Cool PC Accessories You've Never Heard Of!

hello good people i'm dmitry and welcome to our cool pc accessories you never heard of video our pc components video did really well check it out over here i love doing these compilations because you get to explore the weird and cool sides of accessories for a particular category and certain items that you wonder why do they even exist everything will be linked in description below let's begin with the first one pc panel so what you're looking at is an audio controller with a pretty basic and simple construction it is maple feels solid with four aluminum wheels on the front all of which have the dial functionality and a button functionality the usb 2 cable is not braided but it's plenty long to connect to your pc and the whole idea behind pc panel is to give you functionality for a lot of volume control and also give you additional macro customization because of those buttons within the pc panel driver software you can select what the button customization does per each volume knob so either doing something with media controls selecting different input devices setting up different shortcuts per application for example while in a dial app you can control app volume focus volume or device volume that gives you so much control from this pc panel device when it comes to volume across your entire ecosystem of desktop either devices applications or whatever for example one dial can be in charge of your browser volume another one will be from your music player another one can adjust the gain of your microphone and another one for whatever else you desire this thing is so simple but yet so powerful when it comes to volume and macro customization that you never knew you'd actually want to use and my only complaint here is that the device is pretty lightweight and it doesn't have any rubber adhesive at the bottom nor does it come with anything so it's not very stationary a lot of users are mounting this thing under the desk so it's stationary but still in reach and you have all that full control and volume functionality the new pure loop all-in-one coolers from be quiet have a doubly decoupled pump near the radiator for silent operation and flexibility for mounting an elegant cooling block with pure white illumination and accessible fill port on the radiator with liquid for future proofing and pure wings two fans on the rad check it out below moving on to the corsair lt100 lighting towers and so many people have asked about what they are in the background of my videos and they are the corsair lt100 in the package we have the light tower with only one-sided illumination and that is because you can either have the light towers facing you the user or facing the wall for that ambient spill the base on the other hand has rgb illumination all around and you simply pop the light tower into the base it's a two-less assembly so if you decide to want the light tower facing you it's a really easy reconfiguration color-wise we have a ton of effects inside iq software all the colors here are very accurate and the actual spill is incredibly soft you don't see individual leds and that is because the diffusion layer is super thick and i really appreciate that we have an adhesive headphone holder that you can attach to either tower and we also have a button on the main controller so that if the iq is not running in the background you'll have this rgb cycling effect so with this button you can turn the light towers on or off literally the only downside is the price at 130 this is an expensive lighting solution especially because there's absolutely no other function but for it to look pretty and i guess holding your headphones this next item is super relevant for today's day and age when we're constantly on video calls and everything in the background is super noisy this is an asus ai noise cancelling microphone adapter basically it's a dongle that allows you to run background noise cancellation to mute out unwanted noise from your microphone audio it works with any 3.5 ml headphones as long as it's a 4-pole connection or you can simply plug in a standalone microphone into it and since this device comes with either the usb-c connection and the usb-a adapter you can connect it to your computer to your smartphone to your ipad whatever and that is because it is driverless it's a simple plug-and-play solution and the interesting thing is that even if you plug this in it's not going to recognize it in the driver software until you plug in the microphone or the headset into the jack so that's pretty clever all the processing and noise cancellation is done on the actual usb sound card and the result is pretty impressive take a listen so what you listen to now is that reported by the razer black shark v2 x gaming headset a fantastic pair for 59 dollars with a really good microphone and this is currently plugged into the ai noise canceling sound adapter so there is a lot of uh vocal compression obviously it's not the most natural sounding microphone but did you know that i have a drill a loud drill running in the background right now and i'm also hammering on a keyboard keystrokes pretty loudly and then when we go back to the ai noise cancelling mic adapter you can hear how all that noise just disappears now i plugged in the same headset into my soundblaster x3 with the most aggressive noise cancellation properties applied in the software and as you can hear not uh it's not as aggressive obviously as the a noise cancelling adapter my voice sounds much better but there's so much extra noise in the background that isn't getting cancelled yikes and just for reference here's what the mic sounds like without any additional ambient noise that i was simulating with the construction and the keyboard typing so yeah it's not bad it's a very good competitor to the rtx voice you can check out that demo over here but that was pretty taxing on your gpu it requires additional software requires an rtx gpu and now you can have basically the same effect with a usb adapter so well done just keep in mind this adapter tries to save all the voice and your vocals from your environment so if you have other people talking that will be picked up while dogs barking music playing without any vocals construction noises traffic air conditioning fridges all that will be completely destroyed in the background and will not be audible this next one is a quick one we have the kikron t10 usb hub so we have a usbc connection on one end that is compatible with macbooks it is compatible with standard windows type c notebooks and also a few smartphones all around the body we have multiple port selections like sd carder tf reader usb 3 ports on the front two of them two of them on