The Ultimate Gaming Workspace: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up Your Ideal Gaming Station

When it comes to creating an ideal gaming workspace, there are several key components that can make all the difference. In this article, we'll explore some of the most essential elements for setting up a top-notch gaming station, and how to do it on a budget.

First and foremost, let's talk about the desk itself. The right desk can make or break your gaming experience. For those who prefer a simple setup, an IKEA desk with built-in cable management features is a great option. You can charge your controllers, headset, and other devices without having to clutter up the surface. Additionally, the desk comes with a sleek design that will complement any room decor.

Next up, we have the storage solution. A well-organized workspace is essential for efficient gaming. IKEA's pegboard system is an excellent option for organizing your gear. With a peg structure that can be attached to the wall and cabinets, you can easily hang your controllers, headset, and other accessories. The best part? It's affordable, with prices starting at just $20.

But what about organization in general? A cluttered workspace can quickly become overwhelming, making it difficult to focus on the game. To combat this, we recommend using a cable management system like those offered by IKEA and ROG. This simple accessory allows you to keep your cables tidy, preventing tangles and keeping your desk clear.

Now, let's talk about ergonomics. A comfortable gaming chair is essential for long gaming sessions. ROG's lightweight and affordable gaming chairs are perfect for this purpose, providing optimal support and style. Additionally, the adjustable height feature ensures that you can customize your chair to fit your specific needs.

Of course, no gaming station would be complete without a few accessories to round out the experience. A desk lamp like the one provided by ROG is an excellent addition, allowing you to illuminate your screen without straining your eyes. And for those who prefer to take notes or record gameplay, a trusty keyboard and mouse will come in handy.

One of the most exciting aspects of setting up your gaming station is exploring the various configurations available from IKEA and ROG. Whether it's a simple desk with built-in cable management features or a more complex setup with adjustable shelves, there are plenty of options to choose from. And with prices starting at just $20, you can create an ideal workspace without breaking the bank.

But what about maintenance? A well-maintained gaming station is essential for optimal performance and longevity. By using a stand like ROG's computer tower stand with casters, you can easily move your PC to different areas of the room as needed. This feature is especially useful when it comes to cleaning your setup – no more having to wrestle with cables or untangle messes.

And finally, let's talk about customization options. With a wide range of accessories and configurations available from IKEA and ROG, you can create a truly unique gaming station that reflects your personality and style. From simple desk organizers to elaborate shelving systems, there are plenty of ways to personalize your setup.

As we dive deeper into the world of organization and ergonomics, it's clear that setting up an ideal gaming station requires careful consideration. But with IKEA and ROG at the helm, you can trust that you're getting high-quality products that will meet all your needs. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just starting out, this comprehensive guide has provided you with everything you need to create an unforgettable gaming experience.

In fact, some of the most exciting things about setting up your ideal gaming station are the little details that make it come together. Take, for example, the pegboard system from IKEA and ROG's accessories. These small touches can make all the difference in terms of organization and aesthetics. And when you have a peg structure like that on hand, you're free to get creative with how you use it.

For instance, some people might prefer to store their controllers alongside their glass cabinets, which are perfect for displaying memorabilia or special edition figurines. Others might opt to hang their headsets from the pegboard system, using straps and magnetic strips to keep everything tidy. The possibilities are endless, and with IKEA and ROG's accessories leading the way, you're guaranteed a seamless gaming experience.

Of course, one of the most exciting things about setting up an ideal gaming station is discovering new ways to use your gear. With the right accessories and configurations on hand, you'll find yourself experimenting with different layouts and settings all the time. And that's what makes it so much fun – the freedom to create something truly unique.

For those who have been eyeing a particular product or accessory from IKEA and ROG, this is your chance to get hands-on experience. From the simple desk organizers to the elaborate shelving systems, every component has been designed with one goal in mind: to enhance your gaming experience.

But what about the bigger picture? How can setting up an ideal gaming station contribute to a healthier lifestyle overall? By creating a comfortable and efficient workspace, you'll find that you're able to focus more clearly on your game – and even tackle everyday tasks with renewed energy. And as we all know, there's no better feeling than crushing it in your favorite video game.

