u/Darkflame1O

I became interested in making a CR box for myself simply because there is too much ambient dust floating around in my room. However, I tend to try and save money where I can if possible.

I have these old pc fans that have got to be at least a decade old (barring the small CPU fan), some scrap wood, woodworking tools, and some old power bricks laying around. All I would need is some splitters, an adapter, and filters (probably no grills).

Noise is not a concern nor am I too bothered about maximum efficiency so long as it gets the job done. It doesn’t need a small footprint either as I’ll just plop it in the middle of my room when I want it running. It’s also mainly for dust, so I was debating simply going for MERV 8 or 10 filters as well.

Would these actually work? Or is it simply too much of an efficiency loss/headache and that I should go ahead and spend the money on proper fans and/or filters?

I’m replacing my desk, so I thought no better time to change my room around.

My current setup (Photo 1) is probably honestly the best possible option. The bed has space on both sides, and everything is open and accessible.

The one major problem however is the left side of the room is higher than the right and the left side of my desk is a whole 1.5in higher than the right. My chair rolls away on occasion, my arms rest at different heights, and I also can’t help but wonder if it’s affecting my back needing to sit at a slight tilt all the time.

This means I would prefer to have my desk top to bottom like in photo 2 and 5. And while these may be the best options I could come up with, I’m not too big of a fan of either.

I would like the bed to not be in the corner, for my back (when at my desk) not to be towards the door, and I’d like for my computer to not be against the wall to make it easier to manage cables and monitor arms and the like. Although it seems like along with the desk rotation, I can only get one (or none) of these other wants.

Any advice or help is appreciated!

I’m stuck between for $175 for the Bosch and $250 for the Dewalt + mlcs 15 piece bit set + parallel fence.

I think I generally lean towards the Bosch for the router itself, but I’m not sure if the accessories make the Dewalt a better option to pick up.

My secondary drive (Disk 0 aka D:) has 630MB of unallocated space that I cannot seem to merge with the main partition. There was a bit of space on the right of the main 450+GB partition that I could extend into, but the option to extend on the left one is grey'd out.

I know you can't extend left, so I moved all the files to another drive, deleted the volume of the main partition, and partitioned the left side space into a new simple volume. But even with the only volume being the left 630MB and the right 465.13GB being unallocated, the option to extend volume was still grey'd out.

Current state of the drive: https://imgur.com/a/kEzGXGe

I'm trying to avoid the headache of needing to use a 3rd party iso like GParted, but I can if need be (and if you have proper steps on how to use it, it would also be greatly appreciated).