you could be in a dollar store, a pharmacy, or maybe you just wandered a little too far from the vegetable aisle, and someone's going to be trying to sell you an RGB keyboard or a gaming headset. And it turns out that even hardware stores these days have a pretty decent selection once you sift through all the cordless drills and lumber. So if you're a father whose family was brainwashed by big power tool into believing you wanted one of these for your last birthday, you might have some unused store credit to spend on a different kind of Hardware, which raises the question: what can you get from the local home desperate or its online counterpart to trick out your gaming setup? A lot, it turns out, if you're inventive inventive like this totally original segue to our sponsor Ridge. They've recently launched some out of this world NASA branded wallets and key cases. One of the designs even glows in the dark. Can you do that? Check them out using the link in the description. The most obvious PC-related items that you might expect to find are

going to be desks and chairs, and you won't be disappointed. That is, unless you look a little closer. They sell many different combos for one convenient price like this, uh, 48-inch Black computer desk and black plus pink massage recliner chair. But well, there's no charitable way to put this, I'm afraid. So yeah, these combos from Costway are seemingly all rebrands of Alibaba specials with gimmicks like head headr speakers and LED piping accents. Let's take a look at it. Oh, wow. I mean, that's kind of cool, but the fact that they edited out the brand name on the website is kind of telling. Um, oh, I was going to say it looks rather okay, although it's a bit on kind of the smaller side compared to what you might think from the pictures. But then I touched it. It's not really an add aesque style chair. You can't even shove it around. But o oh, it's powered. All right, what are we looking at here? Oh my God, it vibrates. I can't

really tell what the plus-minus buttons are supposed to be doing or the up arrow. It just stopped. Oh, it's different kinds of pulses. So yeah, the massage feature is kind of great as a marketing gimmick, but the massage aers, or I mean vibrators, realistically are only in the lumbar pillow here, which conveniently is impossible to reposition or remove. So in summary, if you're in the market for a massage chair that includes back pain as a feature, gyx has got you covered. The really bizarre part though is even if the manufacturer doesn't know, Home Depot should know that this isn't a desk chair. It uh, it gets worse as it says on the script here. Don't let the faux carbon fiber fool you here, folks. Oh no, this desk makes the chair looks strong and competent by comparison. Oh wow. Okay, the cup holder and oh, headphone mount kind of nice touches, but other than that, my friends, oh wow, we're looking at a pile of hollow metal and MDF that is held together with nothing more than poorly threaded hex.

screws and hope, and once again, there's more wrong with it than just the build quality. Like, look at the depth of this monitor shelf. How am I supposed to put any modern display on this thing? Do you want to know what we paid for it? Oh God. I guess the desk and the chair are currently $320. That is far more than I would pay for those. And we had to pay somebody to drive down to the United States to grab it and bring it back up. And we had to pay for gas. To match the look, we've gone with the Apex Pro skeleton carbon fiber case from Alpha Cool. That feels really bad. Or rather, the case itself feels great. It's carbon fiber and machined aluminum. But after Alpha Cool generously provided it for the video, it feels insulting to them to pair it with this awful desk. The last major issue is that the desk and the chair are at two completely different heights. So you'll either need to lift your chair, which I remind you came with the desk, up to

match the height, or you'll have to lower your desk somehow, maybe with a hacksaw from the Home Depot. Or what about this Nifty aftermarket keyboard tray due to the Cross brace that supports the top of the desk, which I was kind of surprised to see. We had to use some scrap pieces of wood to mount it, but with this attached and this led desk mat to hide the spot where uh we accidentally drilled a little bit too far into the MDF. We can now use our keyboard at a much more reasonable height. Oh, I mean adjustable height. Oh, what keyboard you ask? Originally we tried to get our hands on one of the mechanical keyboards that's listed on the Home Depot website, but they didn't seem to have any in stock when we went to make the purchase. So instead, oh thank you, we got this iive 3in one pack with a keyboard, mouse, and headset. You like 3D games? Well, how do you like 6D games? Before we power everything up, I assume this power strip

came from the Home Depot. Yes, it's even their commercial electric brand. This is one of the things I actually would trust from what we purchased. I assume we chose this particular one for its RGB effect. Oh, there it is, okay. I mean, yeah, sure, that's kind of cool. It's got the little Keyhole mounting thing so it'll be compatible with our cable management from LTT store.com. So yeah, you just unscrew it, and then you've got this weird flared thing at the top here, so you stick that into the keyhole, slide it in, and then you just twist, and that's it. Hello, sorry for cutting in, but I've got something very important to tell you. LTT stores having one of their biggest sales of the Year, lime day baby. It's happening right now every day from July 16 to July 19. You'll find new deals with some products up to 60% off. That's unheard of on our store. Today, you'll find short circuit hoodies for 55% off, LTD cargo shorts for 50% off.

