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Tech reviewer focused on graphics cards, CPUs, storage, and gaming peripherals.

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Capture

Camera equipment1

Sound

Headphones2

  • SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni

    $379.99mixed views on it

    “But, one of my favorite things about the Omni is having independent power buttons for your headset with the dongle versus Bluetooth. So, you can power on Bluetooth without needing to connect this to the base station. It's amazing.”
    View source at 8:41from July 2026
  • Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II

    $349.99mixed views on it

    “Living with a Stealth Pro 2 has been almost hassle-free, but if you are updating the firmware on this thing, holy good luck. It is painfully slow. I've had to do this twice in a month, and it updates both the headset and your base station.”
    View source at 7:39from July 2026

Editing and post

Editing software7

  • DaVinci Resolve Studio

    cited in 2 videosmixed views on it

    “Now, I use DaVinci Resolve Studio as my main NLE for most of the videos that you see here on the channel.”
    View source at 8:59from June 2026+ 1 more source
  • Blender
    “From DaVinci to Blender, After Effects, this thing can just chew through those tasks, no problem.”
    View source at 0:41from June 2026
  • Adobe After Effects
    “I mean, this laptop has essentially become my central hub for everything, you know, from writing out emails, doing the light productivity stuff to uh creating thumbnails, editing videos for the channel, and also creating the After Effects templates, performance charts that you see for our laptop reviews.”
    View source at 12:03from June 2026
  • Adobe Premiere Pro

    first cited September 2026positive about it

    “Now, switching over to Adobe Premiere Pro. This is where things get really interesting, right?”
    View source at 11:32from September 2026

AI software1

  • LM Studio

    first cited September 2026

    “I tested six models in LM Studio ranging from 12 billion parameters all the way up to 70 billion parameters.”
    View source at 6:45from September 2026

Productivity software4

  • Armory Crate

    first cited September 2026has reservations

    “And while I do appreciate Asus's shift towards web-based driver software, with Gearlink, I still had to update something inside Armory Crate software.”
    View source at 11:03from September 2026
  • Google Sheets
    “I've got my Google Sheets, my inventory, basically seeing which laptops has arrived here at the studio, which one has left, Google Maps, and then I've also got YouTube.”
    View source at 4:32from July 2026
  • Discord
    “While that was happening, I installed everything I actually needed like DaVinci Resolve Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, WhatsApp, Discord, Google Chrome, and a handful of other essentials.”
    View source at 6:14from June 2026
  • Google Chrome
    “While that was happening, I installed everything I actually needed like DaVinci Resolve Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, WhatsApp, Discord, Google Chrome, and a handful of other essentials.”
    View source at 6:14from June 2026

Desk

Computers12

  • MacBook Pro (M5 Max)

    $4,999.00cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

    “So, there we go. I'm putting aside the M4 Pro and now the M5 Max is my primary machine.”
    View source at 6:43from June 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Mac Studio

    $2,449.00cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

    “Now, for the past 2 years, this has been my workhorse, the Mac Studio with the M2 Ultra chip and it's been a game changer for my workflow.”
    View source at 0:30from June 2026+ 1 more source
  • ROG Strix SCAR 18 (2026)

    $4,159.96first cited September 2026mixed views on it

    “Also, this thing is a fingerprint magnet. I mean, I've been using this for a couple of weeks and I've already kind of smudged up everything.”
    View source at 13:05from September 2026
  • P28 fans

    speaks highly of it

    “And I'm using the P28 fans, which are 28 mm fans instead of the standard 25, so I am 3 mm too tall.”
    View source at 9:31from August 2026

Monitors2

Peripherals3

  • Pro X2 Superstrike

    first cited October 2026speaks highly of it

    “And just like with the Pro X2 Super Strike from Logitech, where this has been my primary gaming mouse so far, because I mean, the switches are so silent, it's incredible.”
    View source at 3:18from October 2026
  • Corsair Sabre v3 Pro (PureVector)

    $179.99first cited October 2026mixed views on it

    “So after a full week of using this thing as a mouse only, it's pretty great. 40 g body, nice switches, good scroll wheel, battery life is decent, 8k Hz bowling. The price is expensive, but that's because of Pure Vector, and that's going to be, you know, an exclusively Corsair thing because it is patented.”
    View source at 9:37from October 2026
  • OWC Thunderbolt 4 Dock
    “So, I ended up finding a OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock. It has a Ethernet jack.”
    View source at 5:16from June 2026

Storage1

Everything else

Other9

  • RTX 5080 TUF

    $1,899.99cited in 2 videos

    “So that, you know, everything you're seeing now is with identical hardware and I'm not interpolating RTX 5080 temperatures from the previous Orus card.”
    View source at 0:17from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • MX-6 thermal paste

    $14.99first cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “All my benchmarking is done with the MX6. Not sponsored. This is just really good thermal paste.”
    View source at 4:06from September 2026
  • Galaxy Z Fold 8

    $1,849.99mixed views on it

    “All right. So, this is the video test on the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Now, what I love about this phone, and this is awesome, right, is that you can actually unfold the display and use the cover screen as a viewfinder while using the rear cameras to shoot your video.”
    View source at 16:06from September 2026
  • Fractal Design Define One

    $154.99positive about it

    “For my Define one enclosure, I requested a solid side panel just to understand where we're coming from in terms of both acoustic performance and airflow.”
    View source at 1:33from September 2026

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