My Setup of my Systems :)
Hi there,
well, let me say this first, i'm not dual-boxing like you guys.
I'm posting my setup and configuration here, because i think maybe you will get some tips/hints from my hardware arrangements.
I hope I'm not posting this into the wrong part of the forum.
Let me intoduce me first:
I'm a 27 year old student at a university in Germany and i'm studying information & technology science. So as a student i have a limited budget per month.
I'm working in my freetime on several pc's at the same time.
My pc hardware consists of 3 workstations and 2 server.
On all 3 workstations i'm using dual-screen solutions for more desktop space, so i'm working on 6 monitors at the same time.
I got 4x 22" tft's and 2 old 17" crt's (like i said i'm a student with limited budget), so the 2 old 17" crt's will be changed in a few weeks to tft's as well.
The problem was to arrange those 6 monitors in a cheep and usefull way, without moving my body to much. ^^
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That was the first arrangement i've done. I know the image quality is poor, i did it with my cellphone-cam.
Well it was nice, but it didn't really satisfied me, so i was looking for a better solution to arrange them in a 2x 3 matrix row.
So the next step was to find a good desk-stand for my 4 (6) tft's. I found a couple of company's who sold those solutions like Ergotron as it was mentioned in a few posts before, but all those solutions was to expensive for my limited budget. For example Ergotron Quad-Desk-Stand costs here in Germany round about 310-350 euro with a shipping time of 4-6 weeks, but thats only for 4 tft's, so that i have to bought another one for the other too. All together it would have costs me ~600 euro's. That was way to much for me as a student. Wallmounts also are no use for me because the wall behind my desk is made of fire protection materials. A weight of >1kg(!!!!) will fall down after attaching, also re-positioning with other screen size are limited with wallmounts. Deskmounts are variable and the best solution for re-positioning
Well i thought there must be a more cheeper and similar solution and i found one.
I draw a small and simple design on a paper for 3 deskstands, each deskstands will hold 2 monitors.I went to an engine builder and showed him my drawings and said to him that it should hold a complete weight of round about 15kg (each monitor has a weight of ~5-6kg). He said no problem easy task. When i'm asking him of the price for all 3 deskstands he said to me 120 euro! Well that was great, because it was less than 1/4 of that what i would have payed for those ready build deskstands from Ergotron or other companys.
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After one and a half week they were ready and i picked them up.
Thats the result of my simple idea:
As you can see on the pictures it is a simple steel work solution, but it is rock-solid. I can move every attachment up and down.
The foot is a 250x250mm steelplate. The attatched bar is 900mm long with a wide of 20x20mm. The monitor plates got a size of 150x150mm and the holes are normed by "Vesa100". That means the distance between each hole are 100x100mm.
3. Attaching the monitors:
They fitting perfectly as you can see on the pictures but i got only a smal problem while attatching them to the deskstands.
The top 2 22" tft's got a thicker border at the bottom than the top border of the bottom 2 22" tft's. So i have to attach the bottom tft a bit more in the front than the top one. Well easy solution again i ended up to put a few steel spacer between monitor and backplane. It fits perfectly again
4. After installing all 4 tft's to the deskstands here's the finished solution:
Like i said the two old crt's on the left side will be replaced in a few weeks too (limited budger), that's where the third deskstand is used for.
The selfmade deskstands are really rocksolid i think they can hold screens up to 24-26". With a thicker steelbar and a bigger foot plate there should be no limit but it is much cheeper if you have limited budget like me.
The other thing i would like to mention is my desk. Well at first i was looking for a big and stable desk that uses most of my space between the wall and my cupboard. I visited several stores but none of them really satisfied me again. Some of them was not deep/wide enough or other's were to expensive. Stores for office equipment where mostly to expensive for me so i thought about a cheeper solution again.
As you can see on the pictures the solution i used are simple and easy. I'm using a "working-plate", bought at the hardware-store/Home Depot hardware store for 70 euro, attatched with simple aluminium foot's. Those plates are normaly used for the kitchen but they are solid and heavy. You can order them in any length with a max depth of 120cm. So no worries about not used up space in the corner of the room
That's it for now. I hope i could give you same advices and ideas for arranging and building those kind of setup in an other way. Especially for those who have limited budget like me
Kim
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