**My Home Office Setup and Equipment**

I am currently using a USB microphone as my primary audio source for recording videos. This microphone is powered by USB, which is a convenient and modern alternative to traditional XLR microphones. While it's not as high-end as some of the other options available, such as the Shure SM7B or the Rode NT-USB, it has served me well over the years and produces good sound quality.

The microphone itself is mounted onto a shock mount from eBay, which helps to reduce vibrations and improve sound quality. The microphone arm is also from eBay and is a cheap but effective solution for holding the mic in place. While some of the components may seem cheap, they have all served me well over time and are still producing great results.

One thing that sets my home office apart from many others is my impressive cable management system. I've spent a lot of time and effort organizing all of my cables and keeping them hidden away, so it's hard to see any of them at first glance. My keyboard wires are neatly tucked under the desk, my mousepad has wireless connectivity, and all of the power cords are carefully routed through the wall or hidden behind furniture. It's not a perfect system by any means, but I'm always looking for ways to improve it.

**The Power System**

One thing that might surprise you about my home office is where the power actually comes from. Rather than having a central power source in the room, all of the devices are powered from a separate area behind the desk. This is achieved using a combination of cables and extensions, including a cable trunking kit that runs through the wall to connect all of the devices.

The system is powered by a combination of USB ports, power extensions, and smart plugs. The USB ports provide power for my computer and other devices, while the power extensions allow me to extend the reach of any power cables. The smart plug is connected to a TP-Link router that provides Wi-Fi connectivity throughout the room.

**Additional Features**

One feature that I've added to my home office in recent months is a battery charging station. This includes a spare battery charger for my Canon G7X Mark II camera, as well as two additional batteries and a charging dock. The idea behind this system is to have everything you need within easy reach, so that you can quickly swap out batteries or charge your device when you need to.

I've also recently purchased some LED strip lights from Philips Hue, which I plan to integrate into the setup in the future. These lights would provide a convenient and programmable lighting solution for the space, allowing me to easily adjust the color and brightness of the lights as needed.

**Future Plans**

As with any home office or workspace, there are always plans for improvement and expansion. In my case, I've got a few ideas in mind for adding new features and components to the setup. One idea is to add some additional lighting effects using the Philips Hue LED strips, which would provide a convenient and programmable solution for adjusting the lighting in the space.

I also plan to install some more extensive cable management solutions in the future, including some custom-built cable trays and organizers. This will help to keep everything tidy and organized, while also providing easy access to any cables or components that I need to work on.

Overall, my home office setup is designed to be functional, efficient, and easy to use. With a combination of modern equipment and clever design solutions, it's the perfect space for recording videos, working on projects, and staying productive.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome to tech block today we are going to doing an updated set tool for April of 2018 under the video just like this back in December of 2017 and here we are five months later and doing an updated version of the setup a lot of things in this app have changed since December of 2017 so today I'm going to be covering pretty much every single item I have in my setup right here as well as like changes that I've made over the past a couple of months and stuff so I hope you enjoy the video Alexa turn off desk okay but we'd run watching that little montage right there be sir we should probably begin the video but if you tell you set up and back on so Alexa some of that there we go everything is turned back on thanks to Alex so if any of you are wondering how I just turned off my LED strips my monitors and my sound bar becomes an echo I'll have a video link down below as well as it can't in the top right corner that you guys can press and check out my video of the tp-link smart plug review as well as like a USB powered smart LED strip of all sorts of cool tech yet that is all linked down below so anything that you see in this video including my monitors any these strips pretty much everything you see in this video is linked down below in the description for your convenience using the genius links so if you are in the UK it will take you to the Amazon UK store if you're on Germany it's going to take you to the Amazon jelly school so you're welcome for all that those may take me hours to set up so hopefully you put them to good use but now that all that's been said let's actually continue on with the setup tour so I'm not entirely sure where to begin but as you saw earlier I did so on lightly strips my monitors and my sambhar video my Amazon echo however I can also do that via my phone via an app called tp-link casa so at the moment I have lights I have loud that's in the kitchen monitors as well as my sambar and I have some other things as well controlled via magic you but this is an app I use to control LED strips around the house I have my desk lights which is my LED strip behind my desk as well as my subwoofer lights which is a USB powered smart LED strip in the corner of my room right here that works for Amazon echo as well as an app on your phone so very cool USB powered LED strip that is a decently bright actually so I finally got the LED strip put into a three socket pair extension that also has six USB ports and that's sitting just behind these lava filler in the corner of my desk and that powers my LED strip my sandbar my Amazon echo as well as my Logitech c920 steering wheel power that needs a a natural power source to power the steering wheel I play eurotruck now I need to use a steering wheel and pedals so it's like really immersive and I also play eurotruck across all three monitors by the way on my GTX 970 which somehow is still holding up relatively well it is a pretty outdated graphics card now and my CPU is also pretty outdated it is the eye 74770 you know things aren't really like too bad I can still edit all of my videos in 4k I have no problems playing you're a truck counter-strike or fortnight or any games really as the GTX 970 you set up pretty capable consoles it is getting a little bit although however you know things are still pretty good at the moment I do plan on upgrading my entire rate in the very near future and that will involve me switching platforms entirely from Intel over to AMD Verizon um most likely good to be picking up the AMD 1800 X CPU getting like 32 gigabytes of g-scale RGB Ram of course I need to get a new motherboard as well and most lucky a new graphics card so that would be a very very expensive upgrade ideally I like to swap up my CPU cooler for the NZXT crack in X is 62 as well as that has some very pretty RGB lights and pairing that CPU cooler with some NZXT err RGB fans would be very very nice as well but keep in mind that would be an extremely expensive system upgrade that would probably cost me more than two thousand pounds it's so probably in the next six to 12 months I'll actually