Lockdown PC setup
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First set of Lockdown upgrades after trawling the forums for ages and pondering stuff. I thought I was settled on an i9, but swayed over to AMD's Ryzen 3900x.
PSU (and 3600Mhz RAM) is next on the cards I think. Options though!!!
PSU (and 3600Mhz RAM) is next on the cards I think. Options though!!!
Looks good mate.
Shame you have all that RGB tucked away out of sight.
The M.2 drive in your first video though.
Haha yeah I hadn't even noticed till taking the video!! Screwed right back in immediately, but had already taken the shots lol.
Current setup means the windowed panel is hidden, and if I put the case up on the desk, it'll block the 2nd screen a bit..... House move on the cards shortly (long story, but flat sold before lockdown, fell through, need to do it all again) so hoping for a bigger gaming room post move!!!
Thanks mate! Doh about having do downsize, but needs must! You'll get it all back one day!
With camera work like that you should be in the porn industry
Could you not move the PC to the other side of underneath your desk?
I'll not tell the missus, but that's the best compliment for my phone camera skills haha
There's some drawers on the IKEA desk on the right side, most annoying!
Just fancied it for the design tbh. Corsair fans and cooler more for the iCUE element, just ties together nicely.
Ok few updates from the last week.
First off, an EVGA Powerlink adapter, to basically move the power sockets on the GPU to a less crap place.
Tidier - though still improvements in cabling to do.
Next up, made a bunch of new iCUE colour profiles and matched them to the Philips Hue round the desk and monitors. This was just one, but I thought it looked cool to share
First off, an EVGA Powerlink adapter, to basically move the power sockets on the GPU to a less crap place.
Tidier - though still improvements in cabling to do.
Next up, made a bunch of new iCUE colour profiles and matched them to the Philips Hue round the desk and monitors. This was just one, but I thought it looked cool to share
Not many updates for the PC itself.... but I've since moved house and have a PC room now a fair bit bigger. So away from the IKEA MALM desk and onto something nicer, more spacious and fresher. And a new monitor.
WARNING - pic heavy.
Originally I was going down the IKEA Alex drawer + kitchen worktop idea. This took on a whole life of it's own and I ended up building a kitchen instead..... enjoy, comments / criticism welcome etc, happy for your thoughts and suggestions as still work in progress. Yes there's a fridge in one of the cabinets too. And the blinds are temp, new made to measure ones not here yet.
WARNING - pic heavy.
Originally I was going down the IKEA Alex drawer + kitchen worktop idea. This took on a whole life of it's own and I ended up building a kitchen instead..... enjoy, comments / criticism welcome etc, happy for your thoughts and suggestions as still work in progress. Yes there's a fridge in one of the cabinets too. And the blinds are temp, new made to measure ones not here yet.
Thanks mate, still work in progress. Worktops seem to come in a pretty standard depth of 600mm. So not as deep as the IKEA Malm I had, but with wall mounted monitors etc, 600mm is more than enough.
Second screen is a 27" 1440p Dell, I previously used 2x of these for the main rig but got the 34" superwide. Figured mount up the old Dell and hide the cables, it's hooked up to the CCTV for the house, and Display Port and HDMI connections under the desk for plugging another PC in there if need be.
Thanks! The missus does not quite 'get it' however, and some mates don't see the point. Granted I've never sat at another part of it yet
Cheers mate
Happy to inspire!
The cabinets are just from the Wickes range, basic white wood ones that were on sale - then I picked gloss grey doors for them separately, worked out cheaper that way
It's a grey carpet called "Easy Living Plus Moonraker" fully synthetic so you can spill stuff on it, clean it with bleach or anything and no issues!
It's a new build house, so cavity walls, just make a hole for the cables behind the screen, another further down behind the desk, fitted a brush plate for neatness, and fed the cables down. There's a power socket then added behind the monitor itself, since your not meant to run power cables in the wall. All the TV's and other screens around the house have had the same treatment, I think it looks so much neater.
Most kitchen units come with all that stuff separately. So in this case, the Wickes units come with feet that I simply didn't fit. And as a result didn't need to order the kickboard. That makes it, with the worktop, about an inch higher than a standard IKEA desk. With the feet and kickboard in place it would obviously be far too high.
Yeah philips hue light strips, so can be any colour really. Just have them white at the moment to match the PC build.
Oh I do want a G9.... one day!
Hi mate, yeah so the worktops are heavy enough to just rest, however.... just to keep everything neat they are screwed in with two small screws at each end, from the inside of the cupboards. Easy to quickly undo if I need to get behind something - though the 3m section isn't exactly light!
the doors still open, even over the carpet - I just had to adjust the hinges and play about with them so they gave the required clearance. That said, it's not actual kitchen, not opening these constantly, even some touching on the carpet is fine by me.