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we've been chasing the cleanest possible desktop setup for more than 8 years

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we've hidden egpus inside pre-made Furniture drilled holes through desktops

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and even built our own desk from scratch but every one of these Solutions

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compromised low performance Jank lies I

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mean it's not really Wireless if you need wires to charge it every few weeks

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is it so we've never quite nailed the concept until now introducing the clean

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setup to end all clean setups 1,800

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Square in of uninterrupted desktop surface and it is going to stay that way

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this desk can charge your mouse it can charge your keyboard it can charge your

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phone without ever soiling its surface

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with an unsightly cable I cannot wait to

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show you guys how we pulled this off look at look look look look David no

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tricks guys look ah no fancy VFX ow I'm

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stuck stuck telling you about our sponsor we couldn't have done this

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without our friends at LG and they are featuring the 45 gr 95 QE a 45 in 800r

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curved OLED it's 3440 X 1440 runs at 240

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HZ with gsync and freesync premium and

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it is the centerpiece of our ultimate setup

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we could have taken the easy path here solar powered keyboards definitely exist

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and continuously charging a mouse is as simple as buying one of these and

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slapping it on your desk but this is line is Tech tips darn it it not only

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has to be zero cables it needs to be zero compromises I mean what I'm going

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to have a top-of-the-line gaming Monitor and I'm going to pair it with some B

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tier Bluetooth keyboard I mean while I'm at why don't I have a hump under my desk

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pad and a stupid wire running over the back you make these compromises and

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before you know it it's not the cleanest setup it's just a setup zero compromises

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means maximum performance and to achieve that we've gone with the killer

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combination of a Logitech G prox wireless and an MX mechanical mini they

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use logitech's light speed and Bolt Wireless technology respectively which

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boast same or better performance compared to wired peripherals but we've

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got a problem as it stands both of these

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require occasional charging which inevitably turns into a random cable

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hanging over your desk that you totally would have put away but like you're

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probably going to need it soon anyway right wrong regular viewers are going to

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know how we tackled the keyboard already this MX mechanical mini has been

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modified with an internal Chi compatible charging coil meaning that keeping it

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topped up is as simple as placing it down in exactly the right spot on the

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desk or not what what's this it still

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charges over here and over here since

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the last video we've taken things a step further and we've embedded a total of

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nine charging coils in the desk itself

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meaning that our keyboard is going to stay charged pretty much anywhere that

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would be ergonomic to use it for work or

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for gaming as for the mouse I'm even more proud of that one logitech's power

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play mat is an amazing solution for never charging your mouse again but it

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has some significant quality of life issues first up it's proprietary so you

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can't just install the puck in your mouse get some random ches spot and tape

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it to the bottom of your desk you have to use their mat the good news is that

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you can slap your own desk pad over top of the mat but the bad news is that

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you'll end up with this awful hump so we cracked it open to see can it be slimmed

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down but unfortunately the answer was no

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so then if power play is working right now how did we do it what if I told you

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guys that right side up is just a construct as it turns out the power play

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mat works perfectly fine upside down and

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like other wireless charging Solutions it doesn't need to be right up against

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the mouse that it's charging so just like with the CH spots for our wireless

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keyboard we were able to see and see out all but 2 mm of our desktop surface here

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then Mount the power play Upside down

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inside the desk desk and here it is I am

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so impressed that it works not only through the desk but also through our

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desk pad by the way we have three varieties of deskpad now Northern Lights

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stealth and when check them out on LTT Store.com let's get some head shot shall

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we a big part of that gaming Clinic I just put on yeah I knew that was coming

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was obviously the monitor did we mention that the 45 g95 QE produces true to life

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color a great HDR experience and deeper

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blacks than conventional LCDs with a four side virtually borderless design

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and anti-glare coating to deliver a new level of immersion for distraction-free

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gaming now getting this monitor to work at Peak efficiency with zero visible

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wires was a significant challenge while there have been major advancements in

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wireless HDMI 3440 x440 at 240 HZ is a

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lot of bandwidth and even if we could transmit it wirelessly somehow it

