*** Desk and Room Gallery***

My dad built the desk top for me and i already had the legs from a previous desk. Solid European oak that has been dies with ammonia.

As for the leg being wonkey, it must be the angle i took the photo cos all is stable.
 
Stalker_26 said:
Not sure i agree, i have a 32" lcd tv as my gaming screen and its immense. great detail and no lag that i have noticed, i doubt i could ever go back to a smaller screen :)

Personal preference i guess :D
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Well it obviously does depend on how far you are. I expect youre more than a metre away?
EDIT: And personal preference...... like im not saying it to not cause a row :P
 
Stalker_26 said:
Not sure i agree, i have a 32" lcd tv as my gaming screen and its immense. great detail and no lag that i have noticed, i doubt i could ever go back to a smaller screen :)

Personal preference i guess :D
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Other then great detail, players heads are so big and easy to see on a big screen that making head shots is so easy. Seeing enemy moving far in the distance is easy due to the bigger screen.

Honestly, buying 3 24"s was a bad idea where I should had got 3 40"s instead.
 
Participant said:
Very nice. Where did you get that wood from? How did you attach it to the wall? Where was the leg from?

I'm looking into replacing my glass Argos jobbie with a wooden fitted desk bolted to the wall, with a single support leg in the corner.

I'll be screwing through plasterboard so I know I'll need plasterboard fittings. However did you screw battens to the wall then screw the desk to the battens? What have you used for cable management?
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As said before, I used 30x30mm battens all around the edge all into fixed to solid walls and small 20mm angle brackets to secure it
The leg was from Ikea

As far as cable management goes, nothing special but it works
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4" screws into the batten and a big roll of velcro ties did the job
Cables for keyboard, mouse etc com up through a small hole in the desk and the cables for the monitor are in a duct in the wall

This certainly turned into a debate :p

IronWarrior said:
I would use the HDTV as the main screen, nothing beats big screen gaming.
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WuMyster said:
Small screen gaming beats big screen gaming :P
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BaDBoY_uK said:
+1

Less lag, easier to see peeps. HDMI lag for FPS sucks.
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Stalker_26 said:
Not sure i agree, i have a 32" lcd tv as my gaming screen and its immense. great detail and no lag that i have noticed, i doubt i could ever go back to a smaller screen :)

Personal preference i guess :D
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WuMyster said:
Well it obviously does depend on how far you are. I expect youre more than a metre away?
EDIT: And personal preference...... like im not saying it to not cause a row :P
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IronWarrior said:
Bullcrap, I use HDTV and don't have any sort of lag.
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IronWarrior said:
Other then great detail, players heads are so big and easy to see on a big screen that making head shots is so easy. Seeing enemy moving far in the distance is easy due to the bigger screen.

Honestly, buying 3 24"s was a bad idea where I should had got 3 40"s instead.
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Stalker_26 said:
lol i sit up close to my screen, most certainly less than 1m away :D have to move my head to see each side of screen :D but love it.
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I use the small screen for every game except one. GTA IV :D
IMHO it is so much better to use the small screen for pretty much everything but I play GTA with a PS3 controller. However it does mean I have to move though when I need to adjust the mods. My GTA is pretty much unrecognizable from the original game :p
 
Being able to see people better may be one positive but then, you've got that entire real estate which already brings you down for reactions and such. Looking at the map and back at the landscape requires too much movement of the eyes and if I'd have to use my head as well, then forget it.
"Larger screen = more lag" isn't bullcrap as such as some tv's have disgusting input lag. My 3d tv has terrible input lag but luckily a firmware update added a gaming mode that fixed its. Saying it generally though, is BS.
I don't mind playing on big screens for games like GTA, Skyrim etc. but never for FPS' or RTS games.
 
WuMyster said:
Being able to see people better may be one positive but then, you've got that entire real estate which already brings you down for reactions and such. Looking at the map and back at the landscape requires too much movement of the eyes and if I'd have to use my head as well, then forget it.
"Larger screen = more lag" isn't bullcrap as such as some tv's have disgusting input lag. My 3d tv has terrible input lag but luckily a firmware update added a gaming mode that fixed its. Saying it generally though, is BS.
I don't mind playing on big screens for games like GTA, Skyrim etc. but never for FPS' or RTS games.
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Requires too much movement of the eyes and head? lol
 
Obviously if you get a nice 120Hz 55" baby, it may be good. But FPS games like BF3 (and soon BF4) need a smaller/higher res/lower response time screen. Maybe just my preference. But each to his own... ;)
 
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