Pic: Your desk...RIGHT NOW

Nutty_Death · 16 Feb 2020 at 12:47

mrbell1984 said:
2nd picture not a fan of them cables. Looks a little bare and personally I would put the PC on the table so there’s more like room and I wasn’t kicking the computer.

Other than that nice n minimal. Just how it should be.

I've almost done no cable tidying other than trying to make it look neat on the desk. Like I said I'll do something to mount them underneath. May even use a bit of wood to hide them.

It is bare as there's no other furniture yet. I'm renovating the house so I plan on putting a picture rail back up, painting the room, pictures on wall etc etc.

I'd consider putting the case on the desk if it wasn't one that I had butchered to increase airflow. It's a 2m space so I'm not going to kick it.

Andybtsn · 5 Mar 2020 at 09:46

To utilise our space better, I decided to get rid of our office downstairs and make it into a more kid orientated room. PS4 etc in there for the two older kids, youngest has all his toys in one room.

We have a large, fairly wasted space upstairs on the landing so I moved my setup up there. My other half who was also in the office, and a keen gamer, was then moved to what we call the snug. Gaming wasn't the same with us split up so I decided to go to Ikea and sort her a desk.

£500 odd quid later buying desk, chair, monitor etc...

I can't believe how everything just fits so well, obviously I measured prior to getting the desk but to get one that matched the width, height and length perfectly was surprising.

I'm really happy with the look, she just needs some accessories for her desk now. I'm setting her up a mini PC so she has something to use other than her Chromebook at the desk.
We both WFH regularly so another desk is handy.

Also, I can't believe how poor the quality Ikea desks are now. I first bought my Galant 7 years ago, it's so well made. The ones now are so poor and cheaply made. I know it's Ikea but still, bring back the Galant and it's robustness!

randomshenans · 6 Mar 2020 at 08:42

Swapped out keyboard for my corsair one, it's got a number pad, which recently has been annoying me that I don't have on the small bluetooth one.

I need to get some shelves/ storage for my documents though and printer, it's getting annoying piled up.

This is about as tidy as it's been for a while mind lol

Theophany · 6 Mar 2020 at 10:34

Needed some additional screen real estate for my work machine. Two 38" ultrawides should do it.

randomshenans · 6 Mar 2020 at 11:57

I was tempted to upgrade the centre to the 49" and then go 4k sides but that upgrade is some mega dosh lol and only reason for it was just for the lols

ChrisLX200 · 6 Mar 2020 at 12:24

Yeah, my 'office' is a junk room :-)

and if I could get everything out of there I would redecorate, but the thought of moving all that stuff is more than I want to contemplate!

Theophany · 6 Mar 2020 at 15:22

Would you happen to be a digital hoarder?

Tephnos · 6 Mar 2020 at 16:08

Theophany said:
Needed some additional screen real estate for my work machine. Two 38" ultrawides should do it.

What UWs are those?

ChrisLX200 · 6 Mar 2020 at 16:10

I got 7 raspberry Pi's what can I say? lol

and that^ was the tidy bit, to the left is this lot...

Theophany · 6 Mar 2020 at 16:34

Tephnos said:
What UWs are those?

The bottom one is the LG 38UC99 and the top one is the Dell 3818DW. They're both the same panel, produced by LG, but the LG one has Freesync. What's kind of funny though is the Dell is rated as a 60Hz panel, yet it overclocks to 90Hz easily. The LG panel is rated as a 75Hz panel but can't be overclocked to 80Hz without weird behaviour.

ChrisLX200 said:
I got 7 raspberry Pi's what can I say? lol

and that^ was the tidy bit, to the left is this lot...

I meant the insane amount of NAS storage you have!

randomshenans · 6 Mar 2020 at 17:14

sgavan · 7 Mar 2020 at 07:02

ChrisLX200 said:
Yeah, my 'office' is a junk room and if I could get everything out of there I would redecorate, but the thought of moving all that stuff is more than I want to contemplate!

I hope those shelves are strong

LeeUK · 7 Mar 2020 at 08:51

You can never have too much storage.

Bramill · 13 Mar 2020 at 11:28

V4NT0M said:
Nerd levels rising...

I really like the desk, can I ask where you got it?

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Mar 2020 at 11:30

Bramill said:
I really like the desk, can I ask where you got it?

That's ikea I think ... can tell by the draws.

Nevakonaza · 15 Mar 2020 at 07:48

ChrisLX200 said:
I got 7 raspberry Pi's what can I say? lol

and that^ was the tidy bit, to the left is this lot...

Whats the white pipe for

ChrisLX200 · 15 Mar 2020 at 10:56

Nevakonaza said:
Whats the white pipe for

Oh right, that's an extractor for the 3D printer, throws the fumes out the window

Nevakonaza · 15 Mar 2020 at 13:02

ChrisLX200 said:
Oh right, that's an extractor for the 3D printer, throws the fumes out the window

Ohh I'm with u , I been tempted to get me a 3d printer for a while, they're starting to go down to a good price point now.

ChrisLX200 · 15 Mar 2020 at 17:40

Nevakonaza said:
Ohh I'm with u , I been tempted to get me a 3d printer for a while, they're starting to go down to a good price point now.

Well if you print ABS do it in a well-ventillated area or use an extractor like^. Mine was in my small room with me and suddenly I got an attrocious sore throat and horrible taste in my mouth. It's pretty toxic.

chaparral · 15 Mar 2020 at 18:33

LeeUK said:
You can never have too much storage.

I kind of disagree as I used to have lots of old hard drives with lots of useless junk on them all that been built up over many years of downloading & saving crap

Like I plug in one these old hard drives and have 50,000 files of crap like 20 year old versions of winzip, win rar, nero etc