Kudane's Office

Kudane · #1 10-22-2004, 06:52 PM

About once a week I end up in a discussion with someone about what my office looks like.

Soooo here ya go a pic!

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What you see.

Left to right..

twin 17" flat screens on a 2.4 gig proccessor with 1gig of ram and a Geforce 5500 video card.

20.1" Flat screen on 2.8 gig processor with 1gig ram and Geforce 6800 GT video card. DvDburner and USB 250 gig external HD (its the glowly blue box).

Farther over you can see my laptop hiding. and then down the front of the desk on the right you will see my Zboard inserts. (doom 3 on top).

calander is the Champions of Norrath that I got from FanFaire in March.

Yes thats a window AC on the left side, the foil covering the glass is to help cut down my AC bill. (wife calls it tacky, but it cut our bill down about 50$ a month)

And of course all the crap on the shelves on the right. (see Firiona Vie up there?)

Sooo there ya go.. Kudane's office..

Kudane

Esperant · #2 10-22-2004, 06:58 PM

yup, you're about as nerdy as I am... Id show you mine but really the only difference is mountains of mountain dew and pizza.

mistium · #3 10-22-2004, 07:00 PM

That is tacky!!!

. You should see the weather vain my husband "elaberately" made. But that is a nifty set-up you got there. When my husband saw that pic he said, "step into my office" haha. I agree. Go Firiona!

Esperant · #4 10-22-2004, 07:02 PM

I think the AC rocks. You go Kudane... you GO!

Kudane · #5 10-22-2004, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mistium

That is tacky!!!

. You should see the weather vain my husband "elaberately" made. But that is a nifty set-up you got there. When my husband saw that pic he said, "step into my office" haha. I agree. Go Firiona!

That foil has been the biggest "debate" with my wife and I. I convinced her to give it a month and our Electric Bill went down by $48, so it stays! hehehe

Kudane · #6 10-22-2004, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esperant

I think the AC rocks. You go Kudane... you GO!

what you dont see is My Wife's computer, our guest computer, and our room-mate's computer...

with 6 computers in here it STAYS hot. the AC was a must...

mistium · #7 10-22-2004, 07:15 PM

So, during the winter all you do is turn them on, hehe, then you'll be warm...

My husband constantly tries to fix the back door. Each time it closes a piece of wood that holds the glass in pops off. So he's out there with a hammer, and duct tape, hammering away. Then he duct tapes it, then arrogently walks inside and says, "if ya can't duck it" you know the rest.

And another thing that bothers me is he brings furniture home that are on other peoples lawns on garbage day. So now I have a ripped up couch that smells like 8 year old musty dog, and he doesn't wanna get rid of it. He patched up a hole on it with a chess board and called it, and I quote "cozy". Plz, somebody help me!

Alluvin · #8 10-22-2004, 07:23 PM

hmm, windows on the computers... Kudane = Geek
3 lcd's with 2 on the same comp...i think i'm in love.

Shaeleene · #9 10-22-2004, 07:24 PM

ROFL i am so glad i am single again....but i do agree with kudane the foil does cut the cost of the electric bill, and i do pench pennies on some things so i would leave too regardless of it looking tacky or not

Esperant · #10 10-22-2004, 07:32 PM

its called smart thinking, not tacky.

***Dolby*** · #11 10-22-2004, 07:59 PM

Ok since we are showing off our office spaces...

