We have roasted your worst setups, our best setups, and everything in between, but today we're taking aim squarely at those who have been obsessed the most over their computers. Excuse me, computers. These computers have actually transcended being workstations or gaming computers. Today, we're looking at Battle Stations, roasting the folks with the most—that is, the most money and the most pride in their computational creations. Yes, oh yeah, here we go. Oh no, I don't believe this photo. Not wanting to only highlight those of you that have remortgaged your house for RGB lighting, we'll also be looking at battle stations that are priced down a little bit, and we'll be doing all of it from this incredibly tiny battle station from Red Magic. Huge thanks to Red Magic for sponsoring this video to show off their new Nova gaming tablet. Its 144 Hz display is fed frames by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leading version that isn't just fast when you boot up a game, but continues to be fast thanks to this.

sick cooling system on the back that features a fan that spins it up to 20,000 RPM. Now I know you're thinking that's probably hecking loud. You got this, but even at Max Speed you can barely hear it from the distance that you hold a tablet. As a bonus, the fan helps keep the tablet cool during fast charging so you can get the most out of the included 80-watt fast charger. Check out the red magic Nova gaming tablet at the link down below. To start, we're going to be taking a look at the absolute best battle station of all time as decided by the community. Dual 75 in 4K TV. Computing what that chair does not look comfortable. This is the opposite of r/TV too high. Bro is sitting on the floor. No, actually the TV's mounted really low, but he's sitting on the floor. This probably is cross-posted on like male Living Spaces. I was just going to say this is that post that it's like it doesn't take much to make a man happy.

yeah, there's no way that buddy is reading text from that distance. Also, did clear a conference room to fill it with his battle station. What is this space? You know what this actually reminds me of? I made this setup 13 years ago. Oh my gosh, it's the same room. Like, what is this? If his head is near the top of that chair, it's probably in line with around the ergonomics of this. Are actually may be somewhat okay, other than the fact that his feet are just permanently out in front of him. Probably sits cross-legged. Oh, that's kind of sick actually. All right, in second place, the completely reasonable apartment setup. Oh hell yes, that honestly just looks like some of the employee setup reviews that we've done. I don't know what's better, the full ceiling height rack or the slippers that are just vibing there. I like that he spent so much money on that server rack and so little on the monitors. Balance out what you're spending your money on. This table is trashed here and then

their desktop speakers were like value bin. The top comment is great idea, my wife would love this in the living room. Yeah, also the couch right next to it. Are you really going to be enjoying whatever it is you're doing on the couch with a server rack next to you? I was going to say, like, you know, you can put your server rack in, like, another room, like L, but it's like, no, that's clearly what they're into. They want to work on that. They want to spend time on it. I think it's sick. Windows mixed reality, ladies and gentlemen. We found him, the one person who invested in a Windows mixed reality headset. All right, you want to look at the number one? Yes, 68,000 upvotes over 7 years. Oh yeah, yeah, that's the stuff. I love it. That's awesome. That's actually kind of sick. This is deserving of the number one spot. You're making it work. Do you think the ratchets are holding the desk together or just the hardware down? I think they're

holding down the back of the monitor to ensure that it doesn't just vibrate off of that desk when he's driving. And I think they might also be holding the table together, although it's hard to say. Plays truck Sim is the top comment. Please don't do you think you could live on the road if you had an amazing gaming setup in a truck. Younger, not married, no kids, obviously, 7 years ago, no. Today with Starlink, maybe. Maybe this is a sick setup. This is very good for you. All right, here's a couple top-up vaded ones from this month. It looks like a render. I am slightly suspicious of this being real. It's too perfect. Do you like any color in your life, by the way? Holy crap, it's really nice. As long as nobody ever touches it, nobody ever uses it. The thing I don't like is that there's stuff in this photo that is like placed but is not usable in that position. Like that switch can't be charged there. That start menu can't be touched there easily. What

