Finished product first. The rain effect through the RAM and the power cables looks so damn nice.

What it's like to sit in the chair.

Right in the middle is a 45" ultrawide LG OLED, mounted on an arm. My own personal IMAX. I play a lot of first person shooters and the sense of immersion in a pitch black room is hard to describe. The keyboard is a Logitech G915X TKL. Brushed aluminium and white mechanical keys tie the silver and white theme, and it's very minimal. This is a gaming PC, there's not much spreadsheeting going on here. The mouse is a Logitech G Pro X Superlight. It feels like I'm using motion controls. It's fast and responsive and matches the keyboard. The only drawback of these two peripherals is that I have the original versions of each - that means Micro-USB charging. I can't justify spending hundreds of dollars just yet on replacing my KB+M just because they're the only non USB-C devices left in my house. *side eye*

Added a Litra Beam LX light bar in 2025. Love it for screen synced bias lighting at the rear, and the front lights up of course of when streaming happens. Main webcam is a MX Brio 4K, and there's a C922 mounted on my sim rig, pointed at the pedals.

Steelseries Nova Pro X Wireless. Big sound, but strong noise cancelling to cut out the subtle hum of all those case fans. The hot swappable batteries (yeah, you get two) are the best feature I've seen in a headset - once I hear that low battery beep I can take the heaphones off, remove the flat battery, take the fresh one out of the base station, and slot it in. There is an 8 second buffer without the battery, so I don't even have to turn the headphones back on. I haven't had to plug them into anything unless there's a firmware update, and the Bluetooth lets me pair with the turntable in another room for when I want to hear some vinyl. Had to change the earpads due to age - I've had these for years and they're too good to replace.

G560 speakers provide good thumpyness for when there's more than one of us in the room, and they provide screen synced bias lighting out to the side of the monitor. The sound is good enough to really fill the room, but I'd always like a bit more treble to balance out all that bass. 95% of the time I'm wearing my headset so if this was a dealbreaker for me I'd need my head checked. The light bulb in the room is LIFX, so I can change the light's white balance, brightness, and even colour from the PC or by yelling at the Google Home.

Stream Deck for PC monitoring, as well as other stuff like showing battery levels, controlling my smart lights, OBS, and Discord soundboards for trolling my server. The convenience of this thing while gaming is insane - no need to tab out of a game to do anything. I have a button to set all the lights in my house to green, so that delivery drivers can find my place easier. The software isn't phenomenal by any stretch, but once it's set up you can save your layouts so there's less mucking around later on. Plus it's a clock. 9/10. Boo is there to cheer me on while constantly miss life-or-death jumps in Destiny.

Proof I don't just buy Logitech! The latest addition to the setup is a HyperX Quadcast 2 S mic, replacing a Blue Yeti. Mounted on a Rode PSA-2 boom arm. The Yeti mounted pretty badly on this arm, and the shock mount was so big that combined with the size of the mic itself, it was constantly getting in my vision after I upgraded to the ultrawide monitor. So after years of loving the Yeti's sound, I went for something a little slimmer. Plus, look at that shock mount. I paid the extra for the 2S because I didn't want a red light in my face while streaming, and I can change the colour to white. Love this thing.

Shiny.

Had to re-seat the GPU about 5 times, troubleshooting when the system wouldn't POST when it was in the vertical bracket. I've since set PCIE to that slot to 3.0 and my replacement Gen 4 riser is in the mail.

3080 Ti.

Detail shot of the internals.

Here's the other half of the setup, a VR sim racing rig.

The wheel base is a Thrustmaster T300 Alcantara, on a Next Level Racing frame and with Fanatec loadcell pedals. VR Headset as well, it's the best. I've got the Trustmaster TH8A shifter for those V8Supercar races, and I changed the shift knob to a Sparco sports shifter. If a random bag of money just happened to fall out of the sky, I'd upgrade the HTC Vive to a PSVR2, and get a fancy direct drive wheel. I haven't driven in any enduros or competitive races in quite a while so it's not a priority. There's also a second wireless keyboard for this rig so that I can change car setups and such without having to constantly get out of the seat. Yes, it's Logitech... the K400 Plus. It has a trackpad too!

Obligatory CPU shot. Friends don't let friends buy Intel.

That's some thicc RAM. 32GBs of Corsair.

Rear cable management. Took me a couple hours to neaten everything and wire all the RGB controllers (there's three)

Build complete. This shot was taken just before I put the case back together and booted it up for the first time.