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Don’t spend more on a mic unless you have to
I’ve been hilariously forcing Andy to use a bunch of cheap rubbish I find on Amazon and AliExpress recently, and you know what, sometimes that has meant we find the odd diamond in the rough.
Unless you really need to sound like a late night DJ all the time, and just want a simple desktop microphone for meetings and Discord, then this is all you ever need spend on a PC mic.
If you thought Hall effect keyboards were expensive…
Allow me to dissuade you from that particular misapprehension, because those magnetic switches don’t automatically have to mean a gaming keyboard that stretches into triple figures.
In fact, this one won’t even cost more than $50. I’ve used the Gamakay NS68 a bunch in the office and though it could do with some extra damping in there to give you a more satisfying thock it’s an impressive wee board for the little more you’ll spend on it.
Everyone’s got a bottom…
…but not everyone can afford a Secretlab Titan Evo.
This is where the best budget gaming chair comes into its own. The Corsair TC100 Relaxed has been our favorite budget seat for so long you’d think our review chair would be a pile of ripped cloth and a few castors by now. Not so, the chair still looks as good today as it did when we first put it together in the office.
And now that it’s getting close to its cheapest ever price, at just $160 at Newegg, it’s a whole lot of gaming chair for not a lot of cash. Especially when you consider the Secretlab will set you back near $600.
You always need more space
It’s as true if you have a gaming laptop with just a 512 GB SSD or a big rig with a couple terabytes already installed; you always need more storage space. Games aren’t getting any smaller, after all!
And this might just be your best opportunity to grab some affordable storage right now, because the rise and rise of AI data centers is potentially going to create a “pricing apocalypse”. So that means, if you want to get in on SSDs worth just 5₵ per GB now might be the time to act.
My favorite deal so far…
As far as budget gaming laptops go, this is an excellent machine when it’s down at this price. For just $810 at Lenovo the LOQ 15 is among the quickest RTX 5060-powered notebooks we have examined.
I’ll not agree with Lenovo’s egregious choice to make use of single channel reminiscence, and that 512 GB SSD is tiny, however these are issues you may take care of at this worth, and may simply and cheaply improve down the road, too.
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