Online Connectivity : Wired, Fibre Optic (CAT6E). Avg. Download 150 Mb/s, Upload: 156 Mb/s, Avg: Ping 11ms
Chassis CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE Appearance [www.ebuyer.com] [/i]
CPU Intel Core I9 13900k @ 5.5ghz, 8-Physical Cores, 16-E Cores [E-Cores off for latency, on otherwise for production]
Monitor LG ULTRAGEAR 27GN750 240HZ - Set on "FASTER" [refresh rate overdriving]
Motherboard MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR5
RAM G.SKILL Trident DDR5 - 1.35v 48GB 7200MHZ (XMP enabled, helps with stutter)
GPU 12 GB INNO3D RTX 3060 "TWIN X2 OC"
STORAGE Crucial T700 NVMe 1TB (main two OSes) - 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW) V-NAND - 2x850 SAMSUNG EVO
DVD-DRIVE 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM [disconnected]
BACKUP EXTERNAL MEMORY CARD READER, WESTERN DIGITAL PORTABLE DRIVES
PSU CORSAIR RM1000X, 1000W - SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
COOLING Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black - two fans attached at maximum RPM (1500rpm), PWM
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
FANS 2x 120mm Apache Black Quiet Fan (fitted to extract from rear/roof)
SOUND CARD Scarlett 2in2 3rd Generation Audio Interface
USB Startech USB 2.0 Card (reduces USB contention)
OSes Windows 11 soon. Dual Boot (MAGNUS GAMING/MEDIA) - future may have Linux as a triple option
SOUND DESIGN (REAPER, Goldwave, Sonic Forge Studio Pro)
EDITING (Magix Vegas Pro)
ILLUSTRATION (Krita)
EXERCISE
SOFTWARE MODIFICATION / CONFIGURATIONS
ENDGAME OP1 8KHZ - This German origin hypermouse has some of the best click latency (Kalith) switches (and is interchangeable!) and sensor motion and is wonderfully suited for medium-small hands. Can be modded as well, improving longevity.

Modified with a "Mighty Mouse" body, a 3D-printed, extremely lightweight "skeleton" mouse shell, fitted with a Lethal Gaming cable to further reduce it to barely noticeable drag.

Configuration of the Mouse:
Pollrate: 8khz, dpi: 20,000 (3 stages of dpi for different games, 6400;20000) to account for sensitivity capping. Lift Off is 2mm, there is no RGB for the OP1 8KHZ. I use GX Speed Mode due to its extremely low click/debounce latency. Windows Mouse Sensitivity is 6/11 and has MarkC's fix applied to 1:1 the acceleration curve (for older games that force Windows Acceleration, i.e Enhance Pointer Precison).

FEET: XRayPad Jade Dot Feet Skates are applied to the previously removed skates of a Endgame OP1 8Khz, this gives a feeling of greater tracking and provides tactile, smooth feedback.

PAD: Skypad 2.0 XL A glass mouse pad. Makes flick shots look like the speed of light and glides like a lighting cloud (coincidentally the logo is just that). A polyester "gaming" sleeve (without glove) is worn to reduce co-efficient of friction and improve control during sweaty bouts or warmer weather. It helps reduce re-tracking and sticking to the mouse pad (which can cause inaccuracies and "stutter-tracking".
WOOTING 2 60HE with Jade Switches on a separate USB to avoid hitching OP1 8KHZ - Wooting 60HE [wooting.io]I use Snappy Tappy to introduce null movement to SP games with digital only (allowing for some insanely good positioning). Analogue is generally used for games that support it. I generally turn these off for multiplayer as they can provide a very serious benefit in tactical games to the point they can be seen as hardware cheating.
SONY MDR 7506/1 "PROFESSIONAL, BLACK"
ZOOM H6 Appearance ZOOM H6 [zoomcorp.com]
FOCUSRITE 2i2 (2i2, drivers used) Scarlett - 192khz, 24bit audio interface (set to lowest buffer and 16bit, 44.1khz) Appearance of the 3RD GENERATION Scarlett [store.focusrite.com]
TBONE - EM 800 STEREO PAIR
LÓM - Geofone, Ucho
YOUTUBE - Admittedly in great need of uploads (as of now, there's several projects in Vegas Pro)
Sound Samples (CC0 - Public Domain) - Absolutely free sound effects produced and developed in my DAWs! [freesound.org]

I accept friend requests as long as the bickering is fun.

A competitive but fun person. Likes modding his hardware and software.

I am remastering the audio or finding the origins of soundtracks and samples of games, even ones that are console exclusive (like Twisted Metal and the profile background). In fact, a surprise for Half Life fans is on its way, in lieu of the 25/20th anniversaries of HL1/HL2.

I favour lowest latency input for reasons of precision, immersion, ease of control and find new techniques. Analogue (and/or digital) movement uses SOCD (null input binds) to refine movement control. My system turns off virtualization, all e-cores, power saving and anything related to interrupt controlling/steering.

My monitor is set directly to 240.000 HZ, for reasons of actually wanting the accuracy of the refresh rate and not 239 hz (which effects motion persistence, i.e tearing/judder). I use Custom Resolution Utility to achieve this.

I do not chat in most games because I am more focused on the game and as a result have unbinded chat commands (these are used for gameplay instead). Use external communication methods if possible. Mumble/Team speak, Steam Overlay/IRC/Socials. I have high quality means of VOIP microphone usage due to being a hobbyist of sound design.


My Windows 11 installation is heavily debloated of any bloatware and uses a custom resolution timer of 0.5070ms to ensure improved interrupt resolution. This uses more power but enhances input and sometimes frame-pacing. It can however worsen it in some cases.

SCEWIN (a BIOS modification tool from MSI) tool to analyse "hidden" UEFI settings. It is also used to disable power-saving and any other settings that may present problems with input latency or simply wanting knowledge. I do not recommend it as it is very risky to flash a BIOS' NVRAM with settings that could brick or damage it but it is however great for understanding your motherboard and it's hidden settings. Somethings like Interrupt Control are turned off as is virtual mapping. If you are using it, some settings may stick and require resetting so be sure you have a CLEAR CMOS button on your motherboard

Games that dont implement performance-hindering APIs or "DRM" are also not worth my time (Denuvo, old CD DRMs). I never understood why a game hinders its own customers hardware performances but pirates get free reign. Though admittedly, some of the time I do pirate very old games (usually singleplayer).

Games of extremely poor maintenance and risk-adverse possibility of malware injection, spyware and remote execution methods (RCEs) are not installed - such as unpatched versions of Modern Warfare 1/2/3 will get your system pwn'd pretty fast. Games with "rootkit" level anticheat are not installed.

Source ports are used if they are higher quality than the original engine itself. Example of this is Quake with Quakespasm/Spearmint or Xash3D FWGS for Half Life/Gold Source games. Xash3D in particular allows high quality audio, expect something this week.