Hello, I have a new home office. Has cool built in shelf’s but severely restricts desk possibilities. I have a long window and closet to contest with.
My gut says on this wall marked 8foot or center of room.
Thinking a 5 foot desk. Minimalistic. Possibly mount a TV above for some gaming? I do have some guitars which I can put between window and bookshelf.
Thoughts?
My wife and I both work from home. We share an "upstairs lounge" area. We both have electric standing desks.
I have tried so many configurations to try and make it neat and optimum, but am struggling to find something that works.
Hoping the Reddit hive mind has some good ideas.
My desk, is the L-Shaped desk, but I am not a fan. Its only 600mm deep at the main part and I am thinking of converting it to a standard rectangle desk that is the same as the other desk. 1600mmx800mm.
Also, here is a photo of the actual desk in its current setup. Any suggestions would be great!
I used Planner5D to design the room. It is dimensionally accurate. The open door leads to our main bedroom.
Hi everyone, I’m a third-year e-commerce student of TUDublin currently working on a research project about desk setups and microphone mounting.
I’ve put together a short anonymous survey to understand how people position their microphones and what frustrations they experience with desk space and clutter. It only takes a few minutes to complete.
I’d really appreciate your input if you have a desk setup or use a microphone. Thanks a lot for your time!
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I set this up thinking it might be overkill. It felt like way too much space for just one monitor at first. But after a couple of weeks, it kind of filled up. Cables, printer, random stuff I actually use every day… now it just feels right. Not cramped, not cluttered, just comfortable. I could easily add another monitor or more equipment, and it still wouldn’t feel crowded. Didn’t expect this.
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Hello, I Dock a Dell for work and a MacBook for personal. What could improve? It is a new set up, so when I lock things in I will be doing the cable management. Im thinking maybe cúrtannos and a light. What do you all think?
Hoping to get some input from people actually running this class of hardware. I have until Monday to make a call and I'd rather not make the wrong one on cards that cost $9k each.
The decision
I already own one RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition. A second one is paid for and shipping Monday. The seller told me today he can still swap that order to a Max-Q if I want. I'm planning to add a third very soon either way, possibly a fourth.
Do I stay on the Workstation Edition in an open-air frame, or switch everything to Max-Q?
I can't stomach losing 6–10% performance on these cards. I know I can power-limit the Workstation to 450W and still beat a 300W Max-Q. But I keep reading that people underestimate what the Workstation cards demand for airflow in a multi-GPU setup. Server Edition is off the table — noise is a different category entirely.
PCIe routing / frame layout
I ordered two riser cables with one-slot brackets. I was originally hoping to lay everything flat on a single horizontal plane but I don't think that's realistic with slot spacing on the WRX90E-SAGE SE. Two-shelf vertical layouts look like the standard approach.
Questions:
Build so far
Environment
Temporary basement space for now — I'm not redoing the basement in the next three years but will eventually. Main concerns in the meantime: dust, heat, long-term power draw. I'm an electrician so the wiring side is handled.
Use case
Automating my electrical contracting business (QuickBooks, Notion, field ops) and some hobby/potential AI side ventures. Three-year horizon on Blackwell — when Rubin drops and it's feasible, I plan to upgrade, which should also cut heat load meaningfully. That's part of why Workstation Edition resale value matters to me now.
Paths I'm weighing
If you've run this config or something close, I'd love to hear what held up and what you'd do differently.
Thanks in advance.
The goal of this setup was not to impress others per se, but to express myself but also having what I need for productivity. I tried to blend authenticity with practicality. I know my setup is no where near objectively the best, but I’m not mad about it. Just wanted to share. I recently got the Tatu desk lamp and I love it.
Hoping to get some input from people actually running this class of hardware. I have until Monday to make a call and I’d rather not make the wrong one on cards that cost $9k each.
The decision
I already own one RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition. A second one is paid for and shipping Monday. The seller told me today he can still swap that order to a Max-Q if I want. I’m planning to add a third very soon either way, possibly a fourth.
Do I stay on the Workstation Edition in an open-air frame, or switch everything to Max-Q?
I can’t stomach losing 6–10% performance on these cards. I know I can power-limit the Workstation to 450W and still beat a 300W Max-Q. But I keep reading that people underestimate what the Workstation cards demand for airflow in a multi-GPU setup. Server Edition is off the table — noise is a different category entirely.
PCIe routing / frame layout
I ordered two riser cables with one-slot brackets. I was originally hoping to lay everything flat on a single horizontal plane but I don’t think that’s realistic with slot spacing on the WRX90E-SAGE SE. Two-shelf vertical layouts look like the standard approach.
Questions:
∙ How are people routing PCIe 5.0 risers for 3–4 cards without signal integrity issues?
∙ Any slots dropping to 4.0 at length, and does it matter for inference workloads?
∙ Specific off-the-shelf frames people are happy with? I can fabricate but don’t have time to, and would rather buy.
Build so far
∙ ASUS WRX90E-SAGE SE
∙ Threadripper PRO 9965WX
∙ 4×64GB DDR5 ECC (Kingston KSM64R52BD4-64HA) — considering adding another 256GB now while this exact SKU is available
∙ SilverStone HELA 2500W PSU — will likely need a second or a 3000W depending on card count
∙ Water-cooled CPU, stack of Noctua fans
Environment
Dedicated basement space. Main concerns: dust, heat, long-term power draw. I’m an electrician so the wiring side is handled.
