Ok, I need someone that can help me with my boiler room. My gaming room is a typical small bedroom. I have my Samsung 650 46" LCD, Xbox 360, PS3, Yamaha 660 series receiver and 5.1 surround, and Comcast box. When all that is on and running, my room becomes rediculously hot. I turn on my ceiling fan, but that really doesnt help. I need to know is there anything I can do to cool my room down? Is there a good cooling fan? Please advise. Thanks!
It would help to know your environmental conditions, cause if you are in Mexico City, I can see that opening a window probably would not help much.
Here is some practical advice:
1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out!
2) Get rid of the 360 and focus on enjoying one console. Of course Sony is the best, so you don't think I would recommend anything else. Get the Slim, it still produces a fair amount of heat, but much much much less than the original. Only 50 watts also, so start getting the warm fuzzies by saving the planet.
3) You said Comcast box, so I presume the US? So open a window, it's almost winter, and you can buy a sweater. What do you think I do, with my PC, TV (both standard and Sharp for gaming, plus LCD monitor on the PC), Video harddrive recorder, and 5.1 Sony receiver. It gets hot in my room, and I open a window. Summers are problematic though. Yes, I sometimes watch TV, game, and browse the net, with all going at the same time. I'm no friend to environmentalists, but then again my carbon footprint is a probably a hundred times less than the biggest advocates of so called man-made global warning like Al Gore with all this huge houses, numerous plane trips, and many cars.
Opening a window probably contributes to global warming, besides all the energy you use, so you will be the ruin of us all!
Here is some practical advice:
1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out!
2) Get rid of the 360 and focus on enjoying one console. Of course Sony is the best, so you don't think I would recommend anything else. Get the Slim, it still produces a fair amount of heat, but much much much less than the original. Only 50 watts also, so start getting the warm fuzzies by saving the planet.
3) You said Comcast box, so I presume the US? So open a window, it's almost winter, and you can buy a sweater. What do you think I do, with my PC, TV (both standard and Sharp for gaming, plus LCD monitor on the PC), Video harddrive recorder, and 5.1 Sony receiver. It gets hot in my room, and I open a window. Summers are problematic though. Yes, I sometimes watch TV, game, and browse the net, with all going at the same time. I'm no friend to environmentalists, but then again my carbon footprint is a probably a hundred times less than the biggest advocates of so called man-made global warning like Al Gore with all this huge houses, numerous plane trips, and many cars.
Opening a window probably contributes to global warming, besides all the energy you use, so you will be the ruin of us all!
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1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out![/quote]
Because it's his gaming room.
1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out![/quote]
Because it's his gaming room.
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1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out!
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I can tell you that I wouldn't mind a 46" TV in my room!
1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out!
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I can tell you that I wouldn't mind a 46" TV in my room!
Put everything except the TV in your closet with a couple CPU heat sinks, most of the heat would stay in your closet (at least for a while) and the heat sinks would help make sure that the electronics don't overheat. Of course you would need a power supply for the heat sinks and you would have to be able to wire them properly, you would also probably need longer A/V cables for everything in your home theater system and some kind of IR detector outside of the closet so your remotes would still control the cable box and receiver - but it would probably solve your problem . If that's too much for you to handle than buy one of those big floor fans and point it out the window.
[edit]: If you have an entertainment stand with glass front panels you could also do this: the back of the stand would have to be close to sealed, you could install some PC cooling fans into the back panels of the entertainment stand and then attach some ventilation ducting (like round dryer ventilation duct) and run it out your window or somewhere else - punch a hole in your bedroom wall and run it out there. I'm not sure if you're capable of doing this but I am, I don't need to, but I am. It really wouldn't cost all that much money, you just need to know how to do the work.
. If that's too much for you to handle than buy one of those big floor fans and point it out the window.[edit]: If you have an entertainment stand with glass front panels you could also do this: the back of the stand would have to be close to sealed, you could install some PC cooling fans into the back panels of the entertainment stand and then attach some ventilation ducting (like round dryer ventilation duct) and run it out your window or somewhere else - punch a hole in your bedroom wall and run it out there. I'm not sure if you're capable of doing this but I am, I don't need to, but I am. It really wouldn't cost all that much money, you just need to know how to do the work.
Replace your LCD with an LED back or edg lit TV. It produces far less heat. I found by making this change greatly imroved the heat problem in my basment. Also I made a cutt along the cealing and wall line to make a vent system that would expell all the extra heat that is rizing up. By focusing all the heat up a few pipes via fans and funnle it all into the fire place to where it exists threw the chimny. Sorta like a revers French Drain system where you put the drain at the lowest point. In the case of heat you need to place the vents where ever the highest point is. It would require some major work to the house but its far less cheeper in the long run that adding an extra airconditioner. Not to mention much more efficient than using fans that only move the hot air around.
You need flow not circulation.
You need flow not circulation.
i have the same problem, and it's in the ****ing living room for ****s sake....unfortunately, the clumsy condo I live in decides when to turn on the heat and cold settings to all of our built-in air conditioners...so now I have it on heat, i can turn it off, which i do...but still not cold enough...and I live in canada, so it should be very cold by now, but it's not..
I have the same problem. in our game room, we got a 40" Samsung LCD, 360, PP3, comp, and a mini fridge.
in the summer it gets very hot and and even with the window open is stays hot. I am actually looking forward to this winter to see if all these devices can keep the room comfortable as this room has stand alone electronic heat, and if the devices can keep the room warm, then I wouldn't have to turn the heat on.
in the summer it gets very hot and and even with the window open is stays hot. I am actually looking forward to this winter to see if all these devices can keep the room comfortable as this room has stand alone electronic heat, and if the devices can keep the room warm, then I wouldn't have to turn the heat on.
My room tends to get pretty hot and I only have a 37" LCD TV, 160GB PS3, laptop, cable box, and 19" CRT monitor. Luckily, I have a balcony so when the window just isn't letting enough heat out (which in most cases it's not) I just open the balcony door. If it's an apartment and you're on a budget, you can buy a window air conditioning unit, though removing excess heat is going to end up being very expensive during the summer. A cheaper way to move heat out of your room is by using 2 fans- one that will draw cool air from outside into the room and the other to blow warm air out. Unfortunately, this method is dependent on the layout of your room and whether or not you have 2 windows.
If fans won't work and you don't need the room cooled constantly, you could simply use cold water to cool your pulse points such as the wrist and neck. Beyond these methods you could purchase an air conditioner or heat pump. In a house, you can build a central air conditioning system that is both eco-friendly and cheap. But for a limited budget college student like myself, the best option tends to be the cheapest.
If fans won't work and you don't need the room cooled constantly, you could simply use cold water to cool your pulse points such as the wrist and neck. Beyond these methods you could purchase an air conditioner or heat pump. In a house, you can build a central air conditioning system that is both eco-friendly and cheap. But for a limited budget college student like myself, the best option tends to be the cheapest.
[QUOTE="Alpha, post: 0] 1) Why do you need a 46 inch TV in your bedroom? That's ridiculous. I have 19 inch Sharp 720p LCD TV that also does 1080i in my bedroom, so strongly consider downsizing! Yes games are fun on a 19 inch very good quality LCD, but I can see downsizing might give you some withdrawal symptoms. Tough it out![/quote]
I have a wall mounted 46" TV in my 13' by 11' room it looks great! 19 inch... YEESH!
I have a wall mounted 46" TV in my 13' by 11' room it looks great! 19 inch... YEESH!