My “review” of the stuff since I’m on a trip and counting the days until I get back to it, IKEA Markus chair is definitely **not** “it” if you’re 6’5″ / 195 cm, the base padding is too short to support your legs adequately. It is also prone to building up static so needs to be grounded properly, I got zap’d often. Other than that, it’s fine. I got it based on glowing recommendations online without inquiring about people’s height, my bad.
IKEA desk does its desk duties well, standard dimensions. It holds up two 27″ KTC miniLEDs and the 34″ Dell AW3423DWF. KTC miniLEDs are not very good, they have subpar HDR EOTF tracking at the low end so dark scenes are entirely crushed and KTC is unwilling/unable to address this in firmware updates. sRGB mode is also unreliable for me, but YMMV. I am switching to 16:9 QD-OLEDs. The ultrawide *slaps*, though. I use it freely because of the 3 year burn in warranty.
Box is the NZXT H9 Flow, picked primarily for its dimensions and allegations of sufficient airflow (yes, decent temperatures under full load). Board inside is the ProArt X670E with the most important feature: x8/x8 bifurcated mode to support two 4090s which I use for research, rendering, GI solver implementation testing (I work on online and offline rendering tech, SWE), sometimes ML (strictly for fun). One GPU is air (only 3-slot on the market, also visually controversial) and the other is water cooled, to minimize radiators and tubing. Processor is the 7950X3D, for RAM I swap out slower 192 GB and faster 96 GB depending on my use case, both from Corsair. Got a boatload of SSDs hiding behind the GPUs, around 8 TB. Power supply is BeQuiet’s Dark Power 13 1600 W which I got after making a horrible mistake with the Thermaltake GT3 1650W (broken fan controller, obnoxious noise past 400 W load).
Board leaves me with an upgrade path to the 9950X3D + 2×5090 due to PCIE5 support (currently the 4090s drop them into PCIe4 x8/x8, not much a performance drop in gaming, but it does affect the more intense dual GPU applications, mostly in resource streaming). Threadripper was never a choice because I use it to game as well, and the extra PCIe lanes are not worth the effort.
MBP mostly runs in docked/clam mode, KVM switch via the rightmost monitor. Cable nightmare, though. iPad Pro M2 is largely an overpriced weather and clock paperweight due to Apple neutering/neglecting iPadOS and I regret buying it. Blender/Zbrush/etc on this thing would change my opinion of it, but I am not holding my breath.
Surround is Logitech Z906 going through Asus Xonar. Keyboard is NuPhy Air96 v2, I like it but got it due to a shortage of Halo96. Mouse is a Basilisk, it still works so I am not messing with it. Deskmat is also from NuPhy, got it with the keyboard.
Not pictured: 3.5 kW AC keeping the room cool once the system starts generating heat.
TheRussianEngineer
Is Cyberpunk actually running on the Macbook or are you streaming to it?
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I see what you did there with that mac
My “review” of the stuff since I’m on a trip and counting the days until I get back to it, IKEA Markus chair is definitely **not** “it” if you’re 6’5″ / 195 cm, the base padding is too short to support your legs adequately. It is also prone to building up static so needs to be grounded properly, I got zap’d often. Other than that, it’s fine. I got it based on glowing recommendations online without inquiring about people’s height, my bad.
IKEA desk does its desk duties well, standard dimensions. It holds up two 27″ KTC miniLEDs and the 34″ Dell AW3423DWF. KTC miniLEDs are not very good, they have subpar HDR EOTF tracking at the low end so dark scenes are entirely crushed and KTC is unwilling/unable to address this in firmware updates. sRGB mode is also unreliable for me, but YMMV. I am switching to 16:9 QD-OLEDs. The ultrawide *slaps*, though. I use it freely because of the 3 year burn in warranty.
Box is the NZXT H9 Flow, picked primarily for its dimensions and allegations of sufficient airflow (yes, decent temperatures under full load). Board inside is the ProArt X670E with the most important feature: x8/x8 bifurcated mode to support two 4090s which I use for research, rendering, GI solver implementation testing (I work on online and offline rendering tech, SWE), sometimes ML (strictly for fun). One GPU is air (only 3-slot on the market, also visually controversial) and the other is water cooled, to minimize radiators and tubing. Processor is the 7950X3D, for RAM I swap out slower 192 GB and faster 96 GB depending on my use case, both from Corsair. Got a boatload of SSDs hiding behind the GPUs, around 8 TB. Power supply is BeQuiet’s Dark Power 13 1600 W which I got after making a horrible mistake with the Thermaltake GT3 1650W (broken fan controller, obnoxious noise past 400 W load).
Board leaves me with an upgrade path to the 9950X3D + 2×5090 due to PCIE5 support (currently the 4090s drop them into PCIe4 x8/x8, not much a performance drop in gaming, but it does affect the more intense dual GPU applications, mostly in resource streaming). Threadripper was never a choice because I use it to game as well, and the extra PCIe lanes are not worth the effort.
MBP mostly runs in docked/clam mode, KVM switch via the rightmost monitor. Cable nightmare, though. iPad Pro M2 is largely an overpriced weather and clock paperweight due to Apple neutering/neglecting iPadOS and I regret buying it. Blender/Zbrush/etc on this thing would change my opinion of it, but I am not holding my breath.
Surround is Logitech Z906 going through Asus Xonar. Keyboard is NuPhy Air96 v2, I like it but got it due to a shortage of Halo96. Mouse is a Basilisk, it still works so I am not messing with it. Deskmat is also from NuPhy, got it with the keyboard.
Not pictured: 3.5 kW AC keeping the room cool once the system starts generating heat.
Is Cyberpunk actually running on the Macbook or are you streaming to it?