does it look like tomorrow? The one thing that I've got to take a bunch of points off for here is the monitor lamp. I freaking hate them, Andy. I don't want to talk about it right now. Our next one, my piece. I like the theme over the last few years of people having separate racing sim setups instead of just like temporarily bolting on the wheel to your own desk. I do think it's better that way. If you're already going to go the mile to like buy a seat and a wheel, you might as well just, and if you've got the space, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, for sure. Damn, look at that chrome American flag. I suspect they made it themselves too, which is like pretty cool. I think a lot of what makes a good battle station is the space that it's in, so having the windows with the trees right there adds a lot of atmosphere. I love that monitor arm solution just clipping it to the side of the desk. That's really smart. What monor? Oh, that monor arm. I thought

you were talking about the monitor sitting on top of a motherboard box. Oh, and I was like, Okay, that's a Katan box. Oh yeah, in fairness, that's probably about the best use of a Katan box. Who, what, what do you have against Katan? He's lost too many times. How dare you see through me like that. Absolutely fantastic setup. Yeah, all right, Dark Blade 420. Wow, this is awesome. Oh my, my God. Oh, I love this. Those speakers are crazy. Those are nuts on a computer setup. Those are insane. They have the huge tower speakers and they have the little ones right beside it. You can configure them in stereo, surround, and so they'll just add more sound volume. Yeah, there's just a lot going on here, but nothing feels out of place. Like, I like the 3D printing corner, and from across from it, there's looks like a soldering iron. So he has enough table space to actually do projects. Yeah, he's got some retro collection going on, record player as well. Sick. You collect things, but like

very Tastefully yeah set super cool here. Oh, you need a headphone holder? 3D print it. Get a head, yeah, literally print yourself a headphone holder. Now a work in progress forever. I've never related to a sentence more in my entire life. Hold on, did you buy two of those light bars? It doesn't look as bad to me because it covers the entire monitor. It feels more integrated, like proportional color matching here is crazy. The white to the wood and that almost matching in every area is really cool. I love the separate 10-key. Should put on the right side, though. I do think it should go on the right side. I love this under-desk mounted headphone amp. That is so cool. I really like the wall of succulents in the back. It tells everyone around you, I'm a functioning human being who can remember to put water in something once in a while. That's why I don't have any now. I know what at least some of you are thinking. Those were pretty nice setups, but were they really?

Battle Stations, and you're not the only one, which is why the elitist of the mostest Elite created their own subreddit called ultimate battle stations. Oh no, sometimes these poor folks even get made fun of for their opulence, with Ramill saying, I get [ __ ] for having more than three displays. They say it's Overkill. My goodness, whoa, now this is what I'm talking about. That's a battle station. Okay, well, I'm not even mad at the displays. How many [ __ ] keyboards do you have? This one feels to me like he wants a monitor for each of his tasks instead of realizing that, uh, you can actually use monitors for multiple tasks. Probably a Mac guy. Part of me wants to think like, Is this a day trader? That's the only time I've seen monitor setups like this. That Mak sense. The problem for me though is they didn't go very vertical. In fairness, if you're going to go full opulence these days, monitors not that opulent. You can get a 27in monitor.

for like 40-50 bucks on Facebook Marketplace these days. The color matching on them is horrendous to me. So you got your main gaming in the middle, Subway Surfers on the right, Subway Surfers on the left, Minecraft Parkour on the top left, okay, bottom left is Family Guy Clips, top post ever on r/ultimate battle stations. Here we go, it's kind of gorgeous, yeah, very staged though, those headphones are not plugged in. That is like building the cleanest computer and not having your front I/O hooked up. W, this is just sick. Oh, that's like a 42 in or a 48 in by the way, that's big. On the side, the wallpaper is a great choice for that background. Like overall, the aesthetic is very strong, very clean. Why did these textured wall panels go out of fashion? I thought they were super cool. I think it's just too many people did them so they became kind of overdone and everyone's like, I don't, I want to be unique. Brother in Christ, you have that monitor and then