Use case
Automating my electrical contracting business (QuickBooks, Notion, field ops) and some hobby/potential AI side ventures. Three-year horizon on Blackwell — when Rubin drops and it’s feasible, I plan to upgrade, which should also cut heat load meaningfully. That’s part of why Workstation Edition resale value matters to me now.
Paths I’m weighing
1. All Workstation Editions, 3–4 cards in an open frame
2. Switch Monday’s card to Max-Q, sell my current Workstation, run all Max-Q
3. Keep current Workstation, buy next two as Max-Q
4. Cap at 3 Workstation cards, jump to Rubin at launch
Thanks in advance for any input on any of it!
Thought I had invented something cool that required sovereignty from an LLM webapp. Yup, I got caught up in Ai insanity.
Thought I could host Ai locally by building my product myself from scratch. But as reality set in, and I finally escaped the AI delusion, I now have a P8 that really is of no use to me that I can think of. I'm looking to the community for some guidance.
This is it: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-series/thinkstation-p8-workstation/len102s0017
Practical skills? I mean, I can work with tech, but I do not code or know a language. I'm an early old head who retired early. Last time I coded was Visual Basic. I developed what turned out to be a massive tech product in a Fortune 500 two decades ago, but I spent most of my life in sales because I wanted to get out of the office and I was good at explain the tech at the time.
I was hoping to see if I could supplement some income by using the power of this machine by maybe helping small businesses or something that would not be so full of corporate bullshit of which I've left behind. I don't want fiverr work. I was thinking my advantage is power of the machine, working locally, having vast business experience, and being discrete. Not a brand business with webpage but a person who works the sales process themselves and sells the services quietly.
I'm probably not going to learn a coding language now. It's 2026 so I could work with an LLM model to code light things, but I'd be more suitable to stacking existing tools to create a process. What kind of process? I don't know.
I know I can sell the P8, and I probably will, but these P8s are not cheap, and they have a demand. To me demand = opportunity. I want to think of things to use it to make me regular money over a one time payout.
Open to all ideas. Think in terms of one person, retired, pretty much hates LinkedIn life but did it for a long time, still has a little game left, would rather work with smaller local clients than the corporates. How can I help the small business owner identify and create efficiencies so they can get ahead? That kind of thing feels right but again, open to all ideas.
Thanks for reading. Sorry for the novel.
I recently moved into a new place and I’m looking to switch from dual desk-mounted monitor arms to wall-mounted arms for better stability and the ability to run cables in-wall for a cleaner setup.
From what I’ve seen, triple wall-mounted options seem pretty limited—and the ones that do exist look kind of flimsy.
Has anyone here tried running three separate single wall-mounted arms instead? If so, how did it turn out in terms of stability and overall look?
I’d also appreciate any recommendations on mounts that have worked well for you. Thanks!
Hiya, I’m Abacus of FooseyRhode and I’m really excited to share my desk with y’all!
This is my mostly-complete workstation at my job as an ASIC Repair specialist(soldering/rework and electronic stuff). The bosses let me do almost anything I wanted, so it’s somewhat eccentric.
Honorable mentions at my setup:
- Overhead cable trays.
- Digital Microscope, rail mounted.
- The Heatgun Glory Hole.
- Soldering iron suspended by pulleys.
- The Quad-table-top fans (Fan Deck)
I wanted to post a video because there’s so much going on here, but rule 3. I’m happy to answer questions if anyone has any though!
Thought I'd share a DIY project for a flexible drop down workstation.. Largely copying the Droptop Duo, except without whatever specially engineered hinges they have.
1m wide piano hinge 1.5mm thick, with two bolts secured with a T nut from the underside of the top to take extra load off the hinge. Made with 25mm Baltic Birch plywood so screw holds incredibly well, and with channels routed into the back. Front is a magnetic chalkboard for my daughter to play with when packed away.
For anyone thinking of it, it's actually pretty easy just requires a bit of planning to ensure it's strong enough re; materials etc. This is super solid and I plan to use it as my desk twice a week, and my wife will use it as her art desk. Room doubles as a play room now for our toddler and our spare room for visitors.
I made a fun makerspace for the family. The cables are very tidy but the shelves do stay a bit cluttered with various supplies. Taking these pictures made me realize that it is a bit chaotic...
More pics below:
I use the same desk for spreadsheets all day and gaming at night, and it started making everything feel like work. Constantly moving my keyboard and chair around was getting old too.
I grabbed this flowlift monitor arm recently, and it actually helped a lot. During the day the screen stays front and center, and when I'm done working I just swing it off to the side for gaming. Takes two seconds.
Hey guys need a bit of setup help, new to this
so i’ve got a gaming PC with dual monitors, but i also code a lot on my mac for work. WFH has been kinda messy lately
i was thinking of plugging my mac into the monitors via HDMI (one of them doesn’t have displayport), but my main confusion is — how do i use the same keyboard + mouse across both my PC and mac?
i keep switching between systems/monitors a lot, so don’t wanna keep juggling inputs. worst case i do have a spare wireless kb + mouse for the mac, but that’s just gonna add clutter on the desk
any clean way to set this up? what do you guys use?👀
I completely removed everything from the desk, wiped it all dock, installed cable management wherever I could and got a new cordless rechargeable lamp, indoor plant monitor riser, notebook etc.
M5 MacBook Air 24gb 1tb
AMD Ryzen 5700x 32gb ram, RTX 3070 GPU
2x Dell S3220DGF 1440p curved monitors
Love to hear what you guys think of my workspace?
(I know the desk is too small but thats a plan for further in the future)