begin upgrading the system chances are most likely going to pick up the NZXT fans as well as the CPU cooler first before upgrading the actual platform as Ram as expensive graphics girls are crazy expensive motherboard and CPU combo that's not too expensive I think the RAM is going to cost more than than the CPU as it is a 32 gigabytes of GCL GB RAM and oh my god I think that costs around four hundred and sixty pound maybe more Rand's very expensive nowadays as most of you probably already know but now that that's all been said about the PC all my PC specs a link down below if you wondering what case I'm using it is the NZXT pH 700 I RGB case that has a NZXT Q plus built into it I did buy some sh d hue plus extension LEDs as well that I've mounted down there as like along here so they look real cool the PC looks gorgeous at night with all sorts of like flashing LEDs pretty much everywhere it's taking a look underneath the PC you will find that I have a 4 port USB 3.0 hub right here as well as an SD card reader right here for my g7 X Mark to that I'm recording this off all my videos in the past it used to be recorded on an iPhone however since I'm ready to an action camera I did need to also - D card reader so I could read b4 house over with SD card and actually import them into my PC so I picked that up I've stuck the SD card reader underneath the desk and right next when I have my port USB 3.0 hub from anko that I mentioned earlier it is a very convenient place to have these USB ports here however I feel like I'm either going to relocate it or buy another 4 port USB hub and place it probably around here as this I feel I would be a more convenient place for me to plug things into instead of reaching all the way over here underneath my PC so I feel like I'm probably going to be relocating this until I set up or just buying like a separate one and putting it right here which chances are I'm gonna probably do that as this is a 2-meter IKEA linman desk and it's a big desk you know it's 2 meters long so stretching all the way from here to there isn't my the most convenient thing it's much better than actually reaching up to the top of the PC right here and manually you're plugging things in but I'm not sure this is the most convenient place you have the easiest B ports as I feel like they would be better relocated there moving on let's go ahead and take a look at all the peripherals that I have around myself right here beginning with the mouse so over here I have the Razer Mamba hyper flux mouse paired with the Razer Firefly hyper flux wireless charging mouse pad now that's a very long name for a mouse and last night combo however this is most likely the coolest mouse a mouse Mac combo that you have ever seen so the winner works is that this mouse mera here generates a magnetic field all around it and when you to power the mouse wirelessly which is super convenient as you have to worry about the battery on your wireless mouse dying now this mass is very different though it doesn't actually have a battery inside it just has a a capacitor that lasts roughly ten seconds so if I pick the mouse off the mouse map and we wait roughly 10 seconds or so you will see that the LEDs on the mouse will turn off as the mouse is no longer receiving power so just give it a couple more seconds there we go it's turned off and if you pop it back onto the mouse back you will see that that the ADIZ have turned back on and the mouse is once again working just fine so you can put the charge for around 10 seconds or so but no more than that as the mouse has no battery inside which is a problem for some people however because there is no battery inside the mouse that makes the mouse extremely light so that in fact that I can blow air at the mouse and it will move across the mouse map like the mouse is super super light it is very ergonomic and it features a 5 g 16,000 dpi optical sensor from Razer now this sensor is by far the best sensor that I have ever used and I've gone through tons of different rays of mice back in 2012 I picked up the Razer Naga epic Mouse and ever since then I've been using Wireless mice shortly after the Razer Naga epic died I picked up the Razer Mamba 2015 wireless mouse which I've been using for roughly two years or so and this mouse was very cool even to this day this is probably one of the best looking mice out there thanks to the string of LED lights on this side right here as well as on the scroll wheel but this mouse wasn't entirely perfect the battery life isn't the best on a mouse that has tons of LED lights all over it and the mass is also quite heavy which can be a problem for some people wasn't a problem for me but the battery life is something that I really wish could have been better one problem when this mouse was that sometimes I'd forget to charge overnight so I leave it on the mouse why I'd wake up and the mouse would have no memory whatsoever which would suck so I would either have to plug the mouse in via wide mode by plugging micro USB cable addley from the mouse right here and then having to use the mouse in wide mode but that would trigger me a lot as a that would leave a cable running along like my entire desk ruining my beautiful cable management work here so that was very very annoying and it was either that or I popped the mouse onto the charging dock right here and wait a couple of hours for it to charge up so yeah that kind of sucked shortly after I've read it to the eraser Landsat mouse which unfortunately didn't have any charging dock at all the only way to charge this mouse was via a cable that you plug into the front of the master again once again in my view USB cable lovely the charging times are pretty quick on this mouse and by the way the battery on this mouse only lasts around ten to fifteen hours so once again not the greatest so every single day you pretty much have to plug the mouse in via a wide connection to prevent the battery from dying and unfortunately that left me plugging in the mouse and leave me in a wild mode for the majority of the time which really sucked as this mass was very good I used it for many months and I experienced no tracking issues thanks to razors adaptive frequency technology that is implemented into this mouse the sensor on the mouse wasn't the greatest it is the fudgie laser sensor I believe the exact same sensor that we have on the razor Mamba Mouse right here so the laser sensors are known for like a bug with one of the axes basically it's not the best sensor out there the optical sensors are phenomenal to use there are literally zero problems with the sensor it is so accurate I can't say enough good things about the razor Marber hyper flux which is the 2018 additional Mouse it is genuinely flawless so that's pretty much sure about my mice so basically the technology over the past couple of years for wireless mice has improved tremendously you don't really have to worry about like latency or like even your battery dying on your on your pilus Mouse anymore so things are really gone quite far in the past six years or so ever since I've been using wireless mice myself but this mouse right here flawless the best Mouse I have ever used by far the one thing that they could improve on is perhaps some more RGB LEDs in your like here and there but apart from that amazing Mouse moving on to my keyboard also from Razer and I'm gonna get tons of comments as I do in all of these videos calling me a razor fanboy I'm sorry I'm in their ecosystem they have a nice keyboard I liked their switches I like the Razer synapse the free point of software thanks to all their macros and I use tons of different macros I believe even Razer products for the six years as I said earlier so I believe that