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wouldn't be latency fre and we would still have to deal with power anyway so

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we took some inspiration from our peripherals and we put the cables inside

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the power and DisplayPort cables go inside the post of this basic clamp on

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Mount that we let's say

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modified with some extra holes to keep the cables out of sight if you look at

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the bottom of the mount then you will see or I guess you won't see that the

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cables disappear down into the desktop

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never to reemerge we did have to get a little sneaky we used a mini display

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port cable then a full-sized adapter so we didn't have to try to feed a

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full-sized connector through the relatively small hole in the base of the

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mount then the other end goes to this cable channel here that goes all the way

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to the back where the power splits out to this holder for the brick and the

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DisplayPort cable joins up with the rest of the cables in our umbilical cord

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okay there are some cables we need some cables compromise no no I this is very

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clean while we're on the subject of cables our umbilical cord contains not

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just DisplayPort and power but also USB for our fairly generous Sid mounted IO

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we've got USB type a USB type c and a

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headphone microphone combo Jack we thought about putting this on the front

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but from an aesthetic standpoint we felt that it would be better to have it out

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of the way also the front is full of wireless charging stuff well sort of

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that's a lie we had some space left over and we decided to use it to build a

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small drawer for holding pens or CDs or

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whatever other clutter you wouldn't dream of scattering around on a desktop

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so clean and so pure I was on the fence about even having the phone charging

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spot because like really do you need to

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have this here but the way that I and realistically just about everyone live

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Tethered to our cell phones it just makes sense to have a spot for it now

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there are high powerered chat Chargers that are designed to go through a desk

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surface but if you're wondering how we did this since we were hollowing out the

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inside of our desk anyway we just used a random off-the-shelf G charger and once

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again we shaved our top surface down to about 2 mm ensuring adequate charging

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performance you might think and in fact I had some serious questions about this

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project when I heard about it that hollowing out and shaving down the

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entire inside of the desk means giving up sturdiness in the desktop itself but

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I'm happy to report that unless you were to dance a little jig over the mousing

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Sur it's not even noticeable in day-to-day

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use like check this out David see I can get a little bit of flex here if I

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really push on it but like moving a mouse go ahead find the flex if anything

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it's been an improvement in the user experience since hollowing it out helped

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to reduce the weight of the desk so much

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yeah it's not even that bad anymore we started out with a 5x5 sheet of 1-in

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Baltic birch plywood that we then cut in half and then stacked to give ourselves

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a 2in plywood sandwich it's not the

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skinniest desktop in the world but it's also no thicker than the Butcher Block

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desktop that I use at home so I think from the outside no one would realize

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that there is so much Tech hidden away in here I guess you probably want to

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know how maintenance would work if you ever needed to swap anything out right

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the trickiest or maybe let's say most finicky part of assembly and disassembly

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are the right leg and the post of the monitor stand in both cases it's because

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cables have to pass pass through with fairly narrow clearances and relatively

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tight angles as long as you're aware of the situation when you've got those two

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bits of metal only Loosely attached to the desk as a whole you can avoid

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accidentally moving things too far and causing damage to the desktop surfaces

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the other major pain point is only a problem after installation if you need

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to change what IO you're including on the side of the desk the tiny nuts and

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bolts that secure the io ports have very small clearances so you either need tiny

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hands or some good needlenose pliers in to get them installed other than that

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installing Chargers running cables through the various channels it's

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shockingly straightforward and even fitting in the monitor's power brick is

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pretty trivial the drawer is simply made out of some thinner plywood that we cut

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on our laser cutter and then we use this little drawer popping mechanism here to

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make it easier to open though with it being installed at this janky angle it

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is a little bit less smooth than we'd like I think I made it looked pretty

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good earlier but I don't know it's all right really we don't expect anyone to

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try duplicating this build at home is you need a pretty large CNC router but

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hey maybe we could Inspire some of the companies that

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are mass-producing cheap gamer desks to

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put a little more effort into their designs because honestly speaking other

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than machine time materials cost on this is next to nothing and I think it is by

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far the best clean setup we or you know

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what I'm going for it fighting words or anyone else have ever done I love this

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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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