The Office Tour: A Glimpse into the Making of a Production Space

As we embarked on our office tour, it was clear that a lot of planning and preparation had gone into creating this production space. The reason for choosing concrete as the primary material for the room's flooring was to accommodate the large machines with wheels that would be rolling in. This decision was made to ensure stability and durability, given the heavy equipment that would be used in various tests and experiments.

The fan testing area, thermal testing area, and salt spray tester were all installed in this room, taking advantage of its climate-controlled environment. The past tests had already shown that it was possible to conduct these types of tests efficiently within the space. As we explored each area, it became clear that attention to detail was paramount in designing the perfect production space.

One notable aspect of the office tour was the storage room. We had previously seen this location used for various purposes, including video testing and storing equipment. However, with the addition of new cabinets and adjustments made to the layout, it would now be repurposed as a secondary storage area. The previous occupants' attempts to avoid using 90-degree angles in their design resulted in some uneven walls, which were subsequently corrected during the renovation process.

The server room was another key component of the tour, with a focus on its relatively small size compared to what one might expect for such a critical function. Instead of housing an entire network, this room would be equipped with just one computer and multiple hard drives connected to it. The server would be housed in a Silverstone CS381 micro-ATX computer box, accompanied by a large disk shelf below it.

As we moved on from the server room, we arrived at the storage area, which was previously used as a break room due to its awkwardly shaped walls. However, through careful planning and renovation, this space had been transformed into a functional storage area for regression testing and long-term use equipment. The attention to detail displayed in the original design ensured that shelves could be easily installed against any wall, providing ample space for future additions.

Throughout the office tour, it was evident that there was much more to the production space than initially meets the eye. Behind the scenes, countless hours of planning and negotiation had gone into securing the perfect location and contractors to bring the vision to life. As we concluded our tour of the office, it became clear that this project had been carefully crafted over a year, with each aspect meticulously considered to ensure its success.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone so we're doing a studio update video we've done two of these now for this location where we previously said that we have a new space we've been working on upfitting that space for about a year now so it's been an insane amount of work and that's why over the last several months we've had periods where like we've missed a few days for video because i've been managing this project all of it from uh the more zoomed out stuff to i mean the toilet paper holders and the bathrooms i had to choose those and the door knobs so we're getting there we're almost done this is an update last time we didn't have flooring i think we didn't have any of the mill work or cabinetry we were missing most of the electrical a lot of it had been pre-wired but not finished and uh i mean it's made a lot of progress so we're going to show you a few things today we'll go through the testing equipment room which has been mostly finalized now that'll have our large fan tester that's coming in and thermal chambers things like that in the future we'll show you the testing suites for standard computers uh the film studio all that stuff and then we're gonna have an extra video over on patreon if you want to check that out on patreon.comgamersnexus but for this one let's get started before that this video is brought to you by asus and the rog crosshair 8 series of x570 motherboards for amd asus has both the crosshair 8 hero dark and the crosshair 8 extreme available offering high-end motherboards for high core count amd systems we've used the crosshair series for years for everything from basic overclocking up to liquid nitrogen overclocking and we found them easy to work with particularly for their extremely well organized bios menus learn more at the link in the description below okay so major changes the floor obviously is in so this is a big change where i worked with andrew on kind of laying a lot of this stuff out and floor selection uh mostly we've gone with carpet and lvt if you care about that stuff but um so in other words this is not like hardwood this is vinyl tile it's luxury vinyl tile is what they call it pretty nice though um we have to work on obviously getting all the furniture in that'll help with things like echo i'm not sure that that's picking up on camera right now but i can hear it and that'll go away with furniture as it comes in uh there's a couple rooms we haven't shown yet like all over the place actually okay so this is the studio we've shown you this this was way different before where it used to have against this wall there's all kinds of countertop this some of this wall did not exist here there was a bunch of other equipment back in that corner that we've completely ripped off it was actually different room and now it's it's part of the studio room so we have darker colored walls in here intentionally this helps a lot with lighting control and i mean it's cool everyone has his legs walking into this room because it's a cool transition from the rest of the office where it just it feels like a different space and clearly is a different space as soon as you walk in so over here is just corner where they used to have a bunch of uh it was completely different like i said this was a hole in the ceiling in the past um i guess i'll we're gonna have someone nitpick like small stuff so we haven't had the crew go through for um for a construction clean yet they're still doing construction actively in other parts of the space and uh it'll all be cleaned up at the end we'll do some cool stuff with though see andrew