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Jotunn's PC kit

Jotunn's Setup

Main System

CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 5950x @ Stock clocks
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact, BIOS v3601
RAM: Crucial Ballistix 64GB (2x32GB) 3600MHz C16 - Part #: BL2K32G36C16U4B
GPU: AMD RX 6900 XT Reference
SSD 1: (Arch Linux/~): Samsung 980 Pro 1TB
SSD 2: (Win11 C:/): Samsung 970 EVO 1TB
SSD 2: (Shared Storage): Samsung 860 EVO 2TB
Power Supply: Corsair SF750
Case: NCASE M1

Monitors

Monitor 1: Samsung Odyssey G7 2560x1440 16:9 @ 240Hz
Monitor 2: Pixio PX347c Prime 3440x1440 21:9 @ 100Hz

Keyboards

Main Keyboard: Wooting 60HE - KBDFans TOFU60 Redux case, Anodized Dark Blue - Stock foam - Three masking tape layers on back of PCB

Key Switches: Wooting Lekker 60 (L60) - Hand Lubed

Stabilizers: Stock Wooting Stabs - Hand greased

Keycaps: WINMIX OSA Profile - Simple Grey colorway - Doubleshot PBT

Detached Numpad: Ducky Pocket w/KeebsForAll N2O Laughing Gas

Mice and stuff

Mouse 1: Zowie U2 - Zowie Type E Skates - White - Speedy Glide - Pulsar Supergrips (don't ask about the rest of the collection)

Mouse 2: VAXEE Outset AX Wireless 4K - Blue Colorway - Lethal Skates - Vaxee - Pulsar Supergrips (seriously, don't ask. you don't want to know).

Mouse 3: Zowie ZA13-C, modded by CryoMods with Viper V2 Pro internals, Hyperpolling dongle @ 4K - Lethal Skates - Zowie Type B - Pulsar Supergrips

Mouse 4: Finalmouse UltralightX Cheetah - Phantom colorway (It's much bigger than the list here)

Mouse 5: Finalmouse Starlight-12 Poseidon No. 2372 - Small - Tiger ICE skates

Mouse 6: LAMZU Atlantis V2 4K

Mouse 7: Xtrfy MZ1 Wireless - Zy's Rail

Mouse 8: Finalmouse Starlight-12 Zeus No. 814 - Small - Firmware 1.2.6 - Kailh GM8.0 switches - TTC Gold Scroll Encoder - Tiger ICE skates (no longer mine, sent to mus1CK to add to his collection)

Mouse DPI/CPI: 1600 normally, 3200 for when high sens is needed on the fly

Mousepad 1: Artisan Hien - Large - Soft - Wine Red Mousepad 2: Lethal Gaming Gear Venus - XXL
Mousepad 3: Artisan Hayate Otsu - Large - Soft - Wine Red

Mouse Bungee: Zowie Camade
Elbow Rest: A brick

What mouse should you get?

Check out boardzy. His recommendations are in line with mine. Best overall mouse for FPS is between the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2, LAMZU Atlantis V2 and V2 4K, Pulsar X2, Razer Viper V2 Pro and Deathadder V3. Top tier small mice are for sure the Pulsar X2 Mini, Xtrfy MZ1 Wireless, and my beloved Zowie ZA13-C. The last of those is even better modded with Viper V2 Pro internals, though the stock sensor implementation and switches are great as well; it's a dark horse as the ZA shape is the only one not widely copied by other mouse makers and that's both a shame and a blessing. Vaxee wireless dongles have an odd firmware issue that is known to Vaxee, where the thumb/side buttons do not function in UNIX/POSIX systems, i.e. MacOS and Linux.

Thoughts on Finalmouse Finalmeme

Do not pay the resale prices for the limited Finalmouse models like I have done. Just don't. The build quality and QC is secondary to them, the Starlight 12 (SL-12) was kinda shit until the Phantom, Pegasus, and Poseidon, though those still have a litany of issues that the company just refuses to fix. My SL-12 Zeus needed a good deal of work to become acceptable in my view. As of the Poseidon, it comes with the switches it should have had, the sensor upgrades it needed ("wet bonding" AKA two sided tape and some fixes to DPI deviation), and the scroll encoder it always needed. EVERY one of their mice since the dawn of the company has had DPI deviation outside what I consider to be the generally acceptable margin of error save for an Sl-12 on firmware 1.2.6 or newer. They lied about click latency at launch of the Sl-12 and took a year to really improve it. Their tooling is also crap: off center scroll wheels, misaligned shell components, list goes on. In short, they are not worth your money or investment. Bad hypebeast marketing, run by a semi-questionable businessman who goes by Finalboy, real name Ashkon Shayani, and false or misleading advertising. However, a Starlight 12 with the latest firmware, 1.3.5, if you do get one, is one of the finest FPS mice one can get. For every flaw above and being a total meme of a company, the mouse is still good.

ULX Cheetah thoughts: A grand improvement over prior QC in general. Seemingly light as air, still not the shape for me. My happy place is mice made by Zowie and VAXEE, the kings of shape. Availability is still limited thus far (March 2024) due to major delays on first batches of each size. They seem more focused on their collab with tarik than anything else at the moment. 8K mode still to come, will probably send battery life into the dumpster. As said before, the FM shape, a modified Zowie FK shape, is not for me. Shallow thumb grooves and wider grip width on a symmetrical mouse, even a small one in my large hands (22cm x 19cm) just never sits right nor comes to a satisfactory "zero" in my hand. Zowie ZA-13 and U2, plus the VAXEE Outset AX and NP-01s are where things are at for me, but on weight alone the ULX Cheetah comes close.

Camera

GoPro Hero 5 Black+elgato CamLink 4K

Gaming Audio Playback

Headphones: Drop + Dan Clark Audio Aeon Open X
Headphone Amp: xDuoo MT-601 - Electro-harmonics 6922 tube - BRZHiFi linear power supply
DAC 1: Geshelli Labs J2S (JNOG 2 Socketed) - Sparkos SS3602 Op Amps - AKM AK4493 DAC Chip - Amanero Combo384 USB interface - BRZHiFi linear power supply
DAC 2: Schiit Bifrost 2/64

Audio Recording

Microphone: AKG C535EB
Microphone mixer/DAC: Scarlett 2i2 Gen 3

(The above two sections are just the gaming audio stuff. Don't ask about the real audiophile stuff, I swear I'm not addicted!)

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