you have a Logitech C920. It looks comically small. Nice setup, yeah. It's just clean. There's not much to roast on that other than the camera. Why don't we have a look at some more practical setups from r/averageBattleStations. Okay, well, wallpaper 10 out of 10. Okay, this is a little more average than I was expecting. That uh, that power strip on the floor, brother. If the button is up and your feet are coming down, you're going to have a bad time. Oh yeah, this is cute. This is nice. This is yeah, I really like you know, you don't have the biggest desk, you want two monitors, you have one just hang over the side. Very cool. Yeah, you make it work, right? Yeah, yeah. Oh, not the dental pick. Oh, that's the only thing worse than the nail clipper for me. You know those are disposable, right? This post I'd like to think it's at least average. I predict that Luke is going to be ripping on this guy for only having one monitor and daring to call this a

battle station. Everyone deserves a second monitor. You can get them for $10. Sell me on two monitors if I'm someone who only has one. Once you have two monitors, I feel like it's difficult to go back because you lose so, so much. If you're someone who games, even if you're in borderless window, your game will fill the one monitor that you have. I know very few gamers in this generation, sir, uh, that are down with doing just one thing, so you're probably watching, you know, Subway Surfers or whatever on your side, ramping up in hostility as we go. Imagine I said sell me and now you're threatening me if you don't get a one. Creative speakers, those look not great. Wa it looks really sick at night time. That's actually really clean. My latest setup, oh my gosh, I love this. Is that an actual car seat with an actual towel over the butt, just like people put in their cars? Scrap wood for the frame. Oh, they did the same for their computer though. Oh, the custom-made wooden

Cable Management under the desk. Oh yeah, I very much enjoy the handyman aspects of this app. I'll say that controller mount. Love the controller mount with two screws into a piece of wood. Oh my God, I'm on their desktop wallpaper. Is that Jay's? It kind of looks like, but like a very young AI beautified J. Got him after using laptops for about 20 years. It's been so much fun building a gaming PC and flushing out my setup. It's fleshing out, but that's okay. This is just like an average setup. Magic cards on deck, ready to go just in case a challenger approaches at any time. They tried with cable management. They have like cable management sleeves. The power work hanging out of it. Not my favorite thing, but man of culture. I love the footrest. I'm not a big fan of the clear monitor holder. Yeah, get another monitor. Overall, it's a good setup though. That being said, your computer looks cool. Oh yeah, here we go. Oh no, our next section is we go lower. Welcome to r/

shitty Battle Stations. Yes, have you never been here? You can't say you've never been here. I don't think I've ever been there, really. I've absolutely been there, yeah. Yeah, oh no. Where is that cable coming out of? Is that a sprinkler? Oh gosh, it is. What am I looking at? I do appreciate that looking at this setup, they were like, Ah yes, I need the ergonomics of the screen being higher. Um, what are the pliers on the ground for? And the slippers? You took them off to take the photo, and you thought it fit the space better? I don't know. Been using this setup for years. That's not good. Go get some free furniture. You've got a $200 Bluetooth speaker, dude. He's got like a $150 Mouse. We should do a whole series of videos on budget allocation. I would never shame someone for not having money, but I would shame someone for not having a lot of money and blowing all of it on a fancy Bluetooth speaker when you don't even

have a desk, get a free keyboard, yeah, get a table you can put your knees under, yeah, and you're doing fine. Just moved into a new house, see, like this one. At least they were like, I should be able to put my knees under the thing. I give a little bit of grace to people that have moved. It takes a little while to get set up, and like, you don't want to buy temporary furniture, so you kind of make what you have work. They had raid night, it's gaming night with the boys. Sure, they were in the middle of moving in, and they were like, Crap, it's an hour until I got to be online. I'm going to throw something together. I'm going to use these sawhorses. I'm going to put this here. I'm going to do that, blah, blah, blah, blah. I am not liking this chair situation, though. What chair situation? You'd be like sinking into this thing. It looks more like a hammock. Oh my God, okay, I don't believe this photo. This looks staged 'cause the house is super

