Show us your computer room 2!

I hate you. Not because you did anything wrong, but because I really, really want your setup...

Should be no worse than eating a few bananas.

 

Wow, 8 monitors, 7 of them connected to one computer? That's a little bit overkill for me, but... what GPUs do you have in the one with 7 monitors? I can't think of a consumer-class GPU that's designed to do more than 6, so that's have to be either a professional one or two GPUs, right?

I still have a CRT. It's got more horizontal pixels than my laptop, and it gets a higher refresh rate than any other monitor I have, so it's still good for something.

 

I nearly spit my soda when I read this xD

I have an old 21" (forgot the name brand) which I use now and then 1600x1200 works great for most things and an old 640x480 I use thats 17" for older games that were CGA/EGA/MCGA/VGA compatible on my old 386SX, took me years to accept LCD's lol.

Nothing against CRT's was just commenting on the other.

lol <3 I had more monitors but wanted to be more proactive at work, so moved a couple.

here's a pic of my work desk, all of these are connected to my Laptop which is currently a Lenovo T420 but upgrading it soon to a 440. Adding 2 more later this week. Possibly a 3rd depending on my needs, but sure makes me proactive lol.

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Not enough overkill actually might do a 3x3 if I don't do an eyefinity setup x 2 one day lol

Here's a panoramic shot to easily identify, Far bottom left = my CintiQ 22HD on an ergotron long arm
Bottom 3 monitors = Qnix II 27" 1440p
Far right portrait monitor = HP w2338h 1080p
Top center monitor = Qnix II 27" 1440p
Top right = HP w2338h 1080p

The HP's are damn gorgeous w/ their gloss and color pallet especially w/ my spyder4elite

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Portrait is great for web design, scripting, and reading manga <3 (free advertising for XoticPC 2)

Moved the portrait one down a bit and curved out so when I lean back in my chair to read its a perfect viewing angle
That + watch anime on the top center one while laying back or playing games.

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I need to print out that shot of your work setup and show it to my managers. 1 external monitor is so passé.

 

I still have another 2-3 monitors to add in there, and trust me if you can use the real estate it does wonders on your work performance. My boss loves it, and half my team is tempted to do the same to theirs lol.

 

They do exist. There are plenty of 6 DP Radeons that can theoretically support 12 4K displays. GXORE even have a single 7750 for 12 HDMI. And then there is this baby.




One single framebuffer alone for 12*2 4K 8bit would be more than 0.5GB. I'm not sure how quickly the card can refresh those pixels.

 

Wow never even heard of that one, looks like 2 cards stuck together lol, for my home desktop its using an nvidia, at work its just the iGPU lol. I'd totally stick one of those badboys in an external enclosure though and go nuts.

 

Be careful with too many pixels if you're doing normal desktop work/play. Video playback is fine if you manage to feed it, however rendering large desktops even in 2D would be very demanding. Haven't tried with more powerful cards but 8K desktop with FF maxed on the Intel iGPU is a slide show.


Edit: Nah, Chrome does it better, by cheating with resampled placeholder blocks. (FPS graph on top right corner)

 

No worries 116+ fps in TR in Ultra settings minus Tesla.

 

At what resolution?

Anyway, whatever high end GPU from NV/AMD got to be much faster and will probably come with a reasonable FPS for browsing on the equivalent of 10+ 1080p screens or so. But those operations should be memory bounded rather than shader bounded, so the difference won't be as pronounced as in 3D games.


Interestingly even with a W9000 when I scroll pass by the 8K screenshot in FireFox for the first time I can feel it lags a little bit. After the sampling is done the successive scrolling passes would be smooth if only one screenshot is visible.

 

The ones I posted above, this was running on 1440p res, though if I'm really trying to get into the game I'll switch to surround for the lower 3 monitors.

 

I really really really want to add a HD Projector to my home theater/computer room but with so many expenses and the kids christmas and all I can't justify it.
When it happens though I'll be back to post all the pictures and videos

Sadly not much of a gamer anymore, just no time. Probably 80% of my Steam library is not even been installed and launched even a single time. I even have $50 Steam credit given to me by WSGF last year that I have not spent so the big screen will be mostly Wii U games and Movies, but thats good enough for me.

