Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)

[ExInferis]

This is my WFH/gaming setup. Mainly for work/productivity but does OK at gaming.

 

PC Specs
CPU: AMD 2920X Threadripper 12C/24T @ 4.1Ghz all cores
CPU Cooler: DEEP COOL Castle 360EX
RAM: 32GB DDR4 G-Skill Flare X 3200Mhz CL14 Quad Channel (4x8GB)
MotherBoard: MSI MEG X399 CREATION, AMD X399
GPU: MSI RTX 3080Ti GAMING X TRIO
Storage: 1TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe (Boot) & 500GB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe (Games)
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
PSU: EVGA Super NOVA 850W Gold

Case: Be Quiet Dark Base 900

Peripherals
Headset: Sony XM3 (for noise reduction) & Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro (music when NC not required)
Deskpad: Custom leather 900x300mm pad from Etsy
Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB
Mouse: Roccat Tyon

Gamepad: Scuff Prestige
Monitor: LG 38GL950G UltraGear UW-QHD 144Hz Nano IPS 1ms (3840x1600)

Monitor arm: Ergotron HX
Mic: Rode NT-USB on PSA-1 boom arm
Speakers: KEF R3 (Isolation with some granite place mats from Amazon & some spikes)

Subwoofer: REL Tzero MK.III

Amplification: Cyrus One Cast (drives speakers & DT 1990 Pro)

 

Desk

Could not find one I liked so made my own. Ordered a slab of Wenge, (2000x720x40mm) sanded down and treated with three coats of Danish oil. Fitted 6 x black steel tube legs. Height adjustable but rattle when adjusted out so have left them at minimum setting. Thankfully fine for my floor and perfect working height.

 

Edit: Noticed the wide shot is prior to deskpad and monitor arm. Apologies. Was just a nice clean wide angle so you can see under the desk.

[travisjunky]

Work/Play - using Sony M9 monitor with KVM switch. Work laptop connected via thunderbolt 3 dock. Ryzen 5950, Radeon 6700xt, noctua d15, Corsair 1000w PSU, 64gb ram, nvmE storage. Sound bar connected to PC, speaker on floor music, Samson microphone for live streaming, Logitech/Corsair peripherals. 

[cableroots]

Anyone else have a sticker bombed network rack?

 

This is my flex office/gaming/VR/theater/electronics repair space setup...for now. I am self employed, just moved, and travel for up to 75% of my work. I do AV/IT stuff for work and am super ADD, so my setup is constantly changing. With that out of the way:

 

The desk is primarily where I do scheduling and emails, but I'm always on the road so that lives on a laptop.

 

When I'm home I've been cleaning, repairing, customizing, and teaching myself to solder electronics as a hobby, so anti static and hot mats can be pulled out and used there.

 

For chill gaming I have a Switch  PS5, arcade stick, KB/M, and controller options from the couch (and remote play on the steam deck) on an LG C1 65"

 

For more "serious" gaming right now I move to the middle of the room (I want a C2 or other 4k, OLED, HDR, 120+ monitor to go on the desk eventually)

 

For VR I have an Index and use a mat for comfort that goes to the middle of the room. It has a nerf rival ball gaff taped middle front so I can center myself by feel

 

My personal center piece is my sticker-bomb-in-progress network rack. Got it for free demoing the tech from a dental office that had a fire (no where near most of the electronics, but insurance paid it all out). I need a rack mountable case that will contain a modern gaming PC tho!

 

Not set up yet - two cameras for streaming repairs. One is an endoscope strapped to a magnifier light lol

 

TL/DR I have a weird setup that can be used lots of different ways

[cableroots]

5 minutes ago, cableroots said:

 

5800X

X570

3080

32 GB 3200

ND15? ...Noctua dark double tower

850W

LG C1 65"

LG Sound bar(not impressed...my logi speakers are better)

 

 

Edited June 16, 2023 by cableroots
Remove pictures...and whole quote oops! And added TV and speakers info

[Brent Rockwood]

Work computer on the left (screens blank for security). Personal Mac mini M2 Pro on the right. CNBC on the TV muted with captions on so I can see what's happening during the business day. Big ass desk. Personal and work headsets. Big iPad for when I want to sit outside. Printer is just used to scan incoming mail.

[Arcmanov]

Recently upgraded setup. Migrated from AM4 to AM5...

New case too.

