So here's your problem.
On the one hand, you're a gamer
and you've got your gaming rig
and your gaming monitor
and you've got some important gaming to do.
And on the other hand,
you're a total basic and you own that.
So today is the basic gaming setup
where we will be creating the best gaming desk-
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Okay, well, you don't have anything to put that on.
Yeah, I know.
I'm just, I'm completing as much of the setup
as I can right now.
There.
Why not utilize the Amazon Basics monitor stand?
Oh, okay.
So basically, if your monitor doesn't come
with a height adjustable,
stand or like, I mean, it doesn't have pivot.
Does it have?
No, it doesn't do that either.
So basically it's just height adjust.
I think it tilts.
In a nutshell.
That's swivel.
It has pivot.
Oh, well, I don't know.
It's hard.
Baby hands can't.
It's advertised as only supporting 24-inch monitors,
but I've read you can put a 27-inch on there,
but your mileage may vary in terms of the pivot.
You might not be able to get into portrait mode.
But who has a 24?
Have we investigated whether
it is actually cost-effective to buy a cheapo monitor
and then put a Basics stand on it?
I see, this is the thing.
I'm not sure how many people actually need this.
On the one hand, it seems super obscure,
but on the other hand,
Amazon is making this product.
So it must be in demand.
Isn't the whole thing with Amazon Basics
that they do the most in-demand stuff?
Okay.
He did it.
Oh, it's not like,
I wouldn't describe this thing as amazing.
Like, how do you hear that sound?
Well, it's a little too heavy.
Oh, God.
You hold the base.
Well, you're gonna have to tilt it for sure.
Okay, I'll hold the base.
The base is not very heavy.
Wait a second.
I think we're gonna make it.
Boom!
Not bad.
I wonder if people are trying to rotate it like this
and they're not realizing
that on even a lot of factory stands,
you have to tilt in order to rotate.
And I'll give you an Amazon Basics display board cable.
How much is one of these gonna cost me?
Six bucks.
Depends on the length, though.
That's a six-footer.
That's not bad.
It's only outfitted for DisplayPort 1.2, though,
so even though that has the same bandwidth as 1.4,
there are some features.
I mean, the thing with that, though,
is that there's no actual pin difference,
so it's just a matter of, like,
what they're comfortable rating it at.
It's quite possible it would work just fine for DP 1.4.
It just might not.
Wow, we bought a PC power cord.
I hope it didn't cost much.
We literally have a gigantic Rubbermaid bin of these.
Yeah, but do they have
the Amazon Basics?
Does that actually say Amazon Basics on it?
No, I think it's a pretty generic-ass power cord.
Well, it was $7.
A lot of people were giving it one star
because they said that these holes were too small.
What?
I think they're trying to just plug normal stuff into it.
Aw.
So for those of you out there
who are even more basic than me,
that's how it is intended to be used,
and it works just fine.
Nice snug fit.
It's perfectly adequate.
Basic, but adequate.
The other end is gonna go into,
oh, I, yeah, yeah, I get, okay, just.
Three outlet surge protector wall tap with two USB ports.
So you plug that bad boy into your wall outlet
and you get a quick charging,
a regular charging, and three outlets.
Now, to be clear, I'm not recommending plugging a wall tap
into a PowerSquid, but we're not really drawing a line.
I have a power here, so it's fine.
That's one amp.
That's 2.4 amps.
The second thing to keep in mind
is that the top negative comment is entitled,
lit my house on fire.
There, safe.
The Amazon Basics cable sleeve with zipper,
20 inch black four pack.
So this is actually kind of cool.
Basically, you just put your wires in there
and you zip it up.
Now that you got that set up,
it's time for you to sit down in your $70 Amazon Basics chair.
They have a chair?
They have lots of different chairs.
This one was just kind of cheap and easy.
Actually, it's not that bad.
I will say that the cushioning down here,
this is a pretty hard, like a pretty firm cushion,
which is actually a better thing than you might expect
because if you have like a really plush cushion,
what happens to it over time
is it just becomes not really a cushion
and then you're just sitting on the piece
of what is usually plywood on the bottom.
Amazon Basics.
Microfiber cloths for electronics.
How many things did you buy?
The next thing is pretty much the reason
we actually made this video is because they made this.
This is the Amazon Basics mechanical feel gaming keyboard.
Okay, so it's got five programmable macro keys.
This should be worth about 27.95.
It's 36.
Okay, well, at least it's not far off.
I'm not happy with that though.
If you remember,
it was a mechanical keyboard.
Yeah, no, I wouldn't buy this.
There was a bunch of actual mechanical keyboards.
I mean, granted they used Chinese switches,
but still, and they were in the $40 range, $45.