you can system for a long time I don't plan on leaving it any time soon so please to all of you that hate Razer and only love like Coursera a lot you take sorry about that I like crazily you know just deal with it run so the keyboard I currently have here is the Razer BlackWidow chroma version - mechanical keyboard with the Razer green switches which are loud and tactile here's a little sound test for you Russell as you know sound tester for the keyboard now I may be wondering why some of the keys sound different to the other keys that's because like I've silenced I guess maybe like half of the keys on the keyboard using razor's orange that I got for free one I bought with keyboard which was very nice of them so yeah each individual key or at least most of the keys on this keyboard are silenced is so that they're not too loud and obnoxious but nevertheless this is a very nice keyboard I love the feel of the keys and the sound that they make especially now that live in silence services slightly thanks to the green orange around each mechanical key switch on the left hand side of the keyboard right here we have five dedicated macro keys right here ranging from em one two and five if my camera would focus on the keys that would be brilliant so these keys are used every single day by me they are extremely useful as you probably know if macro keys you can program them to do just about anything really I've automated mine to perform tasks in Adobe Premiere when I'm editing videos on YouTube I also use these keys every single day with whatever I'm compiling a link via genius links that I use in the description of all of my videos right here on YouTube so these macro keys save me a tremendous amount of time and thank you for including them on the side of the keyboard apparently macro keys will raise the synapse tree software right here the experience is genuinely amazing the macro keys are super easy to set up and recorder you can customize them like crazy you can jump into razor's chroma studio right here and customize the LEDs on each individual key on each section of the of your mouse pad or Mouse is beautiful their software is the best it's ever in a long time everyone working at Razer has been working really hard on their software as this has been improved tremendously over the past couple of years or so we used to have Razer synapse 2.0 however this is Razer synapse 3.0 which has integration with Razer chroma macro keys as well as Philips hue I think they announced their collaboration back in CES of 2018 which was very cool as you can now pay your Philips you like lighting kit with your razor colonel products and control your Philips hue lights from within the razor chroma Studio which is super super cool but now I do plan on actually picking up myself some Philips hue kits and lighting kits and LED strips and LED bulbs and all sorts of stuff and Philips you in the future but at the moment I'm just using some cheap LED strips behind my desk as well as for my subwoofer and ready it's right here and yes my radiator does have aren't UV LED lights this is the coolest radio you'll ever see and yeah my room doesn't like a bike lock from outside which is pretty funny I suppose you're taking a look at the right hand side of the keyboard we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone pass-through port as well as a USB 2.0 port that I'm currently using to that I'm kind of using for a Bluetooth 4.0 adapter so that I compare my headphones with my PC and you may be wondering what headphones I don't see any headphones in your setup right here I just see free mice that keyboard and smaller stuff so I'm currently using Wireless Apple earpods right here that I picked up a while ago with my iPhone right there so these are very very nice the battery life on them is pretty good unfortunately these aren't going to be like a permanent solution for headphones as this is generally all I have at the moment I used to have a razer kraken headset that i gave away to my mum so ever since then I've just been using either my sound bar which we'll get to in just a second all these Apple earpods right here that have been very nice to use I will be upgrading to a natural pair of headphones in the near future don't you worry I will most likely get a wireless pair of headphones either from razor or some other company ideally I'd like if Razer would release some wireless charging headphones that you could like place onto a dock and the headphones would just charge themself overnight that would be amazing however I don't think they're actually going to do that any time soon for example I'd be razer kraken hyper phlox edition would be super super cool as I did have a razer kraken headset and it was very very comfortable to use I like the sound quality of it wasn't too bad but yeah ideally I'd like it once headset down probably gonna pick up in the next couple of months or so as Apple airports as much as they are they're not the perfect pair of earphones for a setup like this I suppose moving on we have my wireless phone charger from Ankur now this is a very very nice charger I picked this up for around 15 pounds on Heusen and it is very very nice it's all I have to do what I want to charge my phone is like put my phone at least and and what it is charging it's as simple as that really super super convenient it is a real cool addition to the set up I would not want to charge my phone like any other way really other than the stand just because of the convenience that it adds to my setup you may also notice that you don't really see any keyboard cables or even a cable from my mouse pad and mouse and that's because I'm drilled two holes in my desk it to hide my keyboard wire as well as my mouse mat wire now it's taking a look at the hole right here it is a poorly drilled hole that I've kind of like try to hide with electrical tape you can check out the video of me actually drink the holes in my desk by pressing on the card in the top right hand side of your screen right now and that will take you to my cable management video where I drill the two holes in my desk and that is by no means a tutorial video it is um it's what not to do but nevertheless you know the holes in my desk I didn't ruin my desk in the process this has improved my cable management tremendously I mean my keyboard looks wireless and so does my mouse and mouse mat which one Mouse actually is Wireless but MyMathLab also it's wireless now too which is very very nice moving on we have my sound bar right here now I do have a review on the channel of the F of samba if you want to go check that out if you are interested in buying one perhaps this is the sound blaster X Kitana RGB gaming sound bar from creative thanks to all the RGB lights at the bottom of the Sam bar here which looked very very pretty and helped match the entire theme that I have around my setup which is basically like an RGB theme as I have like I should be keyboards RGB sound bar RGB PC case with like tons of LED lights inside of it I have a raid you know like all these RGB peripherals and lighting options and stuff like that all over the room and this sandbar just helps title it together really thanks to its RGB lighting on the bottom of the Samba which is very nice and December itself very loud apparently sound bar with the subwoofer and oh my god it is unbelievably loud I have never ever even gone close to the max volume of the Samba as my neighbors would probably call the police as this is just unbelievably loud even like volume 20% the bass that this sort of produces is just out of this world so yeah this is a very very good sound but it is a little bit expensive they're coming in at around 250 pounds once again but it's a very good Samba