In conclusion, setting up an ideal gaming station is not just about having the right gear – it's about creating a space that inspires you to play at your best. With IKEA and ROG on hand, you can trust that every component has been designed with one goal in mind: to elevate your gaming experience. So go ahead, take the leap – and get ready to unleash your inner gamer like never before!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhen i say the word ikea to you what comes to mind i'd imagine you'd be thinking about furniture packed very tightly into flat boxes that you can transport anywhere and lift and bring anywhere and then build anywhere you would probably imagine an incredibly successful furniture company from sweden you wouldn't be wrong but it turns out ikea's doing things that you need to know about that are different unexpected ikea is stepping into the modern era and looking to satisfy your gaming needs they're getting into the gamer business and they're doing it with a partner well the right partner republic of gamers also known as rog and they launched an entire series of accessories for gamers and i'm on the website right now checking out some of the different ones and we're going to check out a bunch of them here today the new range is a result of ikea partnering up with the gaming brand republic of gamers rog together we've designed gaming desks gaming chairs and accessories that combine high performance great ergonomics and sharp looks and another key thing i should mention price that's something ikea has been so competitive on and gamers haven't traditionally been treated that well as far as price is concerned so i've looked at a number of gaming peripherals and desks and things like that and they a lot of them have a premium price tag the first item i'm noticing on the on the site here the up spell gaming desk check this out it's a height adjustable standing or sitting desk so this is going to be popular for gamers but those that also have to get some productivity stuff going on and every so often want to stand up this is a 55 inch by 31 and a half inch desk it has some gamer styling to it but most importantly it's motorized and height adjustable it's even got a usb port on the actual desk for charging a variety of devices it has cable management built in helps you perform at your best large durable sturdy and you can quickly and easily adjust the height so you can always enjoy an optimal position and as far as the pricing goes 549 dollars is pretty competitive as far as motorized standing desks go let's start with the desk because everything is built around this check this angle out at the back if you do happen to put this against a wall this is naturally where your cables are going to fall off but it also sort of looks like a stealth angular thing going on which is carried through to the legs of the unit if you look down here you can see the shapes you can see the large feet which they thought about so that it's going to get a nice grip regardless of flooring that you put it on you can see the cable management up there in the back so you're going to have a spot to put your power bricks power bars a variety of peripherals and such so you have presets on the control here and that's going to let you set up your common spots that you like to work at so you might game at a number one you might work at a number two you might eat at a number three i don't condone eating at the desk but everybody does it so and then you can also just do the old fashioned up and down so let's get a sense for the height here you can hear the motor there oh wow this one goes up this one goes up i also like that you have a digital reading of which height you happen to be at so if you have a spot that you like you can just remember the actual number this is what i wanted to show you have a usb port so we can plug into this and use it as a phone charger just a quick easy location keep a usb cable uh attached over here yes lovely i love little extra features like that that's super handy super handy just a nice functional robust fairly uh hefty top on it and it's a matte black finish a little bevel on the front where you might want to lean and then we're going to go all the way down and see how low it can go as well 72 wow that's quite low that's i mean you could have it that's a dining room that's a gathering that's a get together and then also solid i don't condone such things but it's worth checking the next product it's called match spell and it is their premium gaming chair uh once again with some aggressive some affordable some competitive pricing 189 dollars it looks to be available in black and red with a mesh back which i like staying cool lightweight match spell gaming chair helps you play at the top of your game your whole body enjoys nice support and you can adjust the height of the chair neck and arm rests sit comfy when the game begins ah yes so it looks like a fairly typical chair but then you turn it around and you see this red accent and right away to me what stands out is this nice indent around the lumbar section which is a section that i care about deeply that's a part that goes under supported on a lot of chairs headrests also height adjustable in this fashion so it can tilt and it can raise up and down it's very responsive is how i would describe it and leaning back actually pushes the lower portion out a little bit ah so see sometimes you sit forward in a chair and it doesn't follow you the whole way this this one is following my body you'll see it doesn't come up off my back at any position in here now you also have tight adjustable armrests so they're going to be able to get under your desk so the lowest height here we're still easily under but you can also come up and get to this kind of optimal support position when you have your gaming mouse keyboard and so on we're going to have height this way so we can also get up and tall if we choose that's quite tall all right so now as you can see our gaming setup is coming together we need more accessories our setup is nowhere near complete it's