Maybe they were trying to go for mechanical sound
because you've got a couple keys
that sounds kind of like loud.
Loud.
I think what they should call this
is the loud membrane keyboard.
Have a $7 mouse.
Followed by the three button USB wired mouse.
Oh, you made poor Tyler inventory all this stuff?
Oh, a desk pad.
All right.
What do you think would be a good price for that?
I'd pay 14.99.
Well, you actually did pay 24.99.
So that's their anti-fraying strategy.
It seems to be to burn it.
And they end up with actually quite a noticeable,
see there's a shine to the edge and it's kind of sharp.
You know what?
I just wouldn't buy this actually.
I would just buy something better.
We have no internet.
Oh, that's too bad.
Maybe what you need is the RJ45.
Cat5e Ethernet patch cable from Amazon Basics.
Thank you.
Or if you prefer the USB Wi-Fi adapter.
You know what?
I don't prefer the USB Wi-Fi adapter,
but I'll open it anyway just to humor you.
Adorable.
It's happy to see me.
See, this seems fine.
Are you sure?
Sheething's a little stiff actually.
This is not an amazing cable.
The jacket is prone to cracking and when it does crack,
it'll crack along the length of the cable.
On a cable this short,
like 15 feet, it's less of an issue.
Where you really run into trouble
with these cheap outer jackets
is when you have a longer cable
and you go, even if you over under it,
when you wind it up for storage,
you'll still run into a situation
where you try to kind of throw it down
and it's just a kinky mess.
I probably wouldn't buy this either.
I've had my disputes with Monoprice over the years,
but credit where credit's due,
their cheap cables are less cheap.
How much battery do you have on your phone there?
63%.
Oh, you could probably use a little charge here.
Here, use an Amazon Basics USB-C to USB-C cable.
It's a little better than the network cable.
I wouldn't describe it as amazing though.
To their credit though,
they're using the more expensive connector housings
that don't have the split down the one side.
They cost a little more.
Okay, well, there was supposed to be a gaming headset,
but I think it's a pretty new Amazon Basics product,
so it takes between one and three months to ship.
So even though we got it in October, it's not here,
until like mid-December.
So I did get you a little Bluetooth speaker.
A portable Bluetooth speaker.
Great.
Oh, that's not enough for your desktop setup?
Micro B.
Did they not have like a soundbar or something?
It really does not sound very good.
Don't specify Chromecast Ultra, the 4K HDR model.
So this is interesting.
It seems like the way that the audio profile is tuned,
even in its standard profile,
it's really emphasizing vocals,
and I can barely even hear
the background music of this video.
You notice that?
Like it's just like a dialogue enhancer for your TV.
I mean, PC gaming is so complicated.
Why not just stick to console gaming?
Oh wow, they do an Xbox One clone controller?
Oh, that is a weird texture.
Oh yeah.
Can you not hear that?
It's got like a really kind of grippy,
kind of feel to the back here.
Those are loud.
Those are really loud.
You can wake the dead with those.
Is this RGB backlit?
Okay, so it has different modes.
It can go off.
Okay, there's a different color.
This is breathing, different colors.
Yeah, it's RGB.
Okay.
Is that it?
Well, I think if you want more functionality,
you need to install the Amazon Basics keyboard software.
No, I'm good.
The keyboard is not good.
The soundbar is not good.
Unless I was just trying to hear, you know,
the Weather Channel better, you know?
The other thing with the soundbar
is that it's supposed to come with a remote,
but ours just didn't.
Oh, what the?
Oh wow, I just got killed by easy bots.
Anyway.
I can't stand to watch you struggle
with that three click basic mouse here.
They do make a gaming mouse.
I do prefer the mouse to the keyboard.
So there's that.
We get presumably, ah, DPI adjustments.
We get a back and a forward button, which are,
I would consider, I would consider, I would consider,
basic features in the year 2018.
Not present on this one.
And we also get a braided cable,
which I was recently made aware that not everyone prefers
because apparently they can get snagged on stuff.
From my experience,
I don't really get my braided cables snagged on things.
Also has onboard memory,
so you can save your configs on the go.
Cool.
And 3,200 DPI.
Okay.
And $24.
Actually feels a little bit jittery
at super high sensitivity.
It's definitely more comfortable than the other one.
Quite heavy though.
Like surprisingly heavy given how, well, basic it is.
This is too boring.
You should be yelling at your teammates with this.
Professional USB condenser microphone.
All right.
More basics.
The most gratuitous packaging in the whole lot.
It's got one of those standard mounts
so that you can put it on an ARM
if you're into that sort of thing.
It actually has height adjust as well.
Oh, okay.
It's kind of rickety.
Oh boy.