My Setup

Left:
20.1" Dell FP2001
Logitech Keyboard and MX1000 mouse(updated since picture)
Coolmaster Wavemaster case
IC7-G Motherboard
Intel 3ghz FSB 800mhz cpu (OC'd to 3.4ghz)
Corsair PC3700 4x512(2gb) memory
BFG Geforce 6800GT (OC'd 415/1.08)
Creative Labs Audigy 1
Western Digital 32gb SATA 10krpm Raptor (OS Drive)
Western Digital 200gb PATA 7200 drive
Sony DVD-ROM
Sony DVD+-R

Middle (home server):
17" Solarism
Logitech Keyboard and MX500 mouse
(system not in picture its to far right outside of picture)
Antec Case (Forget model)
Asus PP-DLW (Dual Xeon w/ AGP)
2x 2.4ghz Xeon FSB 533
Corsair PC2700 2x512(1gb) memory
XFX Geforce 5950
Onboard mobo sound
Seagate 200gb 7200 drive
Western Digital 120gb 7200 drive
Western Digital 100gb 7200 drive
Sony CD-RW

Right:
17" Solarism
Genaric keyboard and Micrsoft mouse
Antec Case (Forget Model)
Asus K8V SE
AMD64 3200+
Kingston PC3200 2x512(1gb) memory
PNY Geforce 5900u
Seagate 80gb 7200 drive
Sony DVD-ROM

Then I have a few computers in other rooms of the house, a htpc running mediaportal on my TV, and a dell 8200 laptop. Yes I am a single geek.

The 2 servers for eqi/eq2i are located in professional datacenters.

Sir Taleisin The Seer · #12 10-22-2004, 08:14 PM

very,, uhh, cute

Esperant · #13 10-22-2004, 09:37 PM

instead of muscle cars, society these days have upgraded to rice computers with spoilers...

Henaketh · #14 10-22-2004, 11:23 PM

And don't forget...it keeps the greenies out. LOL

tweakfreak · #15 10-22-2004, 11:36 PM

I'd show mine off too, but you can't see it for the towers of coke cans and ash trays. The corner desk is really nice, gives plenty of room for everything. I have the same desk without the hutch to support my 2 19" monitors (CRT, I really can't even afford the 14" LCD that we sell where I work)

Zual · #16 10-23-2004, 06:21 AM

I have 2 systems too side by side one is a 2.8ghz and the other is a 3.2ghz... have nvidia 6800 GT card in the bigger computer and the ATI radeon 9800pro in the other..

My question to Kudane is, I have been looking at flat screen monitors but I cant seem them being as clearer as the desktop monitors anyone have an opinions on this... also I would like to know what is a decent price for a 17inch flat screen with the Specs... cause I am not really knowing what spec's to look for like dps (dots per second) and other spec's on the flat screen to meet my gaminging needs...

Thanks

Vikan Karo · #17 10-23-2004, 02:31 PM

the only thing a gamer really "needs" to pay attention to on a flat panel monitor

Response time - 16ms or less <--- most important since the higher it is the more smearing you get.

Samsung, Sony and LG have a few in the 500-800$ range. . if thats a lil too out of budget then its imo that you stick with CRT. (hence the reason i still use my 21" IBM P275 crt)

Kudane · #18 10-23-2004, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zual

I have 2 systems too side by side one is a 2.8ghz and the other is a 3.2ghz... have nvidia 6800 GT card in the bigger computer and the ATI radeon 9800pro in the other..

My question to Kudane is, I have been looking at flat screen monitors but I cant seem them being as clearer as the desktop monitors anyone have an opinions on this... also I would like to know what is a decent price for a 17inch flat screen with the Specs... cause I am not really knowing what spec's to look for like dps (dots per second) and other spec's on the flat screen to meet my gaminging needs...

Thanks

Dells 20" flatscreen is an unltrashop image. its is the sharpest image available in a LCD.

You can see the tech specs Here.

both dolby and I have gotten one and I have to tell you CRTs look very blurry in comparrison.

Price Note: Ironically that monitor is on sale for one of the best prices I have seen. when Dolby and I got our the retail was 999.00 and we got on sale for about 700.00

My wife has the 19" LG. and its also very sharp.

***Dolby*** · #19 10-23-2004, 03:36 PM

The Dell FP2001 20.1" LCD is 16ms & native at 1600x1200. One of the few that size that is 16ms and can do 1600x. It's been about $679 for the past few weeks now. The base it sits on is very nice too... its very fluid and sturdy.