I'm in the same boat - I've been using the same desk for ... 11? 12? years now, made out of ~1/2" (~1.3 cm) MDF, and the main pieces are starting to sag, in spite of support braces under the front and back.
I know what I want - but I cannot find anyone who makes exactly what I want without adding frills that I don't care for or else missing one or 2 key features. at this point I'm tempted to basically build one on my own, contracting a carpenter to make the tabletops for me and getting my own legs and such to put it all together. Biggest issue is that I want to move away from MDF and get it made out of real wood, making it nice, heavy, and sturdy.
Once I find someone to make the desk tops, then I can gather the other pieces and build it myself.
It's now 15 years old, and I'm still using it LMFAO.
Externally, my rig and setup still look the same, albeit a bit cleaned up (but just a bit lol).Last year I did SSD upgrades, added the RTX 3080 'Tie', and added to my repertoire of monitors.
Please pardon my progress - It's been a few months since I cleaned it lol.
Glass on
Glass off
The new AIO (Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 RGB) I bought necessitated the removal of the Blu-Ray burner from the machine. Also, I opted this time to not use built-in fan hub on the case (Fractal Design Define 7 XL Dark - see top right of second pic), and instead routed power cables for everything where it should be - since the Liquid Freezer allows you to do it in an all in one connection, or split (separating fans, A-RGB, and pump), and my mobo has all three types of connections built on it.
It means I was able to skim out a lot of excess wiring, and it is a bit cleaner inside (from the front) but massively cleaner behind the tray (this is during assembly, and still not final - since I'm taking it apart again today, I'll get the final look both powered off and powered on in a while and post):
![PXL_20240428_202016249.RAW-01.COVER.jpg PXL_20240428_202016249.RAW-01.COVER.jpg](https://www.elevenforum.com/data/attachments/95/95313-38159e7e2f48c5ca73794fafd88ad5be.jpg?hash=OBWefi9Ixc)
![PXL_20240428_202048853.RAW-01.COVER.jpg PXL_20240428_202048853.RAW-01.COVER.jpg](https://www.elevenforum.com/data/attachments/95/95314-9399ac72d478b1fb133ca054f4a4f59d.jpg?hash=k5msctR4sf)
I need to replace my desk as well. I mentioned way back but it's ½" MDF and sags a bit there in the middle.
I've got a ton of wood left over from when I had my back deck extended and enclosed, so I was looking at this as an alternative base to start with, as I really want to keep with an L-shaped desk, and building the desk on top of that:
But I'm not a power tools kinda guy, anything beyond simple drilling and screw driving and I need someone else's help lol.
My bf from HS has started doing woodworking on his own, and I've been talking with him about some desks he made for his house, to get an idea if my scrap wood might be of service to make a decent-enough desktop mimicking the one below to put on the riser I want to get.
Also, the (second) replacement Wi-Fi + BT card arrived Thursday, 5 days sooner than estimated, so I'll be taking this down again and installing it and trying it out.
Fingers crossed!
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 23H2 Current build
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HomeBrew
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
- Motherboard
- MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE
- Memory
- 4 * 32 GB - Corsair Vengeance 3600 MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING (12G-P5-3955-KR)
- Sound Card
- Realtek® ALC1220 Codec
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2x Eve Spectrum ES07D03 4K Gaming Monitor (Matte) | Eve Spectrum ES07DC9 4K Gaming Monitor (Glossy)
- Screen Resolution
- 3x 3840 x 2160
- Hard Drives
- 3x Samsung 980 Pro NVMe PCIe 4 M.2 2 TB SSD (MZ-V8P2T0B/AM) } 3x Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1 TB SSD (USB)
- PSU
- PC Power & Cooling’s Silencer Series 1050 Watt, 80 Plus Platinum
- Case
- Fractal Design Define 7 XL Dark ATX Full Tower Case
- Cooling
- Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 RGB + Air 3x 140mm case fans (pull front) + 1x 120 mm (push back) and 1 x 120 mm (pull bottom)
- Keyboard
- SteelSeries Apex Pro Wired Gaming Keyboard
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3S | MX Master 3 for Business
- Internet Speed
- AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex Ftth
- Browser
- Nightly (default) + Firefox (stable), Chrome, Edge , Arc
- Antivirus
- Defender + MB 5 Beta
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- Operating System
- ChromeOS Flex Dev Channel (current)
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Latitude E5470
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2501 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
- Motherboard
- Dell
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
- Sound Card
- Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 + RealTek Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell laptop display 15"
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 * 1080
- Hard Drives
- Toshiba 128GB M.2 22300 drive
INTEL Cherryville 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SATA III SSD
- PSU
- Dell
- Case
- Dell
- Cooling
- Dell
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3S (shared w. Sys 1) | Dell TouchPad
- Keyboard
- Dell
- Internet Speed
- AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex Ftth