not even close in fact oh look at this the lannispolar multi-functional cushion blanket this is going to be 24.99 and this looks like a cushion it is a cushion but it's so much more need more lumbar support this is something to lie on a blanket over your shoulders or something to warm your whole body this cushion is the solution for all of this since it can be transformed in a flash it's something i never knew i needed a transformable uh blanket but this is it apparently this is a thing that pc gamers need they're freezing over there get the frozen fingertips you're playing doom like kirk you're gonna throw me that at me right now wonderful so this is it lannispar okay so right away rog look to the pattern on the outside it is a pillow you could sleep on this but then it has these little segments here where you can put your hands i can just be watching um netflix or uh anime don't smile at me it's a possibility it's a thing you can watch you can also slide it in here when you're on the gaming chair if you decide you want even more in the lumbar as they suggested but then the magic happens when you see the zipper over here because this comes all the way around i mean that's looking like a that's huge that's looking like a sleeping bag at that point and this can just be a blanket if you want or the arms actually go in am i doing this right it's a it actually kind of works i don't know what it looks like i might look crazy right now but i'm sure i do but to quickly turn your pillow into a blanket so that it doesn't have to be a blanket on the couch like those look nasty most of the time if you if somebody likes to use a blanket when they watch a movie but this you can you can go pillow mode when it's not in use you just zip it up and it's like all right there's a pillow over there how do they make it for 25 i don't know again ikea knows how to put it together this is a big piece of material man there's a thing about a like once you have a blanket or a soft covering your body assumes the position of relaxation it's no longer optional blankytown okay you thought we were done we're not done cause ikea works hard and so does rog and the next one is currently in low stock and it's probably because it's one of the most widely covered and hottest in this collaboration it's also part of this series lannispolar and this is the famous accessory stand need a helping hand to keep your desk tidy this accessory stand is happy to come to the rescue and takes care of cables headsets and other gadgets that you want tidied away yet to still have within reached what an unusual take on an accessory i mean this is wood and it's articulating wood and look at this they're like the hand even opens up and it has digits and it's real it's absolutely wood mostly i imagine that people are going to hang something like this like hang some headphones over here it's so much flexibility some people also want to put a controller in here like a gaming controller can fit nicely over there oh i just noticed in this picture as well you can use it as a cable holder so it doesn't flop behind the desk in between the digits that's cool also part of the lannispolar we have the cup holder which looks to have a fairly robust clamp on it and it will hold either a cup or a mug you can see it has the cutout for the handle and again a very affordable accessory this thing is 10 bucks look at this this is good this is wood and metal i don't there's very little and even some foam padding on here to protect the surface of where you clamp it so we just come up like this and this could be anywhere on the table and we just grab the large screw portion and we are secure we're there we're there come with cup number one look at this this is smart you have components and expensive things maybe you have a gaming laptop or a mechanical keyboard put it right here and then you tip it and you have a terrible day terrible afternoon we do this instead cup has a place to live and they've done the cut out smartly in order to enable you to insert a cup like that perfectly as well and you lift up you drink you put back i mean how smooth is this 10 item and the beauty of this is even if you just want to pick up one accessory from this collaboration you can clamp this to whatever table you want that's 10 bucks all right this next product also part of lannisplar it's a mouse bungee and we've seen this from other manufacturers in the past this is a popular thing amongst gamers helps you to manage your cable stay nimble just uh with the the bungie on it it's adjustable i don't know how much these typically sell for but their version the ikea rog version 12.99 it's the legit wooden finish as well in this dark black color it also has a weight it looks seems like a weight in the base and some rubber feet so your cable will run through this channel and of course eventually down into your pc and you can see that the bungee portion is adjustable on there like this and this is just going to allow us to effectively manage our cables so it's not going to get hooked or caught on something at some sort of critical moment and it just leaves the right amount we can kind of customize how much slack that you want to have so mouse and keyboard and desk you're probably going to want to have a gaming mouse pad and they've done that as well we have this like geometric design it's large it's 35 and a half by 15 and three quarters for 15.99 the wide gaming mousepad is great for those who want their mouse and keyboard on the same firm smooth surface here you can move the mouse quickly and effortlessly to win even the toughest battles they're writing these little stories personalized for gamer types now there's also wow they even got a poster in here that's crazy the rog collab yielded a poster as well is it anime there's another there's another pegboard accessories they clip onto the pegboard to hold items they even got a new one here a ring lamp with phone holder i don't believe we have this yet but that's a pretty popular choice for streamers who are looking for a way to light themselves record themselves