 

- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

- EK Nucleus AIO CR360 Lux D-RGB with 3 x Phanteks T30

- Asus ROG Strix B650E-F

- 4 x 16 GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000 (cl36)

- MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio (10GB)

- Asus ROG Herculx

- Phanteks NV7

- 11 x Antec Prizm 120 mm

- 3 NVME, 3 SSD, 1 HDD

 

A word about the NV7...

Daisy-chainable fans are an absolute MUST when kitting out this case. Cable management was an absolute NIGHTMARE

finding space to cram cables for FOURTEEN fans...and the ARGB Antec fans had two cables each. I almost couldn't get

the back panel on. It's a good thing I pretty much have everything I need already installed, so there's no need to mess around

in there unless something breaks.

 

[freeagent]

I got a few more NVMe drives, 5TB of NVMe space now, 1TB HDD for some backups and a half a TB of SSD space. I have room for a 3.5 spinner up top still.. but I’m ok for now. I also slapped on a 3rd cpu fan because it was laying there.. and I had some clips so..

 

I had to mount the basement fans under the case to slot in my M.2 converter. I can only get 2x drives to show up in the Hyper M.2 drive. I am guessing I am running low on lanes.. might grab an X570.. maybe.

 

[CommanderAlex]

1 hour ago, freeagent said:

I got a few more NVMe drives, 5TB of NVMe space now, 1TB HDD for some backups and a half a TB of SSD space. I have room for a 3.5 spinner up top still.. but I’m ok for now. I also slapped on a 3rd cpu fan because it was laying there.. and I had some clips so..

 

I had to mount the basement fans under the case to slot in my M.2 converter. I can only get 2x drives to show up in the Hyper M.2 drive. I am guessing I am running low on lanes.. might grab an X570.. maybe.

~Snipped~

Not gonna lie, that 3rd fan on the heatsink looks pretty sick to me. 

 

 

[P0w3R_Theino]

On 4/23/2023 at 1:24 PM, morn14150 said:

A core i5-4570 with a cooler master hyper 212 spectrum v2

A RX 580 4GB from sapphire

16gb of ddr3 1600 ram from kingston 

a hp prebuilt motherboard (H81 chipset)

a cheap ass 128 gb ssd

2 500gb seagate hard drives

a 450w power supply from whatever Chinese brand

 

all in this tiny micro atx case lmao

 

 

(and yes, because of my cooler I can’t put the window back in)

That build so much reminds me of my last pc, the side layout specifically; I had a HP 580-023w, that I upgraded the living crap out of it until I couldn't anymore xD I ended up with a Seasonic 550FX, Asus dual fan 3060, with a Noctua cooler that looks very similar, hard drive and ssd mounted the same as you have, but with a silly sata m.2 and card slot where the slim drive went on the front. Very resourceful setup xD

[SpiritKitty]

 Basic midrage specs, gtx 970 still runs all the games I want to play,

 

[Jake from WA]

On 6/16/2023 at 8:22 AM, Brent Rockwood said:

Work computer on the left (screens blank for security). Personal Mac mini M2 Pro on the right. CNBC on the TV muted with captions on so I can see what's happening during the business day. Big ass desk. Personal and work headsets. Big iPad for when I want to sit outside. Printer is just used to scan incoming mail.

Where do you get a desk like that 

[TeraSeraph]

Here's my recently built pc

13600K OC/UV 5.4P/4.0E

NH-U12A w/ NF-F12 iPPC 3000

Asus TUF Z790 plus WiFi D4 

Asus TUF RTX 4080 OC edition 3.0 Mhz

Team Group DDR 4, 3200, 16GB x4

Samsung 2TB 980evo M.2 4.0x4

Seasonic Vertex 850W

DeepCool Matrexx 55 Mesh

Noctua NF-A14x25 x2, NF-F12 iPPC 3000 x4, NF-A9x25

Iceberg IceGALE Xtra 120mm x2

 

[Veehxia]

Finally after months of waiting for parts I'm done with my new rig 
 

Here are the specs:

• Intel i9-13900KF
• Asus Z790-A Strix Gaming 
• Corsair Vengeance 6200Mhz DDR5 2x16GB
• Crucial P5 Plus 500GB
• Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
• Crucial P3 4TB
• WD Black 6TB
• WD Blue 4TB
• Silverstone SX1000
• ZOTAC RTX 4090 Trinity OC
• LianLi O11 Mini Snow White
• Custom cables from Cablemods.

