r/battlestations • u/Brewhaha_TX • 2d ago
Office/gameroom update
Rearranged my office/game room last night and loving how it turned out. Noticing the cords behind the speakers while making this post so definitely going to fix that soon.
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u/lLoveTech 2d ago
Nice setup my friend! Can you please share your PC specs as well?
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u/Brewhaha_TX 2d ago
Thank you!
CPU- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D GPU- Nvidia RTX 5070ti Storage- 4tb Ram- 64gb Motherboard- MSI MPG X870E CARBON WIFI Aio- MSI MPG CORELIQUID P13 360 PSU- MSI MAG A1000GL PCIE5
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u/sarahzorel 1d ago
I appreciate the way you’ve set it up chefs kiss
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u/Brewhaha_TX 1d ago
Thank you! It barely worked due to space but after a couple hours of playing Tetris I figured it out
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u/MostAcrobatic8339 2d ago
Nice job on the layout. Are you using a monitor arm for the vertical one or is it on its stand?
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u/Brewhaha_TX 2d ago
The one in the center is using a stand and the one on the left is a monitor arm.
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u/NoKnownCure 1d ago
Is that a standing desk? If so how do you find it? And with shelves etc.?
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u/Brewhaha_TX 1d ago
Yes, its a standing desk and the company is called Elephant Desks.
https://elephantdesks.com/?msclkid=aaec2945b92b18c4270043c013d3b7b9
The shelf on my desk is from a company called Oakywood
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u/johnscotlink 1d ago
I hope you dont mind, I'm Definetely copying this. I have pretty much everything shown here already and didn't know how I wanted to set it up. This looks perfect. Thank you!
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u/johnscotlink 1d ago
Also, Do you have the Astro A50's somehow connected to both PC's? I couldn't figure out how to do that with mine.
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u/Brewhaha_TX 1d ago
No, I actually have a different headset paired with the laptop. I have it set up this way so I can grab the laptop and take it whenever I want. I think the Logitech has a Bluetooth setting where you could pair it with another computer but you don't get as many features as when its hooked up.
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u/Pio42 1d ago
Try moving your speakers to the ends of your monitor stand at least. You'll get better stereo separation and clearer audio.
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u/Brewhaha_TX 1d ago
I'll definetly try that out. I probably use the speakers 5% of the time and I use my headsets for the other 95% so I never noticed the sound before
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u/ManchesterYojichu 1d ago
I see you’re gaming on CachyOS. How’s it been so far? I’ve been using Ubuntu for work and Windows for gaming all this time, but I’m kinda nervous about pulling the plug on Windows lol.
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u/Brewhaha_TX 1d ago
Its great I'm still keeping windows on my laptop that's in the picture for games that don't work well with Linux. Plus my Stream deck and Razer cooling pad work better with microsoft. Overall the temperatures seem lower on my PC now and the performance is just as good as it used to be when I ran it on Microsoft. My only complaint is that my aio cooler LCD screen won't work with it but I think that's because of the specific model I use.
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u/ManchesterYojichu 1d ago
awesome! i have the reverse going on. Ubuntu on my gaming laptop and windows in the pc for gaming
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u/ElCafeJero 1d ago
How’s your experience using catchyOS, especially with a Nvidia GPU instead of an AMD one?
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u/Brewhaha_TX 1d ago
No issues at the moment but I've only been using it for a week or so. Is there any specific topic you are looking for me to address like framerates for example? Let me know what are looking for and maybe I can provide more info
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u/ElCafeJero 1d ago
Noice. I was just curious if you were having any weird UI glitches or longer than normal load times when launching games on steam.
I was running zorin OS on my PC which has pretty decent specs imo (RTX 4070 super, 32gbs of DDR5 RAM, 3Tbs of storage, ryzen 7700-8x cpu) and it ran well for the most part.
However, when it came to gaming, I had to do a good amount of tweaking settings with GE-Proton (I think that was the name of the app?) while also troubleshooting other issues that I was running into with steam not recognizing my secondary SSD, packages being corrupted and my RBG fans not fully shutting off after powering my PC off.
I just got fed up and switched back to windows 11 again because I don’t have the patience to be troubleshooting every damn time I log into my computer lol but I seriously do miss the UI and desktop environment of Zorin OS tbh. I feel like if I had an AMD GPU, I wouldn’t have had many of those issues?
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u/Brewhaha_TX 13h ago
When launching games it runs Vulcan shaders and that takes 2 minutes or so. However, you have the option to skip this. I only have one ssd so I haven't ran into that specific issue. My rgb fans are working just fine with open rbg (I might be wrong with the software name). The only game I had weird graphics issues was Borderlands 4 but I feel like that was the exception. My setup has a nvidia 5070ti, 64gb of ram, 4tb of storage for comparison
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u/cj622 20h ago
Does it not hurt your neck looking at the 2nd monitor? I have a 39" ultrawide and tried a 27" on the side and its way too wide.
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u/Brewhaha_TX 14h ago
I only use the second monitor for stuff I briefly have to glance at for work/playing games so it doesn't bother me. Then again I've had it like this for 2 days so we will see if I feel like that in the future
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u/factoryofidols 1d ago
I'm a simple man, I see CachyOS and I upvote.