we've been chasing the cleanest possible desktop setup for more than 8 years
we've hidden egpus inside pre-made Furniture drilled holes through desktops
and even built our own desk from scratch but every one of these Solutions
compromised low performance Jank lies I
mean it's not really Wireless if you need wires to charge it every few weeks
is it so we've never quite nailed the concept until now introducing the clean
setup to end all clean setups 1,800
Square in of uninterrupted desktop surface and it is going to stay that way
this desk can charge your mouse it can charge your keyboard it can charge your
phone without ever soiling its surface
with an unsightly cable I cannot wait to
show you guys how we pulled this off look at look look look look David no
tricks guys look ah no fancy VFX ow I'm
stuck stuck telling you about our sponsor we couldn't have done this
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curved OLED it's 3440 X 1440 runs at 240
HZ with gsync and freesync premium and
it is the centerpiece of our ultimate setup
we could have taken the easy path here solar powered keyboards definitely exist
and continuously charging a mouse is as simple as buying one of these and
slapping it on your desk but this is line is Tech tips darn it it not only
has to be zero cables it needs to be zero compromises I mean what I'm going
to have a top-of-the-line gaming Monitor and I'm going to pair it with some B
tier Bluetooth keyboard I mean while I'm at why don't I have a hump under my desk
pad and a stupid wire running over the back you make these compromises and
before you know it it's not the cleanest setup it's just a setup zero compromises
means maximum performance and to achieve that we've gone with the killer
combination of a Logitech G prox wireless and an MX mechanical mini they
use logitech's light speed and Bolt Wireless technology respectively which
boast same or better performance compared to wired peripherals but we've
got a problem as it stands both of these
require occasional charging which inevitably turns into a random cable
hanging over your desk that you totally would have put away but like you're
probably going to need it soon anyway right wrong regular viewers are going to
know how we tackled the keyboard already this MX mechanical mini has been
modified with an internal Chi compatible charging coil meaning that keeping it
topped up is as simple as placing it down in exactly the right spot on the
desk or not what what's this it still
charges over here and over here since
the last video we've taken things a step further and we've embedded a total of
nine charging coils in the desk itself
meaning that our keyboard is going to stay charged pretty much anywhere that
would be ergonomic to use it for work or
for gaming as for the mouse I'm even more proud of that one logitech's power
play mat is an amazing solution for never charging your mouse again but it
has some significant quality of life issues first up it's proprietary so you
can't just install the puck in your mouse get some random ches spot and tape
it to the bottom of your desk you have to use their mat the good news is that
you can slap your own desk pad over top of the mat but the bad news is that
you'll end up with this awful hump so we cracked it open to see can it be slimmed
down but unfortunately the answer was no
so then if power play is working right now how did we do it what if I told you
guys that right side up is just a construct as it turns out the power play
mat works perfectly fine upside down and
like other wireless charging Solutions it doesn't need to be right up against
the mouse that it's charging so just like with the CH spots for our wireless
keyboard we were able to see and see out all but 2 mm of our desktop surface here
then Mount the power play Upside down
inside the desk desk and here it is I am
so impressed that it works not only through the desk but also through our
desk pad by the way we have three varieties of deskpad now Northern Lights
stealth and when check them out on LTT Store.com let's get some head shot shall
we a big part of that gaming Clinic I just put on yeah I knew that was coming
was obviously the monitor did we mention that the 45 g95 QE produces true to life
color a great HDR experience and deeper
blacks than conventional LCDs with a four side virtually borderless design
and anti-glare coating to deliver a new level of immersion for distraction-free
gaming now getting this monitor to work at Peak efficiency with zero visible
wires was a significant challenge while there have been major advancements in
wireless HDMI 3440 x440 at 240 HZ is a
lot of bandwidth and even if we could transmit it wirelessly somehow it
wouldn't be latency fre and we would still have to deal with power anyway so
we took some inspiration from our peripherals and we put the cables inside
the power and DisplayPort cables go inside the post of this basic clamp on
Mount that we let's say
