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I've never had or wanted a PC case on my desk. I've got a pretty big desk but with dual monitors and speakers I'd rather have as much space as I can get. I just built a new PC using a Phanteks Evolv X case and it sits under the desk on an old wooden chopping board to keep it off the Persian rug my desk sits on, the subwoofer sits
I built this PC at the start of January and I just cleaned the front dust filter for the first time and there was hardly any dust on it. I just gave it a quick wipe down and all is good.
I built this PC at the start of January and I just cleaned the front dust filter for the first time and there was hardly any dust on it. I just gave it a quick wipe down and all is good.
I wish I had enough desk space to raise it up from the floor because it's a stunning looking build, maybe when I move to a bigger place.
Using any keyboard on a desk without that keyboard tray is physically uncomfortable for me, I don't know how people do it. I have to have the keyboard as low and close to my waist as possible. I want to be further from my desk, not closer.I'm noticing that nobody uses Keyboard/Mouse support like this anymore, for some reason I thought it was still common lol
I'm noticing that nobody uses Keyboard/Mouse support like this anymore, for some reason I thought it was still common lol
My desk has one of these built in and I hate it. I play FPS games and it restricts my mouse area. Right now I hang my keyboard off the side slightly to maximize space. Though getting a keyboard without the numpad would help, but I use it often outside of gaming.
It's in my living room with the rest of my gaming stuff. There's things I appreciate about gaming on a monitor with mouse and keyboard, but nothing I want to play really necessitates that and the couch setup with controller is super nice.
Under my desk but I have it sitting on a board I bought from home depot for $5 so it's not on top of the carpet
On my desk but I don't have the option to put it on the floor, but I've got a big desk it's ok. Mostly due to needing access to rear ports where a hub won't work. Also my vr setup/pulley system was set up with it on the desk. Would rather it be on the floor though!
My desk is pretty large, so I can fit it without losing much real estate. Plus the legroom is really cut off with it on the floor.
Under my desk but I have it sitting on a board I bought from home depot for $5 so it's not on top of the carpet
Is this decision what inspired you to include the word "floor" in the name of your bombastic zombie killing game?
Can't you move the mouse/keyboard to the desk (if there's enough space)?
I'm moving and bought a desk with this support, but I'll try to not use it and see how it goes.
Having carpet flooring is a pretty rare thing where I'm from so I never thought about that being the reason some people don't have it on the floor. Makes a little more sense now. My room gets pretty dusty though so I have to clean it quite often.
I've tried it, but the height of the desk is higher than I'd like, so I'd have to raise my chair, but then I'd be higher off the ground than I'd like.
This is a nice desk, but its not great for gaming. Not sure if I just want to live with it or not. At the moment I turn my mousepad vertical, and have about 11 inches of horizonal mouse space. A smaller keyboard will give me a few more inches to work with.
On Desk:
- Front panel has manual fan adjustment so I can just reach out for it to turn it on for gaming. I can probably do so if it was under my desk but still more fiddling.
- I need to take out hard drives sometimes. Not often, but often enough that I can see what I'm doing by just removing the side panel and no need for bending down on all fours etc.
- same thing with usb sticks and usb CD drives. No need to bend down etc. Not a big issue with some cases that have the ports on the top of the case if it was on the floor.
- troubleshooting - once had some hard drive trouble and fidgeted around with different sata cables etc. Can't imagine the extra chore of doing it in an awkward position.
- To clean I like to use compressed air blower, I just take the side panel off and go to town (wear a mask obviously). Same with removing case dust panels and cleaning them.
- I like looking at the case and this is just a basic case with no fancy RGB.
- Front panel has manual fan adjustment so I can just reach out for it to turn it on for gaming. I can probably do so if it was under my desk but still more fiddling.
- I need to take out hard drives sometimes. Not often, but often enough that I can see what I'm doing by just removing the side panel and no need for bending down on all fours etc.