that's 34.99 mouse matte styling it looks kind of like skyscrapers but they're just geometric so you're not really sure and it keeps it somewhat abstract fairly decent weight to it did i say 15.99 i think i did look at this oh and there's also a floor mat this is a much different material than the mouse mat obviously it's kind of a little bit like rougher type surface but it's going to be made for your chair now gamers still need storage and ikea is world famous for storage they've been doing storage since before i was born i presume they've been around since before that 78 years ago founded 28th of july 1943 in sweden ingvar comprad as of march 2021 there are 422 ikea stores operating in 50 countries and in fiscal year 2018 a u.s 44.6 billion worth of ikea goods were sold storage a drawer unit on casters because it's easier to move it around and push it around 15 and three quarters by 22 and 7 8 it has drawers for things like controllers and it has some pretty cool power management on the back of it where there's pc gaming easily accessible storage is also needed this drawer unit on casters is a perfect sidekick that takes care of your gear so you can focus on what's important winning games oh would you look oh man this baby is robusta i'll tell you that it has a little tray on top so what does that mean it means that things will stay in here and they won't fly out of there when you push and pull it around even smaller items plus cable options down to the back so you could have your charger you could have your phones up here controllers could charge on here you can do things on here it's up to you what you do on here there's even a little hook on the side if you prefer to keep your headphones off of your hand statue this is another simple and effective way to put them out of the way and to keep your cable managed because that can get tangly up on your desk what do we have on the front open storage here another good spot to put your power strip maybe at the back feeding some chargers up to the top shelf some rog stylings on the handles made of metal we spin it around to the back 360 locking casters as well and this is going to let us separate our charge bricks from the front portion of the shelf you do anything in there you can do anything in there according to kirk you do anything in there that you want to do it all fits in like that's the other part you just have this right over here and look it all it's starting to come together you're starting to discover ikea and rog the collective you're starting to have the experience now this next one super useful a lot of people like this stuff and sometimes it can be quite expensive this is just the simple thing of adding a little cart or some wheels to your pc and this can this can actually help out a number of ways particularly if you have like a carpet or something in your room having a pc right on top there can be some issues sometimes with heat and air flow this stand with casters makes it easy to move your computer tower to the tv in the living room when it's time to clean and you want to reach everywhere okay so there's a couple of circumstances they see this being useful depending on your layout also it's adjustable in width so regardless of the width of your particular pc you can make that adjustment this is a large pc and it is supporting this unit which is actually that looks pretty cool the way this chassis meets up with the bottom trim piece on this stand but as you can see it's just so much easier to maneuver and get at different areas and plug things in take things out if you ever have to get in there for maintenance even just to open the side panel wheels are just better in this circumstance so this one would probably in this setup live over here by the way when you have a water cooled pc like that you really appreciate the ability to just push it around because it's like that's like a two-man thing lifting that thing up now diving deeper into organization because this is ikea because you are outfitting your entire setup here they've put together some pegboard combos allowing you to organize your stuff in like a nice looking way on the wall they carry that peg structure through to the cabinets as well so that you have that sort of multi-functionality you can you can peg things into it you can just put items inside the cabinet as you can see here so the glass cabinet is 99 and the pegboard starts at 20 bucks actually and we actually here's some good examples of what you can do on it look at that in this image here they've got their controllers are up there with the straps and they've integrated it alongside the glass cabinets which have some memorabilia or some figures in there there's some headphones pegged up and the straps also work for keyboards tools the magnetic strip is perfect for screwdrivers and extra usb cables so there you have it this is uh this is a nice variety of the items uh of course i have this place on the desk for the time being but this would be secured to the wall and this would allow you to put certain items in here probably not your cup but if you had some figures that came with some special edition tight games or you collect some of that stuff collectibles will look great in here that's really what this collab i mean that's the majority of the items in this collab there's a couple that we're missing here that you can check out on the site like the ring light and that but this is the vast majority of it i think it's cool that ikea is considering a different segment of the market this part of mark has been exploding anyways and now it's more options for people that have this particular use and are looking for items that are configured better for the way they use their gear so whether it's the the mat or the cup holder or the accessory stand or even just a simple gaming chair that's relatively lightweight and affordable or maybe you need a new desk and you've always wanted a height adjustable one this is now some options that with really high availability too is another thing to mention how accessible it is to a lot of people