if you're looking for a Samba and you're like me and you didn't have any space for me on the left or right hand side of your desk for dedicated light speakers check out the sound bar or sambhar options you know sounds good they're not that common set ups but they're really good moving on to the right-hand side of the Samba you may see this clock thing now most people think that this is just a regular like digital clock that I have underneath my monitors right here however this is actually an Amazon echo so it has the voices system built into it and you can do a ton of different stuff on here so if we scroll over we can see the weather in my town right now we can see like things to try you know try how far as London from Paris finally we have my Google Calendar synced up with Amazon echo allowing me to check my calendar through Amazon echo which is really cool and at the moment it's only telling me my vid IQ monthly bill is coming up and if any of you are wondering more vid IQ is it is a chrome extension that i use to like help grow my channel and if any of you are also interested in like improving the amounts of use again just like increasing your channels popularity check out a bit like you have a link in the description down below it is an affiliate link by the way you so be sure to check out bit IQ if you're interested in like growing your YouTube channel ever so sorry more as their service and their Chrome extension has helped my channel tremendously so thanks to villi Q thanks for creating your service it's really helped my channel a lot moving check out the monitors that I have in my setup right here so these are the a CSV and 24/7 H a sixty Hertz panels they are VA panel so the color reproduction on these monitors is actually pretty good the blacks are quite deep and stuff will be colors look amazing on these monitors they are only 60 Hertz unfortunately they don't have g-sync or freezing or anything like that unfortunately as these are pretty cheap monitors however you know VA panel they're still pretty good they can overclock to 74 Hertz which I'm praying about them set to you so you know it's not too bad the monsters really do get the job done I mean I have three tiny P monitors right here I've basically overclocked each one of these monitors right here to their maximum potential Soren ago these two Ronnie has 74 cuts and this one runs at 67 Hertz so yeah there's my monitors link in the description down below to my monitors of course and as you can probably see that these two monitors don't have a stand and that's because all three monitors are mounted onto a nova Tech triple monitor desk mount that is only available in the UK so far the countries have left like alternatives that you guys can check out on Amazon but this is basically just a triple monitor desk clamp that I've like clamped to my desk to hold up or free of my monitors and a lot of people worry about might be desk that I have and how it can actually support three monitors like all this stuff as well as like a very very heavy PC so as I mentioned earlier I do have the IKEA linman 2 meter desk I believe the tabletop itself is only around 30 pound if not less so the desk itself is super super cheap I don't look straight a lot of people worry about the absolute steadiness of the desk you know from my experience I've been using this desk for quite a few years now and you know it's pretty sturdy it does wobble a little bit but nevertheless for a desk this cheap it is very very steady it holds up three monitors via a client at the bottom there it holds up my pc just fine you know I've had no problems with a nest whatsoever so far if I ever do have any comments with the desk I'll be sure to let you know but I'm sure that if anything actually goes wrong with the desk that everything will just collapse and I think my entire self will just fall apart and break so hopefully that doesn't happen but so far that's been very sturdy and the no problems whatsoever moving on to my web camera here this is the Logitech c920 webcam a very old webcam a little bit outdated at the moment however you know it's a 1080p webcam at 30fps at 1080p you know decent little webcam yeah I think I picked it up for only around 27 pound on Amazon Prime day so I got it for a pretty good deal and the webcam itself you know it's a webcam I can't really say much about it it's plugged into my PC at the back of my motherboard and it also has two LEDs that light up on the side right here that I can demonstrate to you if you're interested if I launch OBS you'll see that the LEDs on this side of the webcam shut up as you can see right that they both lit up just now so yeah the webcam has LEDs they're not RGB unfortunately but yeah there's the webcam pretty cool stuff it's to the left of the webcam we have my microphone right here now this is the audio technica at2020 microphone which is powered by USB now this isn't like an XLR microphone there is the XLR version that you can pick up if you want it however I'm currently just using the USB version of the microphone I've had this mic for many many years the build quality of the microphone is phenomenal the sound quality is pretty good as you can probably tell as I record all my videos using this microphone and it picks up the sound relatively well no matter like where I am in the actual room so there's the microphone that I'm using pretty cool stuff the microphone is mounted onto the shock mount from ebay which goes like five pound and then that's mounted onto a microphone um that's also from ebay that I bought many many years ago and this microphone arm is once again like super super cheap it's probably like 10 pound or something so the inside like microphone setup is pretty cheap the microphone itself only goes around maybe 100 pound nowadays after I'm lining to sure they still make the at2020 there are the newer models I'd be 1835 there you guys can check out if you want to buy microphone like this one they're all pretty similar but I leave the 1835 probably sounds ever so slightly better than the at2020 right here now let's talk about my cable management so at the moment the setup probably looks amazing right like you can't see a single cable in sight my keyboard wires are hidden my mouse pad wireless hidden and you don't see any cables diving along the wall right here or you don't really see any power switches or anything really however if we look underneath the table oh my god what is that so at the moment all the cables are kind of like jumbled up in a big big mess I am working on improving this at the moment don't you worry this is not going to stay like this forever I bought a bunch of chemo monitoring accessories that I'm going to be mounting to the bottom of the desk to help resolve the chaos that is underneath my desk right here so that's my key matter underneath the desk if any of you were wondering but the entire setup is not powered from here you may have noticed that there is a cable trunking kit right here and that house is a ton of power cables that power each of my monitors and my PC right so the entire setup is actually powered over there now if we go over here we have the two sockets one for my PC and one for 810 port power extension that is connected to another expansion engine there's a lot of power extensions in the server basically so all these cables right yet run through another kid with honking kids that I've installed in the corner this pairing session also has six USB ports that I used to charge with my phone when I go to bed and those are having like USB cable that I use to charge my portable battery bank commander I get so I have a free port power extension right here that has all my monitors that is connected to a tp-link smart