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Mine's on top my desk. I don't like how much desk space it takes up, but it easier to keep clean this way. I have a cat, so dust and fur build up fast.
floor, you just need to vacuum more often.
my cat once puke from the top of the case inside some top ventilations, I think it make short circuit my 970 at the time, or maybe it was coincidence, it have puke all over it, but the guarantee covered it luckily.
my cat once puke from the top of the case inside some top ventilations, I think it make short circuit my 970 at the time, or maybe it was coincidence, it have puke all over it, but the guarantee covered it luckily.
I'm noticing that nobody uses Keyboard/Mouse support like this anymore, for some reason I thought it was still common lol
this was popular because CRTs would take so much space, nowadays you can just position the monitor a little further back and have the keyboard easily in front of it
Well, it's a journey. Mine started out on the floor, but I eventually moved it to my desktop. I'm currently considering putting it back on the floor again. I have an old skateboard I'll never use again and I'm thinking of putting the PC on that. Not sure if this is a good idea or if the cat will attempt to skate away with it one day.
On a floor under the desk. It's a big Full Tower case (can't stand tiny PC cases, such a pain to work in), and it's sitting on a raised platform to avoid the carpet.
What really surprised me is the amount of people that still have carpet floors in 2021... Is this an US thing? Maybe because of the climate? I think it's been close to 20 years that I haven't seen a carpet floor here in Brazil..
Until earlier this week I had a Cooler Master Masterbox Q300P which I kept on the floor. It has rubber handles on each corner which lift it up a couple of inches. However, despite looking really nice it was loud and not great for airflow, so I replaced it with a Fractal Design Focus G which is now on my desk.
At least where I live, in apartments on higher floors it's a requirement (noise reduction I guess).
Used to have it on an end table under the desk, but now store it on top as I needed to move some furniture and get rid of that end table.
Also it's a standing desk and wire mgmt is so much easier not requiring extra slack to account for the constant stretch and pull of lifting and lowering the desk. With the PC on the desktop, I can manage the cabling much cleaner as the movement no longer impacts any of it.
Also it's a standing desk and wire mgmt is so much easier not requiring extra slack to account for the constant stretch and pull of lifting and lowering the desk. With the PC on the desktop, I can manage the cabling much cleaner as the movement no longer impacts any of it.
In the 90s a "desktop PC" was:
If it was a tower then it was a tower PC, no? And people shoved that tower under their desk.
If it was a tower then it was a tower PC, no? And people shoved that tower under their desk.
I have mine on the floor under my desk. I wouldn't want that huge thing (Fractal Design Define R4) anywhere else.
On my desk. I have a motorized standing desk with a cable management tray and power strip mounted underneath, so the cables move up and down with the desk and I never have any cable clutter or issues with cables being unplugged due to the desk
plus, I have carpet so I prefer having it away from dust / dog hair etc
plus, I have carpet so I prefer having it away from dust / dog hair etc
Because I have a full sized tower I have it on the bottom shelf of my desk. It's actually so big that I had to remove the sliding keyboard part of my desk since the PC tower has a weird strange angle to it that would hit that sliding keyboard part. So Instead of removing the top of the tower the keyboard thing had to go.
I do keep stuff on top of my desk though, until the last 2 months I kept both my Xbox 360 and PS4 on top of my desk, but now that I have a PS5 and XSX, I have the PS5 at the top of my desk because of its width and I keep the XSX on the bottom near my PC tower.
Another good reason why I have it like this is because I have a lot of physical PS4 games and it's just a lot easier to insert them like this compared to my XSX, where I don't really have any physical Xbox games and plan to play mostly digital stuff. The other issue is that I would use the XSX for multi media stuff but I switched over to the PS5 since I ended up purchasing the multi media remote for it. What are some good XSX multi media remotes?
Even though there is no need for it, I would like to at some point to install a 4K Blu-ray drive into my PC. I use to have a Windows multi media HP remote and IR sensor but I threw that out years ago not thing about how useful that might actually be.
Even if I got a newer bigger deal I would still keep the PC tower in the bottom shelf, I've even seen some pictures of people with ATX towers that are on the top shelf above their monitor, that just doesn't seem safe especially since they have a glass side panel.
I do keep stuff on top of my desk though, until the last 2 months I kept both my Xbox 360 and PS4 on top of my desk, but now that I have a PS5 and XSX, I have the PS5 at the top of my desk because of its width and I keep the XSX on the bottom near my PC tower.
Another good reason why I have it like this is because I have a lot of physical PS4 games and it's just a lot easier to insert them like this compared to my XSX, where I don't really have any physical Xbox games and plan to play mostly digital stuff. The other issue is that I would use the XSX for multi media stuff but I switched over to the PS5 since I ended up purchasing the multi media remote for it. What are some good XSX multi media remotes?
Even though there is no need for it, I would like to at some point to install a 4K Blu-ray drive into my PC. I use to have a Windows multi media HP remote and IR sensor but I threw that out years ago not thing about how useful that might actually be.
Even if I got a newer bigger deal I would still keep the PC tower in the bottom shelf, I've even seen some pictures of people with ATX towers that are on the top shelf above their monitor, that just doesn't seem safe especially since they have a glass side panel.
My tower is that big that I had to remove this partI'm noticing that nobody uses Keyboard/Mouse support like this anymore, for some reason I thought it was still common lol
rather have more space on my desk and more space in my room instead of getting a really wide desk
Floor, I already think it's noisy enough as it is (it was better when new, now the fan sounds profile are a little on the rough side), it would drive me mad if it was on the desk (I also don't have space on the desk).
It may be different if I had a carpet but I would probably still don't like to have it near my ears.
It may be different if I had a carpet but I would probably still don't like to have it near my ears.
My room when I lived with my parents was literally a closet, so I didn't have space to do that. My dad made me an awesome L-desk to make the most of the space I had and it has a dedicated cubbyhole for my PC, and I'm still using it in my apartment.
My PC's in the living room right now, and I don't want to put it back just to take a better picture, but here's one showing off my new case's insanely bright RBG shit.
My PC's in the living room right now, and I don't want to put it back just to take a better picture, but here's one showing off my new case's insanely bright RBG shit.
No, I built my desk from an ikea desktop and then did custom legs with black iron pipe specifically so I could have a shelf built into the legs that it sits on.Yeah, it's close to the ground, but I went with a pretty large case and didn't want to have it on my desktop, would've been huge.
Absolutely not. Why would I want spinning fans in a place where I can more easily hear them?
I put my PC on my desk for a hot minute about a decade ago when I was one of those people who wanted to show off my gaudy LED fans and lightstrips. These days my tower is filled with ugly beige Noctua fans, and built not to draw attention to itself.
I put my PC on my desk for a hot minute about a decade ago when I was one of those people who wanted to show off my gaudy LED fans and lightstrips. These days my tower is filled with ugly beige Noctua fans, and built not to draw attention to itself.