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Near the end of last year I bought a new gaming PC so I setup my old PC as a dedicated streaming/content PC... So here is my mess. 😁
 
Gaming PC
Case: NZXT H510 Flow
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
MoBo: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE V2
RAM: G.Skill DDR4 Ripjaws 2x16GB 3600Mhz
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio
Boot: Samsung 980 1TB
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB, 2x WD Red HDD 3TB
 
Streaming PC
Case: Fractal Design Define R5
CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K
MoBo: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2B3200C16
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
Boot: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
Storage: 3x WD Green HDD, 3TB

Fancy chair.

Got a new chair, a bit stiff. 

Got a new chair, a bit stiff. 

Got a new chair, a bit stiff. 

Lol what’s that pic?  Hamster doing drugs?

Lol what’s that pic?  Hamster doing drugs?

Got my desk Built , kinda rough 
 
 

The lighting makes it look awsome, looks beautiful with the sun coming though.

Stock KS
 

Working ur a$$ of doing what exactly?  Looks a mess mate. 

Ok last pic until I get all my water cooling lol, 350 dollars in fans 8(
 
side panel can’t go on yet so I have most fans exhausting.  Waiting for new cable mod cables to get here.

13900ks
Asus 4090 tuf
Asus z790 hero
Gskill 7800 ddr5
Asus PG48UQ 138hz OLED
SK Hynix P41 2tb x2
LT720 360 AIO
Asus Rog Hyper m.2 card 
Lian Li XL white
Lian Li infinity 120x10

I don't know woodworking, but my wooden desk was only treated with some kind of oil and nothing else.
 
The area of it that my arms touch is tiny bit darker, and little bit more shiny than the rest, but other than that its totally fine. Have had it for years.

Going over top of stain again will make it darker. Sometimes this is needed anyways when staining something to achieve the desired color.   (Assuming it's not sealed with something already to prevent the stain from soaking in).
 
You mentioned "to prevent bowing" staining and polyurethane it will make it look nicer and seal it to help prevent water damage, but the top must be properly supported to prevent bowing. The finish doesn't do anything for this.

J2C has done a few videos where he deals with woodworking and desk DIY if you want to check those out:
 

Stain it with Minwax, then coat with a clear polyurethane. Thin your first coat of poly down with mineral spirits; that will help it soak into the wood.
 
Do not shake the can of poly in an attempt to mix it! You'll just put air bubbles into it, which will leave little pockmarks in the finish.

Ok last pic until I get all my water cooling lol, 350 dollars in fans 8(
 
side panel can’t go on yet so I have most fans exhausting.  Waiting for new cable mod cables to get here.

13900ks
Asus 4090 tuf
Asus z790 hero
Gskill 7800 ddr5
Asus PG48UQ 138hz OLED
SK Hynix P41 2tb x2
LT720 360 AIO
Asus Rog Hyper m.2 card 
Lian Li XL white
Lian Li infinity 120x10

Ya  I just use it for fresh installs then delete it.  Pretty much a free driver update app. 

Thanks for the compliments.
On mine I ended up waiting about a week before I did the finishing.  I picked mine up from Home Depot and they looked nice and flat in the store but once I got them home and stacked the two boards on top of each other they were already bowed.  They also showed up that the top facing surface wasn't quite as smooth as I wanted so I spent that week sanding and smoothing as I was letting the humidity in the boards even out with my house.  Luckily as the moisture levels evened out they settled in to being flat enough for me.  I've been happy so far and they have been holding the same shape for me.

Jarvis Fully. It costs extra, but that isn't an easy payload. A wide config that doesn't wobble (and dual motor) is why it costs extra. 
My desk is 70" of hardwood and I've been using that frame for about 3 years now doing WFH, still goes up and down every day like a champ. 

Ok last pic until I get all my water cooling lol, 350 dollars in fans 8(
 
side panel can’t go on yet so I have most fans exhausting.  Waiting for new cable mod cables to get here.

13900ks
Asus 4090 tuf
Asus z790 hero
Gskill 7800 ddr5
Asus PG48UQ 138hz OLED
SK Hynix P41 2tb x2
LT720 360 AIO
Asus Rog Hyper m.2 card 
Lian Li XL white
Lian Li infinity 120x10

Ok last pic until I get all my water cooling lol, 350 dollars in fans 8(
 
side panel can’t go on yet so I have most fans exhausting.  Waiting for new cable mod cables to get here.

13900ks
Asus 4090 tuf
Asus z790 hero
Gskill 7800 ddr5
Asus PG48UQ 138hz OLED
SK Hynix P41 2tb x2
LT720 360 AIO
Asus Rog Hyper m.2 card 
Lian Li XL white
Lian Li infinity 120x10

Got it in a case finally 

Got it in a case finally 

When I say "a bit of a performance benefit" I mean 0-10% - emphasis on the "it can be 0%" better. You'd get more of a performance boost for the dollar by stepping up to a 13700K than pairing your i5 with fast RAM. Plus, you'd need to make sure you're memory constrained in your use case, which is rare. In gaming, you're usually either GPU bound or CPU bound, and then in a subset of CPU bound scenarios, you benefit from memory. So in a fraction of a fraction of gaming situations, fast memory is a benefit.
 
If you have to pay a big premium, faster RAM is not generally a worthwhile investment.