<p>I have a pretty sweet gaming rig that I would like to bring to college with me (cue gaming is a waste of time comments), and I was wondering if there's usually enough space for one in the dorm. The actual tower is a mid tower ATX, and I have a 21.5" monitor to go with it.</p>
<p>Depends on the dorm you’re living in, and how much space it has. Look at your campus housing options. They usually list dimensions of the room.</p>
<p>Are the dimensions of the room even important? I was thinking as long as there was a desk. . .do most dorms have desks in them?</p>
<p>I brought my gaming rig with me, but honestly space can be an issue. Just because you have a desk doesn’t mean you will want to devote the majority of it to your computer. </p>
<p>My desk seriously sucks because the top of it is really short width wise. In order to make everything fit nicely, I had to give up my actual gaming keyboard for the extra space I reserve for books between the edge of the keyboard and the edge of my desk. Does that make any sense?</p>
<p>Honestly, that was only a matter of choosing to have my full gaming setup/wanting to be comfortable when I study. I don’t mind my rig being at school with me. 
On a serious note, you should really look into the size that your desk will be because that would be the deciding factor along with whether you will be gaming a lot. I had planned on gaming a bunch, but I didn’t really get into the gaming mood until finals week…</p>
<p>Good question. How are the internet speeds in the dorms? Can it handle gaming?</p>
<p>To add to what mermaker said, my school will boot you off of the Internet if you are pulling too much bandwidth even though we are forced to play wired. You may want to check into that also before you get ready to pack up your rig.</p>
<p>i wanted to ask the same question too. i have a mid-tower atx and a 23in lcd screen. i know the college of my choice requires an Ethernet cable for computers to go on internet in the dorm. i just wanted to ask around should i buy an tablet/laptop on top of my rig?</p>
<p>If the school you are attending has wifi for your laptop, then it can have wireless for your desktop…all you need is a wireless g pci card(preferbly its the fastest) or a wireless usb adapter.</p>
<p>I doubt that your school requires you to have a wired desktop…how would they know?</p>
<p>Also if you only want to get a laptop for taking notes primarly and/or surfing the web. I strongly recommend looking into the new windows tablets, they’re cheaper than a laptop, more portable and have a keyboard attachment option that adds practically no weight and acts as a cover. Plus they come with storage space up to 128gb, but you don’t need that much space for just note taking.</p>
<p>I think the cheapest surface tablet is like $600 and most expensive is just under $1000, but once you get to the higher tier models you may as just start looking at the 13" macbook pro bc iirc its around $1000</p>
<p>And as for your school booting you off the internet for too much badwidth use: 1) sounds like fearmongering 2) you probably have to download some ridiculous amount in the 100s of gb which wont happen unless you are downloading a lot of movies or a even bigger amount of say discographies or .flac format music</p>
<p>You’ll never hit the badwidth cap from just gaming/internet browsing</p>
<p>Streaming movies may…im not sure about that</p>