I’ve put a lot of thought into what surrounds me where I spend the greatest part of my life and would love to share it with you.
Photos:
Here’s a photo of my office command center in it’s arrangement as of January 2018. I rotated the layout so the desk was now to the right of the door.
Gear:
I have three 32″ HP LED monitors* on a 72″ Black Versa Center Desk with Dioder 4 Piece Light Strip Set* (set to purple) , Merc Stealth Steelseries Keyboard* (that glows purple), Delcom Quad Foot Switch (for my push to talk), Logitech G502* gaming mouse, purple Edifier H650 Hi-Fi On-Ear Headphones*, Blue Yeti USB Microphone* and very comfortable Realspace PRO Quantum Mesh Chair (bought January 2012 so it lasted over 6+ years!).
The panorama wallpaper on the monitors is a photo I took of Los Lagos Reservoirs Number 3 near Nederland, Colorado https://goo.gl/maps/cvZM5 . You can see it in full on https://flic.kr/p/wh8soo.
I use the Chrome extension “Tabs Outliner” to manage the huge number of tabs I have open. Which usually is between 100-200. My all-time high was like 350 tabs. Yes I’m a super multitask-er.
My computer is plugged into a APC Back-UPS 1500VA UPS System* (Read my article “Why you should use a battery backup for you computer“). Everything else (3 monitors, speakers w/sub, HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus printer, 6 external hard drives, purple glowy light strip & desk lamps) is plug into a 12 outlet power strip that is plugged into a Woods Outdoor 24-Hr Photoelectric Timer with Remote Control*. This way, at the end of the day I can turn of all of these vampire power suckers in one click. Its so cool I’m probably going to get this 5-Pack Outlet 2 Wireless Remote package* next for other things around the house and the Christmas lights.
With the Versa Center Desk, it is all adjustable so I have it lowered to 24″ from the standard 30″ to accommodate my body proportions (being 5’2″) better. With the chair lowered, my feet rest flat on the floor and don’t put unnecessary pressure on my thighs and with the adjustable arms, my arms are parallel to the desk. I’m at it 8+ hours a day and don’t have too much strain.
Internet:
The internet that runs this massive Command Center is 1 Gig Google Fiber in Kansas City! It is soooo amazing and at $70/month it beats everything in the USA! It up to 1,000 Mbps, Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s basic broadband, allowing you to get what you want instantaneously. You no longer have to wait on things buffering; everything will be ready to go when you are. So whether you are video chatting, uploading family videos, or playing your favorite online games, all you need to do is click and you’re there.
Here is my speed test and you get yours from SpeedTest.net!
Computer specs:
The last computer that I bought in December of 2013 cost about $4,500 in parts. It was amazing. But tech goes down in value pretty quick. I keep putting off selling and building a new one till finally last fall. It only was worth $1000, but with that money was able to find a already put together build September 2017, off Craigslist that was even faster and only needed one upgrade.
- PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 1700x 8 Core / 16 Thread CPU 3.00 GHz
- MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Taichi x370
- COOLING: Corsair H80i Push / Pull Config
- RAM: 32GB ( 4 x 8 ) DDR4 2133
- VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
- SOUND: On-Board HD Audio
- HDDs: Samsung EVO 960 NVMe 500GB SSD, 8TB WD EasyStore, 3 x Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM, WD My Book 3TB USB 3.0 and Seagate 1TB.
- MONITORS: 3 x 32″ HP LED, IPS with 5ms response
- CASE: Med Tower Case with 5 LED Fans
- PSU: Seasonic 750 Watt PSU
- KEYBOARD: SteelSeries Merc Stealth
- MOUSE: Logitech G502 Wireless Gaming Mouse
Plus a Dell XPS 12 Ultrabook laptop, two externals of WD My Book 3TB USB 3.0 and Seagate 1TB.
Thanks for checking this out and let me know what you think in the comments! If you have any questions, I would love to answer them.
First published 7/18/2014
Updated 1/27/2018
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