Not much has changed in our lounge since my
2019 post, but here are some shots of my newly finished home office/battlestation setup...
First some moody night shots, because everybody likes a bit of LED lighting:
This cabinet is where I keep all my network gear, and my VR gaming gear. That's a DK1 Kickstarter backer card, signed by the (then) Oculus team:
Mass Effect 3 "Earth Alliance" limited edition oversized lithograph (signed by artist, 1/500):
Here is how it looks by day:
More photos
in this Imgur album depicting various other lighting schemes.
Some details:
I'm currently migrating my PC to a new case and replacing some older components but, currently it is:
- Coolermaster Cosmos S (amazing case, lasted me 10 years, but upgrading to a c700m soon)
- ASUS ROG Strix X99 Gaming mobo
- Intel i7 6850k @ 4.3Ghz
- EVGA 2080Ti Black Edition
- 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR
- Corsair H115i Liquid CPU cooler
- Corsair HX 850i PSU
Peripherals:
- Razer Chroma Blackwidow V2 keyboard
- Razer Chroma Goliathus Extended mouse mat
- Razer Chroma Basilisk Ultimate wireless mouse
- Razer Chroma Base Station
- Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless headset
- Elgato Stream Deck
The space itself is an outbuilding recently purpose converted for use as my home office. Whilst installing the networking I added a couple of additional 35m cat6a runs back to the house, so that a 4K HDR video/audio signal with usb (for wireless controllers, peripherals etc.) could be piped back over Ethernet
to our living room, for comfy couch gaming on a large screen 4K Projector setup. It works great, no noticeable lag introduced.
The whole thing is lit using Philips Hue, and synced to the current desktop wallpaper/app... so the ambiance/mood is constantly changing in the room (although of course that can be set to a static lighting scheme too).
All Razer Chroma peripherals also sync in the same way.
Voice control over most a/v and lighting aspects via Alexa and Harmony.
The cabinets are a mixture of Ikea Besta units, the desktop is supplied from Worktop Express and then cut to size and wall mounted for the floating effect.
Did all the work myself apart from the initial plasterboard skimming.
I posted this on
/r/battlestations the other day.
