Show Off Your Computer Setup

[Empty V]

I built the desk from the material up. It's 68" Wide with a slat wall in the back that's got 2 articulating monitor arms, custom computer storage compartment with pullout drawer which has dual ultra quiet exhaust fans and is sound proofed. It's also got a pull-out keyboard drawer and a slot in the tabletop for all of my cables to feed into which also has my touch sensitive LED desktop light clamped to. Plus 2 18x15x5 metal drawers and a third with hanging files plus a shelf under the slot for hubs, mounted power strips and other accessories.

Hardware
Altec Lansing Speakers (sub under desk)
Dual 20" Apple Cinema Displays
MacPro 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
10GB of 667 MHz DDR2 Fully Buffered DIMM RAM
1x 750GB Internal Seagate 7200RPM Drive (applications drive)
3x 1TB Internal Seagate 7200RPM Drives (Storage and Capture Scratch)
2x Galaxy Metal Gear Dual FW800 Enclosures Each With 2x 1.5TB drives raided as one 1.5TB Drive For Redundancy
Lots of other random FW 400 Drives laying around.
Wacom 9x12 Tablet
Contour Shuttle Pro



















Now Let's see your setup!

[timay]

whore-your-rig-56k-lick-my-t332369.html

already a thread for it.

[Philipio]

Please tell me your computer has a way for heat to escape.

edit: I misread; apparently it does. Beautiful desk.

[flohtingPoint]

I used to give a crap about having a nice PC, until I started doing IT for a living. Now all I have is a laptop that is supplied by my company and a couple external drives I use to stream media through my PS3. After being a network engineer for a decade, I dont want to come home and fiddle with a PC or build a rig.

[Jesda]

Same here. Working for a couple companies has killed my love for desktop computing. They've become boxes I care nothing about. :/

PHONES ARE THE NEW HOTNESS!

[Red coupe]

I built the desk from the material up.

Uhhh, define materials up?

You either did one hell of a job, or started pretty damn far from raw materials.

[flohtingPoint]

I built the desk from the material up.

Uhhh, define materials up?

You either did one hell of a job, or started pretty damn far from raw materials.

He started first by assigning his worker Ogres to chop wood, to which they responded with, "Zug Zug". Upon returning to the refinery with he wood, he had enough to start fashioning the desk, but it also required metals. Unfortunately, all the ore mines were occupied by enemy forces, and that's a story all to itself..

[MinisterofDOOM]

He started first by assigning his worker Ogres to chop wood, to which they responded with, "Zug Zug". Upon returning to the refinery with he wood, he had enough to start fashioning the desk, but it also required metals. Unfortunately, all the ore mines were occupied by enemy forces, and that's a story all to itself..

This post is WIN!

I'll post a current pic of my setup when I get home tomorrow.

[Empty V]

I built the desk from the material up.

Uhhh, define materials up?

You either did one hell of a job, or started pretty damn far from raw materials.

I designed the desk in Autocad then I ordered the appropriate amount of MDF. The material arrived as 1-3/16" raw (no laminate). Then I Laminated one side of some of the parts with backer, charcoal, and black for the slatwall (all high pressure laminate). After that I took it over to my CNC Router and cut every piece out. Then I sanded the sharp edges down, brought it over to my thermal former and wrapped it with wood and charcoal printed vinyl. The next thing was to trim the vinyl, sand more, plus install a bunch of threaded inserts, adjustable feet for leveling and the grate for the slatwall (which I cut earlier and sent off to the powdercoater). Finally I put the main pieces together and worked on the finishing parts such as glides for the drawers, the interior shelf, faces for the drawers, hinges for the CPU cabinet, exhaust fans, power strips, blah blah blah and it is what you see. The only thing I didn't make were the drawers, my metal fab guy does those for me much cheaper and better then I ever could.

[Empty V]

I'm sorry to hear that your day jobs have destroyed your interest in computers. I make a large percentage of my living off of my "big" setup but spend a ton of time on my 17" MacBook Pro as well. I've had a setups like this for the last 10 years and have yet to develop a hate for them.

