CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 9950X3D @ PBO Unlocked
Motherboard: ASRock X870E Taichi Lite, BIOS v3.18.AS01 [BETA]
RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 - Part #: F5-6000J3040G32GX2-FX5
GPU 1: XFX 9070 XT Mercury Magnetic Air
SSD 1: (Arch Linux/~): Crucial T705 2TB, w/heatsink
SSD 2: (Win11 C:/): SK.Hynix Platinum P41 2TB
SSD 3: (Shared Storage): WD SN850x 4TB
Power Supply: FSP Group Hydro Ti PRO 1000W
Case: Open Benchtable v2 - Silver
Monitor 1: LG UltraGear 32GS95UE-B - Dual mode: 3840x2160 (4K) 16:9 @ 240Hz OR 1920x1080 (1080p FHD) 16:9 @ 480Hz
Monitor 2: Pixio PX347c Prime 3440x1440 21:9 @ 100Hz
Main Keyboard: Wooting 80HE - PCR Plastic housing, Ghost colorway (translucent)
Key Switches: Wooting Lekker 45 (L45) - Factory Lubed
Stabilizers: Stock Wooting Stabs, hand re-lubed
Keycaps: WINMIX OSA Profile - Simple Grey colorway - Doubleshot PBT
Detached Numpad: Ducky Pocket w/KeebsForAll N2O Laughing Gas switches
Mouse 1: zerømouse Blade - Pulsar Supergrips (Uncut sheet, cut to fit contact points) (don't ask about the rest of the collection)
Mouse 2: Zowie ZA13-DW - Zowie Type E Skates - White - Pulsar Supergrips (don't ask about the rest of the collection) (seriously, don't ask. you don't want to know).
Mouse 3: Xtrfy MZ1 Wireless - Zy's Rail - Pulsar Supergrips (It's much bigger than the list here)
Mouse 4: Zowie U2 - Zowie Type E Skates - White - Pulsar Supergrips
Mouse 5: VAXEE Outset AX Wireless 4K - Blue Colorway - Lethal Skates - Vaxee - Pulsar Supergrips
Mouse 6: Zowie ZA13-C, modded by CryoMods with Viper V2 Pro internals, Hyperpolling dongle @ 4K - Lethal Skates - Zowie Type B - Pulsar Supergrips
Mouse 7: Finalmouse UltralightX Cheetah (Small) - Phantom colorway
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)
1600 normally, 3200 for when high sens is needed on the fly
Mousepad 1: Artisan TYPE-99 (smooth feeling surface, slow control pad but without the resistance to starting movements as one might expect ) - Large - Soft - Black
Mousepad 2: Artisan Hayate Otsu (smooth feeling surface, slightly more resistance on Y axis than X (less than Hien), better than Hien for games that require bullet drop compensation ) - Large - Soft - Wine Red
Mousepad 3: Artisan Hien (Strong resistance on Y axis versus X, perfect for games where most mousing is horizontal) - Large - Soft - Wine Red
Mousepad 4: Lethal Gaming Gear Venus - XXL
Mouse Bungee: Zowie Camade
Elbow Rest: A brick
Check out boardzy. His recommendations are generally in line with mine. I used to have a long spiel here about my general recommendations but new mice drop out every day and I can't be bothered to keep and up to date list here. My top mice are above.
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.
GoPro Hero 5 Black+elgato CamLink 4K
Headphones: HIFIMAN Ananda
Headphone Amp 1: Geshelli Labs E3 Pro (Erish 3 Pro) BRZHiFi linear power supply
Headphone Amp 2: xDuoo MT-601 - Electro-harmonics 6922 tube - BRZHiFi linear power supply
DAC 1: Geshelli Labs J3 (JNOG 3) - Sparkos SS2590 OPAMPs - AKM AK4499 (decoder)/4191 (analog conversion) DAC chipset - Amanero Combo384 USB interface - BRZHiFi linear power supply
DAC 2: Schiit Bifrost 2/64
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!)