Ha! Tighten it up.
Give it a chance.
You know what?
It actually does straighten out a fair bit.
So this is what I would sound like
if I was yelling at my teammates
or actually talking more normally to my teammates.
You can see I peaked a little bit there.
So we're gonna go ahead and experience that.
There's no tactile feedback.
Oh, wow.
And that is, let's see.
That is quite a bit quieter now.
And we are getting up into the yellow range less often.
So in my like broadcast.
Thank you for that.
All right.
So the next two things are kind of better
if you are trying to get a one cord solution for your laptop,
like you're docking your laptop
and making it into a desktop,
you might want one of these.
You know, this is a weird complaint,
but this cord is kind of long.
You wouldn't be saying that
if you were trying to plug that
into the back of your Corsair One right now.
That's true.
So what it should really be is detachable.
It should be a type C to type C,
and then it should just come with a cable
and you should be able to swap it out.
That's, that would be better.
There, there's our basic placement for it.
So this is a USB 3 external hard drive enclosure.
You get to provide your own hard drive.
Comes with a couple little foam inserts,
which are presumably to keep your hard drive safe.
If you have a thin hard drive, I don't know.
The top is metal, but the majority,
that part is pretty plastic.
This is it.
This is what holds your drive, I guess.
You just stick it to the top of the drive.
basic at 20 bucks is probably fine this is a very low quality USB cable that's
included like that is very thin for a USB 3 cable so the side with the
branding and not the like FCC sticker on it goes down if you don't want to put
like strain on the connector or have your drive supported by just this one
point here so I yeah I don't like this one very much and this oh the external
hard drive case yeah this is very mediocre for six bucks it's fine for any
more than that I probably I would probably opt for something else the
Amazon basics multi-tip stylus for touchscreen devices that's an
interesting idea so multi-tip stylus instead of just shipping it with
multiple tips they just used every possible end of a pen type device to put
a different tip so you got a big fat one you got a medium one and you got a
skinny one yeah which is that's seven
six and five millimeters respect okay so you could go fat skinny fat medium or
skinny medium like there's kind of a lot of mush to them I don't think any of
these are really fine or sharp enough to really write with you probably have more
success if you had a nice comfortable Amazon basics footrest actually that
feels not bad it's got grip unlike the IKEA ones that we use here at the office
it's not as high though I don't think I'll give it a shot also one thing I
already don't really like about it is that it's it swivels too easily a lot
better overall feel and this goodness on the floor than the IKEA one but it just
if you just kind of man I don't even know if you just took like some some
silicone crap and just kind of like gummed it up a little bit or something I
think you could I think you could you know for less than a dollar you could
DIY it better ow this is 5,000 sheets of Amazon basics paper
it's fine take your new Amazon basic stapler for a spin really is it like a
say it's a safety mechanism well that sucks because often like if you want to
if you want to staple something to the wall or whatever you open up the
stapler and you just oh that's a bummer yeah the shoulder ones are so loud yeah
like this is not this is not great I mean I still managed to score one goal
yeah go Linus but so how do you feel about your it $21 21 but you know what
for 21 bucks I'm pretty okay with it quite frankly so how do you feel overall
about your new basic battle station you know I like the DisplayPort cable one
advantage we didn't mention before is that it doesn't require the lock so it's
just a self locking one you don't have to deal with like pressing the thing in
order to unlatch it these cable management sleeves honestly if you're
trying to get something done quick they can improve the
look of behind your desk a fair bit come on I bet it yeah like that helps a lot
and they're neoprene I like the monitor stand believe it or not I think at 40
bucks I'd probably rather have one of the ones that just clip onto the desk
personally but if you don't want that if you just want to convert a vase amount
monitor to this or replace a broken stand honestly I'm okay with that one
the gaming mouse is alright actually it's it's I think it's too heavy to
really like game on it
like I would consider it more like just a mouse but it's fine the grip on the
side is makes it easy to lift off even though it is a little bit on the heavy
side and not not a big fan of the keyboard a big disappointment in the
keyboard at 20 bucks this is fine I actually stopped noticing that scuffing
on my ARM pretty quickly maybe I was just busy filming a video and wasn't
paying attention but it seems like less of a big deal now that I'm your mileage
may vary on that one your mileage may vary that's a good cable that's working this cable
seems fine
I don't know there isn't really any conclusion like none of it really like
blew me away but none of it was complete and utter garbage actually a couple of
them were pretty bad the Ethernet cable is bad I wouldn't use this hard drive
dock and I wouldn't buy this keyboard there are much better keyboard options
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I thought you were holding your ARM up
to throw something at me again.
He's just...
No, I'm just tired of this.
I grow weary of these videos.
What? This was fun.