My 5-boxing rig in my newly built gamingroom

[cepheus]

Hello. I'm fairly new to this forum, so for a short presentation Im a 5-boxer from norway who startet boxing when TBC released. I now have a lvl 70 protection paladin and 4 priests (holynuke or shadow, depending on what I'm doing)

My first rig when I leveled up was just a bunch of pc's, screens and wireless keyboard recivers. Now I have had a 5 months break from wow since I have moved into a new house and done some interiour-reworking. Here I have made a brand new office/playroom where I'm going to build my new multibox rig.

Here is what I have done so far:

My new selfbuilt office:
http://ts.fh-guild.com/IM000019.JPG

Some of the eqipment I'm going to use
http://ts.fh-guild.com/IMAGE_011.jpg

Rig for mounting the monitors:
http://ts.fh-guild.com/IMAGE_013_.jpg

One more with some monitors mounted:

http://ts.fh-guild.com/IMAGE_015.jpg

Mostly finnished :
http://ts.fh-guild.com/mb/IM000026.JPG

[caldvn]

Looking good.

Can't wait to see more!

Ditto. Just a headsup, see if you can route the pc in another room or find a way to vent the heat and noise away. :)

[Bradster]

You had me at wood finish

Man I can all ready tell this is going to look great. Please keep use updating was your process with the build *Thumbs up.

[Rhod]

Very very nice! Love the wood! Can't wait to see the finished product....nice job.

[Wilbur]

Tounge & Groove ftw.

[cepheus]

Thanks for all the feedback and support :D

I've added another picture with some monitors mounted. As you can see on the far right monitor, I missplaced the mount a bit so It wont push all the way back. Guess I fix it tomorrow. I'm also going to switch one of the monitors to match the other to get perfect symetry :P





Ditto. Just a headsup, see if you can route the pc in another room or find a way to vent the heat and noise away. :)

Both walls you can see at that picture is leading outdoors, so thats a bit hard. However when I'm going to rework my livingroom in the 2nd floor, I might make a little closet for all the machines there. Then I can just pull the cables through the ceiling. I doubt this will be before next year though

[caldvn]

Both walls you can see at that picture is leading outdoors, so thats a bit hard. However when I'm going to rework my livingroom in the 2nd floor, I might make a little closet for all the machines there. Then I can just pull the cables through the ceiling. I doubt this will be before next year though

What I do notice is that you can possibly, create a exhaust vent (with fan) out the side of your house. and contain the pcs in that area to blow heat out. Air through front of the pcs, hot air out the back into the vent outside the house.

In my case, I ran all the wires under the carpet to my closet, then wired up a fan off the top of the closet to blow all the hot air up into the attic, while the cool air was sucked from the gap under the door. This improved the temperature of my room incredibly and the computers are as cool if not better then all the heat trapped in the room.

[Xzin]

Nice setup. I second the "blow heat outside" idea. It is easier than cooling it and your heat sources (computers) tend to be clustered together. Blow that outside - MUCH cheaper than trying to counteract it through A/C.

[beyond-tec]

damn

this is sooo cool.

I've thought several times about building my own rack but I'm not that good in such things :)

thank you for sharing and plz keep us updated.

[cepheus]

Both walls you can see at that picture is leading outdoors, so thats a bit hard. However when I'm going to rework my livingroom in the 2nd floor, I might make a little closet for all the machines there. Then I can just pull the cables through the ceiling. I doubt this will be before next year though

What I do notice is that you can possibly, create a exhaust vent (with fan) out the side of your house. and contain the pcs in that area to blow heat out. Air through front of the pcs, hot air out the back into the vent outside the house.

In my case, I ran all the wires under the carpet to my closet, then wired up a fan off the top of the closet to blow all the hot air up into the attic, while the cool air was sucked from the gap under the door. This improved the temperature of my room incredibly and the computers are as cool if not better then all the heat trapped in the room.

I might do something like that. However I dont need it before next summer. In Norway its starting to get really cold now, and the heat the computers generate is acctually a good thing. It helps keeping the room warm and confertable :D It could be nice to contain the noise though

[cepheus]

damn

this is sooo cool.

I've thought several times about building my own rack but I'm not that good in such things :)

thank you for sharing and plz keep us updated.