clean. Yeah, all the products are super clean. That's like a very solid small form factor PC down there. This looks thoughtful enough that it might just not be fake. I think it's real but temporary. Buddy reinforced the box though. If he was just taking the picture, he could have just put out these little side flaps to hold up the main flap. But see, there's a second non-lawnmower box inside to keep it from buckling. Oh, uh, there's do armrest on the left side. That's one of those things where like it's not actually missing the arm, it's missing 3 seconds of work to put the arm back on. That mouse pad sucks, get a better one. Yeah, LTC store.com. Yeah, Home garage setup. Oh, the bong right there front and center baby. You went to massive bong, I went to feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the first thing I saw. Oh, got the gun 1911 probably Airsoft. If it's not store it properly please. Who are these names that are crossed out now?

Alicia, oh, oh, uh, no notes, keep sending it. Oh, do you see the second B? Whoa, no, I didn't. Wow, wait, that's a laptop. It is, dude, it's just taped on. That's crazy. Tell me it's mounted more than that. There's no way. I love that this is permanent enough that they put an RGB strip across the back of the monitor for bias lighting. I also love that they clearly are okay with taping things to the back of their monitor, but just dangled that USB off. Behold my carpal tunnel syndrome-inducing setup. Wow, reward yourself by getting a free table that you can put your legs under. Literally games like this, and it's not like you don't have the space. It has to be a joke. It has to. We need to do a better job with things like promoting scrap red wars. We got a better chair for free. I think this has potential. I like the idea of portable gaming setups. Yeah, but you really need to make it that your legs have somewhere to go and that there is

more mousing area. You're never too old to be a game. It's kind of sick. That's crazy. I don't think they're doing a ton of gaming on the all-in-one Fujitsu computer and that mouse and that mouse space. You have enough to go up and down. Also, I love that we can tell that you're actually a boomer because you not only have paper, you got a printer. Someone in the comments mentioning no IV bags. Imagine dropping the mouse and it falls down the stairs. All right, the last one in r/City Battle Stations. It belongs. Yeah, I can't find a pattern with you, so I like janky ingenious solutions, and this is a great way to have one of those things. This just your knees are constantly shooing against that drawer. I would give them the benefit of the doubt if the whole thing had equivalent patina, but like this bottom shelf is almost pristine. Oh yeah, and this is disgusting. Is disgusting. So I think it's food and bod things. Oh, that's gross. All right, too

many fake ones. We got to get back to stuff that's, you know, maybe an actual battle station and not just Karma farming. So, these are people that weren't confident enough to post on r/battlestations but do think that their setups are good. How many of these subreddits exist? There are too many of these sub... What are you talking about? This is sick. The grass wall, dude. Dude, this is sick. Why were you not confident on Battle Stations? This is probably one of the cooler ones we've seen. I quite like this idea. They just need to commit to the plant wall and have other fake plants in it. As far as couple setups go, I actually really like the vibe here. They even took the time to, like, clearly tuck something along the edge there. Back to Basics. That's not a basic Mouse, though, Colton. You're here. This is your mouse. Well, it looks like it, yeah. Basics my butt. Wow, you spent a lot of money on arms. The mic arm, I totally understand. The monitor one, I really don't feel like he got a lot of

