Construction
During the construction process, which took one person around 45 minutes, we found the instructions easy to follow and the overall quality of the products to be excellent. Everything lined up as it should, bolted together nicely and felt well-manufactured. There were very few complaints apart from a couple of awkward bolts but that’s not a real issue. All things considered, we were perfectly happy with the entire process of building the desk, but you will want a relatively large space to build it in. Now onto the desk itself, and how it feels to work with after around a month of testing.
Features
Kicking off with the welded steel frame, this adds a lot of weight to the desk but is well-designed and sturdy. Towards the bottom of the uprights, just above the feet is a manual height adjustment system that gives the option of 750mm, 800mm and 850mm.
Under the work surface, mounted between the two legs, is a box-section that’s incredibly handy for tucking cables, power extensions and in-line power supplies into. This is a little bit lacking in size though, particularly if you need a 4 or 6-gang extension cord and a couple of power bricks for your monitors, it quickly becomes cramped.
While on the topic of cables, each of the Control Stands, that we’ll speak about soon, are wired into your PC case. However, those cables are loose with no fixing mechanism to keep them neat and tidy, with the 3.5mm cables on the left being a bit too short to be tidied up neatly. Some cable clips to stick to the desk and a bit more length on the cable would be nice.
Moving to the business end, the desk features a smooth plastic centre with carbon-fibre effects on either flank; the surface is easy to vacuum and wipe clean to maintain a fresh workspace, plus with it being plastic, it should be excellent at protecting against spills and stains into the future. Bookshelfing the desk’s surface are two fully-adjustable RGB light bars extending the full depth of the desk.
The front edge of the desk sports a gentle central curve, allowing you to pull yourself right in to the desk to get that competitive edge, but thanks to a shallow chamfer along the entire front face, there’s no harsh angles to hurt your forearms if you tend to sit a little further back. There are also cut-outs at the back of the desk, allowing you to push this all the way against your wall and still leaving room for cables or monitor stands to be clamped onto the desk.
If the RGB lighting doesn’t make the desk special enough for you, Cougar have also mounted a pair of Control Stands on the rear edge.
On the right is the “main” control stand. Starting from the left there’s a PC power button, reset switch, RGB toggle and a pair of USB 3.0 passthroughs. This control stand connects up to the internal headers in your PC, through a rear IO slot, and is powered by an internal SATA power connection. Whereas for the USB passthroughs, there are two USB 3.0 connections to slot into the back of your motherboard.
On the left is a much simpler setup, with a pair of 3.5mm jacks, one for a microphone input, the other for headphones.
During the construction process, which took one person around 45 minutes, we found the instructions easy to follow and the overall quality of the products to be excellent. Everything lined up as it should, bolted together nicely and felt well-manufactured. There were very few complaints apart from a couple of awkward bolts but that’s not a real issue. All things considered, we were perfectly happy with the entire process of building the desk, but you will want a relatively large space to build it in. Now onto the desk itself, and how it feels to work with after around a month of testing.
Features
Kicking off with the welded steel frame, this adds a lot of weight to the desk but is well-designed and sturdy. Towards the bottom of the uprights, just above the feet is a manual height adjustment system that gives the option of 750mm, 800mm and 850mm.
Under the work surface, mounted between the two legs, is a box-section that’s incredibly handy for tucking cables, power extensions and in-line power supplies into. This is a little bit lacking in size though, particularly if you need a 4 or 6-gang extension cord and a couple of power bricks for your monitors, it quickly becomes cramped.
While on the topic of cables, each of the Control Stands, that we’ll speak about soon, are wired into your PC case. However, those cables are loose with no fixing mechanism to keep them neat and tidy, with the 3.5mm cables on the left being a bit too short to be tidied up neatly. Some cable clips to stick to the desk and a bit more length on the cable would be nice.
Moving to the business end, the desk features a smooth plastic centre with carbon-fibre effects on either flank; the surface is easy to vacuum and wipe clean to maintain a fresh workspace, plus with it being plastic, it should be excellent at protecting against spills and stains into the future. Bookshelfing the desk’s surface are two fully-adjustable RGB light bars extending the full depth of the desk.
The front edge of the desk sports a gentle central curve, allowing you to pull yourself right in to the desk to get that competitive edge, but thanks to a shallow chamfer along the entire front face, there’s no harsh angles to hurt your forearms if you tend to sit a little further back. There are also cut-outs at the back of the desk, allowing you to push this all the way against your wall and still leaving room for cables or monitor stands to be clamped onto the desk.
If the RGB lighting doesn’t make the desk special enough for you, Cougar have also mounted a pair of Control Stands on the rear edge.
On the right is the “main” control stand. Starting from the left there’s a PC power button, reset switch, RGB toggle and a pair of USB 3.0 passthroughs. This control stand connects up to the internal headers in your PC, through a rear IO slot, and is powered by an internal SATA power connection. Whereas for the USB passthroughs, there are two USB 3.0 connections to slot into the back of your motherboard.
On the left is a much simpler setup, with a pair of 3.5mm jacks, one for a microphone input, the other for headphones.