It's not that hard when you first get around to start. But you should plan ahead what to do first.

I usually start such projects with my 3d modelling program and draw every piece of wood out there so I know what to do and how the finnished product should look like.

Actually I have drawn my whole house (and yard) in 3D, so I can just add on whatever more I'm building in my drawing.

[TheStender]

You're really starting from scratch, that is awesome. Must have required a fair bit of planning.

And silly norwegians, you're monitors are sideways! ;)

[cepheus]

You're really starting from scratch, that is awesome. Must have required a fair bit of planning.

And silly norwegians, you're monitors are sideways! ;)


Hehe.

Actually they're sideways to help me keep a smaller field of view. With this much monitors, you will have trouble getting a glance at all of the.

My plan is to just use the lower half of them for 3d grapics, so they will serve as small widescreens. The upper half will provide chat/mods/hotbars.

I could in theory just use smaller monitors, but since I allready had theese lying around, there was no point in using more money and let them collect dust :)

[Lance]

Looks good I like when people post work in progress pics. :) I only took some of my setup once it was finished. I have the same desk as you and I love it, got tons of room and it is nice and strong.
I built my own monitor mounts as well although different way from how you've done it. I went for free standing type things. I made 3 originally but only use two since I decided to just go for the 1 monitor in the middle.

[TheStender]

I really like that corner wall mount idea.

[Tealuin]

Here I have made a brand new office/playroom where I'm going to build my new multibox rig.



AWESOME!!!!


When my roommate moved out about 1.5 years ago, I decided to turn what was my bedroom in my apartment into the computer lab and took over the smaller room for the sleeping.

Nowhere near the sweat, blood and tears you're putting into your's, but me likey. :D

[Tealuin]

You had me at wood finish



ha ha ... I can see the checklist now for you and when you get into a new place.


[ ] Wood floors
[ ] 30 Mbps down AND up Internet
[ ] Move out of US for the good stuff
[ ] Snow occurs reasonable drive away

:wink:

[Anton145]

Are there coming any updated pictures soon Cepheus?..
:roll:

[cepheus]

Are there coming any updated pictures soon Cepheus?..
:roll:

Updated my first post now, with a picture of my allmost finnished rig :)
I might add another 20" if I find one that matches my other. I dont really need it, but I like symmetry :P

list of some of my eqipment:

4x 17" Acer lcd screen
1x 20" Dell lcd screen(vertical)
1x 30" Dell lcd screen
1x fairly beefy pc
4x older pc's, but they work okay with low graphics settings. I'm going to order better gfx card for them soon.
1x x-keys proffesional for hotkeys
1x x-keys 3-key pedals
2x logitech keyboard (One for normal use, one for my kvm)
2x Mx1000 logitech lasermouse (one fore use, one for charging :P)
1x Signamax 4 port kvm (Only used when I need console, usually I broadcast keystrokes with multibox)

Last but not least: Lots of time building and configuring. I'm still tweaking and guess I will do that some weeks/months in the future, but thats half the fun :)

[Anton145]

Sweet! :o

[Rhod]

Looks Awsome man!! That veritcal monitor is a pretty kewl touch, as Fursphere said. Gives me ideas for when I finish my basement where I will put, as my wife calls it, my "dungeon!" :wink:

[cepheus]

thanks for the feedback guys. The vertical monitor is very nice for webbrowsing. You get a lot more of the page this way. However, I would not reccomend vertical setup on anything less than 20" or you would probably have to scroll sideways on a lot of webpages.

[zanthor]

Personally I'd love to see something like a box with a routable duct for air movement... flip a damper and the air goes outside, flip it the other way and it pumps back into the room.

There is absolutely NO reason to pump that heat outside your house in the winter, pump it into another room maybe, but no reason to let it go! :) You pay for the heat, may as well keep it half the year!

The house I grew up in had ductwork with intake fans in the vaulted ceiling of the living room, so all the heat that rises from the Wood Stove could be blown back into the rest of the house, it worked quite well and our utilities were always rock bottom...

[blackwatch]

That's a really great setup you have there. Makes me feel like a complete slacker, lol.

Very nice.

[Hippieman]

w00t, an another norwegian! /cheer