Five Stocking Fillers Under R200 You Can Order Today

So it's come to this, eh? You haven't written your Christmas list, or the people in your family have forgotten to. Reminders have been sent plenty of times and now time is running out to find something to slap into the stocking! It won't be coal, but it'll at least be under R200.

Antec I Shape Prism GPU Support Stand

We're huge fans of honkin' GPUs but the problem with them is that they're getting bulky. The XFX Radeon RX 6750 XT Core QICK 319 is around 1.8kg, most of it being that oversized heatsink that helps keep fan noise super low. The Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Solid tips the scales at over 2kg. These things are going to sag hard in that top PCIe slot even if they are reinforced.

That's why a GPU support bracket would be a neat little stocking filler for the enterprising PC gamer. The Antec I Shape Prism is free-standing, requires no tools to set up, supports any GPU cooler design, and looks good while doing it.

Reusable 5m Hook & Loop Cable Fastener

Firstly, it's not called Velcro. It's called Hook & Loop. Legally we have to say that. Secondly, have you ever been just so consumed by rage at how managing cables is still a chore? Even though we have wireless peripherals up the wazoo there's still a cable in the way that you need to use to charge all the things, or to connect up monitors and speakers, and that camera you only use for five minutes before turning it off in Teams meetings.

Getting reusable cable fasteners is such a huge quality of life improvement you'll struggle to understand why you didn't do it before. With 5 metres to play with, you can just cut it to whatever length you need and reuse it with ease later on because it hooks and loops together so well. So nice.

R119 - DeepCool 4-Port Fan Hub

Managing fans is a pain and no-one knows this better than our team inside Wootware managing our customer builds. We always run out of fan headers, especially ones that allow for speed control. No-one wants to deal with fans running at full speed like a sentient, lovestruck anatomical dummy powered by a magical golden testicle (Dandadan is great, btw).

A PWM fan hub takes the PWM (pulse-width modulation) signal from your motherboard and propagates it to the fans attached to the hub so that they all run at the same speed, instead of a PWM controller which would allow for per-fan controls. This is a much cheaper method of doing it, but generally you also want the fans to ramp up and down at the same time anyway for noise management. A great little stocking filler to help save someone's sanity.

R160 - Corsair 2.5" to 3.5" Dual Mounting Bracket

There's an empty hole inside your chassis you can't fill. It's perfectly sized for the 3.5" drive you'd put in there, if you had one. Your SSDs lie loose in the bottom of the tray, shifting each time you move your case to try find the single USB-C port at the back so you can charge something.

No more! Corsair makes a neat little bracket that will mount two 2.5" drives into the same vertical height as a 3.5" drive. You can now fit as many SSDs into your system as you have available 3.5" slots and SATA ports on your motherboard. And the cable management will look so much better with the hook & loop fasteners.

R110 - WINX Simple Type-C & USB Adapter Combo

Everyone has this problem, right? You have a device that charges via USB Type-C, but you still have Type-A chargers. You have a thing with USB Type-A that you could plug into that remaining Type-C port on your laptop, if you had an adapter. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place, especially frustrating when all you want to do is charge something.

This is that kind of adapter. WINX ships both types of adapters in the box and they are so cheap you could even buy these for pretty much everyone you know. Even yourself. Throw them in a drawer and they're handy for the one day you need to hook up something that only uses Type-C to charge.