Summary
A modder built a room-sized gaming PC you can stand inside and game via a motherboard-mounted screen.
They added a 12,000W charcoal sauna and water to raise heat and humidity inside the giant PC.
Giant fans plus an AC dropped the interior from 100.4°F to a comfy 77°F — airflow matters.
PC gaming in the winter is best. All of that heat generated from your hardware can feel like a miniature fireplace, and sometimes I think about how cool it would be if the computer could heat my room and play Cyberpunk 2077 at the same time.
But what if your PC was your room? Well, one modder has managed to achieve just that. They’ve designed a gaming PC you can stand in, and yes, you can actually game while you’re in there via a screen attached to the motherboard.
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Credit: Soda Baka
As reported by VideoCardz, this cool feat was performed by Soda Baka on the Chinese video-sharing website Bilibili. Some PC enthusiasts like to purchase a PC with a clear panel, then place their favorite figurines inside of it to keep their hardware company while they game. In this build, Soda Baka becomes a ‘living figurine’ by upscaling the PC to a gigantic size. It’s practically a room by itself.
Their build wasn’t just a cool-looking setpiece, though. Inside the dummy hardware was a real gaming PC, on which you could play your favorite games via a screen mounted on the large computer’s motherboard. Taking the idea of living inside a gaming PC even further, they added a 12,000W charcoal sauna and splashed water on it to increase the heat and humidity within the case. The heater managed to push the inside of the PC room to a toasty 100.4F, which is great for a gaming PC, but not so comfortable for a person.
The solution? Add a cooling system, of course. Alongside those giant fans was an AC unit to simulate a PC’s cooling system. Once activated, the inside of the PC dropped to a far more manageable 77F. Always check your air flows, people.
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