ULTIMATE 100" Bedroom Gaming Battlestation!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,163 words · ~5 min read
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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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so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get
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subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured
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at the links in the video description also down there is our merch store which
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has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally
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