Hey all! We’d like to start a video series that showcases your rigs/gaming setups in your home. I think one of my favorite places on the internet is /r/battlestations - so many cool setups to see! But no one shows these off in video form. So we’d like to change that.
So do you live in the Pacific Northwest and have a rig/setup you want to show off? Let me know!
Edit: Let me be clear, you don’t need to have an elaborate, crazy setup! Just really needs to look good and be unique to you.
Bitfenix Prodigy Case with aftermarket front grill for cooling
i5 4670
CM Hyper 212 - I actually took the fan off to decrease noise and my temps are fine
Silencer 3 500w PSU - swapped out the fan in this for a quiet noctua one
Gigabyte h87n mini ITX mobo
Asus GTX 770
16 GB crucial RAM
Mushkin Reactor 1 TB SSD
Crucial M4 512GB SSD
2x 3TB Hard drives
Blu ray player
Mini pcie firewire card (for connecting a firewire mixer) - I actually cut a hole in my case to mount these ports since it’s a mini-itx rig
Operating systems: I triple-boot Ubuntu 16.10 (using this as primary OS whenever possible), Mac OS X El Capitan (primarily for music creation purposes) and Windows 10 (for gaming and work)
Peripherals:
Quickfire TK white keyboard
Zowie EC2 mouse
TS Mousepad
Logitech c920 webcam
Creative T12 speakers
Audinst HUD-MX1 DAC / Headphone amp
AKG Q701 monitoring headphones with Antlion Modmic 4.0 (yay for local companies!)
PS4 controller
Android phone dock
HTC vive w/ controllers and room-scale lighthouse boxes
Planned upgrades:
i7 4970k
1080 ti?
4k monitor - 32" if no good 40 inchers come out soon, but 40" preferred
legit studio monitors, electronic drums, behringer x32 mixer
Swapping bed out for futon
Mounting monitor on an arm so that it can be flipped 180 degrees to face the futon for couch gaming, making fun of people playing VR, and connecting the computer to the music creation area
My ‘battlestation’ actually extends to the living room too… I’ll make that a second post.
Since I only have a mobo with a half-size mini PCIe slot I had to get creative to have firewire ports… I have a 1/2 size PCIe to full size PCIe riser card connected with a ribbon cable and attached to the inside of the case with double sided tape. The riser has a full size mini PCIe Firewire card in it, with the ports mounted to the back of the case. I had to dremel a hole in the case to access the ports.
Here is the 1/2 size mini PCIe riser board in my mobo:
The USB cable sticking out of the backplate is actually how my blu ray player connects to the computer… I ran out of SATA ports on the mobo XD
I have the port replicator for the HTC Vive mounted to the desk with velcro so that the giant VR cable is in the middle of the room and the cables are mostly out of the way:
Thanks to steam in home streaming and one very long ethernet cable, I enjoy streaming 106 inches of Rocket League glory to my living room to the Macbook Pro I use as an HTPC:
The desk the computer is on has a bunch of PS4 controllers charging up inside the drawer.
This HTPC computer is connected via a USB extension cable and an HDMI cable to a second workstation area in a room behind the living room. You can see that it’s mirroring the display output going to the projector. This is my wife’s work from home standing desk ‘battlestation’: