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so the folks at origin wanted to sponsor a video featuring their brand new

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genesis system you can learn more about it at the link below but in a nutshell

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this latest version was just unveiled at ces and our config rocks an 18 core

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extreme edition dual tempered glass side panels dual water cooled gtx 1080 ti's

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and four radiators for cooling not bad

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for eight thousand eight hundred and eighty one dollars

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lordy so a machine like this deserves nay demands a proportionally dank battle

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station to complement it so with our middle school level woodworking skills

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we set out to build a custom desk for

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the genesis let there

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be RGB light

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now with this kind of power 4k gaming is

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well within our reach but plopping a 4k monitor on a table and

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calling it a battle station is not the LTT way so we decided to use

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one of the dell s718 ql 4k laser

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projectors that we reviewed recently instead

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but opting for an ultra short throw projector as your display

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will introduce some key constraints to a

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project like this first we realized we would need a really

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deep tabletop since not only would the projector itself be taking up a lot of

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key real estate but if we ended up too

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close to our screen we were concerned we'd feel less like

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a badass power user and more like a

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tennis spectator but finding a sufficiently deep and wide

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desk at a reasonable price isn't easy

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or is it this sliding door from our bedroom set

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is 34 inches deep seven feet wide and

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doesn't have any pesky door-like features like a knob hole so we picked

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up another one of them for 20 bucks and spent then another 20 on some semi-gloss

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black paint to complement our tower the second thing about using a projector

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like this is that the image ends up being quite a bit higher than you would

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typically want and we didn't want to have to lean

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way back in our chair but can you do

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this i don't think so

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just to see the browser search bar the solution

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a phone book on the chair i mean realistically it's 2018. what else were

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you going to use it for actually i'm just kidding by cutting a

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recess in the desk and then hanging a dropped shelf we were actually able to

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get the top of the projector flush with the desktop which looks sick

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and gets the screen down as low as it

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can be to create our mounting system we simply

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used some long bolts and a shelf from ikea which

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could actually easily be replaced by a regular piece of wood to save a buck

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since you'll never see it constraint number three

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where are we going to put the tower normally we'd want to show off a box

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like this on top of the desk but even

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with a short throw projector and a super wide table

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we'd be risking cutting off the view of either the system tray or the start

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button and letting the genesis sit on the floor

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is totally out of the question so

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since our giant desk didn't have any legs at this point and since any

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potential legs would have to be pretty beefy to be proportional we decided to

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build a custom cabinet for the tower that would double as a table leg so we

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went to ikea and bought two alex cabinets for 80 a piece

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one that we fully assembled and endowed with upside down feet to rest the table

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top on and another that we completely butchered so that our tower's good looks

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and hot air could shine and blow through

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finally we added some black anodized aluminum trim to visually unify our

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ragtag assortment of pieces not to mention to cover up the janky lines that

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came with freehanding the jigsaw which i guess brings us perfectly to the

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bloopers let's just say that building this desk was a

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learning experience for james the first lesson was that you can tell if a door

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is hollow or not by how much it weighs and how cheap it is and if you find

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yourself accidentally in possession of a hollow door that you're expecting to

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hang a 33 pound projector from you can beef it up by ripping out the cardboard

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ballasts and inserting slabs of wood to basically act as like big reinforcing

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washers lesson number two use molding that's as

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wide as the material you're trying to cover up the walls of our alex cabinets

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are three quarters of an inch thick but the trim we ended up with is only half

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an inch leaving a lot of exposed wood and nothing is more awkward than exposed

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wood lesson number three don't use too much glue unless you want

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to find your finished desk ruined by hardened gorilla glue bubbles that take

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the paint off when you cut them off finally lesson number four a projector

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really looks a lot better on a purpose-built projector screen so to do

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this over we'd probably recommend that upgrade especially if you were trying to

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recreate this setup with a less bright projector

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however with all of that said as a proof of concept this turned out

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more than okay we put together a simple plan for how

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pretty much anyone can set up a giant comfortable custom desk for just a few

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hundred bucks and we have a bad ass new

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addition to our new set not to mention our selection of

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off-hours leisure activities here at the office

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so big thanks to origen for sponsoring this video their genesis system

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absolutely chews through anything we can throw at it at 4k and looks great doing

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it the front i o including 10 gigabit usb 3.1 is discreetly hidden behind a

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sliding cover and the tempered glass side panels are easily swappable with

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toolless hinges and swanky magnetic clasps of course if you're into the

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all-aluminum look origin will paint or laser etch any logo or custom design

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your heart desires and before we go we

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should probably also throw an honorable mention to dell for providing the projector ergodirect for providing this

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awesome chair that works really well with a nice tall screen and nanoleaf for

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hooking us up with some brilliant decor

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