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gigabites horas X 299 gaming 7 motherboard is packed with useful features and right now if you buy one you can also get the Auris X $2.99 experience pack with bonus items including a hoodie LED strip and 12-month xsplit subscription click the link in the description for more information so for a couple months now my wife and I have been intending to sort of revamp and redo our computer a few different reasons for this one is that we haven't really done a full thorough cleaning of it since we moved in so it's a bit dusty in the corners and difficult to get back into the corner since it's gotten kind of piled with stuff and then we also wanted to install and integrate sit-stand desks vertical desks that have our motorized and can move up and down now click this closure my wife actually works at monoprice so we didn't buy these sit-stand desk frames as well as the monitor our mounts for them but we did get them at costs so wanted to let you guys know about that but of course this whole project started with a fair amount of cleaning out of stuff that was already in here so we clearing out the desks that already existed and then I seem to have gotten a lot more clutter up in my half of the space than my wife but after a fair amount of elbow grease and most of the day working on Saturday evening we were able to get everything cleared out and finally cleared out enough space to actually start putting the desk frames together so after dinner we actually started getting all the parts of the box and setting up at least its the frame for my wife's desk everything was pretty simple as far as how it came apart there's two lights for either side those are the heavy parts those actually have the motors in them there's a couple flat cross sections that go across the base of each of those and then a couple flat pieces that go across the top and then the center you can actually sort of unscrew and then you can make it wider or narrower depending on the size of your desk again these are frames so they actually don't come with the desk tops on them so we took the desk tops off of our existing desks and those were just from Ikea and we were able to transfer them over and put them on top of these frames after they were set up and built underneath each frame there is a control box you just got wires and cables over from either side to plug that into the actual control box and then the control box has a little break out part that you and actually attached towards the front of the desk where you can actually control it and then that has a display screen on it it has three memory settings one two and three so you just basically press the up and down arrows to get the desk to go to the height that you want and then you press memory and then tap the button you want it to be and that saves it there and then you can just hit one two or three to have it go up or down to the preset height that you want if you're gonna set it up like I did basically I have a height that's set up for standing which is why I have it set up to right now and then I also have this height that's set up for sitting so all you have to do is press that saved preset and it will lower down to that height if you - it's already up to the height standing which is which is what you do you don't have to do a hand crank or anything like that now there was a couple quirks here I will point out that you're supposed to be able to do a reset thing on mine by holding down the the M button and that just doesn't seem to function at all on my wife's it worked so who knows but fortunately if I press one it's able to go all the way to the lowest setting then I was able to program in height two and ninety three so functionally it is working just fine for me it's also pretty quiet I mean it's not like silent or anything like that but it's not like a loud noise or anything you can probably hear that going on below me it's not too bad at all now wants to sit stand at desk frame and top are built in the top squid on the next step is to set up the monitors and you can't just set monitors directly on the desk but we went with these monitor arms attached to the back and that way they can be readjusted to go forward or back or driver and of course since they're attached to the desk when the desk goes up or down the monitors go up and down along with it so so you can just set up the height based on where you're sitting and then whether it's in the raised position or the lowered position you can still look at your monitors and and they raise the lower with the desk which is pretty cool now in case any you guys are looking at this like a like a setup video or something like that I do want to point out that this is still a work in progress very much so we're know by no means finished with this room although it has come a long way I've set up this smaller desk over here on the side and right now it's it's got a bunch of stuff on it I have a set of drawers that I have bought that I'm going to put in this corner right there that should help me declutter a lot because if you guys saw the establishing shot when my desk was still over on this there's just piled with stuff and honestly that's because I really don't have any drawers or storage or anything like that in here on a functional level so we'll be adding that as well now you might notice that we have a printer over here which is just monochrome laser printer and then you might also notice the computers which are tucked down here not on the floor out on the floor but they are off the desks again just because they're heavy and I don't want to put too much weight on the desks if I can avoid it just to keep things minimal as far as what goes up there also it's nicer to have a minimalist setup on the desk so what's coming for the future stage two of this computer room project is going to be a custom-made unit for this little corner down here because I like the computers down here I don't want to be able to tell too high I want to lower this this is my main computer I want to lower that one down just a little bit I'd like to raise my wife's computer up the top box right there as well I like to raise that up a little bit and then that that's mine ass right now which currently isn't plugged in or under and you're running or anything like that it's it's literally just there as a stand so I'm gonna be swapping that out so I think I'm going to build a custom unit for right here at the couple different levels that the computers can sit on there's a decent chance I'll also take the printer and maybe see if I can get that back in the corner over there as well to kenny's up some of that space make things a little bit more presentable here so it's visible and then also create that box so that the lower part of it can be used specifically for cable management and storage because there are probably a lot of you who are looking right now I'm being like Paul cable management come on come on because yeah I know I'm very aware I'm very aware that needs to be done and that is coming very soon in the future actually about a bunch of cable management stuff that I'm gonna try out we did get a chance to go by Ikea a quick word of warning don't go to Ikea on a Sunday afternoon if you can possibly avoid it it was a really harrowing experience but I was able to track down the Signum so I have some signals that I can drop in there and then I've also got a set of stuff that I got from direct from Amazon I'm gonna try that out as well but the reason I'm showing you guys this sort of in-between phase is one well we got a lot of work done under here and that was useful but - I just wanted to point out that cable management is not necessarily something that you can just sort of attack and tackle all at once especially in assists and death situation because the cables coming for the back of these monitors are limited in size so if I want to run all the cables properly which would include like running them down the actual monitor arm and there's a little plastic box right there with a caddy that allows you to do that there's a good chance I'm going to need longer cables whether we're talking power cables DisplayPort cables HDMI cables and that kind of thing so that's part of the reason I got everything set up here first so I can get some measurements see what cables need to be replaced and then also of course build that box down there so the computers can be set up properly and then like I said I want to build storage for cables and cable management's that's under that box I do also have a UPS back here so the UPS should be held in the box as well and that will tidy everything up and I really want to get this I really want to get this space looking good let me get the cables super clean I want to have them all hidden as much as possible and also need to fix that wall outlet that wall outlet is not working now the one last thing to mention about the controls on the desk is there's the M button that you can use to set what preset height you want it to go up to when you press the presets 1 2 & 3 there's also a t button and you can use that to do a timing mode so basically tell it how much time you want to be in one position like if you're sitting and then it'll warn you after a certain amount of time to like a you should stand up and then let you stand up because the basic idea overall is that you should try to stand as much as possible and sit as little as possible so this allows you to still work at a computer while doing either one and easily switch between then the guys that's gonna wrap it for this video I hope you've enjoyed it this was our weekend project and I think it turned out pretty well although again there's still more work to be done so I'll be covering the cable management in here those little hopefully a custom build up a little a little box down there it keeps computers off the ground and do some cable management's retention in there as well thank you guys so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it thumbs up button and we'll see you guys next time