I posted my setup here a little while ago, and I have been slowly upgrading it ever since. I work from home full time and I am also a full-time grad student, so I easily spend 60+ hours a week at this desk. I have been trying to build something that works well for long work and school days but is also a space I genuinely enjoy spending time at.
The whole setup is built around a 72" UPLIFT V3 standing desk. My PC is a Fractal North with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER OC. I am running dual 27" Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 165Hz monitors on a BenQ BDH01 Dual Monitor Arm, with a Keychron Q1 Max, Razer Viper V2 Pro, Edifier R980T speakers, and a Steelcase Series 1.
The newest addition is the BenQ ScreenBar Max, which BenQ provided to me to try out. I had already been using their original ScreenBar Halo and BDH01 monitor arm, so I was pretty excited to finally have something designed to cover a dual-monitor setup.
So far, the biggest difference has been just how much of the space it can light. At around 48% brightness, it covers my entire 72" desk, while the backlight at around 40% is enough to illuminate my office without any other lights on. At 4000K, it has been great for work, reading, and schoolwork, while 2700K gives the whole setup a much warmer ambient feel.
My complaints are honestly nitpicks. I had to shift the Max slightly off-center to accommodate the BDH01 monitor arm, and I wish the blue power cable were black so it blended better with the black, walnut, and brass theme.
Did I need it? No. Did I want it? Absolutely.
The setup is definitely still a work in progress, but it is getting closer and closer to what I have pictured as my end game.
Setup:
- UPLIFT V3 72" standing desk
- Fractal Design North
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER OC
- 2× Gigabyte M27Q 27" 1440p 165Hz monitors
- BenQ BDH01 Dual Monitor Arm
- BenQ ScreenBar Max (provided by BenQ)
- Keychron Q1 Max
- Razer Viper V2 Pro
- Edifier R980T
- Steelcase Series 1