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Reddit mentions of Kensington Foam Wrist Rest (Black), 62383
Sentiment score: 2
Reddit mentions: 4
We found 4 Reddit mentions of Kensington Foam Wrist Rest (Black), 62383. Here are the top ones.
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Specs:
| Color | Black |
| Height | 1.1023622036 Inches |
| Length | 17.9133858085 Inches |
| Weight | 0.5291094288 Pounds |
| Width | 3.2283464534 Inches |
The keyboard wrist rest is a Kensington Comfort Foam. The mousepad is a SteelSeries gaming mousepad. I cut up an old mousepad and attached the wrist rest to the steelseries.
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My rationale for the chosen products:
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CPU:
Intel 6 core, 12 threaded, unlocked Broadwell-E (the latest) CPU. This CPU is the follow up from the i7-5820K a highly popular CPU because of it's amazing value for money aspect for the higher end consumers.
This CPU will wreck anything you'll throw at it for a very long time.
CPU Cooler:
It's huge, it's black and it performs extremely well consider that you barely freaking hear it. This cooler will let you overclock the CPU to hopefully somewhere around 4,2 to 4,6GHz.
Overclocking is always a luck of the draw or "silicon lottery" since some chips overclock better than others and there is nothing you can do against it.
Motherboard:
I decided to change this up, because the MSI X99 Krait needs to have the correct BIOS version to allow Broadwell-E CPUs to boot. I am not sure if you're able to upgrade the BIOS with an USB stick without having the correct CPU in it, so I rather not risk it and suggest this less sexy, but still nice looking Asus motherboard.
The i7-6800K is supported since the earliest BIOS version & all PCB versions.
Memory:
And speed in itself also isn't extremely important either, but can give a slight edge under certain circumstances. So I didn't go down with the speed much.
I did decide to lower it to 16GB, why? Because RAM is only going to be an issue when you open a lot of programs at the same.. 16GB is a pretty big amount and I am very certain that you'll have enough of RAM for.. at least 2-3 years.
When you buy 32GB of RAM and only use LESS than 8GB for the most part, you've got 24GB just sitting there doing nothing! Which is the whole "burning a pocket in your wallet"
Storage:
The best consumer SSD on the market as far as I'm aware. It's actually possible to save some money and get a cheaper one, you'll have a real hard time to notice any performance difference in your use case.
Anyway, check out the videos about HDDs & SSDs to learn more about it if needed.
You indeed want to install the OS & any program you often use. Games don't get an FPS increase when it's installed on an SSD, just will load a bit faster.
You may also be interested in a NAS if you want to backup your music files. Don't rely on a HDD to stay alive non stop, it can always die at any time, but this HDD is very reliable and doesn't spin as fast. This reduces performance ever so slightly, but makes up for that by in theory lasting longer and also being more silent. A trade off I personally like to make any time.
Video Card:
So these videos and the last written review, should provide you with a very good idea of what kind of performance you can get out of the card. Remember that they often test the cards in games at max / ultra settings!
You can turn down some settings which often won't affect the quality of the visual looks by much, yet provides a much better FPS number.
Case:
You've already got it! I like turtles..
Case fans:
Can't find a review, you just have to trust me that these fans are whisper quiet, especially compared to the stock fans that come with the Case. Replace those all with these and you'll have a hard time to hear the PC for most of the time you'll use it.
Power Supply:
10 year warranty, 80+ gold, fully-modular, semi-passive fan profile, 850W PSU from Corsair made by CWT.
This PSU is an absolute beast, it's extremely high quality. One of the best PSUs you can buy in this wattage / price bracket. The reason why we both went for 850W is that when you start to overclock both the CPU & GPU, they'll draw more wattage, which means if you have 2 cards in the system, you'll start to hit about 600-700W. So 850W is for sure going to be more than enough! This system will pull around 350-400W after overclocking both of these products.
OS:
Monitor:
2560x1440p, 27", IPS, G-Sync, 144Hz monitor from Asus with height, pivot, swivel and tilt adjustment.
A very detailed review, I highly recommend to read through it a fair bit. It got some very good information in it. Including the refresh rate! To spoil it for you, they recommend to not bother overclocking the monitor to 165Hz. It's benefits don't outweigh the drawbacks it gives and honestly, good luck to hit 144 FPS anyway in most games!
Keyboard:
It's hard to really recommend a keyboard, but I went with the Cherry MX brown switches instead of the REDs. If you really enjoy the current MX REDs on your keyboard, feel free to just keep using it or swapping this keybaord for the Ducky Shine 5 RGB with MX Reds.
Now this keyboard is freaking amazing, Ducky is a big name in the quality keyboard market. I personally have a Ducky Shine 0 and absolutely love it. I use this keyboard pretty much every day and type a lot.. It's also being hammered with dust, dirt and other junk that for some reason just gets into this bloody keyboard no matter what. So I clean it frequently.
Regardless, this RGB lightning is the big deal on the keyboard. But it's going to take a while to get it setup, since it actually does not use software at all. So you have to press keys to change the colors. This may seem like freaking silly, but on one hand.. It's also pretty nice. As said in the review, it's both a blessing and a curse.
Mouse:
This is probably one of the best "all round" gaming mice you can get. It really gets praised highly by almost every reviewer and I personally also really loved the feel of this mouse when I had about a minute of play time with it in a local store. It feels really nice that's for sure.
Mousepad:
Headphones:
So I actually provide 2 different headphones, they're fairly similar. All headphones are different and because of the fact that you play guitar, you want to have a very "flat" styled headphones. To be able to monitor the sound you create.
I can talk a lot about sound, so I'll just leave it for now and say, you can't go wrong with either of these.
Microphone:
I personally have these as well! Not lying and they really sound amazing. I mean, just listen to the girl and the quality she gets out of it. Of course, you have to tune it a bit in your audio recording software, she does peak a good bit still because she's still to close it.
I included that Samson GO microphone review as well, because my youtube just played it after the other guitar review and honestly, this sounds freaking beautiful. The Samson GO is a super small, £40 microphone from Samson. The Samson Meteor is I am certain off, better because it just is "bigger" and I suppose the frequency response it can catch is better.
It's not a high end microphone by any imagination, but it's very good regardless.
I sort of started devloping carpal tunnel (or it felt like it: wrist pain, forearm pain) so I started sitting with a good posture and more importantly I began to use a mousemat with a gel wrist-rest and a gel wrist-rest for my keyboard. The pain has barely ever returned since (only mildly if I spend a couple of days in a row gaming a lot).
I believe for me it was that I always used to have my wrists hanging off the edge of the desk. The sharp edge was digging into the underside of my wrist. It didn't happen as bad when I went to university and my desk had a rounded off edge.
So yeah, wrist-rests work magic.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-WaveRest-Gel-Mouse-Pad/dp/B00000JRRD/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kensington-Comfort-Foam-Keyboard-Wrist/dp/B00065W4WQ
This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00065W4WQ/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item
Quite happy with it.