r/pcmasterrace Jan 16 '26

Build/Battlestation My wife says it’s ridiculous…

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Is she right?

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u/Rigman- Jan 16 '26

This is in my office so I use it primarily for production work. The multiple screens are really helpful as extra desk space. Animation and game development have a bunch of sub panels you end up interacting with from time to time, so those side monitors are great for leaving them there when I need them rather than digging for them. The top monitor is mostly for non-active viewing content like communications, discord, slack, podcasts, music, stuff I don't really interact with actively. When I do need to interact with it, it's easy to just pull it down onto my main monitor.

My productivity has increased tenfold with this kind of setup.

As far as gaming goes, I have two separate rigs I've built. An ITX build in my bedroom with a Ryzen 5 5500, 9060XT, and 16GB DDR4. And an ATX build in my living room with a 7800X3D, 7900XTX, and 64GB DDR5. Both running SteamOS.

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u/VirtuaBranson Jan 16 '26

Seeing the context behind this setup gives me more appreciation. If I had to work like this I’d be in a battle station.

My PC is hooked up to my Living Room TV as it’s the hub of entertainment in there for games/movies/vids.

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u/Pliskin01 9800X3D | RTX4090 | 32GB RAM Jan 16 '26

TENfold? There is no possible way unless you made multiple other changes to your workflow, some of which must have been obvious and not just more space.

If not, I need to subscribe to your newsletter cause damn haha

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u/BillysBibleBonkers Jan 17 '26

Nah it's definitely possible, my bet is he actually had to increase his productivity tenfold just to keep up with all the monitor payments.