We've seen desktops, mousepads, and towers...let's see your workstation!!

Who is brave/willing to show their little compound!?!?

Obviously, you don't want to show personal stuff, but I thought it would be interesting, none-the-less!!

Here is mine...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/rogval/mycompound.jpg

 

Mines here:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=97231

Well it was before the desk gave up!

 

here's mine
http://www.acejones.net/pics/xps/

 

Sweet laptop acejones

I don't know how you all work at such small workstations...drives me crazy. Will post mine later...at work right now

 

small ? SMALL ?! did you even look at mine ? lol

 

Yup I did......and if I recall correctly, it collapsed too Size matters

 

Well the desk has been fixed! and i've moved the computer into my office since its easier to work from there!


Apprently 'strength' matters too !

 

I can't seem to get a decent photo of mine. The credenza is just too big.

 

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/Rikky_/pic2135.jpg

 

Here are a few pics of my workstation:

 

And one more:

 

Dont have a workstation as such more a gaming station my PC is only for fun Gonna have to get a new monitor soon

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/Rikky_/lan2.jpg



LOL tim

 

ok here is one a tad less homey

http://www.darkmoon.biz/workspace1.jpg

 

thanks...best part was it was free.

 

Couple of pics of the job.
Home is much more comfortable, I'll post it later when I get when I get there.


http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e342/iam_koomy/Work2.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e342/iam_koomy/Work.jpg

 

What the hell dude!?!? You a storm chaser or something??

Roger

 

lol.. No, oil field..

 

Carpet needs cleaning under there. Looks better without flash, but hands are too shaky for non-flash; Thermaltake Armor JR case has nice blue lit 120 mm intake fan at the bottom that doesn't show well with the flash. AMD box on the left is a new FX-55, and blue thing near that is Thermaltake Blue Orb CPU cooler. Huge thing, very quiet, cools great, and supposed to fit on my motherboard OK. Huge price drop on the FX made it do-able; will go in tomorrow or Saturday depending on how I'm feeling.

 

Cool...gotta say that I'm really jealous here!! Both the new hardware you got and just the simple fun of doing another build!! But the birthday is in a couple weeks and I'm hoping the wife will turn me loose at the tiger direct store down the road!!

Let me know how that new FX 55 works for you!! I am going to go from an XP 3000 400fsb up to something dual core. Just depends on the budget!!

Roger

 

I'm not really sold on dual core yet, at least not for what I do. Most apps out there, and particularly most games, don't support it, and those will only use one core. I don't use multiple intense apps at the same time, so wouldn't get all that much benefit from dual core. Gaming is the most intensive thing I do, so the single cores still appeal to me.

But if you can use it, go for it.

 

That is what the angel and devil are arguing about right now!! I don't need a dual core either...it's just one of those things that it's out there so I want to toy with it!! If you know what I mean, but like I said...It all depends on what kind of allowance the wife will let me have!!

Roger

 

Got it in tonight, before today's chemo makes me all soggy for the weekend. Works great, and the Blue Orb cooler is awesome. Already had an Asus Socket 939 mobo with an AMD64 3500+, which was no slouch, but the release of the AM2 and particularly Intel's new Conroe/Core Duo chips (which smoke the AMDs) caused a large price drop, and I wanted to get the best I could afford before AMD pulls the plug on the 939 format chips in favor of the new AM2s.

Only comparison I can give is my "old" 3500+ with stock heat sink idled at 46C in my case, and it was a 65 Watt cpu. The FX-55 is a 105 watt processor, idles at 40C, and is MUCH quieter than the stock fan on the 3500. Arctic Silver thermal compound takes a couple days to fill all the microscopic crannies in the mating surfaces, and temp should drop a couple more degrees. My case uses 2 120mm "silent" fans, which are extrememly quiet, and the new CPU cooler is as quiet as those. Fairly high-end system (Two nVidia 7600GT OC factory overclocked vid cards in SLI, two SATA drives in RAID-0 array plus a large IDE back-up hard drive, , 2 gig of ram Audigy 2 sound card), in a VERY quiet package. I'm happy. Wasn't that hard to swap. Only downside is my first ram slot is covered by the cooler, but I'm not planning on upgrading ram soon, and the circular air pattern cools the ram and other components near it, and reduces overall motherboard temp a bit. I'm a VERY happy camper.

 

Yeah...I guess!! Sounds awesome!! Now comes the REAL fun part of stabilizing and/or reinstalling the OS!!

If you get a chance...let me know how the performance of the chip works on your everyday average computing!! I don't do gaming, just e-mails, browsing and fixing others comps!!

Roger

 

Wasn't needed. CPU and cooler was the only thing I changed this time, BIOS identified the new processor properly, and Windows is just fine. The major upgrade including the motherboard, which did requre reinstall, was a few months ago, due to a fried power supply that took out the CPU and motherboard... just before the new goodies came out. LOL. I wanted to wait until the AM2 and Conroe hit the streets before upgrading, but didn't have the luxury of waiting.

