Setup redesign

[nicholasfd]

I am in the process of redoing my setup, and am looking for some input. For reference, my old desk was an L desk, in the corner of my room, and I had my computer tucked right into the corner. We did some renovations on my house, and I wanted to take that space back for my bed, really only leaving one other usable wall for my setup. I had an 8ft X 28in. deep desk made, and mounted it on the wall, not realizing how much extra space that L desk gave me. I temporarily hooked up my computer and monitors. This was starting way back in November, and I've been so busy with work, I finally have a couple days off, and want to get a solid plan in place for it. I have a link to some pictures of what I am working with, and would like some input on what I should to with my tower. The monitors can move to the other side, but I'm not too sure how I'd like that. I plan on building another mini rack, like the one all the way to the left, and putting it next to that one, for my network switch (not the mini one in the picture) and a couple UPS'. Don't mind the mess in the pictures,  it is all just temporary. End to end on the monitors is 5'6", and hangs off the edge 8" . All input is accepted. 

 

 

Thanks in advance

[IkeaGnome]

Haven't really looked through the pictures yet, but it appears to have your first and last name on the drive in the "Last Modified" section.

 

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58 minutes ago, nicholasfd said:

not realizing how much extra space that L desk gave me

It's hard to go from a corner desk to a straight desk. I have an L at home, but a straight at work. Even though the straight is much much bigger, it feels tiny. 

If it was me, I think the monitors coming to the edge of the desk would almost make it feel cramped even with that much space. Personally, I'd stay on the left side of the desk and rotate all the monitors just a bit. That way the one on your right isn't coming out that far. 

I do think just cleaning up the cables would make it feel a lot roomier though.

Not sure what this monitors, but you might be able to move all the monitors slightly closer to the middle, have that set up to the left above the racks and that would leave you room for the other mini rack under the desk.

 

[nicholasfd]

17 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

Haven't really looked through the pictures yet, but it appears to have your first and last name on the drive in the "Last Modified" section.

 

Edit:

It's hard to go from a corner desk to a straight desk. I have an L at home, but a straight at work. Even though the straight is much much bigger, it feels tiny. 

If it was me, I think the monitors coming to the edge of the desk would almost make it feel cramped even with that much space. Personally, I'd stay on the left side of the desk and rotate all the monitors just a bit. That way the one on your right isn't coming out that far. 

I do think just cleaning up the cables would make it feel a lot roomier though.

Not sure what this monitors, but you might be able to move all the monitors slightly closer to the middle, have that set up to the left above the racks and that would leave you room for the other mini rack under the desk.

 

I agree, like I said before, I didn't realize a straight desk would feel so much smaller. I moved the monitors over to the other side, just to see how it would be, and its not too bad. I can overhang on the right side significantly more than the left.  I forgot to mention that I have another monitor that I want to put back eventually too, for that computer under the desk. As for that little screen you got a picture of, I hardwired a bunch of outlets under the desk, and that is linked to the top enclosure in that rack, and is what controls those outlets. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for some sort of custom case for it, so its not just out and a loose eyesore like that. I might try with the monitors in the center next. 

[IkeaGnome]

6 minutes ago, nicholasfd said:

As for that little screen you got a picture of, I hardwired a bunch of outlets under the desk, and that is linked to the top enclosure in that rack, and is what controls those outlets.

I see the boots. What about rigging that up with some pipe clamps and mounting under the middle monitor? If you can dim it, it might fit well there. If the cables are long enough. 

 

[nicholasfd]

16 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

I see the boots. What about rigging that up with some pipe clamps and mounting under the middle monitor? If you can dim it, it might fit well there. If the cables are long enough. 

 

The boots have to stay on the plastic mat, which ends about half way under the desk, but goes all the way to the wall, where they're at now. I should move them with the rest of the shoes at my house, but there isn't enough room for a boot dryer there.

[IkeaGnome]

13 minutes ago, nicholasfd said:

The boots have to stay on the plastic mat, which ends about half way under the desk, but goes all the way to the wall, where they're at now. I should move them with the rest of the shoes at my house, but there isn't enough room for a boot dryer there.

I more or less was playing around "Dirty boots, they should be able to rig something cool up" you know? Sometimes stuff doesn't translate well over text.

I have an AIDA 64 panel that is a little bit smaller than that. I just mounted it with velcro to the front of my case. The cables for that run through the side of the case, but you might be able to mount it under the monitors. Hide some of the cables in with monitor cables, and use it to hide a little bit of the cabling under and behind the monitors.

[nicholasfd]

27 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

I more or less was playing around "Dirty boots, they should be able to rig something cool up" you know? Sometimes stuff doesn't translate well over text.

I have an AIDA 64 panel that is a little bit smaller than that. I just mounted it with velcro to the front of my case. The cables for that run through the side of the case, but you might be able to mount it under the monitors. Hide some of the cables in with monitor cables, and use it to hide a little bit of the cabling under and behind the monitors.

yes, I will have to look around for something to hide the cables. I will have a hole in the desk, probably not very well placed, because of the outlets on the bottom side taking up a lot of room. I will be able to get them pretty tight up behind the monitors, but not perfect. I have a lot of really long cables, because I was going 10+ feet before with the L desk, now the way I've moved it around, for a third time, probably the way I'll keep it, I will need like 5 footers, so that will keep it pretty clean.  I'll have to abandon the idea of the other monitor, and just use a KVM with one of the other monitors, which isn't a big deal, but I wanted to keep the two separated if possible.