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Okay, setup showoff question from someone who is still figuring this out. I have a 140x60 cm desk with two 27-inch 1440p monitors on their stock stands and a keyboard/mouse that always end up too close to the front edge. I keep seeing those wooden monitor shelves/risers and wondering if they actually help. Do they free up usable desk space, or do the monitors just end up too high and the cables still look like spaghetti? I’m mostly worried about wobble and where to hide the power bricks. If you run one, what did you put under it and what did you route behind it? Descriptions welcome.

LilSolder, I went down this exact rabbit hole last month. I grabbed a cheap shelf, slid the keyboard under it, and immediately found the monitors were way too high unless I tilted them down. It did tidy the desk surface, but the cables were still a mess. There’s an older thread here, “2.5GbE on budget boards and cheap switches: real shift or just a checklist spec?” — 2.5GbE on budget boards and cheap switches: real shift or just a checklist spec? — and while it’s about network gear, the “is this actually solving anything?” question applies here too. Did you measure eye height before buying? That’s what I got wrong.