Gadgetory

what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and I've never done any sort of setup video I mean I've showed my setup before but I've never done any sort of like tips or tricks or how to how to trick out your setup or whatever I don't want to I don't want to say pimp my setup and I don't want and I want Matt filly to sue me but I've never thought my setup was anything great so I never really thought about really doing any sort of tips or tricks but i'ma go ahead and try that today we're gonna see how it goes I'm not gonna start any like setup series or any of that crap I'm not into that stuff but a lot of people have asked me about my setup and ways that they can maybe improve there so I figured we'd go ahead and give that a shot I mean who knows we'll see how it goes hey I guess I can rap maybe I should go ahead and just use jay-z the lik max to 120 and 240 from enter max is another awesome choice of AIO liquid coolers for gamers and enthusiasts without breaking the bank patented shunt channel technology provides extra layer of cooling capability click the link below to find out more obviously when it comes to setups there are like an infinite amount of things that you could talk about but today I'm going to just focus on a few things that I think are what kind of make or break various setups now obviously budget is going to be a huge thing so I'm not choosing like a price point everyone's around the country everyone's around the world different prices different availabilities so I'm just going to kind of speak in generalities here gin generalities generalities I don't know if that's even a word would you get what I'm trying to say I think now I think where the bulk of your budget should honestly go is the desk the desk itself can either make or break a setup and one of the most common brands people use when it comes to desks is IKEA IKEA is generally pretty decent quality depending on the desk you get fairly inexpensive and you can do some pretty custom things with it now my desk setup here that I get asked all the time Jay what desk are you using is the IKEA Galant system with the birch tops I also started the channel with a black Galant system is there actually all the same frames I just changed the top kind of showing one of the cool things about IKEA is the fact that they are modular at least some of them with various other desks you can't but like the Galant system you could unfortunately the Galant system has been phased out and it's not available at IKEA anymore at least here in the US I don't know if it's still available in Europe it is a European brand it might be but they did change the system with something else called the beckoned yeah if you guys have you guys have seen Deadpool you know how they always make fun of the name the names and stuff you know anything's better than urine but anyway you know I'm trying to say here unfortunately the Galant system is not available anymore what made the Galant system nice was you could put different pieces together hook them together in the frame and make a giant desk if you want my desk actually consists of three different parts of desks put together it's how I got such a massive system here and then I use another Galant table on the other side for the test bench that way everything matches now it kind of sucks about the new desks system from Ikea is the fact that they no longer lock together they've got these kind of angular corners which means they don't match up anymore which is very unfortunate in fact I don't think that there's ever been an out crying amongst the gaming community or even the PC enthusiasts community like there was when IKEA discontinued the Galant and it was no longer available people actually got really mad now the main reason why I still recommend IKEA desks even if you can't hook multiple together like I have shown with my desk is the fact that they are adjustable you can adjust the height you can get different kinds of legs a legs T legs you can get different color tops of the same style and that's a big deal because if you don't want a black desk and the desk you like only comes in black well that kind of sucks right but you can get these in birch white black grey all sorts of different colors which is really cool that way you can customize the look to the feel of your room and the overall setup you're going for nothing makes a setup look more cheesy than wire strewn everywhere now fortunately you can get different types of wire racks and such again I mentioned IKEA a lot this is not an IKEA sponsored video by any means it's just my stuff is all IKEA I live near one and so I go there when I want all of my stuff but they have different wire racks available they're very very cheap the one that I'm using under here is actually no longer available it was part of the Galant system unfortunately it's no longer available but I liked it because it was big enough to not just put excess wire up there but also was big enough for me to even put my switch under there a modem under there powerstrips it just goes on and on so wire management is a big deal even if you don't have a system available you can modify a lot of things to hold your cables and that's what I would highly recommend in making your setup look better is find a way to hide your cables even if it means zip tying them to screws that you screw under the table something to keep them out of the way and get extensions if you need them because trust me trying to deal with just the factory three meter cables that you get with a lot of your products or is not long enough especially if your desk or the tower is on the floor but why would you put your tower on the floor you want to make your setup look awesome you need your tower up on the desk because you want it to show especially if your content creator makes really good backdrops for some youtubers but now that we've moved onto hardware let's go ahead and talk about monitors because nothing makes a setup pop more than multi monitor configurations and if you look at any of the popular set up shows on YouTube guys that are just sitting there critiquing people setups you'll plan to find a common denominator where most people with the best systems are using multi panel configurations but it's not just because it looks cool but in cases like mine where I'm actually using all that real estate when I'm editing depending on what you do if you're a programmer if you're photographer if you're a video editor doesn't matter all that extra screen real estate actually helps and if you're a live streamer obviously helps have extra panels so you can monitor your live stream have your game have your chat so its function and form which is really important because some setups depending if you go if you go form over function then you kind of like the ricer of PC which it's really kind of sucks because we don't want any of those racing race-inspired cosmetic enhancements we don't want any that we want function and form that's the point of making your setup really pop but if you do choose to go