Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Setup Wars – Episode 157”.
What’S happening guys from techsource welcome back to setup warriors episode 157, where you submit your desk set up to get featured on the channel if you guys want to participate, make sure to watch the video linked down below with that said, let the setup boys begin kicking Off the episode is deadwind and his upgraded setup. Since episode 127., he actually went from a triple pyramid, stack layout to a dual monitor setup and uses this for gaming, video, editing and other work related tasks, including music recordings with his drumming gear. In case you guys haven’t noticed, this setup is powered by a laptop the dell inspiron 7559, which is docked on a station by the way real quickly. If you guys want to see a laptop edition of setup wars, where i feature the best laptop setups i’ve seen on the show, let me know in the comment section other than symmetry there’s a few other things i really like about this setup. First of all, the desk is using is the ikea halistad countertop, with the aluminum borders and that’s being supported by some capital eggs and the alex drawers.
I like that, he went with gray alex drawers instead of the white ones, to give it more of a contrast with the desk. Another thing i like about the setup are the speaker placements, so we mounted two ikea lack shelves on the wall and he mounted the speakers right underneath it, which not only looks cooler in my opinion, but also allows him to use the top of the shelf. To put stuff on the aluminum border, he added on the wall. Shelves are actually very clever and it blends in nicely with the countertop accents another benefit of mounting. The speakers like this is that cable management is a lot easier.
All you have to do is route. The cable straight down using some wall raceways, so all the cables run straight down and into the channel raceway, which then lead to the laptop. I personally don’t think the middle leg is necessary for support, since he doesn’t have that much stuff in the middle and he’s only running dual monitors. The countertops from ikea are very sturdy, so he wouldn’t be experiencing any bowing and i’m speaking from personal experience, i also feel like the support really bothers your legs. Judging by how close it is to the front, if it really bothers you – and you don’t want to remove it, i do suggest pushing it towards the back a little bit that way it gives your legs some extra space. I like what he did with the position of the rgb mouse pad and routing both cables, underneath the keyboard and through the desk looks really clean.
He does have a drum set behind his setup and he uses the v-moda crossfade headphones for that and the audio technica m40xs for his actual setup. I also like where he mounted his blue snowball ice microphone. The actual boom arm is hooked up on the monitor arm itself and not on the desk and that’s. Why he’s able to extend the microphone that far out behind the monitors for laptop setup? This is actually very impressive. Stayed in the notes that he’s constantly on the road, hence why he prefers this type of setup, but he is planning on purchasing a desktop pc later this year. Thank you. Denwin for entering jan is up next from austria and his beast triple monitor gaming setup.
So he’s rocking three quad hd 165 hertz gaming monitors from asus that are mounted on the wall and below that we got some razer gear, the black widow x, chroma keyboard and the lance head tournament edition mouse now for audio he’s, got the razer leviathan, bluetooth, speaker And the black shark gaming headset he’s also using the saren microphone and he mounted it in an interesting location right above his calendar on the left side of his setup. In the notes, he stated that he was going with a black and green color scheme with some red accents which we can see across the setup and also inside the pc, by the way props we’re using the pc tower as a nightstand. It looks like it’s running on two separate loops and it’s packing the 6800 k, 16 gigs of ram and two asu strix 980 ti’s in sli. Cable management isn’t bad. However, i would find a way to wrap the cables from the monitors. Maybe using a white sleeve, like this from amazon, will help keep the cables hidden while the same time blending in with the wall.
It’S not a bad setup, but it could use some more work to improve mostly on the cables thanks. Jan for entering at number. Three is john all the way from germany and is very clean. Dual monitor gaming and productivity setup looks like he’s rocking two benq monitors that are mounted on the desk.
I don’t know why, but i’m kind of digging those blackout keycaps on the master keys pro s keyboard. It kind of gives off this cool stealthy. Look. The speakers he’s using are the popular mackie cr4s, which are being held up with the ikea shelves, and the cables are neatly hidden using wall raceways nicely done. He does have some headphones as well. We got the sennheiser hd 598 cs headphones, that’s resting on the mov headphone stand and for audio input, he’s using the rode nt microphone which he tucked behind his monitor when not in use the pc power in the setup is inside the tiny encased m1 and it’s Packing the 4790k, we had 16 gigs of ram in the evga gtx 1080.. By the way, the tempered glass panel was custom made by him, and so was the 5-inch screen inside the pc that displays the stats and the temperature of the pc, not bad. I may not agree with the loose wires on top of the desk, but the cables under the desk are managed.
