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welcome to the first video from my new home office slash game room / vr room / echoey room bring high performance gaming a small footprint together with the all-new corsair one available with up to an Intel ninth gen 9900 K processor and an RT X xx atti this small PC is capable of big things convection assisted cooling with separate loops for the CPU GPU means the corsair one sucks in the best way possible to see our review of the new corsair 1i 160 click the link in a description below so we got a few things we're gonna try and get done today and forgive me for not wearing my lab mic we are using an on camera mic so you might hear Phil trip on things you might hear some handling noise and some reverb I'm sorry about that clearly this room it's not like my old studio where it had bass traps and all that stuff to stop the echo so I'm sorry but I've I don't get a lot of time to game and so when I do like the game the problem was I had my VR setup which was also my simulator setup and a skunk works and there were different rooms and it was kind of a pain in the ass so my whole goal with this room which is about a 12 foot by 12 foot room it's not big it's not small it's got a high ceiling the first thing is I do have a ceiling fan you because I have like 10-foot ceilings in here so as you can see the first issue I wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna have is that I could have a ceiling fan in here to keep things nice and cool when I'm gaming but when I'm in VR I'm not gonna stick my hands in the fan so as you can see we clearly have a lot of clearance because I am almost six foot four with a long reach so that's kind of nice this is clearly my butter revolution you guys have seen this in other videos we've talked about the Santa tech setup so I'm not going to talk about this again like what it is there are videos you can go and check them out I would say I would link them below but I always forget just go to my channel and search phonetic or simulator and this will come up and you'll see more about that but my desk if you guys haven't noticed I like to use dining-room tables as desks because of the size of skunkworks and this being a case labs SMA 8 and the size of it I need big area to put things to kind of give you a perspective of how large this actually is for a desk this is a 34 inch ultra wide that LG G K 950 F which is the one that I said that I was like in love with HDR and all that goodness here it is it's on an arm that will show you more in a second so this is the setup right here it's fully cable managed will kind of show you that in the back and I need to get my vibe set up once I started racing in VR I can't really go back but I'm also thinking because my coax is right here for my DirecTV I think I would put a TV right here to why the heck mount right but if you look over here this area other than crap on the floor there's nothing here normally I would give up the couch or something for hanging out with friends or watching TV in my own office but I'm conflicted because if I'm gonna be doing to scale room scale VR this is actually a pretty big area like if I took the chair and scooted it to the closet because it is on fun sliders so I can slide it around then I've got a pretty big area for a bedroom to do room scale they are so I'm kind of conflicted on that I don't think I'm gonna do anything with that yet but I obviously want to decorate the wall with some of my racing photos things up from various track events and whatnot and that's gonna be the setup but what I started to talk about earlier and the reason why I didn't get to get much gaming done is because when I would go to game on skunkworks it's like okay updates are needed fine that would take time load the game needs updates then I would want to play dr and that was in that note 6:05 setup i had with the water-cooled 1080i and all of that that got the least amount of use so then I would go to play project cars or something with our racing buddies and as I hold on guys windows update project cars update now we're stuck in update limbo where it's just sitting there at 30% not doing anything so I wanted this to all work with one system than that being skunk works so let me go ahead and show you guys how I sort of wired up the desk so that one system could really kind of control the whole room so we're going to start with the monitor you guys saw us talk about this on our free sink video this is the 34 GK 950 F from LG I wasn't kidding when I said this is my new favorite daily driver monitor I took that from the studio right to my home hooked it up to my mounted arm it's a 17 well this can hold 17 pounds the monitor is significantly less than that I actually think the arm holds like 22 pounds or something but the monitor is significantly less than that so I do have my DisplayPort 1.4 in here because we do need it for the 144 Hertz 1440p ultra wide plus HDR so we need that amount of bandwidth so I'm using that cable I do have a long 10-foot USB cable on here 4 USB 3 so these ports do work if I need to plug in at the end back here for any reason here's the power and it runs through the arm as you can see the arm is you know full articulating so I can do anything I want with this which is really nice still using the LG sound bar right here don't remember the model it's one of the dolby atmos ones but doesn't really matter I don't listen to this a whole lot usually used headphones skunkworks back in the house where it belongs and you can see I kind of cared about the cable management here and believe it or not right now which you see with the exception of the HMD for my vibe everything is hooked up here so I don't have my HDMI hooked up yet so I'll be undoing these zip ties and bringing a HDMI to the breakout box so this is pretty much as tidy as its gonna be and I kind of like it this way because one of the things I hated about not using hubs is the fact that I just was constantly changing keyboard and mice and stuff I want to try out different things and it was a complete pain in the ass so plugging things in and having everything's that tied back here or even using those velcro straps was just a pain so that's why I'm using two different where they 7-quart right yeah 7 port USB 3.0 hubs they are powered hubs so we can plug things in here like our phones to charge our mice keyboard and all that sort of stuff it's all wired under the table we'll show you that in a second but I've got another one over here right in front of Phil as you can see and this is specifically to plug in my racing simulator right here so because it's on that side of the table the racing sim can just plug into that and stay plugged in at all times which means what I'm dealing with updates for like the game controller because that's how a window sees the fan text set up as a game controller so that's always gonna stay up to date I decided to use the clamp for the monitor arm kind of going bouncing around here on a couple different things because I had an option I could have taken this guy right here and again for a $59 arm which you