this is a hallway okay so this is the production room this will be where we do a lot of seating for the sort of desk work so video editing writing pretty much everyone will sit in here from for the bulk of their job unless maybe filming either on camera or behind a camera or testing so testing's mostly done in other rooms that's how we do it now too it's just the rooms are smaller and fewer but we still have kind of the core concept of keeping everyone grouped together for working on creating the videos other than the data collection and then group together for working on collecting test data for the videos so a few small changes for this room there's power pole in a couple of places just because it's large enough that i mean you need to get power from somewhere if we have stuff in the middle of the room so power poles in um i don't know a floor not a lot other than that this room was very easy to work with there used to be a couple weird height walls in here that we removed early on there was some mill work and cabinetry over here from a previous occupant but we had that taken out so we could make more use of the space for our uses and the next door is the testing room so actually despite the increase in size of the operation physically physical size we end up closer as a team between testing and uh and production rooms whereas now it's they're further apart so these end up closer despite having a lot more space this isn't much to speak of i mean we already have a break room for actual like kitchen use this is more intended for well it was already here so it i mean it's pretty nice quality i didn't have to pay to put it in i would have had to pay to take it out and it's nice enough i didn't want to do that so a lot of the stuff in the building along the way we thought about how can we turn what exists into an asset rather than paying to remove something that might be useful we didn't always do that sometimes it makes more sense to start fresh but this patrick and i were thinking you know we're gonna have a wet bench in here for testing open loop components anyway probably just put a wet bench station right here for open loop parts on this side of the wall and then this makes it easy enough to drain the loop so small stuff like that you know it's not like a huge value add but it's certainly easier and like i said that's pretty nice and it was already there so why rip it out and throw it all out that's all they would do with it anyway uh make some use out of it two power poles here i'll put a lot of tables in for test benches and i think that more or less recaps this room it's it's straightforward in terms of what we're doing with it talked about a lot already but now you can see what it looks like when it's done okay so next we're going to go to my office room we have the office room uh testing room and a production room there's a couple as we won't show today but we still have those to look at so the main change here is just that the room has most of its finishes like i said they're gonna go through and do some cleanup touch up on stuff obviously there's a few things that you need to pull through to pull through the wall still and things like that but most of the hard work's done the flooring is in the baseboards and all that stuff um plumbing electricals all in this room so electrical and ethernet wiring were a nightmare for this place that's what took the longest because so much outfit needed to be done for it a lot of that stuff was was not only old but some of it was non-functional or was dysfunctional in a way where we just would rather replace it than uh be unsure of what exactly we have so that was the biggest work um i'll have a desk in here to do some work and have some some other storage things like that but uh for the most part i'm gonna be sitting with the team in the production room but um i will have a setup in here as well just in case so all right extra so this room is the one we've said a few times will be a future hopefully sound testing chamber i've got big dreams for it uh where one business might look at this and go okay this is 10 people or something we're looking at it going i don't want to manage 10 more people that's hard but i can work in an acoustic chamber by myself in complete silence and isolation and that sounds pretty good so that's what i want to put here it's just a matter of time maybe next year maybe the year after we'll see how the money is because those they get expensive because you're basically going for like a zero db if you can we'd be shooting for something like maybe 10 to 15 db depending on uh on sort of the environment around us this used to actually be i don't know how much i talked about this in the past but this ceiling was all ripped out in the past so we've got shots of that where it's been filled in now this used to be a a bathroom um we did show that actually so that's been filled in obviously at this point and uh and now it's just a big open space to work with in the future in the first video we actually showed a shot really similar to this maybe we can do a superimpose them or something but this hallway was a nightmare like it was perfect for filming the disappointment build which is our annual horror theme to build that we do be perfect for that sadly we have gotten rid of most of the things that made it look like the left 4 dead hospital and we've replaced them with things that look like a nice office but so flooring has been done here wall's done electrical's done all that stuff and uh i don't know it's a hallway it's not that exciting but it looks a lot different from the original so i wanted to show it this room originally in the first video i think had a wall running right here so it was divided with a wall that only went up uh 80 of the way to the ceiling so this is a lot different we are working on getting a finished concrete in this what we've done here basically i think they have a few more finishing touches to do but it's mostly done and the reason we chose concrete for this one it reflects a lot of noise and stuff but we're not really using it for a studio we're going to use it for testing equipment this is where the large fan tester goes i've said this in the last two videos now but that's actually on the way and that fan tester will probably go