height out of it. I don't like the texture of the paint, but that's not something I was just going to say. Uh, your paint job sucks. Who do you think you are, Colton? Is this Colton? They Colton's Mouse and got Colton's paint quality. Leave me alone. I was sent here too ridiculous for average battle stations. Not enough Nano leafes for Battle Stations. I like it. Yep, the curtains could go. Oh gosh, they can. They ever, bro. Is that a handbrake on the right? That's crazy. In general, I actually, I give you respect. I like this setup. All right, apparently we're going back to actual r/ Battle Stations. Oh dang, look at the view out of this place. I mean, you just doxed yourself, but like that is a beautiful clock too. That's a sick place to store that though. That's crazy. Assuming you're like left-handed as well. Phase one more Decor to come. Yeah, please get more Decor. This Wall's pretty boring. Really good start though. You can see the vision. The one

cable. I just wrote that along the monitor arm, and I don't like that desk pad. I don't like the texture of it, but I also don't like that it's curling up at the back left corner. All right, moving on. This person's asking how can I improve my station. I'm sure we'll have some thoughts. There's lots to like here, and I love this frog in the rocking chair. This is some of the most tasteful vinyl figurine that I think I have ever seen. That's a fairly tall keyboard. I would get a wrist rest, and I would get a better mouse pad. Um, other than that, I honestly think this is pretty sick. Oh, you just named yourself. You should delete this. We did find something to improve after all. Greenery. Oh, 'cause they used like the flares on r/BattleStation. Yeah, that's cool. That is wow. Is that what? Is that one of those Elgato? That's the Elgato Stream Deck Plus, I think. Got the a really cool place.

to that that's great. I could hang out in this space. Dual Purpose art, SL acoustic treatment, super into that. I thought that was Markiplier for a hi. I like the vibe. I think the computer space does nothing for me. Yeah, why can be mad that you don't have two monitors? There's nowhere to put it. This is fine. It's also, I think, an ultra-wide. Leave me alone. Stop it. That wasn't going to say anything. You literally just projected, bro. Holy took your advice. Uh-oh. Whose advice did you take? You're automatically going to win over David with The Last of Us wallpaper. I like it. I'm a fan. I wish I. I have the Thor's hammer from God of War Ragnarok, but I wish I had the ax. It's way cooler. What's with this trend of people having clocks under their monitors? That would be a nice way. I don't have to check my phone, 'cause if I check my phone, I'm going to have messages, and I have to reply, and then all of a sudden, I'm outside of my game.

whereas this, I can just quickly look and be back back gaming. I like the storage situation you have on the top left. I think that's really cool. This is great. Very good, Stu. Good job taking whoever's advice you took. Jury's still out, but man, you can't deny that view. What view? Oh, did they? And I will say again, the PlayStation looks good. I'm tired of these boring people just being like, Oh, the Xbox is black, normal box is the best-looking console. That's why no one bought it. I'm not saying that the Xbox is better. The PlayStation sucks ass. It looks horrible. No, it looks good. You didn't even notice it right away because it fits so well in the setup. Yeah, but now it sticks out like a goddamn sore thumb. Nope, looks great. Yeah, it's pretty tasteful, honestly. I don't feel like this is the best use of the space, though. Like, they've got all this extra space over here on the left, but everything's kind of crammed in here, dude. You have

an Overkill camera that's crazy. Leica, I think you's got two leas. I'm talking about their webcam. I like a you a lot. Another sub-genre is Ikea. Oh boy, I like this. This used to be a cool thing that everyone did. You put up the boxes for your Hardware. Why you need two gpus? I don't know. Doesn't matter to me. Yeah, I like the peg board. Yeah, I like the controller holders over on the left. What is that? I think that's the stand. So reflective third monitor. Uh yeah, in general sick. Yeah, switch foot dude. That a signed. That's pretty cool. Look at this lens. Oh yeah, who are you creeping on boy. 100 to 400. I think like we'll sign your record if you stop taking photos of us. There's like a little bit of like you know just shove that keyboard cable down the back there a little bit more. RGB free is a tag so like no RGB is just having a laptop. Is that cheating? It probably has an RGB keyboard so that's why it's closed.