the side and then in the back we have the rga 45 jack vga and hdmi once you plug it in a tiny red led shines so you know when it is powered and because of this triangular design you can put this uh standing up so certain ports are facing you and you can also plug in usb-c power into it that will consequently charge whatever device you're using if you're running it into the appropriate port that accepts charging i never realized how useful these hubs were until i start traveling with my razer blade where i have a type-c connection and from that i have all this additional i o my only complaint with this one is that the sd card reader is super slow maxing out at 20 megabytes per second next up we have the corsair iq nexus this is a touch screen keyboard slash desktop accessory that you can either attach to a corsair keyboard or simply put it in its own dock and have it on your desktop as much as it is about the hardware it is the software that makes this thing really cool so not only can you add different buttons for shortcuts for media controls for volume customization for app macros whatever you can also add system statistics that will display gpu temperature cpu load cpu temperature and etc if you have other iq devices plugged into your system you can change the lighting so everything is cohesive without entering iq you can create multiple pages with their own widgets and buttons all of which can be customized in terms of text color and size the resolution here is not too bad especially when you're looking at the arm's length distance but my complaint here is with the viewing angles when you're sitting in front of it it's not a problem especially when it's facing you but side to side viewing is absolutely terrible at 99 it's a pretty expensive accessory but a really cool one nonetheless especially if you're coming from the age of if you remember the g19 keyboard from logitech and that had the screen you know this is your way of going back to the nostalgia days with a bit more 2020 tech and customization next up we have these fantex neon rgb flexible lighting strips for the interior of your pc so the really cool thing about these ones aside from that beautiful soft illumination because the diffusion layer is pretty thick is that you can route it around your motherboard around certain components of your enclosure because of these included brackets that you can either attach the case with adhesive or mount them underneath the motherboard standoffs they're called neon strips for a reason none of them will be straight inside your pc and that's actually kind of the beauty behind it i would say it's one of the most unique ways to light up an interior of a pc and if you have a fantastic closure you can connect that directly to a case or simply reroute them to your motherboard with a 5 volt pin now moving on to some questionable rgb accessories for your pc here we have this hdmi 4k rgb razer chroma compatible cable it is one of the most expensive cables i have ever owned and you need that usb connection in order to have software control otherwise it's just an rgb loop to be honest though the illumination is just as soft as we've seen with the lt100 towers and the neon strips from fantex it is only one-sided as well and i guess in certain situations it would be kind of cool i mean controlling the illumination of an hdmi cable via software it's pretty cool for 2020 but come on let's all agree it is a little bit pointless moving into the less pointless parts we have these colored thumb screws from cablemod they are aluminum they come in a variety of colors and just a fun way to customize something in your system either securing pci slots or side panels with these thumb screws now they are flat meaning you cannot use a screwdriver can only be done with your thumb and since they are aluminum they're not magnetic so don't try to catch one with your screwdriver next up are these fun mic covers from logitech they come with different shapes and colors they can fit a microphone capsule anywhere between six to 13 millimeters and they basically fit all the microphones that i have in my collection they replace the stock foam filter so they do prevent a little bit of the popping noise and they're also quite fun bonus tip here i appreciate they do not smell did you know that razer made gaming gum oh man we had so many laughs after the brief they are continuing with consumables within the gaming market they started with that gaming powder and now with the respawn 5 gum so the thing here is that it's basically the same ingredients as your powder without the added caffeine there are a bunch of vitamins in here and tea extract which is the energy boost element there so chew focus repeat i love that slogan over here we have three flavors pomegranate watermelon is my favorite tropical punch and cool mint i have never shot b-roll of gum but it is dark gray and after you chew it it's still dark gray in terms of flavor intensity it is incredible for the first minute and then the flavor dies to about 10 what surprises me the most is that they're selling these in packs of 10 so you get 150 pieces of gum for 28 and surprise number two is that i actually find that to improve my focus not just one game but when i'm editing uh if i'm feeling a little bit tired piece of gum and i'm good for like another hour there's no sugar crash afterwards either so i mean it's pretty legit but still it's gaming gum alright and lastly speaking of pointless gaming things we have another cable from vivify this is w10 gaming usbc to usba illuminated cable it follows in the footsteps of that hdmi cable where the illumination is only on the one side it's pretty even and pretty bright and uniform throughout but it's not rgb you have to choose the different color variation when you order the cable i was excited to use this with my keyboard but it's very stiff so positioning it the right way so that the lighting actually is visible is kind of difficult so this cable is almost unpredictable it's just really funny to see gaming usb cable on the package but what we're expecting from a lighting cable in the first place right all right so i think that concludes all of our cool pc accessories you've probably never heard of let me know if anything stood out as the most interesting in this roundup and let us know in the comments if you've stumbled upon something totally crazy but think would be kind of cool at the same time for this whole space i'm duitree thanks so much for watching check out this other relevant content subscribe for more i'll talk to you in the next video [Music]

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Length: 13min 2sec (782 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020