And as for the cooling:

• EK Quantum Velocity2 Nickel+Plexi LGA1700
• EK Quantum Vector2 + ABP Nickel+Plexi
• EK TBE 160 DDC Pump + Res combo
• EK HDC Fittings 14mm - Nickel
• Multiple EK Quantum Rotary 90° / 45° and 7/14/28mm extenders - Nickel
• EK Drain valve - Nickel 
• 2x EK S360 White as intake + 1x EK S240 White as exhaust
• Corsair Satin PMMA tubes
• Alphacool temperature sensor for the liquid... that doesnt work somehow lol
• 8x LianLi SL120 V2 

Overall I'm very pleased with the outcome but I'm a bit unhappy with the temps, cant really have a great airflow when putting 3 rads in a case so small.

Also would have loved to delid the CPU but I'm planning on upgrading to 14th gen later this year so I didn't want to make in unsellable just for a couple of months.

I originally went with Dominator RAM but there was no way those would have fitted so I had to switch to the Vengeance.

Cable management was a nightmare is such little space with the HDD cage and the fan controller, I presume I will remove them eventually in the future.

Also made the mistake to order cables that were too long from cablemods so I ended up with a lot of extra to manage.

Lesson learn I guess, still a great machine and fantastic to game on, a lot smoother than my previous 5950x + 3090 setup.

[morn14150]

On 6/18/2023 at 1:20 PM, P0w3R_Theino said:

That build so much reminds me of my last pc, the side layout specifically; I had a HP 580-023w, that I upgraded the living crap out of it until I couldn't anymore xD I ended up with a Seasonic 550FX, Asus dual fan 3060, with a Noctua cooler that looks very similar, hard drive and ssd mounted the same as you have, but with a silly sata m.2 and card slot where the slim drive went on the front. Very resourceful setup xD

what's your current pc?

[BoxLikeReflexes]

On 9/20/2022 at 5:08 PM, Genmech said:

My little home office

1.My Current Gaming and multiuse Computer.

2. Where i fix Electronics (Left side) and do all my paperwork (Right side). Aquarium pic is up to cover up my security cameras ( i have 9 displayed here. When i do Electronics repairs to anything i ditch the pad you see and bring out ESD mat i have in drawer.

3. My shelf of stuff and my work from home set-up. I havn't used that 3d printer in a while.

 

i need to replace the desktops but i have 3 kids and no money. why can't i have 3 money and no kids. Nah they are more important, and this works for me.

 

 

 

 

I love your setup, I hope to finally put some time into mine and build out a true multi-purpose desk. 

[BoxLikeReflexes]

I definitely didn't tidy up one heck of a mess before sharing. I'm just now getting into art and expressing what I like through some kind of art/memorabilia, so there's not much personality to it yet. Much of what is here is from a time when I used to live stream daily, now a lot of the tech isn't used much.. for now... 

Old shelf boards keep my PC off the carpet. Cables manage themselves. New to the guitar and this one looked purty.

My case is too big for what's actually under the hood, I have my Graphics card facing outward towards the wall, and a whole stream deck for "Sounds" and "Sites". Nothing makes sense
Most played games are shown in order. Yes, that is Sinking Simulator with 70+ hours, let's move on. 

Appearance 7/10 - Ergonomics 8/10 - Hydration 10/10
 

 

[SimplyChunk]

19 minutes ago, BoxLikeReflexes said:

I definitely didn't tidy up one heck of a mess before sharing.

Don't sweat it man.  Personally i prefer the look of a well used battle station over a horribly clinical operating theatre any day

[Donut417]

35 minutes ago, BoxLikeReflexes said:

I definitely didn't tidy up one heck of a mess before sharing.

If that is considered messy then my desk should be condemned. 

[Orion_]

My hybrid water/air cooled EX-S MSI GP66 11UH featuring the EX-S Gundam (Extraordinary-Superior)

i7 11800h

Nvidia 3080

64Gb RAM (YOLO)

1x 2TB SSD 1x 500GB SSD

 

 

 

 

 

[TheNaitsyrk]

Not quite complete yet but almost there:

MSI Titan GT77HX with 4090 and 13980HX, 128GB of DDR5 5600, 12TB of NVMe (3x4TB WD SN850X), 10TB of NVMe in portable enclosures (2x2TB TB4 enclosure, 3x2TB USB 3.2 Gen 2), Creative G6 Sound Card, Razer Basilisk Ultimate with charging dock, Keychron K3 low profile mechanical keyboard with blue switches with wooden palm rest, Corsair Elite Wireless Headset for gaming, BeyerDynamic DT990 Pro 250 Ohms, xRocker gaming chair (need to source arm rests), RGB Carbon gaming desk, Razer Siren V2 Mini microphone, Logitech Brio 4K60 webcam with Windows Hello, RGB mouse mat, RGB headphone stand, 2x ASUS XG17AHPE portable gaming monitors 17'3 inch with 7800Mah battery each 240Hz G-Sync, Atolla 10 way powered USB hub, SlimQ 330W ultra small charger with MSI tips, generic tripods for portable monitors .