 

There are some excellent quality inexpensive 1080p projectors these days - my Optoma cost around $600 IIRC. I have high ceiling and white walls, so didn't even need to buy a screen. If you have windows in your theater room, however, probably worth investing in some blackout fabric to cover them (or you can just use the projector at night).

 

Yeah the Optoma HD141X is only $599 right now w/ $50 GC but we have a fairly small apartment with a big TV so GF wont let me install a Projector till we get a house :/

Id either go DIY with blackout cloth and a wood frame with black felt borders or use a good white paint and sanding job with a black frame directly on the wall as my screen.

For the house the paint is fine, lets me build the screen around the projector more easily and could look cool, if I needed to move it from one place to another I would go with the frame solution.


Much later in life when money is not so tight I could invest in a proper screen that adds more quality or ambient light rejection.

I may go wooden frame route just so I can also do a DIY LED border to backlight around the frame similar to the Black Diamond Zero Edge.

 

My current set-up.



It's very modern and outdoorsy. Feng Shui, if you will.

By the way, what is up with all this my little pony sh*t? Aren't you guys a little old for that?

I also seem to notice a lot of really nice microphones in some setups. Do we have some professional broadcasters here?

Whoa. That's intense.

Does it actually help you being more productive, though? 2 monitors is great for me, and 3 would be even better, but beyond that, I don't really see much benefits. This is true for me personally, or course. Do you use them just to keep an eye on things that are auto-updating or something? I can see a setup like this being useful for stock traders or air traffic controllers or something.

 

A lot of nice computer rooms in these posts!

 

I used to think so as well until I acquired my 4th monitor, then my 5th, etc. The opportinities and ease of mind these things provide is endless. From gaming in Surround to having your own dedicated gaming area, chat/browsing area, reference area, drawing area, video area, VM area, multiple games / clients especially if playing MMO's. Sandboxes, video rendering, having multiple references up for art or homework. Running analysis on issues, troubleshooting, remote desktop/Teamviewing, Skype and more.

The far left one is my CintiQ so 80% of the time I'm drawing on it if its on. It might seem overwhelming but I started out w/ 1 monitor like most people and just started expanding as my needs required. Stock would be nice but I've yet to take the plunge.

Oh and the far top right portrait monitor was lowered down next to the far lower right monitor as I use that for scripting/webdesign and most of all reading manga as it fits PERFECTLY <3

As for the previous comments, not sure what you saw with whom but regardless of gender I don't see what the fuss is about if someone likes something lol, that or they have kids or w/e.

Microphone wise I have a few, and looking to buy a HQ one (200-300$) sometime soon since I'm getting more and more into animation, I'm having friends do VA so I want the best quality possible, that and its nice to have a crisp clear voice going through when talking on Raidcall and what not, regardless of compression the cleaner it comes in the better it comes out.

That and I have a friend that sings so teaching them how to work the hardware and software so they can start making youtube vid's and their own recordings.

 

What keyboard is that? Looks nice!

 

Keyboard appears to be Rapoo E9050. Not sure where to buy outside China. It's kinda uncommon to see such a keyboard with a clearly gaming-targeted mouse.

 

Yeah, that's the one. You can get it on Amazon. The E9070 looks very interesting, has a numeric pad as well.

 

I'll probably go mad with that key travel. I do prefer short actuation travel keyboards in general, but with that little travel, can I even get useful feedback? If it gets even thinner it would become MS Surface Touch Cover.

 

If it has the same key travel as a "standard" laptop keyboard, I will definitely be fine. I've been using laptop for so long now (without any external KB) that I'm no longer find old school keyboards to be comfortable. Every time I have to use a "proper" keyboard I get this weird feeling.

 

Yes it is a Rapoo E9050. The key travel is similar to MSI gaming notebooks before the big keyboard refresh. It feels good for me. The mouse is a first gen G500 and I don't want to replace it ever. Maybe after it explodes for another G500... so comfortable and it's insanely snappy for my preference.

