Share your HOME WORKING workstation environment - pics

[964Cup]

RizzoTheRat said:

The Ikea Signum cable tray is well worth a look, the wire construction means it's really easy to hook cables in to it. I have 2 mains multiway extensions sat in mine and then al the wires hooked in on top.

Thanks. Probably several of those and an industrial pack of velcro ties. And a quiet afternoon. Not helped in any way by the desk being up against a wall and windowsill and also being huge and immovable. Nor by the sheer number of cables needed to get all this to work.

What you can't see are the other PC (an Elitedesk mini hiding under the RH monitor), the Surface and its dock, the subwoofer for the soundbar, the Sonos bridge (God I hate Sonos with a passion), the document scanner, the cable modem and Amplifi wifi router, the two UPS and the neverending collection of chargers, USB hubs, PDU blocks...

I should get out more.

[964Cup]

rodericb said:

Whoah, I think we need to start a share your home working workstation environment HVAC system with that lot!

Ask and ye shall receive.

[thebraketester]

964Cup said:

I have made some minor upgrades:



3 x LG 40WP95 5120x2160 monitors

Rebuilt PC with:
ROG Maximus Hero Z790
i9-13900KS on water
GeForce RTX4090
64Gb of XMP-2 RAM (I have 128Gb but the board won't drive it at XMP2, annoyingly)
3 x M2 Samsung 980Pro 2Tb SSDs (boot plus a RAID0 stripe for data)
8 x 16Tb HDD in RAID6; 4 x 12Tb HDD in RAID5; 4 x 4Tb SSD in RAID0 all hanging off a RocketRaid 2840C
QNAP T310 thunderbolt to 10GbE adapter (because I have no PCI slots left, 4090s are physically huge)
...talking to the Synology DS1821+ and DX517 hiding off to the right via a Zyxel 1250-12 (bargain-tastic managed 10GbE switch)

All this so I can be grumpy on the internet when I should be in bed.

My cable management still needs work, though...and the case needs a going over with the air compressor

What goes on there which requires such spec? Impressive.

[mikeiow]

thebraketester said:

964Cup said:

I have made some minor upgrades:



3 x LG 40WP95 5120x2160 monitors

Rebuilt PC with:
ROG Maximus Hero Z790
i9-13900KS on water
GeForce RTX4090
64Gb of XMP-2 RAM (I have 128Gb but the board won't drive it at XMP2, annoyingly)
3 x M2 Samsung 980Pro 2Tb SSDs (boot plus a RAID0 stripe for data)
8 x 16Tb HDD in RAID6; 4 x 12Tb HDD in RAID5; 4 x 4Tb SSD in RAID0 all hanging off a RocketRaid 2840C
QNAP T310 thunderbolt to 10GbE adapter (because I have no PCI slots left, 4090s are physically huge)
...talking to the Synology DS1821+ and DX517 hiding off to the right via a Zyxel 1250-12 (bargain-tastic managed 10GbE switch)

All this so I can be grumpy on the internet when I should be in bed.

My cable management still needs work, though...and the case needs a going over with the air compressor

What goes on there which requires such spec? Impressive.

A really wide spreadsheet

[offspring86]

thebraketester said:

What goes on there which requires such spec? Impressive.

I genuinely hope he spends most of his time playing CS:GO.

[generationx]

offspring86 said:

thebraketester said:

What goes on there which requires such spec? Impressive.

I genuinely hope he spends most of his time playing CS:GO. Solitaire like the rest of us

[964Cup]

thebraketester said:

What goes on there which requires such spec? Impressive.

I could give a variety of silly answers. The reality is that my work involves large numbers of documents and we have a zero-paper policy; I find I often need six or seven A4 document windows open at once, plus needing permanent windows for Teams, Outlook, Tasks and Calendar. I'm also usually working on more than one workstream at a time. I feel like I can never have enough screen real estate.

The rest of the spec is driven (apart from the principle of "because I can") by the desire for instant responses even when heavily multitasking and a combination of:

Work

• Some work with AI models
• Some work with rainbow tables
• A number of very large spreadsheet models
• Some trading
• I also keep an encrypted copy of all of our corporate data as an off-cloud backup (see above re: trust issues)

Fun

• I quite like an immersive FPS RPG; I'm also keen on strategy games
• There may be a plan to deploy a proper racing simulator at some point, although I am legally bound for tax reasons to explain that this had no impact on the choice of displays
• We don't trust streaming services (in the sense of being uncertain that purchased media will remain available) so we still buy and rip physical media; full resolution Bluray needs a lot of storage - that's most of the disk, along with space for the above and working room for Handbrake.

The Synology backs it all up; I've got about 160Tb of usable disk in that array at the moment.

[dxg]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

964Cup said:

I have made some minor upgrades:


3 x LG 40WP95 5120x2160 monitors

Wow!