so uh so this is going to open things up for individuals that want to upgrade their setup and want to go more towards that gamer vibe in their space ikea can help you do that with this collaboration courtesy of rog youwhen i say the word ikea to you what comes to mind i'd imagine you'd be thinking about furniture packed very tightly into flat boxes that you can transport anywhere and lift and bring anywhere and then build anywhere you would probably imagine an incredibly successful furniture company from sweden you wouldn't be wrong but it turns out ikea's doing things that you need to know about that are different unexpected ikea is stepping into the modern era and looking to satisfy your gaming needs they're getting into the gamer business and they're doing it with a partner well the right partner republic of gamers also known as rog and they launched an entire series of accessories for gamers and i'm on the website right now checking out some of the different ones and we're going to check out a bunch of them here today the new range is a result of ikea partnering up with the gaming brand republic of gamers rog together we've designed gaming desks gaming chairs and accessories that combine high performance great ergonomics and sharp looks and another key thing i should mention price that's something ikea has been so competitive on and gamers haven't traditionally been treated that well as far as price is concerned so i've looked at a number of gaming peripherals and desks and things like that and they a lot of them have a premium price tag the first item i'm noticing on the on the site here the up spell gaming desk check this out it's a height adjustable standing or sitting desk so this is going to be popular for gamers but those that also have to get some productivity stuff going on and every so often want to stand up this is a 55 inch by 31 and a half inch desk it has some gamer styling to it but most importantly it's motorized and height adjustable it's even got a usb port on the actual desk for charging a variety of devices it has cable management built in helps you perform at your best large durable sturdy and you can quickly and easily adjust the height so you can always enjoy an optimal position and as far as the pricing goes 549 dollars is pretty competitive as far as motorized standing desks go let's start with the desk because everything is built around this check this angle out at the back if you do happen to put this against a wall this is naturally where your cables are going to fall off but it also sort of looks like a stealth angular thing going on which is carried through to the legs of the unit if you look down here you can see the shapes you can see the large feet which they thought about so that it's going to get a nice grip regardless of flooring that you put it on you can see the cable management up there in the back so you're going to have a spot to put your power bricks power bars a variety of peripherals and such so you have presets on the control here and that's going to let you set up your common spots that you like to work at so you might game at a number one you might work at a number two you might eat at a number three i don't condone eating at the desk but everybody does it so and then you can also just do the old fashioned up and down so let's get a sense for the height here you can hear the motor there oh wow this one goes up this one goes up i also like that you have a digital reading of which height you happen to be at so if you have a spot that you like you can just remember the actual number this is what i wanted to show you have a usb port so we can plug into this and use it as a phone charger just a quick easy location keep a usb cable uh attached over here yes lovely i love little extra features like that that's super handy super handy just a nice functional robust fairly uh hefty top on it and it's a matte black finish a little bevel on the front where you might want to lean and then we're going to go all the way down and see how low it can go as well 72 wow that's quite low that's i mean you could have it that's a dining room that's a gathering that's a get together and then also solid i don't condone such things but it's worth checking the next product it's called match spell and it is their premium gaming chair uh once again with some aggressive some affordable some competitive pricing 189 dollars it looks to be available in black and red with a mesh back which i like staying cool lightweight match spell gaming chair helps you play at the top of your game your whole body enjoys nice support and you can adjust the height of the chair neck and arm rests sit comfy when the game begins ah yes so it looks like a fairly typical chair but then you turn it around and you see this red accent and right away to me what stands out is this nice indent around the lumbar section which is a section that i care about deeply that's a part that goes under supported on a lot of chairs headrests also height adjustable in this fashion so it can tilt and it can raise up and down it's very responsive is how i would describe it and leaning back actually pushes the lower portion out a little bit ah so see sometimes you sit forward in a chair and it doesn't follow you the whole way this this one is following my body you'll see it doesn't come up off my back at any position in here now you also have tight adjustable armrests so they're going to be able to get under your desk so the lowest height here we're still easily under but you can also come up and get to this kind of optimal support position when you have your gaming mouse keyboard and so on we're going to have height this way so we can also get up and tall if we choose that's quite tall all right so now as you can see our gaming setup is coming together we need more accessories our setup is nowhere near complete it's not even close in fact oh look at this the lannispolar multi-functional cushion blanket this is going to be 24.99 and this looks like a cushion it is a cushion but it's so much more need more lumbar support this is something