This post is WIN!

I'll post a current pic of my setup when I get home tomorrow.

Sweet!

[Empty V]

Please tell me your computer has a way for heat to escape.

edit: I misread; apparently it does. Beautiful desk.

No sweat and thanks!

[PoorManQ45]

Where are the intakes? You only mentioned exhausts.

My current setup is custom built:
NZXT Evo case
AMD 1055t x6 OC'd to 3.4GHz with turbo at 3.8GHz
4GB DDR2 1066
Nvidia GTX295
4 640GB WD Blue drives short stroked to 250GB each in a raid 0
Asus Bluray Drive
Lite On DVD RW
42" 1080p LCD

*edit* My laptop is a Dell Precision m6400
17" LED WUXGA
Quad core qx9300 2.53GHz
16GB DDR3 1066
two 160GB 7200rpm drives in Raid 0
Nvidia FX3700

[AZ89two4Tsx]

He started first by assigning his worker Ogres to chop wood, to which they responded with, "Zug Zug". Upon returning to the refinery with he wood, he had enough to start fashioning the desk, but it also required metals. Unfortunately, all the ore mines were occupied by enemy forces, and that's a story all to itself...

I designed the desk in Autocad then I ordered the appropriate amount of MDF. The material arrived as 1-3/16" raw (no laminate). Then I Laminated one side of some of the parts with backer, charcoal, and black for the slatwall (all high pressure laminate). After that I took it over to my CNC Router and cut every piece out. Then I sanded the sharp edges down, brought it over to my thermal former and wrapped it with wood and charcoal printed vinyl. The next thing was to trim the vinyl, sand more, plus install a bunch of threaded inserts, adjustable feet for leveling and the grate for the slatwall (which I cut earlier and sent off to the powdercoater). Finally I put the main pieces together and worked on the finishing parts such as glides for the drawers, the interior shelf, faces for the drawers, hinges for the CPU cabinet, exhaust fans, power strips, blah blah blah and it is what you see. The only thing I didn't make were the drawers, my metal fab guy does those for me much cheaper and better then I ever could.

Haha, pwnd.

Nice work dude. That's a killer desk.

[Red coupe]

I designed the desk in Autocad then I ordered the appropriate amount of MDF. The material arrived as 1-3/16" raw (no laminate). Then I Laminated one side of some of the parts with backer, charcoal, and black for the slatwall (all high pressure laminate). After that I took it over to my CNC Router and cut every piece out. Then I sanded the sharp edges down, brought it over to my thermal former and wrapped it with wood and charcoal printed vinyl. The next thing was to trim the vinyl, sand more, plus install a bunch of threaded inserts, adjustable feet for leveling and the grate for the slatwall (which I cut earlier and sent off to the powdercoater). Finally I put the main pieces together and worked on the finishing parts such as glides for the drawers, the interior shelf, faces for the drawers, hinges for the CPU cabinet, exhaust fans, power strips, blah blah blah and it is what you see. The only thing I didn't make were the drawers, my metal fab guy does those for me much cheaper and better then I ever could.

Very nice
Pictures of the desk build?

[Empty V]

Very nice
Pictures of the desk build?

Thanks! Unfortunately I don't have pictures of that build but lots of the shop and other builds including a custom acrylic port for a 5" hi-res LED backlit LCD monitor for my underwater video housing.

[PoorManQ45]

Very nice
Pictures of the desk build?

Thanks! Unfortunately I don't have pictures of that build but lots of the shop and other builds including a custom acrylic port for a 5" hi-res LED backlit LCD monitor for my underwater video housing.

Pictures! That just sounds cool.

[flohtingPoint]

I'm sorry to hear that your day jobs have destroyed your interest in computers. I make a large percentage of my living off of my "big" setup but spend a ton of time on my 17" MacBook Pro as well. I've had a setups like this for the last 10 years and have yet to develop a hate for them.

This post is WIN!

I'll post a current pic of my setup when I get home tomorrow.

