Computer Desks. What do you use

Im ripping out my old corner desk and replacing with a length of solid beech worktop from B&Q this weekend
 
OhEsEcks said:
I only use proper office furniture. Home furniture stores don't make desks that can withstand my use for more than a year.
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OP: check the desks thread in the Cases forum: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18571707
 
{SAS}TB said:
Im ripping out my old corner desk and replacing with a length of solid beech worktop from B&Q this weekend
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I have a similar setup - It runs 3.4m across the living room and houses PC's for me, the missus and the kids...

This is my corner!

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I used the 'custom' desk choices at IKEA. I.e. a plank of wood of a few different sizes and finishes, and legs of my choice. I was after a big desk and this really fit the bill.
 
Mine is 'Home made' of sorts. I couldn't find a desk narrow enough to go in the alcove & I got fed up with the dire quality of my old Ikea jobby, so I kept the legs off that & used a leftover piece of Mahogany that my folks had put in the lounge years ago & had kept after redecorating. does the job.
 
Wizzfizz said:
Nope, i don't have that issue.
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I don't see how you can't.

Tap a large surface area of wood and the sound travels through it like crazy.

It's not as bad as knocking on the interior door next to me but it's pretty close.

Maybe I need my screws slightly tighter as theres a few mm of rock in the desk or the frame slightly bends ....but they are crap screws that take a philips screwdriver and none of the driver I have properly fit them so tightening was a pain in the arse as the driver wanted to just eat the screws even with my 13stone pressing on them

I don't know why people don't use hex bolts these days... almost impossible to round them off and you don't need to faff about looking for a screw driver that seemingly doesn't exist in the same size as these screws


Also philips is the god damn worst possible screw head for anything you need really torqued up... even a crappy flat head would have been better.
 
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No I don't have the problems that you describe (wobble or amplifying sound), the desk is on a rather thick carpet.
 
arknor said:
I don't know why people don't use hex bolts these days... almost impossible to round them off and you don't need to faff about looking for a screw driver that seemingly doesn't exist in the same size as these screws

Also philips is the god damn worst possible screw head for anything you need really torqued up... even a crappy flat head would have been better.
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Even hex bolts are pretty easy to round off, especially with the cheap soft metal they use in a lot of furniture fixings. Torx are much better, or just a decent posidrive head and decent driver. Annoys me the amount of people that use a philips driver on a posi head and wonder why they have issues!
 
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