plug allowing me to turn my monitors off and be in my arms and echo and that smart plug is poked into a temporal power extension that is sitting inside of the scale management box right here and if you want to wait competing like invention box just like these I'll be sure to leave a link in the description down below so you guys can go check out these camera boxes from dealing right here that are housing my power extensions my 18:52 router right here is also connected to the ten slightly pair extension and this just provides me with Internet to the left of the router we also have my spare battery charger for my canon g7x mark ii camera that i'll carry before this video so I have the two batteries before the camera walnuts and the camera of course and one that's gonna need recharging we saw that I can install the batteries out later on if I need to and that's pretty much it well this sir I do have tons of plans for the syrup and things I want to improve and add to it including the Natalie he lies above the entire syrup I think they would look amazing as well as like a brilliancy Phillips you with all my needy strips right here that would be very very handy as I could control all the LED strips through Razer synapse but thanks to race this collaboration with philips hue so that's all really cool I've got tons of plans for the setup it's something excerpts almost already come and around July time maybe August maybe September at the latest but that's pretty much it for today's video I hope you have enjoyed watching it I'll be sure to have another set video uploaded in the next couple of months or so as I mentioned earlier be sure to check out my other videos as well if you are interested in more in-depth reviews of these products so thanks very much for watching I hope to see you in another video soon goodbyehello welcome to tech block today we are going to doing an updated set tool for April of 2018 under the video just like this back in December of 2017 and here we are five months later and doing an updated version of the setup a lot of things in this app have changed since December of 2017 so today I'm going to be covering pretty much every single item I have in my setup right here as well as like changes that I've made over the past a couple of months and stuff so I hope you enjoy the video Alexa turn off desk okay but we'd run watching that little montage right there be sir we should probably begin the video but if you tell you set up and back on so Alexa some of that there we go everything is turned back on thanks to Alex so if any of you are wondering how I just turned off my LED strips my monitors and my sound bar becomes an echo I'll have a video link down below as well as it can't in the top right corner that you guys can press and check out my video of the tp-link smart plug review as well as like a USB powered smart LED strip of all sorts of cool tech yet that is all linked down below so anything that you see in this video including my monitors any these strips pretty much everything you see in this video is linked down below in the description for your convenience using the genius links so if you are in the UK it will take you to the Amazon UK store if you're on Germany it's going to take you to the Amazon jelly school so you're welcome for all that those may take me hours to set up so hopefully you put them to good use but now that all that's been said let's actually continue on with the setup tour so I'm not entirely sure where to begin but as you saw earlier I did so on lightly strips my monitors and my sambhar video my Amazon echo however I can also do that via my phone via an app called tp-link casa so at the moment I have lights I have loud that's in the kitchen monitors as well as my sambar and I have some other things as well controlled via magic you but this is an app I use to control LED strips around the house I have my desk lights which is my LED strip behind my desk as well as my subwoofer lights which is a USB powered smart LED strip in the corner of my room right here that works for Amazon echo as well as an app on your phone so very cool USB powered LED strip that is a decently bright actually so I finally got the LED strip put into a three socket pair extension that also has six USB ports and that's sitting just behind these lava filler in the corner of my desk and that powers my LED strip my sandbar my Amazon echo as well as my Logitech c920 steering wheel power that needs a a natural power source to power the steering wheel I play eurotruck now I need to use a steering wheel and pedals so it's like really immersive and I also play eurotruck across all three monitors by the way on my GTX 970 which somehow is still holding up relatively well it is a pretty outdated graphics card now and my CPU is also pretty outdated it is the eye 74770 you know things aren't really like too bad I can still edit all of my videos in 4k I have no problems playing you're a truck counter-strike or fortnight or any games really as the GTX 970 you set up pretty capable consoles it is getting a little bit although however you know things are still pretty good at the moment I do plan on upgrading my entire rate in the very near future and that will involve me switching platforms entirely from Intel over to AMD Verizon um most likely good to be picking up the AMD 1800 X CPU getting like 32 gigabytes of g-scale RGB Ram of course I need to get a new motherboard as well and most lucky a new graphics card so that would be a very very expensive upgrade ideally I like to swap up my CPU cooler for the NZXT crack in X is 62 as well as that has some very pretty RGB lights and pairing that CPU cooler with some NZXT err RGB fans would be very very nice as well but keep in mind that would be an extremely expensive system upgrade that would probably cost me more than two thousand pounds it's so probably in the next six to 12 months I'll actually begin upgrading the system chances are most likely going to pick up the NZXT fans as well as the CPU cooler first before upgrading the actual platform as Ram as expensive graphics girls are crazy expensive motherboard and CPU combo that's not too expensive I think the RAM is going to cost more than than the CPU as it is a 32 gigabytes of GCL GB RAM and oh my god I think that costs around four hundred and sixty pound maybe more Rand's very expensive nowadays as most of you probably already know but now that that's all been said about the PC all my PC specs a link down below if you wondering what case I'm using it is the NZXT pH 700 I RGB case that has a NZXT Q plus built into it I did buy some sh d hue plus extension LEDs as well that I've mounted down there as like along here so they look real cool the PC looks gorgeous at night with all sorts of like flashing LEDs pretty much everywhere it's taking a look underneath the PC you will find that I have a 4 port USB 3.0 hub right here as well as an SD card reader right here for my g7 X Mark to that I'm recording this off all my videos in the past it used to be recorded on an iPhone however since I'm ready to an action camera I did need to also - D card reader so I could read b4 house over with SD card and actually import them into my PC so I picked that up I've stuck the SD card reader underneath the desk and right next when I have my port USB 3.0 hub from anko that I mentioned earlier it is a very convenient place to have these USB ports here however I feel like I'm either going to relocate it or buy another 4 port USB hub and place it probably around here as this I feel I would be a more convenient place for me to plug things into instead of reaching all the way over here underneath my PC so I feel like I'm probably going to be relocating this until I set up or