Epomaker HE65 V2 TMR brings magnetic sensing to a compact 65% board

Epomaker’s HE65 V2 TMR is less about chasing a brand-new category and more about sharpening the pitch for compact magnetic boards. The 65% layout keeps an arrow cluster, a three-key navigation column, and a programmable knob, while the new TMR sensing is meant to preserve the low-latency, adjustable-actuation feel that made Hall-effect boards take off in the first place.

That sensor shift is the headline change. Wooting’s May 27 explainer framed TMR and Hall Effect as two magnetic sensor technologies that both detect magnetic-field changes to measure key travel, with well-optimized firmware able to read movements as small as 0.02 mm. In other words, the draw is not some wholesale reinvention of the switch game; it is a refinement of how the board measures input and how well that input can be tuned. Epomaker has been leaning on that same magnetic-board promise in its own materials, saying the category can reach response times as low as 0.1 ms and that adjustable actuation points are a core advantage.

The HE65 V2 TMR also looks aimed at users who want compactness without giving up daily usability. A stripped-down 60% board can save space, but the HE65 V2 TMR keeps the arrows and navigation strip that make a 65% layout easier to live with for work, shortcuts, and gaming. Epomaker showed the board in black and clear-white translucent colorways, and that looks like more than cosmetic bait. In a crowded gaming segment, transparent shells and visible internals have become part of how these boards signal identity, especially when the hardware underneath is already built around speed and customization.

Epomaker’s broader push is easy to see in the HE75 V2 TMR, which the company has already positioned as a more feature-heavy magnetic board with 8,000 Hz polling, 0.01 mm rapid trigger precision, and a TMR PCB that hot-swaps between magnetic and mechanical switches. The HE75 V2 TMR uses a 75% layout with 80 keys, an 8,000 mAh battery, Bluetooth, 2.4 GHz wireless, and wired connectivity, plus an ABS case, FR4 plate, a five-layer sound-optimizing system, and plate-mounted stabilizers. The HE65 V2 TMR trims that concept into a smaller footprint and makes the value case around desk space, wireless flexibility, and a more compact gaming setup.

The stock switch choice follows the same logic. Epomaker says the HE65 V2 TMR ships with Creamy Jade Magnetic switches rated at 3.5 mm total travel, 30 gf initial force, and 55 gf bottom-out force, and says they are N-pole magnetic switches compatible with other switches in the same family, including TTC KOM and Wooting Lekker Tikken options. Epomaker’s separate Creamy Jade listing gives a different set of figures, 45±5 gf actuation force and 50±5 gf bottom-out force, along with a POK stem, PC upper housing, and PA66 bottom housing, which suggests either different measurement conventions or more than one variant in circulation. Either way, the message is clear: this is being pitched as a platform, not just a finished keyboard.

The translucent HE65 V2 TMR does not look like a gimmick. It looks like Epomaker trying to make a compact magnetic board feel distinct in a segment where the sensor story, the layout, and the visual presentation all have to do some of the selling.