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My Main Work/Media/Gaming PC ‘studio.local’ Ryzen 7 9800X 3D CPU GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 Motherboard with 2.5Gbits/sec internet and on-board Wifi7 Be quiet! Straight Power 12 1000W power supply, ATX 3.0, 80 PLUS Platinum Cooler Master MasterAir MA824 Stealth CPU Air Cooler Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 4 TB, PCIe 4.0, 7,450 MB/s read, 6,900 MB/s write, Internal SSD Fractal Design North XL Charcoal Black Mesh G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo EXPO RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 12G DUAL EVO OC Gaming Graphics Card - 2550MHz Boost Clock, GDDR6X, PCIe Gen 4, DLSS 3, HDMI 2.1a, 3 x DisplayPort 1.4a (Supports 4K & 8K HDR) * 12th Gen i7 CPU 1x 1TB SSD that I use as a system drive for legacy reasons 10Gb/sec fibre optic network card Keyboard and Mouse Topre Realforce TKL UK model 8BitDo Retro 18 Mechanical Numpad, Supports Calculator Mode, Bluetooth/2.4G/Wired Numpad for Windows and Android - C64 Edition LOFREE TOUCH PBT Wireless Mouse with USB receiver, Bluetooth, Wired Connection, Rechargeable, 4000 DPI with OLED Screen Compatible with glass surface for Mac Windows PC Notebook/Block Retro White Gray Monitor and Other accessories ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM 4K gaming monitor ― 32-inch 4K QD-OLED panel, 240Hz, 0.03ms (GTG), G-SYNC compatible, custom heatsink, graphene film, uniform brightness, 99% DCI-P3, True 10-bit, 90 W Type-C LG Ultragear Gaming Monitor 24GS65F, 24 Inch, 1080p, 180Hz, 1ms, IPS Display, HDR 10, NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible & AMD FreeSync, used in portrait mode usually 2x Genelec 8020 DPM speakers Logi USB headset with noise cancelling microphone Logitech Key light for web cam calls Elegato Facecam R0de Procaster mic with boom, roll cage and muffler ClonerAlliance Flint 4KP Plus video capture card with USB-c 3.0L Presonus 1824c Studio Sound Interface Phillips Hue Entertainment centre with 2 light sources and Hue Sync Ergonomic Equipment Flexispot E7Pro Motorised Standing Desk Flexispot BS14 ergonomic chair with headrest Flexispot standing desk mat Wooden rocker balance board 360 style balance board Fenge Dual Monitor Stand FIFINE Microphone Arm Stand, Boom Arm Stand with Desk Mount Clamp Quntis Monitor Light bar with RGB Backlight Maksone Under Desk Treadmill My Gaming Laptop ’legion.local' Lenovo Legion 5-15IAH 2022 i7 12th Gen 64GB DDR5 RAM 2x 2TB NVME M.2 4th Gen SSDs Nvidia Laptop 3070TI Cooling Gaming Laptop Pad Gaming PC Software Launchbox - this brings all my third party launchers together and collates metadata, preview videos and reviews for games I own. RetroArch & various open source emulators - these plug into Launchbox and let me play many different console games on my PC. Hue Sync - this allows me to sync my Hue entertainment area lights with the colours on the screen, while playing games. NexusMods and Vortex app - I have a lifetime membership of NexusMods, and this allows me to download, install and configure hundreds of mods for many games such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Skyrim, at high speeds. Razer Synapse - These allow me to create custom control profiles for the Razer hardware for some of the games I frequently play. Action! - Gameplay Recording and Streaming (on Steam) - for recording PC gaming PCMark 10 - for benchmarking hardware upgrades ...

I’ve always wanted an arcade machine in my home. But I could never really afford one, in terms of time and space. Recently I thought to myself, “I’m not getting any younger”. So I built an arcade setup mostly just using the things I already had in the home. Games The ROMs I have are all stored on my file server upstairs. I can get around a 3gbits/sec connection via my 10gbits/sec home network, so there is no performance ‘hit’ in streaming them off the network drive - it has similar speed and latency to a physical drive. Which is handy, because my ROM collection is way too big for the storage on my gaming PC. ...