His can be a thread for showing off or problem solving unconventional PC setups in places like your sitting room, bedroom, garage, kitchen… all the places you generally don’t want them…
I’m planning at some point to get a powerful flight sim capable PC next year to run MSFS in Vr… I assume it’ll run hot and require a fairly big case.
What I don’t want to do is put it up in our office, which is crowded already with two machines, no place for any roomscale VR stuff, and the banging around would be across the wall from my daughter who often has trouble falling asleep as it is. Besides, I spend all day in here, I’m done with it after work hours.
So what I need is to get it set up in the sitting room. Problem being, my wife won’t want to see it. So here is my tentative plan… the router is the far left of the room, under the window by the orange couch. Given that I will need the PC wired for it to Airlink well in VR, I run a network cable under the window, behind the white bookshelves and through the back. I put the PC in the far right cabinet, with the hot air exhaust pushed and sealed up against the right cabinet wall, and I cut a vent through which will expel all heat into the 15 cm void between the cabinet and the wall. When playing, I’ll have to keep the cabinet doors open for cool air. Note the shelf in the middle is removable or I can drill it higher to stack peripherals etc, as I have in the left side one holding the DVD player and power bars.
Either I hook up the PC to the 4K tv for general pancake gaming, in which case I get a Bluetooth mouse, keyboard and game pad and sit on the couch, or else I’ll cut a floating shelf that will slot in between the two open cabinet doors for resting a driving wheel or hotas (the shelf idea worked well before I had an office and we were sent home during pandemic, though it does take an annoying minute to set up every time). Seating will suck, I’m not gonna have a nice gaming chair down here, but beggars can’t be choosers.
So, what are the pitfalls here? Will the airflow and heat dissipation be sufficient for an nvidia 3080 or 4080 machine? Will the tv make a decent occasional monitor replacement, given I’m most likely to run most things in the Quest headset anyway via Remote Desktop? Any other bright ideas for the room?