High-Performance Builds / Ongoing
Dual-Purpose Workstation
The daily driver: analytics and marketing work by day, campaigns and creative writing by night — one desk, two very different workloads.
A workstation is a productivity system, not a spec sheet. This one is built around long focused sessions: quiet under load, colour-accurate, and laid out so nothing breaks concentration.
Optimising for attention
Every decision here was made against one metric: how long can I stay in deep work before something pulls me out of it. Fan noise, cable clutter and screen glare all cost more than a few frames per second ever will.
Specification
- Displays
- Dual wide panels, calibrated
- CPU
- 8-core, tuned for sustained all-core clocks
- Memory
- 64 GB — enough for containers plus a browser habit
- Noise target
- Under 32 dB at the desk under full load
- Input
- Mechanical keyboard, tactile switches, low-profile wrist rest
- OS split
- Linux for data and infrastructure, Windows for gaming
Tags
- Workstation
- Ergonomics
- Colour Accuracy
- Quiet Build
Technology
- Linux
- Windows 11
- SQL
- Python
- Docker
- Ultrawide
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Talk shop?
Parts lists, thermals, benchmarks or campaign notes — I'm always happy to compare builds.