Xbox one cooling help

[Microsoft Master]

So i finally moved my xbox into my room instead of playing in my living room and IT IS SOO HOT in my room and the xbox is causing part of the issue what should i buy to help cool my xbox

[themctipers]

xbox is hot? leave it alone, it'll be fine.

room is hot because of xbox? open your window and doors.

[Microsoft Master]

Just now, themctipers said:

xbox is hot? leave it alone, it'll be fine.

room is hot because of xbox? open your window and doors.

I live in florida so hell no im not opening my window and  i would rather not open my door for personal reasons.

[Daniel644]

if your room is heating up from the heat the xbox is putting off then you need to cool your ROOM MORE, NOT the Xbox, anything that would cool the Xbox down to a cooler temperature is just going to put MORE heat into your room (well technically move the heat into the room air faster). Unless you can somehow exhaust the hot air from the xbox directly out of your room then you HAVE to cool the ROOM, not the devices in the room.

[themctipers]

Just now, Microsoft Master said:

I live in florida so hell no im not opening my window and  i would rather not open my door for personal reasons.

buy a fan, turn on the ac

 

stop using your xbox for porn, you have a phone

[Microsoft Master]

I have a girlfriend, and i have my ac on and my fan is at max load

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, Microsoft Master said:

I have a girlfriend, and i have my ac on and my fan is at max load

then nothing more to do other then get a window unit AC (or make sure you have a PROPER RETURN AIR in your room as this will increase the amount of air that will come through the duct into your room) to cool the room more, also not to be nitpicky but fans DON'T COOL ROOMS, they "cool" things in there path by moving air across them, running a fan will not change the actual temperature of the room its in on its own.

 

[Gamerguy207]

Console are supposed to get hot, from me visiting Florida and looking at houses I know people keep there ac at like 79 degrees so turn it down to like 77 or 76 if money ain't a problem cuz cooling bill would go up then place your Xbox over the vent in your room here in Minnesota we keep our ac at 73 so cooling aint a problem 

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 hours ago, Microsoft Master said:

I have a girlfriend, and i have my ac on and my fan is at max load

Here's the problem, the Xbox One is going to consume a constant amount of power. Heat generation is a function of power consumption. So unless you want to reduce the power consumption of your Xbox (which you can't), you're going to be stuck with it dumping the same amount of heat

 

The only way to fix your problem is to have something that will remove as much heat, if not more, than what the Xbox is dumping.

[Microsoft Master]

6 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

if your room is heating up from the heat the xbox is putting off then you need to cool your ROOM MORE, NOT the Xbox, anything that would cool the Xbox down to a cooler temperature is just going to put MORE heat into your room (well technically move the heat into the room air faster). Unless you can somehow exhaust the hot air from the xbox directly out of your room then you HAVE to cool the ROOM, not the devices in the room.

I'm going to probobaly put my hardware "and vent" the closet directly on the other side of my wall in front of my desk.

[vanished]

If the outside temp is higher than your desired room temp, then you're right to not open the window since it would just let that in.  However, between the xbox, your body, and the fact that walls don't insulate perfectly, sealing the room up also won't solve the problem since some heat will still leak in, and you'll also be generating it internally.  The only solution is to remove heat from the room, and the only way to do that continuously and indefinitely is with an air conditioner.  You need to get one, or get a more powerful one, and of course vent the hot air end of it outside.  An evaporative cooler would also lower room temps but I do not recommend one in this case since a) they work best at very low humidity (and I assume you are in very high humidity in Florida), and b) if you don't somehow clear the humidity that an evaporative cooler creates from the room, it will stop working once it gets too high.