- same thing with usb sticks and usb CD drives. No need to bend down etc. Not a big issue with some cases that have the ports on the top of the case if it was on the floor.
- troubleshooting - once had some hard drive trouble and fidgeted around with different sata cables etc. Can't imagine the extra chore of doing it in an awkward position.
- To clean I like to use compressed air blower, I just take the side panel off and go to town (wear a mask obviously). Same with removing case dust panels and cleaning them.
- I like looking at the case and this is just a basic case with no fancy RGB.
No it's too imposing on my small desk and I like having my monitor centred. It's on the floor under my desk.
Hell no. My tower is fucking huge and it would block off so much view (also my desk and computer is standing in my living room besides my TV board and the TV).
I have a big desk and it's still too small so putting up that tower wouldn't help at all. So it stands on wooden floor under my desk.
I have a big desk and it's still too small so putting up that tower wouldn't help at all. So it stands on wooden floor under my desk.
My desk is huge and i modified it years ago with an even larger board, on top of that, my 2 cats basically live in my room so the floor gets filled with their fur easily, so i have my PC tower installed in a corner of my desk (and i still have room for 2 monitors and stuff)
i always put my PC on something, usually my table. I've got 2 reasons for that:
1. when i was a kid, we had a pipe burst at night, and i woke up to see my flip flops floating about 10cm above the floor. so since then i try not put put things on the floor. only things on the floor are my shoes, and my dog's beds.
2. easy access. since i lived in a time, where disks were needed to be changed a lot (first the big floppy ones, then the small ones, then CDs, then DVDs), and then I needed access to the USB ports (college homework is so infuriating), i wasn't in the mind of bending down. i was lazy.
3. ok, so 3 reasons: i used to tinker with my PC a lot. it means that i opened the case many times, and put cards in and out every now and then. having it laying on the round doesn't help at all
4. i meant 4. 4 reasons: airflow. i'm used to put the PC where nothing obstructs the airflow, and it can cool itself better.
1. when i was a kid, we had a pipe burst at night, and i woke up to see my flip flops floating about 10cm above the floor. so since then i try not put put things on the floor. only things on the floor are my shoes, and my dog's beds.
2. easy access. since i lived in a time, where disks were needed to be changed a lot (first the big floppy ones, then the small ones, then CDs, then DVDs), and then I needed access to the USB ports (college homework is so infuriating), i wasn't in the mind of bending down. i was lazy.
3. ok, so 3 reasons: i used to tinker with my PC a lot. it means that i opened the case many times, and put cards in and out every now and then. having it laying on the round doesn't help at all
4. i meant 4. 4 reasons: airflow. i'm used to put the PC where nothing obstructs the airflow, and it can cool itself better.
I have a chonky monolith type case. I don't want that shit on my desk.
Electronics generally look garish, especially gaming stuff. Most PCs aren't something I would want to display prominently in my home. Seeing all those LED monstrosities always makes me wince.
But hey, you do you.
Electronics generally look garish, especially gaming stuff. Most PCs aren't something I would want to display prominently in my home. Seeing all those LED monstrosities always makes me wince.
But hey, you do you.
Yup, i can't stop my cats from sleeping on it when it's on (heated flat surface, can't be helped for these lil' fuckers). So at least, on the desk, i can shoo them off if need be. And it would be on the carpet otherwise, and no thanks for the amount of dust it would collect that way.
Floor, I have a decent sized desk with dual monitors and like the look with minimal clutter. Gone are the days of having all of my boxed games neatly arranged on the deskš
It's on carpet but I keep it clean. It does have a noisy PSU and thought it would be quieter on carpet rather than wood but I think I'll see if that makes any difference.
It's on carpet but I keep it clean. It does have a noisy PSU and thought it would be quieter on carpet rather than wood but I think I'll see if that makes any difference.
I heard about the recall on the H1. Did you get the replacement screws?