just buying like a separate one and putting it right here which chances are I'm gonna probably do that as this is a 2-meter IKEA linman desk and it's a big desk you know it's 2 meters long so stretching all the way from here to there isn't my the most convenient thing it's much better than actually reaching up to the top of the PC right here and manually you're plugging things in but I'm not sure this is the most convenient place you have the easiest B ports as I feel like they would be better relocated there moving on let's go ahead and take a look at all the peripherals that I have around myself right here beginning with the mouse so over here I have the Razer Mamba hyper flux mouse paired with the Razer Firefly hyper flux wireless charging mouse pad now that's a very long name for a mouse and last night combo however this is most likely the coolest mouse a mouse Mac combo that you have ever seen so the winner works is that this mouse mera here generates a magnetic field all around it and when you to power the mouse wirelessly which is super convenient as you have to worry about the battery on your wireless mouse dying now this mass is very different though it doesn't actually have a battery inside it just has a a capacitor that lasts roughly ten seconds so if I pick the mouse off the mouse map and we wait roughly 10 seconds or so you will see that the LEDs on the mouse will turn off as the mouse is no longer receiving power so just give it a couple more seconds there we go it's turned off and if you pop it back onto the mouse back you will see that that the ADIZ have turned back on and the mouse is once again working just fine so you can put the charge for around 10 seconds or so but no more than that as the mouse has no battery inside which is a problem for some people however because there is no battery inside the mouse that makes the mouse extremely light so that in fact that I can blow air at the mouse and it will move across the mouse map like the mouse is super super light it is very ergonomic and it features a 5 g 16,000 dpi optical sensor from Razer now this sensor is by far the best sensor that I have ever used and I've gone through tons of different rays of mice back in 2012 I picked up the Razer Naga epic Mouse and ever since then I've been using Wireless mice shortly after the Razer Naga epic died I picked up the Razer Mamba 2015 wireless mouse which I've been using for roughly two years or so and this mouse was very cool even to this day this is probably one of the best looking mice out there thanks to the string of LED lights on this side right here as well as on the scroll wheel but this mouse wasn't entirely perfect the battery life isn't the best on a mouse that has tons of LED lights all over it and the mass is also quite heavy which can be a problem for some people wasn't a problem for me but the battery life is something that I really wish could have been better one problem when this mouse was that sometimes I'd forget to charge overnight so I leave it on the mouse why I'd wake up and the mouse would have no memory whatsoever which would suck so I would either have to plug the mouse in via wide mode by plugging micro USB cable addley from the mouse right here and then having to use the mouse in wide mode but that would trigger me a lot as a that would leave a cable running along like my entire desk ruining my beautiful cable management work here so that was very very annoying and it was either that or I popped the mouse onto the charging dock right here and wait a couple of hours for it to charge up so yeah that kind of sucked shortly after I've read it to the eraser Landsat mouse which unfortunately didn't have any charging dock at all the only way to charge this mouse was via a cable that you plug into the front of the master again once again in my view USB cable lovely the charging times are pretty quick on this mouse and by the way the battery on this mouse only lasts around ten to fifteen hours so once again not the greatest so every single day you pretty much have to plug the mouse in via a wide connection to prevent the battery from dying and unfortunately that left me plugging in the mouse and leave me in a wild mode for the majority of the time which really sucked as this mass was very good I used it for many months and I experienced no tracking issues thanks to razors adaptive frequency technology that is implemented into this mouse the sensor on the mouse wasn't the greatest it is the fudgie laser sensor I believe the exact same sensor that we have on the razor Mamba Mouse right here so the laser sensors are known for like a bug with one of the axes basically it's not the best sensor out there the optical sensors are phenomenal to use there are literally zero problems with the sensor it is so accurate I can't say enough good things about the razor Marber hyper flux which is the 2018 additional Mouse it is genuinely flawless so that's pretty much sure about my mice so basically the technology over the past couple of years for wireless mice has improved tremendously you don't really have to worry about like latency or like even your battery dying on your on your pilus Mouse anymore so things are really gone quite far in the past six years or so ever since I've been using wireless mice myself but this mouse right here flawless the best Mouse I have ever used by far the one thing that they could improve on is perhaps some more RGB LEDs in your like here and there but apart from that amazing Mouse moving on to my keyboard also from Razer and I'm gonna get tons of comments as I do in all of these videos calling me a razor fanboy I'm sorry I'm in their ecosystem they have a nice keyboard I liked their switches I like the Razer synapse the free point of software thanks to all their macros and I use tons of different macros I believe even Razer products for the six years as I said earlier so I believe that you can system for a long time I don't plan on leaving it any time soon so please to all of you that hate Razer and only love like Coursera a lot you take sorry about that I like crazily you know just deal with it run so the keyboard I currently have here is the Razer BlackWidow chroma version - mechanical keyboard with the Razer green switches which are loud and tactile here's a little sound test for you Russell as you know sound tester for the keyboard now I may be wondering why some of the keys sound different to the other keys that's because like I've silenced I guess maybe like half of the keys on the keyboard using razor's orange that I got for free one I bought with keyboard which was very nice of them so yeah each individual key or at least most of the keys on this keyboard are silenced is so that they're not too loud and obnoxious but nevertheless this is a very nice keyboard I love the feel of the keys and the sound that they make especially now that live in silence services slightly thanks to the green orange around each mechanical key switch on the left hand side of the keyboard right here we have five dedicated macro keys right here ranging from em one two and five if my camera would focus on the keys that would be brilliant so these keys are used every single day by me they are extremely useful as you probably know if macro keys you can program them to do just about anything really I've automated mine to perform tasks in Adobe Premiere when I'm editing videos on YouTube I also use these keys every single day with whatever I'm compiling a link via genius links that I use in the description of all of my videos right here on YouTube so these macro keys save me a tremendous amount of time and thank you for including them on the side of the keyboard apparently macro keys will raise the synapse tree