Those of you who use your pc solely for gaming, do you keep it in a dedicated room or do you keep it in the family room? Want some opinions. Are there benefits other than the quiet and keeping you rig safe? Do you get more done with the gaming time you have? Why do you or don’t you have a dedicated PC room?
Got a dedicated room for my PC. Less distraction when I’m trying to sleep and plenty of open space for VR. Privacy is a big consideration too if you don’t live alone.
I’m a broke ahh college student, so my PC is in my bedroom. No RGB + Be Quiet everything, so it’s not disruptive, even when my scheduled jobs kick in around midnight.
I don’t just use it for gaming, though - it’s nice to do schoolwork on a real computer (big keyboard, dual monitors etc) instead of a laptop.
I’d keep it in a designated room if I had such a room. I don’t even have room for my desk anymore. My desktop is on my TV table behind my TV, which is also the display I use it with. It’s a PITA using a mouse and keyboard with as is (well… My wired ones anyway; I should get some wireless periphs) and just mostly use it for gaming with a controller via Big Picture mode on Steam.
Mine is in my bedroom. Moderate rgb, corsair fans. Light and sound don’t bother me though. It’s quieter than my 3d printer which is also in my room, but I don’t run it at night.
I would have it in another room if I could though. We just don’t have the space right now.
Mine is in my bedroom. I have 2 desktop PCs set up in family room for my kids. Both small, tasteful single-screen setups, one in a nook in a shelving unit, the other on a converted little sewing table (that one’s been kitted out with LEDs, my kid is a gamer). Whereas my setup is a multi-screen monstrosity on a drawing table so I can sit and stand at it.
Dedicated PC room considered harmful. Be part of your family even if you’re ignoring them with your headphones on. Put in the work and manage your cables so the setup looks presentable. Get a nice looking chair and not a Gamer Chair. Get furniture.
Dedicated PC room considered harmful. Be part of your family even if you’re ignoring them with your headphones on. Put in the work and manage your cables so the setup looks presentable. Get a nice looking chair and not a Gamer Chair. Get furniture.
You just made me realize something. Before I moved out I had my PC in my room and I’d spend an unhealthy amount of time there. After I moved to live with my girlfriend, I had no option for a room where I would be isolated with my PC. So it’s in a shared space, I can game just as comfortably, but the fact that I’m not isolated makes me pause the game every so often and just talk to my girlfriend.
I don’t game that much anyway these days, not addicted or anything, but even when I do immerse myself, there’s always this impulse to take a break and socialize.
My steam deck and Shockz (open ear/bone conduction) headphones are how I stay “connected” to the family when I’m gaming. We can all be in the same room and chat, which is nice.
This. This is what I was looking for. I currently game on my laptop so I can break it out and play then put it up so it doesn’t get messed with( little one running around). The idea of a dedicated gaming room seems awesome but It also seems like a way to close yourself off. And I don’t like that. I like being able to hangout in the same room with everyone and still play my games.
I keep mine in the family area. More distractions, but it keeps me more available for everyone.
Speaking as the parent ….
I intended to convert our guest bedroom into a gaming room for my kids. We got excited over the things we could do to decorate and turn it into a real game room (maybe leave it usable as a guest room on the rare occasion). Then when it came down to it, that would mean I’d never see them. Instead we added banquet tables in the family room near the TV, so at least we’re all in the same room.
We do occasionally game together so that was even more handy
And it helps a lot with ventilation plus I’m lazy
Most certainly don’t. After all, it’s a luxury having a separate room specifically for your PC and other technical appliances.
However, you’ve said it yourself that it does keep things quiet. Not to mention that this way you could also connect a custom loop to your heating and make the components run cool with the heat coming off of it being put to good use. At this point you might as well make a server.
The downsides, beside the cost, are that you won’t see your creation. PC is something you put your soul into, picking all of the parts, making them all fit together the way you want them to, and if you spend time making it look pretty, it may as well serve as a decoration on your desk.
Not to mention that it’s simply easier to just put it beside your monitor, and to troubleshoot it if something happens.
Bro you just took me on a tangent I didn’t even know I wanted. A server room sounds awesome for heating in the winter.
You need to see some serious value in the server use for that to be “efficient” but I say this as someone that turned of the heat a few winters ago and mined crypto.
Wait, by “dedicated PC room” did you mean like an office room?
If so, for me it’s a matter of how private I want it to be or wether or not I want to separate it from other tasks.
Personally, I’d rather separate work than gaming from my daily life. Like kitchen, I like my kitchen connected to the living room, so I can spend time with others while cooking. Whereas with work I kinda need to concentrate, so everything else would be too distracting.
Yeah I meant an office, just didn’t want to be rude.
I share an office space with my so. The door locks. I have a new Steam Deck for elsewhere. No room for a separate room without Harry Pottering my kid.
People are less likely to hear me say bizarre shit from my office than from the living room
I live in the basement of my house. Not because I have too or anything I just prefer too. Because of that, the majority of my PC/gaming stuff is downstairs in the same room. If you build them right the noise is a non issue.
We do have a dedicated room for the PCs but we also use that room for work.
Can I ask: if you rent or buy, say for example, a 2 bedroom unit, and then use a whole bedroom for the computer, would you compare the cost of the rental/purchase to a 1br unit and associate that cost difference just for the computer, to the cost of building that pc?
(that’s a long sentence sorry)
I think your build just became a lot more expensive.
I don’t need a description. The answer is yes.
I have a room for my work computer and gaming PC along with VR. Lately I’ve been more into couch gaming, though, so I ran a 30ft hdmi cable to my living room.
