the Escape key. There is a gap between the Esc key and the first group of 4 keys. First group has a single row of 4 keys which are F1 to F4. The second group has a row of 4 keys starting from the F5 to the F8 keys. Keys from F1 to F8 have dual functionality as indicated by the double markings on the keycaps. These are the multimedia keys which can be triggered using the combination of these keys with the Fn key.

Next up is a group of 4 keys in a row starting from the F9 to F12. These have dual functionality as well as indicated by the double markings on the keycaps. F12 is a Macro key. Pressing the Fn+F12 will make the 5 keys on the keyboard blinking fast. These are Y U I O P. Pressing any of these keys will start macro recording process. Once you are done recording the macro, press the Fn+F12 again to save the macro and assign its shortcut key to the corresponding key that you had typed at the start of the process.

This is as simple as it could get. Mind you, you are not limited to these 5 keys as using the software you can define more macros and define any combination of keys as a shortcut for those macros. In order to access the recorded marcos on Y U I O P keys, press Fn+Y and this will activate the macro keys.

The spacebar key has Drevo's brand logo on it in the middle. It lights up and gives a unique look and feel to the keyboard. Each keycap has laser marking to help ensure the longevity of the text printed on them and to better diffuse the light through them. The windows key is present on the left side of the spacebar key.

The properties key is located on the left side of the spacebar key. Please, note that there is no key combination to lock the entire keyboard though it is my personal observation and has nothing to do with the form or the functionality of this drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard. I personally like having this feature as my kid takes pleasure in pressing the keys on my keyboards. It is definitely a handy safety feature particularly for the situations where you are doing some work and need a break.

The left and right sides are identical and they show the minimalistic yet stylish finish of the keyboard. Metallic housing and base is clearly evident and the top plate with brushed aluminum finish really adds to the looks. The metallic base adds much needed ruggedness and strength to the keyboard. The front side of the keyboard shows three rounded cutouts on the middle, left and right sides. This is where the USB cable is routed through. The keycaps don't have that much of a height that we can call it truly a floating design but almost near to it.

Being a compact size keyboard the Tyrfing V2 does not come with the wrist pad and there is no such provision on it to attach any.

Let's take a look at the backside of the keyboard. There are 6 rubber paddings on the backside to avoid scratching on the surface where the keyboard will be used. There is a large size sticker in the middle. It has Drevo brand name and the logo printed on the top side. 88-key Wired RGB Backlit Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard is printed beneath the brand logo.

There is a serial no printed under this text. The company's website address is printed at the bottom. The keyboard is made in China. This drevo tyrfing v2 review keyboard has cable management channel built on the top side. User has the option to route the USB cable either through the middle or left/right sides. This is a handy feature and I applaud their design team for giving so much attention to the details.

There are two rubber feet that under the keyboard to raise the height from the top side of the keyboard. The cable has length of approximately 1.8m. It is made of high grade nylon braiding and has a golden USB connector....