modified with some extra holes to keep the cables out of sight if you look at
the bottom of the mount then you will see or I guess you won't see that the
cables disappear down into the desktop
never to reemerge we did have to get a little sneaky we used a mini display
port cable then a full-sized adapter so we didn't have to try to feed a
full-sized connector through the relatively small hole in the base of the
mount then the other end goes to this cable channel here that goes all the way
to the back where the power splits out to this holder for the brick and the
DisplayPort cable joins up with the rest of the cables in our umbilical cord
okay there are some cables we need some cables compromise no no I this is very
clean while we're on the subject of cables our umbilical cord contains not
just DisplayPort and power but also USB for our fairly generous Sid mounted IO
we've got USB type a USB type c and a
headphone microphone combo Jack we thought about putting this on the front
but from an aesthetic standpoint we felt that it would be better to have it out
of the way also the front is full of wireless charging stuff well sort of
that's a lie we had some space left over and we decided to use it to build a
small drawer for holding pens or CDs or
whatever other clutter you wouldn't dream of scattering around on a desktop
so clean and so pure I was on the fence about even having the phone charging
spot because like really do you need to
have this here but the way that I and realistically just about everyone live
Tethered to our cell phones it just makes sense to have a spot for it now
there are high powerered chat Chargers that are designed to go through a desk
surface but if you're wondering how we did this since we were hollowing out the
inside of our desk anyway we just used a random off-the-shelf G charger and once
again we shaved our top surface down to about 2 mm ensuring adequate charging
performance you might think and in fact I had some serious questions about this
project when I heard about it that hollowing out and shaving down the
entire inside of the desk means giving up sturdiness in the desktop itself but
I'm happy to report that unless you were to dance a little jig over the mousing
Sur it's not even noticeable in day-to-day
use like check this out David see I can get a little bit of flex here if I
really push on it but like moving a mouse go ahead find the flex if anything
it's been an improvement in the user experience since hollowing it out helped
to reduce the weight of the desk so much
yeah it's not even that bad anymore we started out with a 5x5 sheet of 1-in
Baltic birch plywood that we then cut in half and then stacked to give ourselves
a 2in plywood sandwich it's not the
skinniest desktop in the world but it's also no thicker than the Butcher Block
desktop that I use at home so I think from the outside no one would realize
that there is so much Tech hidden away in here I guess you probably want to
know how maintenance would work if you ever needed to swap anything out right
the trickiest or maybe let's say most finicky part of assembly and disassembly
are the right leg and the post of the monitor stand in both cases it's because
cables have to pass pass through with fairly narrow clearances and relatively
tight angles as long as you're aware of the situation when you've got those two
bits of metal only Loosely attached to the desk as a whole you can avoid
accidentally moving things too far and causing damage to the desktop surfaces
the other major pain point is only a problem after installation if you need
to change what IO you're including on the side of the desk the tiny nuts and
bolts that secure the io ports have very small clearances so you either need tiny
hands or some good needlenose pliers in to get them installed other than that
installing Chargers running cables through the various channels it's
shockingly straightforward and even fitting in the monitor's power brick is
pretty trivial the drawer is simply made out of some thinner plywood that we cut
on our laser cutter and then we use this little drawer popping mechanism here to
make it easier to open though with it being installed at this janky angle it
is a little bit less smooth than we'd like I think I made it looked pretty
good earlier but I don't know it's all right really we don't expect anyone to
try duplicating this build at home is you need a pretty large CNC router but
hey maybe we could Inspire some of the companies that
are mass-producing cheap gamer desks to
put a little more effort into their designs because honestly speaking other
than machine time materials cost on this is next to nothing and I think it is by
far the best clean setup we or you know
what I'm going for it fighting words or anyone else have ever done I love this
thing just like I love telling you about our sponsor just kidding it was brought to you by LG we already told you
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