software right here the experience is genuinely amazing the macro keys are super easy to set up and recorder you can customize them like crazy you can jump into razor's chroma studio right here and customize the LEDs on each individual key on each section of the of your mouse pad or Mouse is beautiful their software is the best it's ever in a long time everyone working at Razer has been working really hard on their software as this has been improved tremendously over the past couple of years or so we used to have Razer synapse 2.0 however this is Razer synapse 3.0 which has integration with Razer chroma macro keys as well as Philips hue I think they announced their collaboration back in CES of 2018 which was very cool as you can now pay your Philips you like lighting kit with your razor colonel products and control your Philips hue lights from within the razor chroma Studio which is super super cool but now I do plan on actually picking up myself some Philips hue kits and lighting kits and LED strips and LED bulbs and all sorts of stuff and Philips you in the future but at the moment I'm just using some cheap LED strips behind my desk as well as for my subwoofer and ready it's right here and yes my radiator does have aren't UV LED lights this is the coolest radio you'll ever see and yeah my room doesn't like a bike lock from outside which is pretty funny I suppose you're taking a look at the right hand side of the keyboard we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone pass-through port as well as a USB 2.0 port that I'm currently using to that I'm kind of using for a Bluetooth 4.0 adapter so that I compare my headphones with my PC and you may be wondering what headphones I don't see any headphones in your setup right here I just see free mice that keyboard and smaller stuff so I'm currently using Wireless Apple earpods right here that I picked up a while ago with my iPhone right there so these are very very nice the battery life on them is pretty good unfortunately these aren't going to be like a permanent solution for headphones as this is generally all I have at the moment I used to have a razer kraken headset that i gave away to my mum so ever since then I've just been using either my sound bar which we'll get to in just a second all these Apple earpods right here that have been very nice to use I will be upgrading to a natural pair of headphones in the near future don't you worry I will most likely get a wireless pair of headphones either from razor or some other company ideally I'd like if Razer would release some wireless charging headphones that you could like place onto a dock and the headphones would just charge themself overnight that would be amazing however I don't think they're actually going to do that any time soon for example I'd be razer kraken hyper phlox edition would be super super cool as I did have a razer kraken headset and it was very very comfortable to use I like the sound quality of it wasn't too bad but yeah ideally I'd like it once headset down probably gonna pick up in the next couple of months or so as Apple airports as much as they are they're not the perfect pair of earphones for a setup like this I suppose moving on we have my wireless phone charger from Ankur now this is a very very nice charger I picked this up for around 15 pounds on Heusen and it is very very nice it's all I have to do what I want to charge my phone is like put my phone at least and and what it is charging it's as simple as that really super super convenient it is a real cool addition to the set up I would not want to charge my phone like any other way really other than the stand just because of the convenience that it adds to my setup you may also notice that you don't really see any keyboard cables or even a cable from my mouse pad and mouse and that's because I'm drilled two holes in my desk it to hide my keyboard wire as well as my mouse mat wire now it's taking a look at the hole right here it is a poorly drilled hole that I've kind of like try to hide with electrical tape you can check out the video of me actually drink the holes in my desk by pressing on the card in the top right hand side of your screen right now and that will take you to my cable management video where I drill the two holes in my desk and that is by no means a tutorial video it is um it's what not to do but nevertheless you know the holes in my desk I didn't ruin my desk in the process this has improved my cable management tremendously I mean my keyboard looks wireless and so does my mouse and mouse mat which one Mouse actually is Wireless but MyMathLab also it's wireless now too which is very very nice moving on we have my sound bar right here now I do have a review on the channel of the F of samba if you want to go check that out if you are interested in buying one perhaps this is the sound blaster X Kitana RGB gaming sound bar from creative thanks to all the RGB lights at the bottom of the Sam bar here which looked very very pretty and helped match the entire theme that I have around my setup which is basically like an RGB theme as I have like I should be keyboards RGB sound bar RGB PC case with like tons of LED lights inside of it I have a raid you know like all these RGB peripherals and lighting options and stuff like that all over the room and this sandbar just helps title it together really thanks to its RGB lighting on the bottom of the Samba which is very nice and December itself very loud apparently sound bar with the subwoofer and oh my god it is unbelievably loud I have never ever even gone close to the max volume of the Samba as my neighbors would probably call the police as this is just unbelievably loud even like volume 20% the bass that this sort of produces is just out of this world so yeah this is a very very good sound but it is a little bit expensive they're coming in at around 250 pounds once again but it's a very good Samba if you're looking for a Samba and you're like me and you didn't have any space for me on the left or right hand side of your desk for dedicated light speakers check out the sound bar or sambhar options you know sounds good they're not that common set ups but they're really good moving on to the right-hand side of the Samba you may see this clock thing now most people think that this is just a regular like digital clock that I have underneath my monitors right here however this is actually an Amazon echo so it has the voices system built into it and you can do a ton of different stuff on here so if we scroll over we can see the weather in my town right now we can see like things to try you know try how far as London from Paris finally we have my Google Calendar synced up with Amazon echo allowing me to check my calendar through Amazon echo which is really cool and at the moment it's only telling me my vid IQ monthly bill is coming up and if any of you are wondering more vid IQ is it is a chrome extension that i use to like help grow my channel and if any of you are also interested in like improving the amounts of use again just like increasing your channels popularity check out a bit like you have a link in the description down below it is an affiliate link by the way you so be sure to check out bit IQ if you're interested in like growing your YouTube channel ever so sorry more as their service and their Chrome extension has helped my channel tremendously so thanks to villi Q thanks for creating your service it's really helped my channel a lot moving check out the monitors that I have in my setup right here so these are the a CSV and 24/7 H a sixty Hertz panels they are VA panel so the color reproduction on these monitors is actually pretty good the blacks are quite deep and stuff will be colors look amazing