to lie on a blanket over your shoulders or something to warm your whole body this cushion is the solution for all of this since it can be transformed in a flash it's something i never knew i needed a transformable uh blanket but this is it apparently this is a thing that pc gamers need they're freezing over there get the frozen fingertips you're playing doom like kirk you're gonna throw me that at me right now wonderful so this is it lannispar okay so right away rog look to the pattern on the outside it is a pillow you could sleep on this but then it has these little segments here where you can put your hands i can just be watching um netflix or uh anime don't smile at me it's a possibility it's a thing you can watch you can also slide it in here when you're on the gaming chair if you decide you want even more in the lumbar as they suggested but then the magic happens when you see the zipper over here because this comes all the way around i mean that's looking like a that's huge that's looking like a sleeping bag at that point and this can just be a blanket if you want or the arms actually go in am i doing this right it's a it actually kind of works i don't know what it looks like i might look crazy right now but i'm sure i do but to quickly turn your pillow into a blanket so that it doesn't have to be a blanket on the couch like those look nasty most of the time if you if somebody likes to use a blanket when they watch a movie but this you can you can go pillow mode when it's not in use you just zip it up and it's like all right there's a pillow over there how do they make it for 25 i don't know again ikea knows how to put it together this is a big piece of material man there's a thing about a like once you have a blanket or a soft covering your body assumes the position of relaxation it's no longer optional blankytown okay you thought we were done we're not done cause ikea works hard and so does rog and the next one is currently in low stock and it's probably because it's one of the most widely covered and hottest in this collaboration it's also part of this series lannispolar and this is the famous accessory stand need a helping hand to keep your desk tidy this accessory stand is happy to come to the rescue and takes care of cables headsets and other gadgets that you want tidied away yet to still have within reached what an unusual take on an accessory i mean this is wood and it's articulating wood and look at this they're like the hand even opens up and it has digits and it's real it's absolutely wood mostly i imagine that people are going to hang something like this like hang some headphones over here it's so much flexibility some people also want to put a controller in here like a gaming controller can fit nicely over there oh i just noticed in this picture as well you can use it as a cable holder so it doesn't flop behind the desk in between the digits that's cool also part of the lannispolar we have the cup holder which looks to have a fairly robust clamp on it and it will hold either a cup or a mug you can see it has the cutout for the handle and again a very affordable accessory this thing is 10 bucks look at this this is good this is wood and metal i don't there's very little and even some foam padding on here to protect the surface of where you clamp it so we just come up like this and this could be anywhere on the table and we just grab the large screw portion and we are secure we're there we're there come with cup number one look at this this is smart you have components and expensive things maybe you have a gaming laptop or a mechanical keyboard put it right here and then you tip it and you have a terrible day terrible afternoon we do this instead cup has a place to live and they've done the cut out smartly in order to enable you to insert a cup like that perfectly as well and you lift up you drink you put back i mean how smooth is this 10 item and the beauty of this is even if you just want to pick up one accessory from this collaboration you can clamp this to whatever table you want that's 10 bucks all right this next product also part of lannisplar it's a mouse bungee and we've seen this from other manufacturers in the past this is a popular thing amongst gamers helps you to manage your cable stay nimble just uh with the the bungie on it it's adjustable i don't know how much these typically sell for but their version the ikea rog version 12.99 it's the legit wooden finish as well in this dark black color it also has a weight it looks seems like a weight in the base and some rubber feet so your cable will run through this channel and of course eventually down into your pc and you can see that the bungee portion is adjustable on there like this and this is just going to allow us to effectively manage our cables so it's not going to get hooked or caught on something at some sort of critical moment and it just leaves the right amount we can kind of customize how much slack that you want to have so mouse and keyboard and desk you're probably going to want to have a gaming mouse pad and they've done that as well we have this like geometric design it's large it's 35 and a half by 15 and three quarters for 15.99 the wide gaming mousepad is great for those who want their mouse and keyboard on the same firm smooth surface here you can move the mouse quickly and effortlessly to win even the toughest battles they're writing these little stories personalized for gamer types now there's also wow they even got a poster in here that's crazy the rog collab yielded a poster as well is it anime there's another there's another pegboard accessories they clip onto the pegboard to hold items they even got a new one here a ring lamp with phone holder i don't believe we have this yet but that's a pretty popular choice for streamers who are looking for a way to light themselves record themselves that's 34.99 mouse matte styling it looks kind of like skyscrapers but they're just geometric so you're not really sure and it keeps it somewhat abstract fairly decent weight to it did i say 15.99 i think i did look at