For a channel about tech enthusiasts... there's a lot of hate about enthusiast over-the-top for-fun builds. Sheesh, lighten up people. This stuff is awesome.
He should have done this as a vlog type video...Advertise partners and show what you have done. Instead he is talking about everything like I'm watching because I'm getting ready to build one myself.
You get a mixed audience of tech enthusiasts, deal hunters, and people who want paint-by-numbers instructions on how to assemble things. For the older crowd, it's like the difference between TechTV and G4 back in the day.
•I received a Titan X from my uncle. •Asked for a 980ti instead •Nigga took it the wrong way •Mom got involved •According to mom Im ungrateful •Raised my voice for getting mad at me like wtf •Grounded me for 2 weeks •Mom is asian •Doesnt know what being grounded is •Life is great
+Mohammed Hamza Sharknado was a low budget production movie. This is pushing the limit of what you can do with modern hardware. The only similarity I can see is that both are 'over the top'.
+Mohammed Hamza Funny but in truth this has a LOT of potential usage. It's very cool that they use their position to pioneer some things we obviously wouldn't have the gear or money to try out. If you wanted to make a gaming café, set up large gaming room in a ho(s)tel, any of the other imaginable options without having a seperate computer for each taking up space this video/series is extremely helpful and interesting. I hope they continue looking at this until they manage to create a setup realistic enough in usage, price that people could start using and building similar machines. I'm thinking the board, case manufacturers just need to make a dedicated solution. Maybe even if it is in a "produce on demand" form factor given the potentially limited market for these kinds of things. Sharknado on the other hand is a fluke in every way imaginable but perhaps as a bad joke or massively over budgetted, out of control lost bet.
Lol.. I could buy 75 of my cars with that money.. I paid 400€ for my Golf MK3 Variant. Hell, I could get 4 of my cars for the money I spent on my computer, around 1800€.
I'm not sure but it's not about preference rather than RUclips starting to process from the top quality to bottom since a while and that's why sometimes the videos' up with 4K but not with 1080 and 720 yet,
Ah, that might be. I never come to that issue, since I watch everything in my subscriptions in a linear form (oldest to newest), so I rarely get to something that's just released.
+Niklas Jensen Not really, lol. He doesn't own most of the hardware companies send him, he actually has to send a lot of it back to the companies that lent it to him. He's also employing a lot of people and paying for other fees, such as gigabit internet, their insanely expensive server, etc. They may get a good amount of revenue from youtube, but that doesn't mean they're swimming in thousands of dollars worth of hardware constantly.
+GhostwarGWPTC I couldn't figure out why my laptop was crying and stuttering, was staring at resources, and couldn't figure why it was happening. realised youtube messing up by re-seting our quality auto settings lol
OmG :O im not the only one with the dream of having one "house-pc" wich powers vms in every room and can be used completly independent from the other vms...
+Augsburg Lp I've wanted to do this for ages! No Off-the-shelf/Commercial "it just works" solution yet though. I'm glad Linus is making this a known thing- May encourage the support for virtual gaming PCs.
+Augsburg Lp not at all, I am also in the process of building something like this using ebay sourced last generation xeon parts, some amazing deals possible.
+Augsburg Lp There is apparently more of us :D I wanted dual or quad G34 socket motherboard, as they are relatively cheap on ebay. Initially two AMD 16core opterons 62xx or 63xx, as they are like 50€ each. Some ram ofc, this will be probably the most expensive of the hardware :D. The gpus, well, any secondhand radeon could do, HD 5970s or so for now.. But with this, every VM can have just one gpu. You can not distribute the power dynamically. AMD released first hardware-based virtualization gpu - S7150x2 just this year, so we need to wait for that to come to consumers territory. Also nvidia GRID can be interesting too, but it is software-based mainly, but still very cool.
Suhkma Dheek yeah, that can be a bit of a problem. But TFLOPS and prices.. from what I found, older ATI cards had fewer problems with IOMMU than nvidia ones. And for r9 nanos, I think that was just temporarily problematic due to still new buggy drivers. We will see.. I would like to see current state of this, especially with KVM or even openstack :D That would be nice.