against this wall but all that's gonna go in this room so the reason we went with concrete is just because it's gonna be big machines with wheels rolling in and it'll hold better we will be doing the fan testing here some thermal testing will be here so it's climate controlled and then the past i mentioned we want to get a salt spray tester as well so that's this room there's some new closet bathroom stuff like that nothing too exciting other than what we're using for equipment and i guess we can head over to one of the next rooms this one we've shown before i think it's a server room i say server everyone's always like server room this is too small for that so just to clarify when i say server room i mean there's going to be one computer and a bunch of hard drives hooked up to it it's the one we built with wendell from level one text previously you're still using it it's going to go on here and we just got this is not secured yet before someone says i've been doing network engineering for 3 900 years and but this is not secured at the moment um roughly where it's going to go so we're putting in just a two light rack with all the um i think it's a punch down for all the ethernet in the office and then we'll probably at some point get another cabinet but like i said it's it's like a silverstone cs381 it's a micro atx computer box with a large disk shelf under it that wendell provided us so if we get fancy we could get a rolling cabinet and put more disk shelves in it if we do that we would have to add some ventilation to the room uh we've got enough ac to deal with it easily it'd just be a matter of adding a couple vents and ducting in but uh that's i don't use data like linus does it's very important in the future so we um we tend to prune a-roll files and uh compress stuff whereas i think he keeps pretty much everything which is fine they have the space for it but we don't really do it that way so this is enough for now pretty simple room nothing too special here you can move on to the next one this will be storage you've seen our storage room several times in the past mostly in disappointment build videos a lot of that will transplant here we have additional storage elsewhere so we showed one of them earlier um we have plenty of storage there's a lot of it but this will be for things that we probably have in the current storage room just transplant it and we'll expand in the other locations big changes here though so um this wall used to be a there used to be cabinetry in here i think they at some point used it as a break room or something it was horrible i mean the cabinetry was in rough shape a lot of it was rotted uh and i mean it's it the colors were mismatched and paneling from the cabinets was torn off it's just particle board with stuff glued on it and patched over the years several times so we tore all that out the wall was weird too where it made a couple of turns so the previous occupants hated 90 degree angles and made sure there were none of them uh and instead everything was like a 17 degree angle so we ripped all that out straightened it out the whole point of this you know it's small stuff like this attention detail we're putting in where you're just making sure you can actually put a table or a shelf against a wall and not have a weird shaped wall where you can't put anything except for custom mill work that is like useless beyond a break room which we already have so that'll be this room pretty straightforward really it's just another another storage room um we keep a lot of stuff for regression testing and long-term use so like as we revisit cpus and gpus all right so that's it for the office tour we do these very off-the-cuff and it's not scripted um but there's a lot of planning that's been into it we've been over all kinds of floor plans and electrical and plumbing reflected ceiling plans and approvals permitting all this stuff behind the scenes so uh it's been thought out for at this point about a year like i said and um that whole time wasn't renovation and stuff like that there's a lot involved in there where there's uh well finding the place looking at other places to make sure you like the one uh negotiations and all the behind the scenes stuff before you ever work with a contractor on any of this so it's not all been putting floors in obviously there's a lot that's been going on but that's the update for now and i guess at this point i'll go back to uh the another realm and then we'll do another update once we have completed the projecthey everyone so we're doing a studio update video we've done two of these now for this location where we previously said that we have a new space we've been working on upfitting that space for about a year now so it's been an insane amount of work and that's why over the last several months we've had periods where like we've missed a few days for video because i've been managing this project all of it from uh the more zoomed out stuff to i mean the toilet paper holders and the bathrooms i had to choose those and the door knobs so we're getting there we're almost done this is an update last time we didn't have flooring i think we didn't have any of the mill work or cabinetry we were missing most of the electrical a lot of it had been pre-wired but not finished and uh i mean it's made a lot of progress so we're going to show you a few things today we'll go through the testing equipment room which has been mostly finalized now that'll have our large fan tester that's coming in and thermal chambers things like that in the future we'll show you the testing suites for standard computers uh the film studio all that stuff and then we're gonna have an extra video over on patreon if you want to check that out on patreon.comgamersnexus but for this one let's get started before that this video is brought to you by asus and the rog crosshair 8 series of x570 motherboards for amd asus has both the crosshair 8 hero dark and the crosshair 8 extreme available offering high-end motherboards for high core count amd systems we've used the crosshair series for years for everything from basic overclocking up to liquid nitrogen overclocking and we found them easy to work with particularly for their extremely well organized bios menus learn more at the link in the description below