World's Most Comfortable Gaming Setup Part 1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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2,147 words · ~10 min read
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it's construction time again so on the one side of my home office I've got that
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server cabinet that's full of networking gear uh gaming rig servers battery
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backups the whole nine yards and on the
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other side of it in this room I've got a
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whole lot of nothing time to fix that
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today I will be constructing what I call TM the world's most comfortable gaming
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setup so come on along for the
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ride cooler Master's masterc case maker 5 features their free form modular
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the video description so first things first we're
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going to take this Samsung 65 in curved SD TV up to the room and a test fit
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something that I actually have not done
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yet so so the position of the TV is
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actually going to be one of the things that makes this the most comfortable
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gaming setup we could have just put it against the wall right here and put like
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a chair over here and called it a day but no that is not the world's most
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comfortable so no the TV is actually going to mount to this 55° wall and the
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viewer will actually sit right
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here there we go of course this is not
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that comfortable and
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this the pillow sack provided by
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lock.com is the solution to that problem
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let's get this in there so what makes this the optimal
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piece of furniture a bean bag chair is that I can get the
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user reclined at exactly the angle that
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the TV will be at above him see that oh
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yeah hey do you guys mind uh throwing the TV up here so I can see what the
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viewing distance is going to look like I'd imagine this is what it's like to be
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ludicrously wealthy you wouldn't actually Mount anything you would just
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have like you would just have staff on hand that would just move things and
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hold them wherever you need them so it'll probably be about 8 or 12 in Off
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the Wall this is going to be freaking
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sick okay thanks guys awesome let's get
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started but we've got some challenges to overcome in here first the Keen eyed
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among you might have noticed that this room other than this horrible light
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fixture up here has no power no network
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and in fact has no insulation
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just like the one on the other side and if you're going to have a most
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comfortable gaming setup well the plan better be to have it in an insulated
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room don't you think in fact the only Electronics in this room right now are
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this chub caretaker from uh what appears to be
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this chip was manufactured in
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92 okay somebody spread that insulation
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around well that explains why the garage was so cold during the early days of lus
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Media Group we were all working out of there there was no
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insulation it would want to come quite low cuz remember it's little kids using
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it so I'm thinking for instead of trying to match the base in here we'll just go
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with a flat stock trim with everything ripped off the wall
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let's go through the plan in a little bit more detail it's changed a fair bit
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from the original concept and now it's going to be kind of like a cool kids
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play area as well so this tunk of wall right here is actually going to have a
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framed like metal plate that goes down
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to about here it's going to be like a cool magnet wall this right here is
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going to be power for a reading lamp and right here is going to be another bean
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bag kind of uh lounger that's kid-sized
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for them to sit and read the bookshelves will be covered in books and DVDs and
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games and then here we've roughed in the
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spot where the TV is going to go so we played around with our mount a little
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bit and it looks like it's going to end up on I believe it was yeah it's going
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to go as far left as it can on these two so our power is going to come out kind
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of in the center and then our data connection so we're going to have
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Ethernet for the back of the TV as well as Samsung's One Connect do. right here
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so that way all of our HDMI inputs can actually be over on this wall and just
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this one cable needs to run between that and the TV itself over on this wall I'm
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going to have everything wall mounted PC Xbox network switch so that everything
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has networking running over to the other room and anything else that uh I could
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see fit including this one connect box
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itself which is going to be powered oh
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doesn't use separate power oh that's cool I guess it's powered by the TV this
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box right here is going to provide Power for everything that's mounted to this
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wall and it's also going to give us with the access panel that we're going to
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build in over here the ability to vent this room later on in the future if we
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decide to do that but we may not up here
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we're going to do two 6-in dimmable pot lights um and then the room itself I
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believe the ceiling is going to be black and the walls are going to be kind of
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brightly colored and and fun so hopefully we have enough light but we
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can get it dark enough for a really great movie gaming
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experience this crappy little side table
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from Ikea is going to be cut off and is going to be bean bag chair height and
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it's going to sit right here next to the bean bag with another little lamp on it
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just in case you want to sit on this one and read and the carpet is going to be
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replaced because who puts artificial turf in their
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house okay lonus so that's great that's what everyone but you is doing what are
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you actually contributing to this project ah yes I have
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something I am going to be building a
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sick wallmounted computer to go in that
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room to power the gaming experience on
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the ceiling mounted TV how do you build a wall mounted computer well you could
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DIY it I guess but I'm going to be taking the easy route using a lean Lee
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PC 6sx let's get this baby put together so
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for the motherboard we went with a Maximus 8 Jean this is pretty much the
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no compromises matx Ford for LGA 1150 it
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supports SLI and Crossfire it's got all the outputs you could want and build
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quality to match our CPU and RAM choices are admittedly kind of overkilled we're
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using a core i7 6700k quad core with
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hyperthreading and 32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 memory but I mean hey
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maximum Comfort requires maximum performance right
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right this is a really cool
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case they've got some cases that have
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astonishingly bad thermals see it's little things like this that drive me
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crazy with not just Le and Lee all case manufacturers you couldn't spring for
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three more Ziplocs every computer manufacturer hates me
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personally GTX 1070 feels like a perfect
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choice for this machine so cross
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threading
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give it the
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old all right so this Baby's ready let's
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bring it back upstairs and find something else to do I'm going to be
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taking some of the leftover cat 5e cable from my how- to run Ethernet outside
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your house video which you can check out right over here and I'm going to be
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running it from my server room across the peak I'm actually going to have to
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crawl through a crawl space in my attic over to the new room so that you know
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whether it's games or whether it's Netflix I don't have to worry about a
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wireless connection being a bottleneck wired only baby
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you know what I'm going to get myself a
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headlamp hold on I'm going to poke a wire through over there first see it
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yeah oh there we go now I'm going back in so
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are you going to the other side now yeah I'm going to crawl all the way to the other side can I wait for you to the
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other side yeah you might be able to see me if you uh poke your head in okay so
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this clip is uh having just gone in from the server room I have to crawl through
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that hole oh my God Dennis just fell
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down what the hell Dennis please don't
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fall through my ceiling Dennis did you put your foot
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through my ceiling yes oh my
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God oh my God I I almost fell up on your
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on your St garage oh
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man
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know oh God damn it Dennis I almost di
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so we interrupt this program to bring you stunning footage of the damage that
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Dennis has done to my house there's the
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brand new hole in my ceiling of my garage that we had not intended to put
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there it's supposed to be made out of wood no it is not supposed to be made of
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wood Dennis made of that I don't know what it's supposed to be made of
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drywall so uh from now on I'm going to
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call this the Dennis hole hi
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Dennis hello seriously man
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jeez all right okay come on back up here and let's see if I can crawl back where
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I'm supposed to be I could have
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died see how I only step on the pieces of wood Dennis that is how you're
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supposed to do it how did you know that
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um I don't know I thought everyone knew that who knew who knew
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description so I think I've had enough for today let's call that part one of
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the world's most most comfortable gaming setup we'll be back with the finished
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