 

That's... a lot of ponies.

 

I'm too embarrassed to show my 6ft folding table "desk", despite my cool room :-|. I haven't found a reasonably priced large desk to replace it. So many desks are either too shallow or don't have proper leg room.

 

I took my desk apart and moved it around to another corner of the room. Gained a lot of space too. Big window is now behind me and it has blackout curtains. Cables not done yet as I'm lacking all the ethernet cables at the moment.



Colors are way off, wallpaper is actually almost white. I need to take better pictures with daylight. As if we have any this time of year.

That's 32" TV for the desktop PC and dual 24" for the laptop in the HP advanced dock.



Quick test with projector. I have no screen and no hdmi connected to the projector either. Work in progress. Wallpaper has some flower pattern that shows not so nice on videos

 

Upstairs, two desktops, one HP notebook, &
1 1985 Tandy 600 notebook & Desktop!


Downstairs, two notebooks, Samsung and ThinkPad

 

I have 2 such tables in an L configuration in the corner, can't beat them for $50 a pop!

 

This is the first room pic I've posted here in 5 years. My computer room is my home office. Some things in it:

• PC w/980Ti
• Dell 34" curved monitor
• Logitech Master MX mouse + Logitech K810 keyboard (Use the input switch feature on both this mouse and keyboard to control my home PC and work laptop)
  
• PS4
• PS3
• Sonos Boost (for family room sonos speakers)
• DS414 NAS (w/20TB)
• ASUS RT-N66U
• Logitech Z-5500 Speaker System

PS4

 

BTW, the Eagles are out of playoffs, while Seahawks are still rolling....

 

It's pronounced "Eggles"


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I've done a complete revamp of mine (not that anyone remembers) and will be posting very soon.

I think you guys are going to like it.

 

Update on my room...

 

Oh snap. Forgot to post mine!

Horrible lazy picture, but should provide enough interest overall.

P.S. Large pic, check spoiler

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Wow, what a incredible setups have the people here!

 

I'm not sure how I will put those pics on. I have 3 HP blade server, 6 regular PCs, one gaming PC and 2 laptops, oh and 2 file servers.
Why do I have blade servers?

I am build a custom rendering farm.

• One blade server has 4x dual core Xeon processors with 4GB ECC RAM, this I use as a DHPC server as well as a restore server. So it's drives are filled with HDD images of every computer on my network.
• One blade server has 2 x quad core Xeon processors with 192GB ECC memory. I use this one for virtual environments. Test new plugins for my 3d modeling software without infecting my actual environment.
• The last blade server has 2 x 12 core Xeon Processor with 32GB ECC memory and an ATI 1GB graphics card. I use this one when working with complex scenes and models. with HT on it has 24 cores in total.
• 2 x file servers, one is for my library when texturing models, but all the computers have access to it. It also host my Music collection as well as software installation files and plugins. All the drives are setup as RAID 1 + 0. The other file server is my movies and TV show collections as well as game collections. I can access any movie or tv show anywhere in my house, whether its on a PC, Laptop, Tablet or the Networked TV.
• The 6 regular PC's I got from assembling various bit and pieces of old computers. Upon boot they load a bootable OS image from the server, they only have like 80gb HDDs, but all they do is render as slaves to the servers. The local HDD's is for the virtual memory and to save the rendered data. If the render job is complete the server copies the data to the server, ready for further work.

This are all in different rooms. The entire house runs of Solar Power.

 

I am redo'ing my wifes craftroom and my office after Christmas. I will post up the result in mid January. Both will have 23" dell touch screens and vertical docks for our notebooks. As well as new keyboards etc. Should make for a nice livable work space.

 

Razer Blade Pro 2016 and MacBook Pro 2016 13.3 with touchbar.

 

So I heard you like MSI...

 

What model is that monitor holder?

 

These monitors all on one machine or different systems? pretty awesome setup!

 

All on the HP Cube. Thanks, I like it!

 

that's awesome! It's a killer setup for sure!

 

Love that cube. It just dominates the room.