with a multi panel configuration consider going with some sort of a monitor stand that can hold all three of your panels that way you only have one stand because it does look kind of cheesy when you have multiple bases on your desks they take up real estate not only do they make your desk a little bit more cluttered with the basis sitting there you can also use the space underneath your desk kind of like I've done with my mix amp here from my podcast Mike where I can slide stuff underneath the monitor and use up some of the space which would have otherwise been blocked by the basis of the monitor so I'm using the ergo tech widescreen form Edition here I've done a review on this you guys can find that on my channel and it can hold it advertises up to three 27-inch monitors but it barely fits my 34-inch ultra-wide in the middle and to 24 inch 1080p s on the side so it barely fit but I got it on the desk and it works and it looks pretty good but it's adjustable on the sides it's adjustable on the height then you can even add a three plus one pole so that you can put them on it or up on top if you want actually ran that config for a while but I kind of got tired of having the extra monitor up top so I just ended up going simple with the three monitors rather than the plus one now the next thing I think is something people often overlook and I was actually accused of that for quite a bit when I first moved into this house and that is the walls having bare walls is unfortunately a way to make your room look old kind of empty and just echoey for one but it just takes away from the overall setup you want to tie your wall decor into your setup as best as you can now in here just recently I put up all of these foam base traps in all the corners of my room and then used alternating orientation of one foot squared foam pieces on the wall to deal with a lot of echo if you guys have noticed over the last several weeks my audio has improved in this channel and there's a lot less echo it's because I'm using a better mic I'm also no longer using a lav mic as you can see but I also made a pattern on the wall which is very common a lot of YouTube channels are doing that now where again it's function and form you can take something that's necessary and could have otherwise been ugly and make it look better by kind of doing different shapes and stuff now I might consider filling in the blank space is there with another color so it kind of is like a checker pattern also a very common thing that people do so I'm sort of searching for a way to make mine look a little more unique a little bit more separated from the crowd not sure yet how I'm going to do that but regardless if you guys are not content creators and you don't need to deal with the echo and stuff then all you've got to do is put pictures on the wall go down to your nearest Hobby Lobby or something get some nice pictures if you're into cars or whatever they've got all sorts of different stuff there that you can hang on the wall that's going to fit your hobbies and just tie it all in if you've got dark colored desk go with dark coloured frames you've got a light-colored desk with light-colored frames but tie it all in because you want to make it inviting and just awesome it doesn't matter if you're making videos if you walk into the room you want to walk in and just kind of feel like ah this my space because that's what setups are all about now the last thing I'm going to talk about here is actually the most important thing and that being lighting you guys know that all the best set up winners and all these set up shows have custom RGB lighting now I head down to low CS low is not home depot but I think home people carry these as well and got for 40 bucks you can get these LED strips that are adhesive you can stick them to the back of corners of the desk you can stick them to the back of the monitors and you can customize the lighting but RGB is important because let's say like right now I've got the blue going on the desk I've got white going behind the monitors because I used strips and extensions so I probably have about a hundred dollars worth of LED lights here where I can control different colors behind the monitors and different colors on the desk so for instance one switch to desk to red actually the desk things over there I can switch it to red as you can see or I can switch it to white or green whatever I want to be you can do you know girly colors pink whatever but that's what's cool you can change your colors in your mood based on what you want again lighting is a huge deal especially if you you're going to do a lot of stuff in the dark yeah that there's just kind of an endless amount of things that you can do when it comes to lighting but lighting is really what makes your setup pop you can do a lot of this for under a hundred bucks depending on the size of your setup because I've got a huge desk I needed two of the lighting kits so I got one lighting kit and an extension piece so I had four extra feet of LED strips for the desk and I've got one kit for the monitors themselves now the foam can be kind of expensive if you're a content creator the foam can add up I've got about 400 dollars worth of sound film in here most of that being the base straps the base traps in the corners like like that guy right there are actually what cut down the echo the most the other bits on there are just a little bit of extra echo grab and they also help with some of the reverb those are just four or five of my favorite things to do when it comes to making your system really look good if you think I missed something put it down in the comments what would you do or what have you done to your setup so others can read and get ideas most people base their setups on some sort of influence they saw someone else's that that look really cool so they kind of took it and twisted it to be their own kind of a design so let me know guys sound off in the comments head on over to Twitter and let other people know what you think would make an awesome setup anyway guys time to get out of here I haven't touched on the whole set up being a whole lot let me know what you guys think if you thought the setup looks alright I think it's kind of hit and miss some people like the foam on the wall some people don't I'm kind of stuck I'm a content creator in a small room I've got to deal with the echo so yeah I want to play around a little bit more but that's what's kind of cool about the setups is just making it just tweaking it until it's just right also one other thing is going to be kind of an interesting week considering by the time you guys see this video Gerry will already be here visiting me until the weekend we are hoping to do a fan meetup in the LA area this Saturday July 9th I think it is and we'll put out information on Twitter so make sure you guys are following over there if you want to come meet up again Twitter is the best place to get ahold of us so you should be following anyway guys thanks for watching it as always I will see you in the next video