please please include me. I'm pretty sure I see a backlight on this keyboard. I could be wrong. I think it's just the light. Ew, are those overlapping desk pads? I think that's what that is. Am I... It just goes to show you left-handed people can't be trusted. Light Side developer setup. I enjoy this just because you are a rare Shiny Pikachu because all the developers are into dark mode. Everything. I was just going to say I love the strategically positioned chair so that you can't see any of the cables by the computer. Funny, I was going to... I thought you were going to point out the garbage can right in front of the plug. Nice, yeah, that too. You're one of those grown-up people I've heard so much about, like this is the most responsible adult that I will probably ever have any form of interaction. Nice to meet you, see you later. I like the desk pad. Oh, not this. Is that Bloody desk pad again? I know who wants felt desk pad. Ew, I get it, looks F good, but it feels awful. Or even if it

does feel good to you. It's not the best for tracking. Don't do that. Um, custom Loops. Oh, custom Loops. That's exciting. W. What? What's that? I'm overwhelmed, Luke. I love it. It is not what I want, but you go and you go hard. I am a big fan of anything like kind of UV glow looking, and this is for better or for worse, kind of my vibe. That mic is not where that know. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the just like ugly random boxes under it. What is it? Game on the only monitor that's eye Lev is the laptop. Is this even for gaming, or is this a hardcore audio setup? It might be a music setup 'cause they've got that keyboard. They have speakers like crazy, and that's a wall mount case, by the way, that they have not wall-mounted. Icy cool with the external radiator. No, no, no. Put your radiator somewhere else to hide it. Six setup pretty cool to have an external radi. Get a second monitor, please God. This is such

a great computer that's beautiful. Got the pre-bent metal tubes. I actually really dig those. CPU runs the traditional would be to do the right angles, but I actually really like the just like they look like. Make me think of like lightning bolts. Like because they also did both of them. Like I think if they had one that was diagonal, it would look way out of place, but they were just like, you know what, I'm going to do both of them like this. Finishing this off here are some of Alex's personal favorites. I live in a van and this is my battle station. The puppy boy, even though that's like pose, he's like I need people to know I play the guitar. Yeah, is it there when you sleep like that's a night elf Mohawk nerd. He's not going to understand he. I've never played wow. Oh yeah, oh for sure. And I think those are real plants. You think so? They look too branchy to be fake. They might not be alive. My mom needed to use my computer.

for her weekly book club Zoom. I don't think I'm getting it back. That's sick. That actually looks awesome. I love how you can clearly see little bro setup in the mirror, and he's just gaming hard. Like, he is unfazed by the craziest Redstone setup ever. Don't forget about the VR controllers for book club. Are those pedals, or are they just footrests? Oh, it's a flight sim 'cause look, they have flight sim sticks. So, it's clearly like foot pedal to help with steering and whatever. Maybe a bit different than the norm here. I like this one. I'm just a fan of people that have their tools organized. Dude, you got a perfectly organized garage. I always really enjoy it when people have like the craft areas next to their computer, and this one is their computer is next to their craft area. It's like the inversion, which is actually really cool. They clearly are like a hands-on, do stuff, and then, okay, I got time to game.

oh, the whole thing looks like it's on wheels. Oh yeah, yeah, paint your wall though, brother. You put the work into taping it and mudding it and sanding it. Last land before I'm a dad. I've actually seen this one before. This one's wholesome. I love the just like making it work like this dude's most pad is just like some picture from something. These people look like they could work here. Yeah, this looks like a fun time. And even just the idea of like the last land party before having a kid. I love it. I'm a big fan of this wholesome just like this wholesome segue to our sponsor throughout this whole video. Red Magic's Nova gaming tablet didn't complain once as we screen record reported locally thanks to its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leading version as well as its 16 gigs of LPDDR 5X RAM. With a high resolution, high refresh rate display, you can dominate all your favorite mobile arenas, especially if you get extra sweaty and take advantage of the native mouse and

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