r/battlestations

I don’t normally do a seasonal thing or post on Reddit but I’ve been loving this.

Had this setup for a while now. Kinda bored of it now.

Looking for ideas how to make it look and feel better. (And change theme)

Thank you

Powered by my new M5 Max Mac Studio. Primarily doing 6k multicam editing and raw color grading. PS5 is underneath the desk for some occasional gaming.

Still in progress

I might need a poster on the wall, tho.

Major upgrades to my desk and riser, makes it look way more modern!
Hope yall enjoy it :)

SPECS!!
Laptop: Macbook Pro M2 Pro 32GB 512GB
Mouse: Keychron M6
Keyboard: Monsgeek M1 V3 (MMD Holy Panda v2 switch)
Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G3 27 inch
Speakers: Edifier MR4
Microphone: Fifine AM8
Headphones: Phillips SHP9500
IEMS: Tangzu Wan Er SG II Jade Dragon Edition

• M4 MacBook Pro on a single cord Thunderbolt 4 dock located behind the vertical monitor for work, photography, and general computing
• 9900X / 32GB / 5080 PC for gaming and some AI
• 32" 4K main monitor and 27" 1440p vertical

Adam Audio A7X speakers and Genelec surrounds for Dolby Atmos.

I love my battlestation with all my posters, knick knacks, pictures, and art. I recently upgraded to a standing desk for the days I do a lot of sitting.

The table my pc is on is from a piece of an old, cheap desk from Amazon I've been gaming on for 7 years. Repurposed to keep my pc off the floor and have more desk real-estate. I need to figure out what to put in the empty space next to the chair to make it a usable L shape.

Also in case anyone is wondering, Muscles Over Magic is the name of my game I'm working on. The Steam art I commissioned was awesome, and I paid for it, so I use it as a wallpaper to motivate me to work on it.

Please rate what I'm hoping is my final setup for a while (unlikely).

I added the specs below if you're curious.

Just got a new desk. Gonna redo the monitors and raise the center monitor but it’s a pain with the vivo mount as it basically has to come apart to do. Kinda regretting 32” for the side monitors. But we’ll see. Gonna put some floating shelves in since my last desk had shelving above it so I have room for my plants and other things I had on display.

Specs:
Desk: Flexispot E7 Pro
Main monitor: AW3425DW (34” 1440p ultrawide 240hz)
Side monitors: cheap 32” Amazon specials (one is 4k one is 1440p)
Keyboard: Redragon K687 pro
Mouse: Logitech Superstrike X2
Speakers: Edifier MR4
Mic: Shure MV6 (cheap Amazon boom arm)
Chair: Autonomous Ergo (not pictured)
Jeff: Jeff the landshark

PC Specs
GPU: ZOTAC 5080
CPU: 9800x3d
Ram: 32gb G Skill 6000 mts cl30
Mobo: Asus Tuf b650e
PSU: Lian Li Edge 1000
Case: Phanteks MV5

I hate my university desk so much

i’ve moved many times so the setup has always needed to be compact. the philosophy was have a fully functioning sit stand dual monitor setup that only had one cable going down. the build started in 2021 and over the years i’ve slowly upgraded everything.

i went wireless as much as I could to assist this and I’ve got a couple magnet disconnect type c cables with type c - magnet adapters for all the devices (headset, keyboard, mouse, fan) for flexibility. 8bit ultimate controller with the dock wired into the pc.

both monitors are LG, an older 27” 144Hz 1440p IPS I bought used for cheap years ago and a new LG 32” curved 180hz 1440p VA I just upgraded. OLED is great but I’ve been perfectly happy with LG’s VA for a fraction of the price. I don’t really see a real difference between 144 and 180Hz but the deal was good.

system is a z590, i5 11600k, 48GB DDR4 ram (16x2 + 32x2 never had issues baby fuck it), Asus 9070 XT 16Gb, 2x NVMe, 1x SSD for a total of 2.5TB storage. Corsair AIO cooler. Computermaster case. has shrugged off everything i’ve thrown at it. almost everything I do is GPU or RAM intensive so the original mobo/CPU setup has served me perfectly fine with no real end in sight honestly. once ddr5 prices go down I will upgrade the mobo, CPU, RAM, and case to something flagship with an AMD processor, 64GB of DDR5 but at current prices it’s a joke.

both mine and my girlfriend’s systems are running on a 1500w costco special cyberpower UPS to protect our systems.

i decided to scrub windows from my life and run linux once and for all so it’s running fedora (bazzite, gnome). haven’t regretted it one bit, bazzite really changed the game. installs easier than windows, steam is already installed, my GPU worked out of the box (did need driver updates but still), and games just launched. i’ve been modding gta iv to really test what the experience is like and it’s flawless. just as if it was on windows, but with linux filepathing. i’ve had to get into the terminal a few times but nothing like trying to run ubuntu say, 5 years ago. i would say games run more stably than w11 as well.

with the bottles application I was running windows/macOS exclusive Arturia instrument software hooked up to an Arturia midi keyboard and it all synced correctly, first attempt. latency was good enough to play piano without issue.

if these experiences work, frankly there’s no reason to stay on windows unless you need kernel level anticheat for fortnite, COD, etc. and at that point with cross platform these days just play those on console imo.

But I love it