Last update:
September 17, 2021, 18:01

Workspace

One where creativity can be seen

Usually people keep their workspaces organized, while i keep some stuff laying aroung, mainly because of my mindset: "ideas take up space" (though i tend to avoid clutter)

Workspace setup from january 2020 (heavily outdated though)

Current hardware gear

Laptop:

Intel core i3 7130U

8GB DDR4 2133

128GB SATA SSD

No second Storage

Nvidia MX150

Fresh&Rebel 75W
car charger

Main PC:

CPU+Cooler: R5 2600 + TX3 EVO

RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 3200 LPX

ROM: 850GB total SSD storage

GPU: MSI GTX 1050 ti LP

M/B: ASRock B450M-HDV

PSU: Silverstong SST 700 SFX

Case: Jonsbo V9

Desk PC (Lenovo OEM PC):

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160

RAM: 1x4GB DDR3 1600

ROM: 500GB 3.5" HDD + 60GB SSD

GFX: built in the CPU

M/B: Stock lenovo

PSU: Stock lenovo (180w)

Current software

Some software may appear multiple times, as i am simply re-using some for muliple purposes.

Bare metal development

Arduino IDE
Teensyduino addon

Notepad++

EagleCAD 7.7.0

Game development

Game maker 8.0

GM Studio 2

Unity editor

Visual studio

Notepad++

CAD design & render

Sketchup make 2017

STL plugin for Sketchup

Kerkythea Sketchup
render plugin

Kerkythea renderer

Blender

Music production

FL Studio producer

Audacity

VST: JP6K,
Sanford Reverb,
Camelphat,
Camelcrusher,
Ohmicide, Sheppi
stereo enhancer

Website development

Notepad++

Firefox

Chromium
(Ungoogled)

Graphic design

MS Paint

Pinta

Pencil & Paper

Software workflow

It usually is doing one thing at a time, without background interference (chat apps) closed, notifications off and minimal interruption for focussing on what i am doing. Sometimes it helps me to have some music playing in the background.

I use one screen, and i find virtual workspaces a bit of a hassle (might change that with a custom mapped keypad sometime).

I do things rather a bit slower and checking for errors than hurry and stressing out on with additional work later on.

PC history

My history with PC's stuff started since 1999 when my dad got a Pentium 2 350 based PC. using it for work administration and allowing me to play games on it when he wasn't working on it.

I stayed on that Pentium 2 flash-based Youtube videos became unplayable (even with a the processor running at 450MHZ by a fsb overclock overclock) in 2007.

I then got myself a (for the time) nice gaming PC (AMD athlon x2 5600+ with ATI X1650 256MB graphics paired with 2GB RAM), and upgrading the CPU to a AMD athlon x2 6000+ CPU later on.

In 2011 i built my second own PC (AMD Phenom 2 x6 1055T with AMD HD 5770 graphics, and 4GB RAM), but in Micro-ATX form, and fell in love with how it turned out.

In 2019 it was time to move on for my workloads, and so i got my AMD ryzen 2600 with RX 570 GPU, where i searched for the best performance for the money.

As of mid 2021 i see i need some more compute grunt for social VR games with 25 people or more. So i will likely upgrade my 2019 rig with twice the system RAM, a Zen 3 processor and RDNA 2 graphics card once prices are low enough.