[jambutty]

You really shouldn’t store your tower under the desk. It becomes a dust magnet. As you shuffle your feet under the desk any dust/animal hairs on the carpet get thrown up and sucked into the tower.

The best place for a tower unit is on the desk. You have easy access to the leads, sockets at the back and the CD/DVD/Floppy drives at the front. Not that anyone uses floppies these days.

When I first set up my PC yonks ago I bought a dining room table from a second hand shop for a tenner and two 1.5 cm thick, 7 feet long by 18 inches wide white Contiboards. These straddled the table to leave an 18 inches overhang at each side.

My monitor (then a CRT screen – now an LCD screen) keyboard and tower sit over the table. The left overhang has my printer and right overhang my scanner and both are covered with a cloth so that my smoking doesn’t coat them in smoke residue.

I also have a 2 feet by 1 foot piece of plywood wedged under the tower to support my whole arm from the elbow whilst operating the mouse.