I have one of these and it is excellent

Three of those is £4.5k worth of monitors!!!!

[Glasgowrob]

thebraketester said:

964Cup said:

I have made some minor upgrades:



3 x LG 40WP95 5120x2160 monitors

Rebuilt PC with:
ROG Maximus Hero Z790
i9-13900KS on water
GeForce RTX4090
64Gb of XMP-2 RAM (I have 128Gb but the board won't drive it at XMP2, annoyingly)
3 x M2 Samsung 980Pro 2Tb SSDs (boot plus a RAID0 stripe for data)
8 x 16Tb HDD in RAID6; 4 x 12Tb HDD in RAID5; 4 x 4Tb SSD in RAID0 all hanging off a RocketRaid 2840C
QNAP T310 thunderbolt to 10GbE adapter (because I have no PCI slots left, 4090s are physically huge)
...talking to the Synology DS1821+ and DX517 hiding off to the right via a Zyxel 1250-12 (bargain-tastic managed 10GbE switch)

All this so I can be grumpy on the internet when I should be in bed.

My cable management still needs work, though...and the case needs a going over with the air compressor

What goes on there which requires such spec? Impressive.

That is an absolutely fantastic setup.

[Sporky]

Nice to see a trackball too.

The audio looks a little underspecced compared to the rest though!

[RizzoTheRat]

964Cup said:

I feel like I can never have enough screen real estate.

Terry Pratchett was once asked why he used 6 monitors, his response was "because I don't have room for 8"

[PistonRings]

RizzoTheRat said:

Terry Pratchett was once asked why he used 6 monitors, his response was "because I don't have room for 8"

That's brilliant haha. I have 4 in an unorthodox'ish setup that takes advantage of the small space I have, and I ALWAYS get criticised for how many I have, I often respond with well, I'd have more if they would fit

[beambeam1]

Out with the old faithful, an Ikea Fredrik that I bagged free from reddit prior to the pandemic. Offloaded gratis to someone else on FB marketplace, paying it forward!



In with cut to size kitchen worktop. Joiner out with the right size hole saw bits tomorrow for some cable management but really pleased so far. Doesn’t half utilise the dead space that was left either side of the old desk.

Very much a work in progress still.

[snuffy]

964Cup said:

I have made some minor upgrades:
64Gb of XMP-2 RAM (I have 128Gb but the board won't drive it at XMP2, annoyingly)

I've the same problem on mine now.

I had 64GB of RAM and an RTX2060. Upped it to 128GB with no issues (XMP enabled).

Then I changed the RTX2060 for an RTX4070 and it fails to boot with XMP enabled. However, if I go back to 64GB, with XMP enabled, it works fine.

But I think I have found the solution (but I've not tried it yet): The MB has an 8pin and a 4 pin ATX connector (as well as the 24-pin one of course). Currently I only have the 8pin ATX connected, but I think connecting the 4-pin as well will give the MB enough power. I shall find out shortly.

[964Cup]

I've got all the power connectors attached. No joy. May need to try another BIOS update when I'm next in the same country as the machine. It's a 1500W PSU, so that shouldn't be the problem.

[snuffy]

964Cup said:

I've got all the power connectors attached. No joy. May need to try another BIOS update when I'm next in the same country as the machine. It's a 1500W PSU, so that shouldn't be the problem.

I updated the BIOS in mine (always gives me the willies doing that), but it made no difference. According to some website that checks your power consumption, mine takes about 570W and I've a 750W PSU. A mate has suggested a 1000W PSU, but it will take me a week to rewire it !

[heisthegaffer]

beambeam1 said:

Out with the old faithful, an Ikea Fredrik that I bagged free from reddit prior to the pandemic. Offloaded gratis to someone else on FB marketplace, paying it forward!



In with cut to size kitchen worktop. Joiner out with the right size hole saw bits tomorrow for some cable management but really pleased so far. Doesn’t half utilise the dead space that was left either side of the old desk.

Very much a work in progress still.

I've thought about doing this as well. Just on the look out for some free or very inexpensive kitchen worktop.

[ZesPak]

heisthegaffer said:

I've thought about doing this as well. Just on the look out for some free or very inexpensive kitchen worktop.

Depending on the size you require, there's often some good deals at the local wood shop, especially for smaller lengths.
Ikea will cut you a decent length for a reasonable price as well.

If looking for free, some people litteraly throw old furniture away, find an oak table, cut it to length.

[TameRacingDriver]

I have thought about doing that in the past, but always led to believe unless it had a support in the middle it would end up sagging. I still really like the idea though to be fair.

[illmonkey]

I done that in my old garage. 3m of oak was £155 on eBay. Long batten along the back and smaller on the sides and it was fine.

I did add a leg at the front, but it was a work bench so took more than moving a mouse. I loved it and it was such good space for a garage, I assume it’d be the same in a garage.