Sweet!

Yea, it was different when it was just a hobby. I can remember sitting in the middle of winter with a mobo in an open freezer with my window open and fans blasting 16 deg air in from the outside, wearing two jackets and trying to get more multiplier out of my old celly.

My last setup was built around early 03 late 02 timeframe.

Epox 8kha+
Athlon 1800xp oc'ed to f if I can remember.
2gb corsair xms (no clue what the ram speed was, too long ago)
Innovatek radiator
Custom fabbed/welded water block
Delta 120 cfm fan on radiator
4 delta 80 cfm fans in the case
Seagate scsi array
Yeong Yang cube case
Matrox Parhelia 512 (for 3d studio work)
Ati radeon 8500 for gaming
Creative labs plat w/5.1 speaker system
Some other crap I can't recall

[PoorManQ45]

You mentioned Delta fans. They wouldn't by chance be the extreme high RPM fans that push >100CFM?

[flohtingPoint]

You mentioned Delta fans. They wouldn't by chance be the extreme high RPM fans that push >100CFM?

One of mine did, the others pushed 80. They were VERY loud, not an understatement. I might have some permanent hearing loss because of it.

[Empty V]

Pictures! That just sounds cool.

Okay here's the acrylic port from start to finish. I didn't take pictures of the polishing process which took forever. I cut a 2nd one for a different monitor about 6 months ago which is what the drawing is at the bottom. That one is greatly improved with higher res lower power consumption LCD, a waterproof on/off switch boot and a marine-grade hood that's powder-coated black. I also built custom 12v batteries for these which turned out great.

[Empty V]

Where are the intakes? You only mentioned exhausts.

Don't need intakes, the cpu cabinet is not environmentally sealed. All 4 of my CPU sensors are reading 37*c-40*c. Normal operating temp with factory cooling is 44*c under load.

[RCA]

Empty V you do amazing work.
I am in awe. I have been recently looking for a piece of furniture for my desk, but the one you built is jaw dropping.

My questions...
- What do you do for a living?
- What did the desktop cost? (if you don't mind me asking)
- What would you charge some one for making a desk like that?

[Empty V]

Empty V you do amazing work.
I am in awe. I have been recently looking for a piece of furniture for my desk, but the one you built is jaw dropping.

My questions...
- What do you do for a living?
- What did the desktop cost? (if you don't mind me asking)
- What would you charge some one for making a desk like that?

Thanks! It was a lot of work for both projects.

- What do you do for a living? I'm a film editor/special FX artist and producer but also build large scale VideoWalls for my dad's furniture company. I'm fortunate enough to have access to all of the tools and machinery.
- What did the desktop cost? (if you don't mind me asking) I'd rather not disclose as this is the type of stuff we sell.
- What would you charge some one for making a desk like that? If I price it out on our MSRP sheet it would roughly be between $4K and $5K.

[Kompresshun]

Empty V, I am in awe of your setup We had Mac Pros at my previous job that didn't have specs close to yours. I will admit, i'm not a huge fan of Macs, but I used to be into the video editing and audio a lot more a couple of years ago. Now I do web design and graphic design(which I enjoy a lot more) so I don't have a good reason to own something quite that nice. Here's the only pics I have of my current desktop setup(the computer is hidden so I don't have any shots of it right now)



23" Samsung 1080P widescreen monitor
Dell Dimension E510
Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.6Ghz
3GB of ram
160GB Internal HD for Applications
1TB Western Digital External for Music, Video, and Capture Scratch(when needed)
DVD Burner
Windows Vista Ultimate(Yeah I know, it hasn't given me any problems so i've left it alone though)/Ubuntu - Dual Boot
Adobe CS3 Master Collection

The desktop used to be used for video editing and audio editing a couple of years ago but now it's become more of a backup computer/file server. I plan on turning it into a full on server sometime this year or early next year and replacing it with at least a nicely equipped desktop with a Intel quad core and 8-10GB of ram so I can have something dependable *if* I ever need to edit and maybe do a little gaming as well.