System was already fast enough that I'll not notice any speed increase in normal day-to day apps, they're already virtually instant, limited by the time it takes to load from the hard drive. CPU heavy games should benefit, as well as intense things like converting DVD to Divx or visa versa. Email and browsing are already limited by net speeds, not by my comp. I've only got 3 games loaded that will read out FPS (frames per second), and haven't had time to try them yet for noticeable improvements. I do have benchmark scores saved before/after in 3DMark06. The vid card benchmarks improved JUST slightly, which was expected, as those are designed to test just the video cards. The CPU test, running all game date just through the CPU, rose from 859 to 1017. That's not an overall CPU benchmark test, but does show some improvement for game related cpu usage. Wasn't a mandatory upgrade for right now, more a matter of future-proofing to keep this rig useable as long as possible for more intense stuff coming down the road. Games in particular, always get more demanding.

 

Home, sweet home.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e342/iam_koomy/Home.jpg

 

This is mine roomy but not to much room

 

my beautiful daughter

 

You'd have a lot more room if you got rid of that chair (how 'bout shipping it off to me!)

 

Seriously need an upgrade

 

Sorry but It is just too comfortable cant let it go!!

 

ive only just realized that MG is on the screen. how apt is that!

 

Was being silly, then got to thinking it might be rude. Actually in the process of moving, not everything is hooked up, don't know where everything IS. So thats my excuse!

 

My desktop, not looking too bad. It's been more untidy than this!!
http://iwarpsystems.co.uk/picture_library/office.jpg
http://iwarpsystems.co.uk/picture_library/pc.jpg

AMD XP64 3000, 1GB RAM, 1x 36GB Raptor, 1x 100MB Seagate, 1x 230Gb Maxtor, 1x Nvidia 7800GT, 1x Maxtor G450.

And who needs an airconditioned server room
http://iwarpsystems.co.uk/picture_library/server.jpg

Dell Poweredge 1300, 2x PIII 500Mhz, 1GB RAM, 4x18GB Fujitsu SCSI (Raid 5), 2x 40GB Maxtor.

My HTPC running Windows Media Centre, love it!
http://iwarpsystems.co.uk/picture_library/htpc.jpg

P4 1.6Ghz, 768MB RAM, 3x 40GB Maxtor, 2x Nova-T Digital TV Cards - Gotta get a new case for this machine!

 

Good grief!!! Flat Screen City or what!!

Not sure in Photo #3 I'd want my PC running with all that brick dust around it....

 

Hmmm, bit too many cables on the second bit - tie em together to make it look nicer!

 

Yeah, I like multiple monitors for coding, makes life much easier. I've got to redecorate the office as soon as the bathroom is finished, I'm going to build in more cable management then.

I know I should do something about the server, but it seems to get forgotton in the attic. Hasn't had a restart in about 4 months. It's too noisy to put anywhere else in the house.

 

I'd love to turn that on to see how fast the meter spins

You coding guys always seem to need alot of screens is there a reason for this just because you can is it practical

 

I don't know about Goldy and the others, but I tend to run Visual Studio expanded over two screens, 1 page of code, one with all the database connections, item properties on the other. Then have one for the results and one for MSDN and various help files.

I've convinced the wife that the computers don't pull that much power Less than her massive hairdryer anyway! The server runs my FTP site, so that stays up and the HTPC stays running to record TV while I'm out. My main PC gets turned off when I'm not using it. I would use it for SETI but it has a temp sensitive fan and gets very noisy when working hard.

 

Yeah...that's going to save on the electric bill!!!!

Roger

 

So its not just to show off to friends I doubt its pulling that much juice,all lcds,couple of boxes,I'll bet my old 17inch crt pulls more than all those screens

Richmond Blue smokes I made sure my desks were nice and clean before I took the photo to try and keep the saint like image I try to portray in this forum intact

 

Well, it is good to show off with as well! Shame the Matrox is too slow to run MS flight sim across 3 screens properly.

I may just tidy up the office sometime, just to prove it can be done

 

Rex I run visual Studio in the same way. Its much easier having 2 monitors so not having to open and close or keep moving the properties type dialogs.

http://ychatsharp.com/desktop.png

 

well here is my system not much

used most for gameing and images

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5796/mypcoi3.jpg

 

It's the only tan I get, my wife likes the sun, I tend to hide from it

 

Don't suppose you'll share the secret will ya ace?? poor geek in need of laptop

Calltaker

PS: will grab my digi later and pop a pic of my spot

 

OK, had to do it in 2 because I don't have enough room to get back to get the whole thing in 1 shot. Pardon the mess, but I love my clutter.

Calltaker

PS: Pic 1, my old boom box on top of my file cabinet with 1 PC speaker on top, dual monitors (the let one has my free samples of a new haircoloring product on it.. yeah, I do hair too) In front of file cabinet is my small file cabinet with a pile of junk on it that i have to file one of these days. spare keyboard sitting against monitor 2.

Pic 2, other PC Speaker, scanner, printer, card reader for the digi cam, my edgers and another bunch of crap that needs to be filed. Yes, that is Puss from Shrek2 on my desktop