this oh and there's also a floor mat this is a much different material than the mouse mat obviously it's kind of a little bit like rougher type surface but it's going to be made for your chair now gamers still need storage and ikea is world famous for storage they've been doing storage since before i was born i presume they've been around since before that 78 years ago founded 28th of july 1943 in sweden ingvar comprad as of march 2021 there are 422 ikea stores operating in 50 countries and in fiscal year 2018 a u.s 44.6 billion worth of ikea goods were sold storage a drawer unit on casters because it's easier to move it around and push it around 15 and three quarters by 22 and 7 8 it has drawers for things like controllers and it has some pretty cool power management on the back of it where there's pc gaming easily accessible storage is also needed this drawer unit on casters is a perfect sidekick that takes care of your gear so you can focus on what's important winning games oh would you look oh man this baby is robusta i'll tell you that it has a little tray on top so what does that mean it means that things will stay in here and they won't fly out of there when you push and pull it around even smaller items plus cable options down to the back so you could have your charger you could have your phones up here controllers could charge on here you can do things on here it's up to you what you do on here there's even a little hook on the side if you prefer to keep your headphones off of your hand statue this is another simple and effective way to put them out of the way and to keep your cable managed because that can get tangly up on your desk what do we have on the front open storage here another good spot to put your power strip maybe at the back feeding some chargers up to the top shelf some rog stylings on the handles made of metal we spin it around to the back 360 locking casters as well and this is going to let us separate our charge bricks from the front portion of the shelf you do anything in there you can do anything in there according to kirk you do anything in there that you want to do it all fits in like that's the other part you just have this right over here and look it all it's starting to come together you're starting to discover ikea and rog the collective you're starting to have the experience now this next one super useful a lot of people like this stuff and sometimes it can be quite expensive this is just the simple thing of adding a little cart or some wheels to your pc and this can this can actually help out a number of ways particularly if you have like a carpet or something in your room having a pc right on top there can be some issues sometimes with heat and air flow this stand with casters makes it easy to move your computer tower to the tv in the living room when it's time to clean and you want to reach everywhere okay so there's a couple of circumstances they see this being useful depending on your layout also it's adjustable in width so regardless of the width of your particular pc you can make that adjustment this is a large pc and it is supporting this unit which is actually that looks pretty cool the way this chassis meets up with the bottom trim piece on this stand but as you can see it's just so much easier to maneuver and get at different areas and plug things in take things out if you ever have to get in there for maintenance even just to open the side panel wheels are just better in this circumstance so this one would probably in this setup live over here by the way when you have a water cooled pc like that you really appreciate the ability to just push it around because it's like that's like a two-man thing lifting that thing up now diving deeper into organization because this is ikea because you are outfitting your entire setup here they've put together some pegboard combos allowing you to organize your stuff in like a nice looking way on the wall they carry that peg structure through to the cabinets as well so that you have that sort of multi-functionality you can you can peg things into it you can just put items inside the cabinet as you can see here so the glass cabinet is 99 and the pegboard starts at 20 bucks actually and we actually here's some good examples of what you can do on it look at that in this image here they've got their controllers are up there with the straps and they've integrated it alongside the glass cabinets which have some memorabilia or some figures in there there's some headphones pegged up and the straps also work for keyboards tools the magnetic strip is perfect for screwdrivers and extra usb cables so there you have it this is uh this is a nice variety of the items uh of course i have this place on the desk for the time being but this would be secured to the wall and this would allow you to put certain items in here probably not your cup but if you had some figures that came with some special edition tight games or you collect some of that stuff collectibles will look great in here that's really what this collab i mean that's the majority of the items in this collab there's a couple that we're missing here that you can check out on the site like the ring light and that but this is the vast majority of it i think it's cool that ikea is considering a different segment of the market this part of mark has been exploding anyways and now it's more options for people that have this particular use and are looking for items that are configured better for the way they use their gear so whether it's the the mat or the cup holder or the accessory stand or even just a simple gaming chair that's relatively lightweight and affordable or maybe you need a new desk and you've always wanted a height adjustable one this is now some options that with really high availability too is another thing to mention how accessible it is to a lot of people so uh so this is going to open things up for individuals that want to upgrade their setup and want to go more towards that gamer vibe in their space ikea can help you do that with this collaboration courtesy of rog you\n"