can buy on Amazon I do have a link very chilly yet hopefully I were to put that in there if you are looking for a vase amount you are not gonna find a better one for the price of my opinion than this guy so you can use a clamp like this which has a built-in wire channel to kind of keep things nice and tidy and this gray cable here is a an optical so I'm using a spit if I could have drilled right through the table mounted this guy to the bottom of this had this go through and then this was clamped on the bottom of the table like so so the table would be in between and then it would probably be a bit more sturdy than it even is NASPA the thing is I didn't want to this isn't gonna be a permanent setup for me for the table so I didn't want to drill any holes which is also why if you take a look at the keyboard and mouse normally like my setup in the office I have a hole drilled right here and everything passes through to a hub underneath the desk these are just zip tied together up here and going under skunkworks coming back around and plugged in right there because again when I've been done with this and I actually determine what my full time so that's gonna be because I don't like the color I don't the woodgrain color I will be selling this table with the dining room chairs and all that stuff that it originally had because this was my dining room table before we moved into the new house we got a new dining room table this isn't on my desk so I needed something that was sturdy enough to be able to hold the weight of skunkworks which is like 80 pounds and then everything else including me pounding on the desk when I keep losing in games because I suck so that was kind of important to make sure I overcame that now welcome to the underside of my table where things get a little bit more intimate I'm skating so this is basically one of those trays that used to be able to get with the Galant system from Ikea I don't think you can buy this anymore but it's just screwed into the actual tape the nice thing about this dining room table is the fact that it's real wood it's not particle board or pressed MDF or anything like that it's real wood so it's real sturdy everything's mounted under here my power strip you know my surge protector everything for power runs to this and then this has one cable that runs to the wall and then yeah so it gives me places just sort of shove things out of the way that don't need to be tied down keeps things from dangling on my feet when you walk into the room you don't see wires hanging under the desk everything is right here and on this side which I haven't tacked it down yet is the main power cable for skunkworks as well as our ethernet cable so that's one of the things we're gonna get done today we're gonna need that up we're gonna install the HTC vive I've got some channel some wire channeling which will hopefully make that nice and neat as I mount it to the wall and then hopefully by the end of this video the simulator will be running and then we'll show Phil how to actually drive these water channels it's the same thing I did this if you saw my HTC vive set up in my old house I use these and I go right along the edge of our window frame here because they're a lot less obvious so I'm gonna have the first lighthouse mounted up here and then it comes straight down and I come over and then right to this flow here and worry about my wall looks like this it's because it's rim didn't originally have Ethernet and although this house does have a ruckus system wired throughout it in the ceiling for wireless to get rid of dead spots you only get like 450 to 500 megabit even do 5g and so it's like half a worm actually came for so one of the ether nets that go into the great room come in actually through the ceiling because this is a second-story up here come through the ceiling and then drop over into the great room and down so what we do is we cut a hole in the ceiling here grab one of those Ethernet cut splice you know two connectors which is not recommended but we know no other options be honest and then we drop it down here cut a hole in the firewall drop it over here and then so I've got actual wired Ethernet so now I get my full gigabit or about 920 megabytes of the gigabit with all twelve wireless connections that are constantly running in the house like my security system my video cameras that are constant going to my DVR and all that sort of stuff from my home security so even with that stuff sending data to the cloud I still get like 920 megabytes of that gig with 12 devices running in terms of security so yeah I'm happy to say the least but anyway this is just uh like a half inch channel that you can get from Lowe's or Home Depot or whatever your favorite home-improvement store is and then like I said I just run these right along the edge of I think it is this way oh no it's just taking the tape off Oh all right so clearly we got everything working as I'm struggling to drive my zl1 around the Nurburgring but that's okay this isn't this one isn't there one hell week so it's not supposed to handle really good but as you can see the setup actually wasn't so bad I mean it was pretty flawless this time in terms of I think that's kilometers right no that's not for our we're going very foolish I'm going to do that everything is tracking plus I was worried that this lighthouse up here is gonna be too tall and I was going to be below it but everything's working pretty good feel got to drive in it Phil what do you think I'm a little too short for this up though but it's awesome yeah the fan of text says if you guys haven't seen that video like I said I'll try I probably won't make it because I'll forget but if you just go to my channel and look up racing simulator or simulator you'll find it that way so now I can actually join my racing group at the Nissan challenge guys that I Drive with in real life they have an online racing kind of a little group as well maybe project cars and the set of course hood and they drive off track just like real life what would I have left to do though obviously is I have to paint the cable channeling that I'm using there for the lighthouses the problem with the lighthouses quite honestly is they're black and it got black cables and I've got light gray walls and so it looks terrible and although many people are going to be more function over form I don't see why you can't have both and then since I've got a nice new man cave game room here I obviously want it to ten this car spins a lot just like your life um I obviously want it to look good and pass the wife test as well as my own test so I'm the repainting those because I have leftover paint and those channels which I got you can play get any Home Depot or Lowe's or any Ace Hardware or whatever hardware store you may have local to you and you can see that just with a little bit of planning you can make it look good so anyway guys thanks for watching and this was just a way for me to get some work done while also doing something for myself and with that I'm gonna go ahead and let the seal wad and crash dude this part is not like fun to drive on