on these monitors they are only 60 Hertz unfortunately they don't have g-sync or freezing or anything like that unfortunately as these are pretty cheap monitors however you know VA panel they're still pretty good they can overclock to 74 Hertz which I'm praying about them set to you so you know it's not too bad the monsters really do get the job done I mean I have three tiny P monitors right here I've basically overclocked each one of these monitors right here to their maximum potential Soren ago these two Ronnie has 74 cuts and this one runs at 67 Hertz so yeah there's my monitors link in the description down below to my monitors of course and as you can probably see that these two monitors don't have a stand and that's because all three monitors are mounted onto a nova Tech triple monitor desk mount that is only available in the UK so far the countries have left like alternatives that you guys can check out on Amazon but this is basically just a triple monitor desk clamp that I've like clamped to my desk to hold up or free of my monitors and a lot of people worry about might be desk that I have and how it can actually support three monitors like all this stuff as well as like a very very heavy PC so as I mentioned earlier I do have the IKEA linman 2 meter desk I believe the tabletop itself is only around 30 pound if not less so the desk itself is super super cheap I don't look straight a lot of people worry about the absolute steadiness of the desk you know from my experience I've been using this desk for quite a few years now and you know it's pretty sturdy it does wobble a little bit but nevertheless for a desk this cheap it is very very steady it holds up three monitors via a client at the bottom there it holds up my pc just fine you know I've had no problems with a nest whatsoever so far if I ever do have any comments with the desk I'll be sure to let you know but I'm sure that if anything actually goes wrong with the desk that everything will just collapse and I think my entire self will just fall apart and break so hopefully that doesn't happen but so far that's been very sturdy and the no problems whatsoever moving on to my web camera here this is the Logitech c920 webcam a very old webcam a little bit outdated at the moment however you know it's a 1080p webcam at 30fps at 1080p you know decent little webcam yeah I think I picked it up for only around 27 pound on Amazon Prime day so I got it for a pretty good deal and the webcam itself you know it's a webcam I can't really say much about it it's plugged into my PC at the back of my motherboard and it also has two LEDs that light up on the side right here that I can demonstrate to you if you're interested if I launch OBS you'll see that the LEDs on this side of the webcam shut up as you can see right that they both lit up just now so yeah the webcam has LEDs they're not RGB unfortunately but yeah there's the webcam pretty cool stuff it's to the left of the webcam we have my microphone right here now this is the audio technica at2020 microphone which is powered by USB now this isn't like an XLR microphone there is the XLR version that you can pick up if you want it however I'm currently just using the USB version of the microphone I've had this mic for many many years the build quality of the microphone is phenomenal the sound quality is pretty good as you can probably tell as I record all my videos using this microphone and it picks up the sound relatively well no matter like where I am in the actual room so there's the microphone that I'm using pretty cool stuff the microphone is mounted onto the shock mount from ebay which goes like five pound and then that's mounted onto a microphone um that's also from ebay that I bought many many years ago and this microphone arm is once again like super super cheap it's probably like 10 pound or something so the inside like microphone setup is pretty cheap the microphone itself only goes around maybe 100 pound nowadays after I'm lining to sure they still make the at2020 there are the newer models I'd be 1835 there you guys can check out if you want to buy microphone like this one they're all pretty similar but I leave the 1835 probably sounds ever so slightly better than the at2020 right here now let's talk about my cable management so at the moment the setup probably looks amazing right like you can't see a single cable in sight my keyboard wires are hidden my mouse pad wireless hidden and you don't see any cables diving along the wall right here or you don't really see any power switches or anything really however if we look underneath the table oh my god what is that so at the moment all the cables are kind of like jumbled up in a big big mess I am working on improving this at the moment don't you worry this is not going to stay like this forever I bought a bunch of chemo monitoring accessories that I'm going to be mounting to the bottom of the desk to help resolve the chaos that is underneath my desk right here so that's my key matter underneath the desk if any of you were wondering but the entire setup is not powered from here you may have noticed that there is a cable trunking kit right here and that house is a ton of power cables that power each of my monitors and my PC right so the entire setup is actually powered over there now if we go over here we have the two sockets one for my PC and one for 810 port power extension that is connected to another expansion engine there's a lot of power extensions in the server basically so all these cables right yet run through another kid with honking kids that I've installed in the corner this pairing session also has six USB ports that I used to charge with my phone when I go to bed and those are having like USB cable that I use to charge my portable battery bank commander I get so I have a free port power extension right here that has all my monitors that is connected to a tp-link smart plug allowing me to turn my monitors off and be in my arms and echo and that smart plug is poked into a temporal power extension that is sitting inside of the scale management box right here and if you want to wait competing like invention box just like these I'll be sure to leave a link in the description down below so you guys can go check out these camera boxes from dealing right here that are housing my power extensions my 18:52 router right here is also connected to the ten slightly pair extension and this just provides me with Internet to the left of the router we also have my spare battery charger for my canon g7x mark ii camera that i'll carry before this video so I have the two batteries before the camera walnuts and the camera of course and one that's gonna need recharging we saw that I can install the batteries out later on if I need to and that's pretty much it well this sir I do have tons of plans for the syrup and things I want to improve and add to it including the Natalie he lies above the entire syrup I think they would look amazing as well as like a brilliancy Phillips you with all my needy strips right here that would be very very handy as I could control all the LED strips through Razer synapse but thanks to race this collaboration with philips hue so that's all really cool I've got tons of plans for the setup it's something excerpts almost already come and around July time maybe August maybe September at the latest but that's pretty much it for today's video I hope you have enjoyed watching it I'll be sure to have another set video uploaded in the next couple of months or so as I mentioned earlier be sure to check out my other videos as well if you are interested in more in-depth reviews of these products so thanks very much for watching I hope to see you in another video soon goodbye\n"