 

Total cost: £9270

 

[CrowTheRobot]

My home setup needs a lot of work in general and is currently in chaos since my wife has started working two days a week at home and commandeers the monitor and desk.  But here's my current workspace (school district IT), shot very tightly since I'm still waiting on the cable management tray for under my desk.  Vertical monitor is usually entirely taken up by a Google Chat window and all the non-LTT tabs/windows are hidden for the sake of the photo.  Desk is a brand new Vari standing desk I just got last month as an update to a decades old metal office desk.

[P0w3R_Theino]

On 6/21/2023 at 10:47 AM, morn14150 said:

what's your current pc?

Right now It's Core i7 12700k

32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600

Asus Strix Z690-E

1TB Samsung 980 Pro + 2TB

4TB WD Black from the same old build

Fractal Torrent case with adapters for the 180MM fans for iCUE

Corsair 150i Elite

Sapphire AMD Radeon 7900 XTX

 

 

 

[gergory117]

Lian li o11 air mini 

Noctua nh-d15 

Ripjaws v 16gb

Ryzen 5 5600g

As rock b550m riptide 

[freeagent]

Just playing around with my rainbow fans

 

[kettlekettle]

Neither of these are exactly mind-blowing but a pretty big 6-month comparison imo. Also the comparison between summer and winter (I'm in the southern hemisphere so it's dark and snowy here.) Anyway this is my setup, with blue over the screens because they're very reflective.

So until about five-six months ago I had the laptop on the left, a nice 15-inch HP laptop from 2016. It had the AMD A6-6310, 8GB of memory (although by the end of the time I had it for that had increased to 16 then decreased to about 12 because of breakages), Radeon R4 graphics, the hard drive fried itself enough times that I don't remember what was originally in there but by the end I was daily driving off a Haiku SD card I happened to have. That was fun. Even with a working Windows install (or especially might be a better word there) I struggled to run anything much more demanding than minesweeper without single-digit framerates. I had arch linux on there for about two years which was quite an eye-opener for me, as I became capable of getting nearly 30fps on some games like Minecraft, albeit on lowest settings and with copious amounts of optimisation mods.

In december I managed to get my hands on a second-hand Dell XPS for a very nice price, I quite liked the idea of it because it was much more portable than my previous laptop and had the speed for compiling code and the likes without relying on things like GitHub actions. It's got an 11th gen i7 and 32gb of memory which was amazing, although I was a bit annoyed about not having *any* USB ports, or HDMI or anything like that, and the laptop gets above 80-90°C fairly often without my noticing, but I just suspend it and leave it outside for a while and the issue solves itself. That seems to be at least partly caused by the way I use it though, I was quite happy that it came with ubuntu just because I'm a lot more used to using linux at this point than windows, but it's not meant to be running around 4ghz most of the time and since I could I've gotten more into gaming, and the integrated graphics resents me a bit at this point for that. I also like to have the screen open at an angle that means the hinges block the fan exhaust at the back. When I got the laptop I didn't know as much about computers on the hardware side of things (the most I knew about LTT was that Linus had a share in framework, which I would have definitely gone for if they shipped to NZ, made videos about tech things and dropped expensive GPUs all the time), and in hindsight probably would have waited a bit longer and gone for something with more graphics power but I could always go for eGPU if I can in the future cough up the money, and I decided that upgrading the keyboard and mouse would end up being more useful as I don't game too intensely and definitely don't mind playing on lower settings.

 

Also in the second photo you can see my first computer which I mainly only use for storing files now, and sometimes servers, with its single-core Intel Atom, two whole gigabytes of memory and mostly untouched Windows 2000 install. I have been considering selling it but I can probably use the parts for something else and I don't think I'd get much for it, although someone may be interested if I bundle in the HP peripherals and the DVI monitor that's the reason I had to buy a new desk.