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the most interesting thing about the peripherals is none of what I've talked about so far, but rather when we look at them in USB device trewer, we can see that. And this was for the keyboard, right? Yes, it was made at least in part by wooi semico, a brand that appears to be a subsidiary of CR micro, a company that is primarily owned by the government of China. I guess CCP officials really like drum and bass, or at least half of it. I don't know about drum; they've got a lot of bass to their social credit. They are pretty comfortable for a pair of really, really cheap headphones. We did buy another pair of headphones that just were the worst feeling, so we went with these. But actually, you want to try those second, that second pair of headphones. You don't have to talk about it at all, past the feeling of it, but oh, they're on ears. Whoa. Oh, saved it. The good news is, even if we had broken this monitor, we had the solution ready to go, 'cause frankly, the ergonomics.

were not great the way it was that's why we picked up this PR mounts monitor arm wow. I just about hit myself in the face with it because I was expecting it to be a lot heavier. To its credit, it's pretty easy to set up and has reasonable cable routing built into it and supports monitors up to 32 in and 17 lb, which should be perfect for this 27in Sansui monitor. It's only 1080p, which is not great considering the price, but it has a 100 HZ refresh rate, which also isn't great considering the price. Tanner, what is the price? Uh, we paid 230 for it, but if we had have bought it on Amazon, it would have been uh 100. Cool. Also, I couldn't help noticing that there's a bit of leverage on that. Yeah, I'm afraid to let go. Uh, this actually might be a good time to introduce the speakers because the speakers have a nice little feature where they will help keep this up. Are they a counterweight? Not so much a

counterweight as it is a load-bearing cardboard box. If we can just fit it in there, it doesn't quite fit. Uh, I need shims. Should be able to just fit in there. Okay, am I the only one confused by this? First things first, the volume control is on the subwoofer, which is not normal. And then second of all, these speakers fire backwards. That is correct. Yes. No, that's not correct. Uh, but the RGBs on the front. The only difference that I can detect from turning the bass knob all the way left and all the way right is that this box vibrates more or less. This is as loud as they get. I have it maxed both on the speakers and in Windows. It sounds so much better over here than it does over there. It almost gives it a sense of like spatial, though. No, I mean, there's no accuracy to it, obviously, but it, you know, kind of sounds like it's all around you 'cause that's where it is instead of pointing at you. So this monitor claims 72% coverage of the NTSC.

color gamut that checks out. I don't remember the last time I saw a modern monitor that was this unsaturated, especially an IPS panel. And 100 HZ is definitely better than 60 HZ. At a low enough price, I could see this monitor being a pretty okay choice. At $220, it's horrible. The mouse is bothering me a little less. Oh, if that's bothering you, you should try out this, oh, the Goldtouch Ergonomic Mouse. Okay, hold on a second. What Hope Depot carries this? After pairing to the Goldtouch Ergonomic Mouse, I am treated to this little, what are these called again, infrared trackers or something like that? I forget how these work. I've always referred to them just as Blackberry trackpads. I mean, you know what, that's fair. Yeah, you've got a little trackpad thing here, and then you've got some buttons. I guess for like web browsing, or just general mouse features. You've got right click, middle click, scroll up, scroll down. Yeah, this is pretty usable.

can I game with it though oh yeah yeah yeah here we go let's go eat it for all its imperfections. Uh, we did have some difficulty pairing it to a new device. When it was in range of the old one, it would just automatically connect every time with no obvious way to repair it to something new. This is not nearly as crud as pretty much everything else that we've touched today. I would say this is pretty usable if you had a situation that merited it. This is not one of them. You know, it's a funny thing how each individual piece of this is functionally manufactured garbage and yet when you put the whole thing together, you almost end up with a whole that's greater than the sum of its parts. It's kind of like a jury-rigged scorpion chair. Maybe we should do a repeat of that experiment where we have someone use it for a month. Odds are they'd need a better webcam and oh yeah, he's way ahead of me. And wow, Monster Cable still exists. 4K.

60fps for gaming, streaming, vlogging, and social media. This packaging is writing some checks that, uh, I sincerely doubt that this webcam is going to be able to cash. You know, when your brand was already built on bilking people out of way more money than your product's worth, it's kind of impressive when you can take it to another level like this. How is this managing to be out of focus right now? Now, my first thought was, Alright, Monster is just one of those sad zombie brands that's been purchased by a Chinese holding company that's exploiting its once loyal customer base to sell garbage. But as it turns out, no, they're just a sad zombie brand that is still under the exact same ownership, exploiting its once loyal customers to sell garbage. What a shame. And it's about to get better because I have the Audio-Technica ATGM1 USB. Sure, it's not the best mic that you can get, and not even the best mic that you can get for $50, but I expect it to be a

lot better than any of the other mics connected to this system. Tanner, would you mind? Let's get our game on, gamers. Oh, that is permanently destroyed, huh? Well, I take back everything nice I ever said about the mount. There's no obvious other place to grab on to adjust it. Like, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to grab this dialog. Subtract narrator window heading level sketch. I don't think the computer likes when you do that. So, this is MDF, and these are just little posts that are embedded in it, and it ripped apart. I was going to try to game on this some more, but I think I'm done. Other than telling you about our sponsor Squarespace. You know, back in the olden days, people had to talk to each other to distribute information. Or so here. Now, you can just have a website with Squarespace. You can get your own site up and running in no time, thanks to their intuitive, user-friendly interface. And you don't need to be a graphic designer to get

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