okay so major changes the floor obviously is in so this is a big change where i worked with andrew on kind of laying a lot of this stuff out and floor selection uh mostly we've gone with carpet and lvt if you care about that stuff but um so in other words this is not like hardwood this is vinyl tile it's luxury vinyl tile is what they call it pretty nice though um we have to work on obviously getting all the furniture in that'll help with things like echo i'm not sure that that's picking up on camera right now but i can hear it and that'll go away with furniture as it comes in uh there's a couple rooms we haven't shown yet like all over the place actually okay so this is the studio we've shown you this this was way different before where it used to have against this wall there's all kinds of countertop this some of this wall did not exist here there was a bunch of other equipment back in that corner that we've completely ripped off it was actually different room and now it's it's part of the studio room so we have darker colored walls in here intentionally this helps a lot with lighting control and i mean it's cool everyone has his legs walking into this room because it's a cool transition from the rest of the office where it just it feels like a different space and clearly is a different space as soon as you walk in so over here is just corner where they used to have a bunch of uh it was completely different like i said this was a hole in the ceiling in the past um i guess i'll we're gonna have someone nitpick like small stuff so we haven't had the crew go through for um for a construction clean yet they're still doing construction actively in other parts of the space and uh it'll all be cleaned up at the end we'll do some cool stuff with though see andrew this is a hallway okay so this is the production room this will be where we do a lot of seating for the sort of desk work so video editing writing pretty much everyone will sit in here from for the bulk of their job unless maybe filming either on camera or behind a camera or testing so testing's mostly done in other rooms that's how we do it now too it's just the rooms are smaller and fewer but we still have kind of the core concept of keeping everyone grouped together for working on creating the videos other than the data collection and then group together for working on collecting test data for the videos so a few small changes for this room there's power pole in a couple of places just because it's large enough that i mean you need to get power from somewhere if we have stuff in the middle of the room so power poles in um i don't know a floor not a lot other than that this room was very easy to work with there used to be a couple weird height walls in here that we removed early on there was some mill work and cabinetry over here from a previous occupant but we had that taken out so we could make more use of the space for our uses and the next door is the testing room so actually despite the increase in size of the operation physically physical size we end up closer as a team between testing and uh and production rooms whereas now it's they're further apart so these end up closer despite having a lot more space this isn't much to speak of i mean we already have a break room for actual like kitchen use this is more intended for well it was already here so it i mean it's pretty nice quality i didn't have to pay to put it in i would have had to pay to take it out and it's nice enough i didn't want to do that so a lot of the stuff in the building along the way we thought about how can we turn what exists into an asset rather than paying to remove something that might be useful we didn't always do that sometimes it makes more sense to start fresh but this patrick and i were thinking you know we're gonna have a wet bench in here for testing open loop components anyway probably just put a wet bench station right here for open loop parts on this side of the wall and then this makes it easy enough to drain the loop so small stuff like that you know it's not like a huge value add but it's certainly easier and like i said that's pretty nice and it was already there so why rip it out and throw it all out that's all they would do with it anyway uh make some use out of it two power poles here i'll put a lot of tables in for test benches and i think that more or less recaps this room it's it's straightforward in terms of what we're doing with it talked about a lot already but now you can see what it looks like when it's done okay so next we're going to go to my office room we have the office room uh testing room and a production room there's a couple as we won't show today but we still have those to look at so the main change here is just that the room has most of its finishes like i said they're gonna go through and do some cleanup touch up on stuff obviously there's a few things that you need to pull through to pull through the wall still and things like that but most of the hard work's done the flooring is in the baseboards and all that stuff um plumbing electricals all in this room so electrical and ethernet wiring were a nightmare for this place that's what took the longest because so much outfit needed to be done for it a lot of that stuff was was not only old but some of it was non-functional or was dysfunctional in a way where we just would rather replace it than uh be unsure of what exactly we have so that was the biggest work um i'll have a desk in here to do some work and have some some other storage things like that but uh for the most part i'm gonna be sitting with the team in the production room but um i will have a setup in here as well just in case so all right extra so this room is the one we've said a few times will be a future hopefully sound testing chamber i've got big dreams for it uh where one business might look at this and go okay this is 10 people or something we're looking at it going i don't want to manage 10 more people that's hard but i can work in an acoustic chamber by myself in complete silence and isolation and that sounds pretty good so that's what i want to put here it's just a matter of time maybe next year maybe the year after we'll see how the money is because those they get expensive because you're basically going for like a zero db if