Well, thanks to the signum rack and the help of some raceways, i think it’s a pretty clean and straightforward setup. Thank you, john, for entering next up is matthew from new york and this interesting setup with a scary theme to it. So matthew has actually been a longtime subscriber of the channel and he used set up wars to gain inspiration and improving his setup over the years. This is what he currently has a dual stacked monitor setup that he uses for gaming, music production and recording videos for his youtube channel.
Both monitors are mounted on the massive 98-inch halastad countertop from ikea and that’s being held up by some capital legs and the alex drawer units all right now, 98 inches is pretty wide and since there is no support in the middle, you can start to see some Bowing due to the weight of both monitors in this particular setup, i would recommend adding a leg in the center as support, but i would keep it towards the back where the monitor stands attaches to the desk. It’S not a huge deal, but it will prevent the desk from going more in the future. So, on the desk we got the razer sinosa chroma keyboard with the razer death adder mouse. I’M actually glad he grouped up both wires together, instead of leaving them alone.
It looks much cleaner this way since matthew uses this setup for music production, he does have a lot of audio gear. We got preamps audio interfaces and a mixer all within reach, and he also has a few headphones as well. The playstation gold, wireless headset and the air force x42 is for gaming, while he uses the beats solo wireless headphones and the krk studio headset for music.
I’M actually surprised to find out he’s using the logitech z623 speakers instead of a pair of really high quality bookshelf speakers, but he’s a professional here, not me cables, i managed very well. For the most part, i can tell that he got inspiration from setup ores, because this is cable management. 101 that i always talk about in my videos. We got channel race ways to route cables. We got 3m tapes for the power strips and the power bricks and cable clips to keep the wires organized nicely done.
The pc powering the setup is tucked away in the corner and it’s equipped with the 7700k. You got a gtx 1080 from asus and 16 gigs of ram. If he’s not gaming on the pc he’s, obviously on the ps4 or xbox one aside from the weird masks and costumes, you have scattered everywhere. I think this is a dope setup and you did a great job, putting it together, especially coming from your original setup a few years back.
Thank you matt for entering. Last but not least, we got nicholas, who was a student and he uses this setup for gaming and editing highlights for his youtube channel. It’S a black and blue theme setup using two monitors that are mounted on his motorized desk, which makes sense why he’s using a cable sleeve to cover the cables under here? There has to be some sort of slack available so that it can expand and retract, along with the desk for peripherals he’s using the corsair k65 lux keyboard and the g403 wireless mouse, the only audio source he has are the hyperx cloud wireless headset, which is hanging From the nzxt puck – and i really like what he did with the cables over here, he used a clip to hold it in place. He does have a microphone as well. The blue yeti, that’s mounted on the desk using a boom arm and, finally, the pc. That’S powering everything which has a 7600k 16 gigs of ram and the asus strix 1080.. The cables are organized very well underneath the desk looks like you mounted pretty much everything under here. We got the power strip, we got some power bricks for the monitors and the clips and tape to hold everything in place.
There are a few things i would recommend to improve your setup. Firstly, adding a tiny pencil drawer like this one, underneath your desk will give you easy access to store things like your rgb remote and whatever that hard shell case is. Secondly, i would route the cables behind your tv towards the right. So that way, you can just run the channel raceway straight down because it doesn’t look good going diagonally.
Lastly, i feel like the mic can be positioned in a better place. Either move your pc to the right a little bit so that you can squeeze the mic between the second monitor and the pc from the back or try mounting the entire boom arm. On the monitor mount, which will give you much longer reach, i don’t know if either methods will work out, but it’s worth trying it out if you’re not happy with your current setup, but that’s pretty much all i got it’s a solid gaming setup for a 15 Year old, thank you nicholas for entering and good luck on your youtube channel, and that does it for this episode of setup warriors as always make sure you guys drop your comments below and vote on, who, you think, has the best desk set up and announce the Winners on my social media platforms, if you guys enjoyed the show, make sure to drop a like, and if you didn’t, you know what to do.
Thanks again for watching and i’ll see you in the next one .