I don't have pics of my laptop but I use it the most, it's my work computer primarily but I use it at home as well.

Toshiba Satellite A505
Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.26Ghz
4GB of ram
500GB internal hard drive
500GB Toshiba portable hard drive
16" HD widescreen display
HDMI out
DVD-Rom/DVD-R/RW
Windows 7 Premium/Ubuntu - Dual Boot
Adobe CS4 Master Collection
Adobe Photoshop CS5(Because Photoshop CS4 blows, well most of CS4 blows but I only use Dreamweaver and Illustrator so it doesn't matter)
15GB(give or take) of photoshop brushes, effects, and textures

I'm planning on bumping the ram up to 8GB soon and buying a monitor for it so I can have dual monitors at the office. Other than that it doesn't need much else, it's mainly for web design and graphics design along with browsing the net at home.

[Otto.]

I'll get some pictures of mine soon.

Empty V, your setup is amazing... except for the Apple part.

[Empty V]

Empty V, I am in awe of your setup We had Mac Pros at my previous job that didn't have specs close to yours. I will admit, i'm not a huge fan of Macs, but I used to be into the video editing and audio a lot more a couple of years ago. Now I do web design and graphic design(which I enjoy a lot more) so I don't have a good reason to own something quite that nice. Here's the only pics I have of my current desktop setup(the computer is hidden so I don't have any shots of it right now)

Nice! I'm trying to learn dreamweaver right now but don't have the discipline to get through the video tutorials. I'm caught in a catch 22 because I'm too unfocussed to train and too poor to pay someone to do it. How do you like your Dell? I've got to buy a PC soon for my "day" job and not sure which brand to buy.

[Empty V]

I'll get some pictures of mine soon.

Empty V, your setup is amazing... except for the Apple part.

You ride is amazing, except for the "Empty V doesn't have one" part.

[audtatious]

Here's my home office as of a year and a half or so ago (yes, I have a big comfy leather chair now). Main system has been upgraded to:

Ultra Gladiator case w/dual fans
MSI 975X Platinum Motherboard
Intel core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz
Masscool 8WA741
4GB DDR2-5400
Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO
Hitachi 500GB SATA (3 partitions)
Hitachi 1TB SATA
2ea Memorex DVD-RW drives
on-board 7.1
XP Pro 64-bit
Samsung T260 26" monitor + Sony 19"
Data protected by Symantec Netbackup

By the picture I obviously have a bunch of systems around here

[tigersharkdude]

my setup, (not actual pictures)

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pavili ... &cp=1&lp=1

[Kompresshun]

Nice! I'm trying to learn dreamweaver right now but don't have the discipline to get through the video tutorials. I'm caught in a catch 22 because I'm too unfocussed to train and too poor to pay someone to do it. How do you like your Dell? I've got to buy a PC soon for my "day" job and not sure which brand to buy.

Thankfully I don't do a lot of html work so i've been able to take my time learning Dreamweaver. I'm right there with you on the video tutorials though, i'm just teaching myself slowly when I have time. I might have to build and/or work on an html site once every couple of months so I hardly have to use Dreamweaver right now.

I've been very pleased with my Dell, i've had it for a little over 4 years now and I paid $600 for it from Dell Outlet. It came very nicely equipped at the time and the only thing i've upgraded has been the OS and I upgraded it to 3GB of ram from 1GB. My father in law just got a similar deal from Dell Outlet for $650 and it has a Quad Core with 6GB of ram, I don't remember all the specs but it was a great deal. I believe Dell is the way to go for a desktop computer, I have no complaints from it. I've used it for video editing, graphics design, gaming, DVR, media server and it's always done what i've needed it to. It's getting close to 5yrs old now though and I think it's about time to replace it with something faster, I plan on still using it as a file server/backup computer. I think 5yrs is a pretty impressive life span for a $600 desktop though.

Now for a laptop, I wouldn't buy a Dell. I think the laptops are a waste of money compared to what you can get elsewhere.