you can we'd be shooting for something like maybe 10 to 15 db depending on uh on sort of the environment around us this used to actually be i don't know how much i talked about this in the past but this ceiling was all ripped out in the past so we've got shots of that where it's been filled in now this used to be a a bathroom um we did show that actually so that's been filled in obviously at this point and uh and now it's just a big open space to work with in the future in the first video we actually showed a shot really similar to this maybe we can do a superimpose them or something but this hallway was a nightmare like it was perfect for filming the disappointment build which is our annual horror theme to build that we do be perfect for that sadly we have gotten rid of most of the things that made it look like the left 4 dead hospital and we've replaced them with things that look like a nice office but so flooring has been done here wall's done electrical's done all that stuff and uh i don't know it's a hallway it's not that exciting but it looks a lot different from the original so i wanted to show it this room originally in the first video i think had a wall running right here so it was divided with a wall that only went up uh 80 of the way to the ceiling so this is a lot different we are working on getting a finished concrete in this what we've done here basically i think they have a few more finishing touches to do but it's mostly done and the reason we chose concrete for this one it reflects a lot of noise and stuff but we're not really using it for a studio we're going to use it for testing equipment this is where the large fan tester goes i've said this in the last two videos now but that's actually on the way and that fan tester will probably go against this wall but all that's gonna go in this room so the reason we went with concrete is just because it's gonna be big machines with wheels rolling in and it'll hold better we will be doing the fan testing here some thermal testing will be here so it's climate controlled and then the past i mentioned we want to get a salt spray tester as well so that's this room there's some new closet bathroom stuff like that nothing too exciting other than what we're using for equipment and i guess we can head over to one of the next rooms this one we've shown before i think it's a server room i say server everyone's always like server room this is too small for that so just to clarify when i say server room i mean there's going to be one computer and a bunch of hard drives hooked up to it it's the one we built with wendell from level one text previously you're still using it it's going to go on here and we just got this is not secured yet before someone says i've been doing network engineering for 3 900 years and but this is not secured at the moment um roughly where it's going to go so we're putting in just a two light rack with all the um i think it's a punch down for all the ethernet in the office and then we'll probably at some point get another cabinet but like i said it's it's like a silverstone cs381 it's a micro atx computer box with a large disk shelf under it that wendell provided us so if we get fancy we could get a rolling cabinet and put more disk shelves in it if we do that we would have to add some ventilation to the room uh we've got enough ac to deal with it easily it'd just be a matter of adding a couple vents and ducting in but uh that's i don't use data like linus does it's very important in the future so we um we tend to prune a-roll files and uh compress stuff whereas i think he keeps pretty much everything which is fine they have the space for it but we don't really do it that way so this is enough for now pretty simple room nothing too special here you can move on to the next one this will be storage you've seen our storage room several times in the past mostly in disappointment build videos a lot of that will transplant here we have additional storage elsewhere so we showed one of them earlier um we have plenty of storage there's a lot of it but this will be for things that we probably have in the current storage room just transplant it and we'll expand in the other locations big changes here though so um this wall used to be a there used to be cabinetry in here i think they at some point used it as a break room or something it was horrible i mean the cabinetry was in rough shape a lot of it was rotted uh and i mean it's it the colors were mismatched and paneling from the cabinets was torn off it's just particle board with stuff glued on it and patched over the years several times so we tore all that out the wall was weird too where it made a couple of turns so the previous occupants hated 90 degree angles and made sure there were none of them uh and instead everything was like a 17 degree angle so we ripped all that out straightened it out the whole point of this you know it's small stuff like this attention detail we're putting in where you're just making sure you can actually put a table or a shelf against a wall and not have a weird shaped wall where you can't put anything except for custom mill work that is like useless beyond a break room which we already have so that'll be this room pretty straightforward really it's just another another storage room um we keep a lot of stuff for regression testing and long-term use so like as we revisit cpus and gpus all right so that's it for the office tour we do these very off-the-cuff and it's not scripted um but there's a lot of planning that's been into it we've been over all kinds of floor plans and electrical and plumbing reflected ceiling plans and approvals permitting all this stuff behind the scenes so uh it's been thought out for at this point about a year like i said and um that whole time wasn't renovation and stuff like that there's a lot involved in there where there's uh well finding the place looking at other places to make sure you like the one uh negotiations and all the behind the scenes stuff before you ever work with a contractor on any of this so it's not all been putting floors in obviously there's a lot that's been going on but that's the update for now and i guess at this point i'll go back to uh the another realm and then we'll do another update once we have completed the project\n"