r/SetupEvolution

Almost done with the setup just need ideas on what to put above the setup I have some anime figurines but it’s not enough. I need ideas!

Before and after. Smaller room, but better use of space at the new place. Lots more decoration and useable light sources.

Bought my pc in 2022 and alot has changed since then!

ROG 4K 240hz 32”
2x AOC 1080 175hz 24”

AMD 7 9800X3D
Zotac RTX 5080 OC (Infinity Ultra)
Kingston 64GB DDR5 6400mt
Samsung 990Pro 2Tb
Gigabyte x870 Eagle Wifi7
ROG Strix 1200W

Here’s the list of specs:
M1 Max MacBook Pro 64gb memory 1TB
M1 IPad Pro 12in
Monitor: LG UltraWide 34" IPS 34U650A-B on an arm stand
UGREEN Revodok 213 Max th4 dock
MX Keys keyboard
MX Master 4 mouse
ATH M50x headphones
Xiaomi monitor light bar
Clock: iPhone 16pro in horizontal charging mode
Table: Dark Oak finish board 170x80 on welded steel frame
IKEA mouse pad
Laptop stand: generic wooden stand from Temu
2 IKEA peg boards
IKEA shelf with some additional boxes and lights on the side and locally sourced fake plant wall panels.
Also my skateboard, a wall mounted holder and some posters around the room 😅

Planning to add a tall plant on the right corner and hang the white board on the left.

longtime lurker, first time poster here (i think?). Was asked to share my setup here. if you guys have any questions about the items, let me know.

I finished my gaming setup and pc build. Happy with how it turned out.

Specs: 5090, 9950X3D, 192 gb ram dual loop custom liquid cooling, 3 distro plates, Crucial T705 ssd, liquid cooled gpu, cpu, and ssd.

please tell me what i should improve on. this is a ps5, pc setup, i have a 240hz 1080p monitor. i like playing multiplayer games such as r6 siege and rocket league. but i mainly play AAA games
like elden ring or the witcher. i want to make it look more aesthetically appealing with a black and white theme, please let me know

Im 14 this year, and somehow i have this beauty of a set up. ( im broke so no hate pls). Monitor: LG w/ 180 hertz, 1080 p and freesync and hdr, all for 180 bucks. Its a great monitor, and setup is easy.

I usually play on switch, and im not allowed to use the big pc, so i use my own pc, an i3 hp with integrated graphics. I have a lotta keyboards but my favorite are the razer peripherals. The soundbar is vizio, and the controller i use is a pdp wired controller, which has been an amazing controller for the past 3 yrs. I also have soundcore s20s which are great for only 40 bucks and i would rather use them than my beats any day.

Planning to add a tall plant on the right corner and hang the white board on the left.

How can I improve this. Tryna get an oled monitor soon🤞

Did have to swap out the middle arm for an amazon one since the Ikea one kept pointing down. (Even though it’s supposedly rated for a 7kg monitor and that one weighs 3.7kg)

Started this as "I'll just add a managed switch" and somehow ended up tearing the whole thing down and rebuilding into a 42U StarTech rack. Sharing the then/now because the difference still makes me laugh.

Photos 1–2 (NOW): Pro-Max-16-PoE core + Pro-24-PoE leaf landed on a proper Cat6A patch panel, AdGuard stats up on the rack-mounted display, room labels actually legible (MyL, Kiara, Eliam, Eslie, Lvng Rm), and the bottom half is breathing — UniFi UPS, switched PDU, NAS shelf with actual airflow instead of gear stacked wherever it fit.

Photos 3–4 (THEN): the old open-frame cabinet — TP-Link unmanaged switch, TL-SX3008F 10G aggregation, cables routed wherever they'd reach, Mac mini and NAS just sitting loose on a shelf, ARRIS modem hanging off the wall with a rat's nest behind it. It worked, but every troubleshooting session meant tracing cable by hand.

What changed under the hood:

Core/leaf switching: UniFi USW-Pro-Max-16-PoE as core, USW-24-PoE as leaf for bulk PoE/cameras. One gotcha worth sharing — that inter-switch trunk is hard-capped at 1G since the leaf is the standard Gigabit model, not the Pro version.
Routing/firewall: Firewalla Gold handles all VLAN policy and routing; UniFi stays strictly switching/WiFi.
9 VLANs segmenting trusted devices, IoT, kids' WiFi, guests, cameras, NAS, voice assistants, security, and AV.
AdGuard Home for network-wide DNS filtering, dashboard rack-mounted for at-a-glance stats.
UPS-backed power chain — UniFi UPS → switched PDU → all critical loads, replacing the old surge-only setup.
Real cable management this time: structured patch panels instead of "however the cable reached."

Next up:

A Dell PowerEdge T420 going in as the "main brain" — Proxmox host for Home Assistant, AdGuard, Frigate (with a Coral TPU), Immich, primary ZFS storage, and eventually a local LLM.
A small side project with my kid: turning a retired Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro into a mini homelab box — Ubuntu Server → SSH → a Minecraft server, as a hands-on way to learn networking basics.
A 10G fiber run out to a garage cabinet build (gaming PC, consoles, AP — all on their own VLANs), and closet cooling, since cramming all this into a former coat closet generates more heat than you'd expect.
Happy to answer questions on the VLAN setup, the switch gotcha, or the cable management glow-up.