{"id":10820,"date":"2022-11-30T06:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/this-diy-4090-glass-table-build-sees-beauty-meet-the-beast\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T06:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:14:45","slug":"this-diy-4090-glass-table-build-sees-beauty-meet-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/this-diy-4090-glass-table-build-sees-beauty-meet-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"This DIY 4090 glass table build sees beauty meet the beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-mini-itx-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teeny tiny mini-ITX builds<\/a> that hide away your PC, but I also adore a loud and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/modders-behind-epic-dino-grimlock-pc-case-are-going-even-bigger-for-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proud RGBehemoth<\/a>. The choice between minimalistic style vs bright lights and displayed power is one of the hardest to make, and finding middle ground is sort of besides the point. Or that&#8217;s what I thought, but it turns out there are some masters of the middle ground out there, and one such build is this simply beautiful glass desk feature.<\/p>\n<p>Kumag1989 posted their glorious new build on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/z7pkxy\/finally_my_cablemod_arrived_hopefully_these\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia Reddit<\/a> which shows off one of the nicest &#8211; while still achievable looking &#8211; in-desk gaming PCs I&#8217;ve ever seen. Rather than going small to try to fit everything into a slim build, they&#8217;ve gone bigger leaving a beautiful airy looking glass display, complete with a lovely fake plant. It&#8217;s wonderfully clean and relaxing while still offering tonnes of usable desk space on top.<\/p>\n<p>The entire glass surrounds with matching white lit fans and water cooling really makes the whole PC look more like a purposeful piece of art on display, rather than a beastly gaming machine. The square structure complete with center plant gives off futuristic zen garden vibes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everything is laid out beautifully thanks to all the space used, so it feels more relaxed than cramming components into a small space. Instead here we can see everything at work and it&#8217;s simply lovely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Cooling off<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Cooler Master, EKWB)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-aio-cooler-for-cpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best AIO cooler for CPUs<\/strong><\/a>: All-in-one, and one for all&#8230; components.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cpu-air-coolers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best CPU air coolers<\/strong><\/a>: CPU fans that don&#8217;t go brrr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further down in the reddit post Kumag1989 posts the specs used, which starts unsurprisingly with a custom built table. It&#8217;s a shame that we haven&#8217;t really seen much of a rise of premade in-case table builds given just how damned nice they can look.<\/p>\n<p>It also uses a custom water cooling loop solution, but that&#8217;s fairly common with fancy PC builds, and there are plenty of options on the market. If you&#8217;ve got the skills and materials to make something like this though, the rest of it is mostly up for purchase as is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Kumag1989 on Reddit)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The guts of this beauty are an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/intel-core-i9-11900k-review-benchmarks-performance\/\">Intel i9 11900K<\/a> paired with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition-review-performance-benchmarks\/\">RTX 4090<\/a> so it&#8217;s definitely not just skin deep here. This is seated on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gigabyte-aorus-tachyon-z590-motherboard-review\/\">Z590 Aorus<\/a> Pro ATX motherboard, with 32GB of RAM. This would be a very sweet piece of kit to game on, that&#8217;s if you can tear yourself away from just admiring the build for long enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/z7pkxy\/finally_my_cablemod_arrived_hopefully_these\">finally_my_cablemod_arrived_hopefully_these<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\">r\/nvidia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some downsides to this beauty though, as Kumag1989 admits in the thread. Having so much glass is just ripe for fingerprints, and a lot of care has to be taken around it. Doesn&#8217;t matter how badly you get whooped in Overwatch 2 by an overpowered Sojourn main, there&#8217;s no rage quit table slams with this bad boy around. That being said, I think looking at this beautiful build would be more than enough to calm me down even after the hardest loss.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]This DIY 4090 glass table build sees beauty meet the beast<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-mini-itx-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teeny tiny mini-ITX builds<\/a> that hide away your PC, but I also adore a loud and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/modders-behind-epic-dino-grimlock-pc-case-are-going-even-bigger-for-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proud RGBehemoth<\/a>. The choice between minimalistic style vs bright lights and displayed power is one of the hardest to make, and finding middle ground is sort of besides the point. Or that&#8217;s what I thought, but it turns out there are some masters of the middle ground out there, and one such build is this simply beautiful glass desk feature.<\/p>\n<p>Kumag1989 posted their glorious new build on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/z7pkxy\/finally_my_cablemod_arrived_hopefully_these\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia Reddit<\/a> which shows off one of the nicest &#8211; while still achievable looking &#8211; in-desk gaming PCs I&#8217;ve ever seen. Rather than going small to try to fit everything into a slim build, they&#8217;ve gone bigger leaving a beautiful airy looking glass display, complete with a lovely fake plant. It&#8217;s wonderfully clean and relaxing while still offering tonnes of usable desk space on top.<\/p>\n<p>The entire glass surrounds with matching white lit fans and water cooling really makes the whole PC look more like a purposeful piece of art on display, rather than a beastly gaming machine. The square structure complete with center plant gives off futuristic zen garden vibes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everything is laid out beautifully thanks to all the space used, so it feels more relaxed than cramming components into a small space. Instead here we can see everything at work and it&#8217;s simply lovely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Cooling off<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Cooler Master, EKWB)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-aio-cooler-for-cpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best AIO cooler for CPUs<\/strong><\/a>: All-in-one, and one for all&#8230; components.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cpu-air-coolers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best CPU air coolers<\/strong><\/a>: CPU fans that don&#8217;t go brrr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further down in the reddit post Kumag1989 posts the specs used, which starts unsurprisingly with a custom built table. It&#8217;s a shame that we haven&#8217;t really seen much of a rise of premade in-case table builds given just how damned nice they can look.<\/p>\n<p>It also uses a custom water cooling loop solution, but that&#8217;s fairly common with fancy PC builds, and there are plenty of options on the market. If you&#8217;ve got the skills and materials to make something like this though, the rest of it is mostly up for purchase as is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Kumag1989 on Reddit)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The guts of this beauty are an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/intel-core-i9-11900k-review-benchmarks-performance\/\">Intel i9 11900K<\/a> paired with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition-review-performance-benchmarks\/\">RTX 4090<\/a> so it&#8217;s definitely not just skin deep here. This is seated on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gigabyte-aorus-tachyon-z590-motherboard-review\/\">Z590 Aorus<\/a> Pro ATX motherboard, with 32GB of RAM. This would be a very sweet piece of kit to game on, that&#8217;s if you can tear yourself away from just admiring the build for long enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/z7pkxy\/finally_my_cablemod_arrived_hopefully_these\">finally_my_cablemod_arrived_hopefully_these<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\">r\/nvidia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some downsides to this beauty though, as Kumag1989 admits in the thread. Having so much glass is just ripe for fingerprints, and a lot of care has to be taken around it. Doesn&#8217;t matter how badly you get whooped in Overwatch 2 by an overpowered Sojourn main, there&#8217;s no rage quit table slams with this bad boy around. That being said, I think looking at this beautiful build would be more than enough to calm me down even after the hardest loss.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}