 

Once you get the temperature under a livable threshold, you could supplement with a fan blowing on you.  It won't make the room any cooler, but it will cool you off since fans make things approach ambient temp, and your body is certainly above ambient (assuming your AC is working sufficiently well)

[Microsoft Master]

15 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If the outside temp is higher than your desired room temp, then you're right to not open the window since it would just let that in.  However, between the xbox, your body, and the fact that walls don't insulate perfectly, sealing the room up also won't solve the problem since some heat will still leak in, and you'll also be generating it internally.  The only solution is to remove heat from the room, and the only way to do that continuously and indefinitely is with an air conditioner.  You need to get one, or get a more powerful one, and of course vent the hot air end of it outside.  An evaporative cooler would also lower room temps but I do not recommend one in this case since a) they work best at very low humidity (and I assume you are in very high humidity in Florida), and b) if you don't somehow clear the humidity that an evaporative cooler creates from the room, it will stop working once it gets too high.

 

Once you get the temperature under a livable threshold, you could supplement with a fan blowing on you.  It won't make the room any cooler, but it will cool you off since fans make things approach ambient temp, and your body is certainly above ambient (assuming your AC is working sufficiently well)

Your right my I'm going to get the vent replaced in my room because my room i on the back side of the house and the ac unit is acros the house from me so i just need a bigger vent and i can't have a window unit because who puts one in a house that has a $5000 DOLLAR AC SYSTEM

[Microsoft Master]

12 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Here's the problem, the Xbox One is going to consume a constant amount of power. Heat generation is a function of power consumption. So unless you want to reduce the power consumption of your Xbox (which you can't), you're going to be stuck with it dumping the same amount of heat

 

The only way to fix your problem is to have something that will remove as much heat, if not more, than what the Xbox is dumping.

Maybe i can ask linus to water cool my xbox?????

[Mira Yurizaki]

7 minutes ago, Microsoft Master said:

Maybe i can ask linus to water cool my xbox?????

Water cooling cannot cool below ambient temperature and that heat still has to go somewhere. This is a major reason why Linus's Whole Room Watercooling didn't work: they used copper piping. Any heat the computers generated would've been dumped back into the room which defeated the whole point of the project.

 

The only thing water cooling helps is it acts as a heat reservoir. It'll just take longer for the system to change its temperature.

[Microsoft Master]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Water cooling cannot cool below ambient temperature and that heat still has to go somewhere. This is a major reason why Linus's Whole Room Watercooling didn't work: they used copper piping. Any heat the computers generated would've been dumped back into the room which defeated the whole point of the project.

True they should of used pvc, or long hardened rubber pipes.

[Daniel644]

3 hours ago, Microsoft Master said:

Your right my I'm going to get the vent replaced in my room because my room i on the back side of the house and the ac unit is acros the house from me so i just need a bigger vent and i can't have a window unit because who puts one in a house that has a $5000 DOLLAR AC SYSTEM

a $5,000 AC system, well there is your problem, most complete AC systems are in the 10-20k range (installed) depending on the size of your house, also simply installing a larger REGISTER (not "vent") won't increase the amount of air coming, you NEED a larger Duct Line to increase the capacity for air, like if you have a 4" line it needs to go up to a 6" line, also where along the A/C that line attaches effects things too, like if it is a branched line or comes off the end of the "Trunk" Line (the big duct work Box either directly on top of or above the or beside the indoor unit of the A/C system) it won't have as much flow as something coming at the front of the trunk line. Also go back and look at videos from Jay, Kyle and others that used a bedroom for there early videos, everyone of them have a window unit A/C in the room because the room is up stairs and as such gets hotter then the main level of the house and instead of setting the main A/C to a colder setting they supplement it in the room they need it, you could also look into adding a Mini-split for your room (more expensive then a window unit but much much more energy efficient), this is a good option and you wouldn't need a big one for a small bedroom.

[dalekphalm]

On 29/07/2017 at 11:09 AM, Microsoft Master said:

True they should of used pvc, or long hardened rubber pipes.

Insulation on the copper pipe would have been sufficient, but added expense. They simply didn't plan out the Whole Room Watercooling well enough, and execution was also lacking.

 

Such a project CAN work, but it would be difficult.