This was very interesting. I like seeing the over the top builds, and I wish I had the resources to do this kind of thing myself! I wonder if you could deal with the card thermal issues by using PCIe breakout cables. I don't know how long you can get those before you start to lose performance. But If you can get a reasonable cable length then you could build a rack on top of the server, add more spacing between the cards and perhaps put some tower fans in the room to move air around better? I'm also interested in the thin client stuff. The zotac mini PC's look interesting. My main work server is at home, so I'm using a Lenovo Miix 300 (atom z3745f) with splashtop to remote access it. It works pretty well but I'd like a bigger screen and keyboard when doing that. For the moment I'll just buy one, hook up the tablet to micro HDMI, slap in a dongle and keyboard/ mouse combo and live with it. But I may update this to a permanent "at her place" zotac mini-pc solution instead.
cakebrin3r No. Steam needs to think there's a screen connected in order for the streaming to work. This thing just takes in the video stream (and throws it away) and sends EDID saying it's a 4k 60Hz monitor. Its only purpose is to convince the graphics card that there's a screen connected (even though there isn't one).
You don't. They don't exist. The required bandwidth would be too high. There are some wireless display bridges but they mostly suck (they use heavy video compression, so they're suitable for office work, but not much else).
yeah isn't there a game service that's kinda like this where they house the actual hardware somewhere, receive input from you and stream the output of the game to you?
Sure over a not so great internet connection you'd be looking at 100ms, but what if the service was rolled out like some streaming services where there are a few hundred service hubs so there's almost always something nearby (and therefore around 20ms) and those service hubs communicated with each other for multiplayer gaming. While I still firmly believe having your own hardware would always be better for everything but your wallet, we're not all that far off from cloud gaming being a possibility.
There is a service like that already, Geforce Now - shield.nvidia.com/game-streaming-with-geforce-now I use it on my Nvdia Shield and it works pretty well actually.
+Suhkma Dheek Google is trying to tell you the same shit everyone with a brain will tell you. Google is trying to tell you that G-Sync is a scam. Google is trying to help you.
Thats such a retarded joke. The point is that the money that was pointlessly spent on those GPUs could have been spent on food for starving people. But empathy isnt "cool" anymore, we are a generation of egocentric sociopaths.
I don't know how long it has been this way, but i am very glad that he made the intro quiet... in the past the intro blasted through my speakers and threw me against the wall
I doubt anyone would need more than 1000 FPS on ultra in any game,if you have more than 60 FPS on ultra setting,well you know the saying: ''If it ain't broken,don't fix it.''
What I don't get is why you left it at "some of them are thermal throttling". I understand this is probably a huge time sink but a real solution to try to mitigate those problems would be cool
+LinusTechTips I like where that's going. Apparently it's a thing. An expensive thing, but nevertheless it exists. www.frozencpu.com/products/13368/ex-wat-172/Koolance_ERM-3K3UC_Cooling_System_-_Copper_-_No_Nozzles_.html
+LinusTechTips Although I guess using 4U blanks and mounting a rad would work as well. Or a cheap case and just destroy it to put rads everywhere since your cooling so many 980TIs. That would probably work out to be the best option. Shouldn't be too much custom work either since you would only be cutting holes for the rads, a pump, and a res, and mounting them. This could work...
+LinusTechTips I think it would be awesome to see the entire rig water cooled...would also be fun to perhaps see an active water chiller cool everything down in the system.
+LinusTechTips DO IT. Although the installation might be a night mare... try putting 10 GPUs into their respective PCI slots? What you should do is get the GTX 980 Hydro Copper edition, those blocks have upward facing ports. If you then attach quick disconnect fittings you'd be able to plug in the cards individually. You can then connect them through small quick disconnect bridges and have them in series. It's easier to remove a single card in case you need to, but would make the last card about 20-25 C warmer then the first since the water would rise about 2-3C per block. or use a long bridge with multiple T blocks and quick disconnects to have them run in parallel.though you'd need some beefy pumps to handle the loss in pressure from 10 blocks, but the cards would run at approximately the same temperature. Another option is do a hybrid parallel/Series, two lines coming in, and split them up to sets of GPUS (5x2, 2x5, 4(GTX980)x2+2(titans) and then combine the lines back up to the rads. It would be an insane water cooling project! with lots and lots of hours of fun aka crying silently in a corner because there's something wrong somewhere.
Love this kind of content, showing what happens when cutting edge enterprise level hardware gets in the hands of crazy enthusiasts like me!! Would love to see some sort of follow up to this!
+pktuchec monnom (jof343) It's really funny to see how many people complain about the intentional "1 CPU" branding. I guess their OCD can't process that it is one LOGICAL CPU :D.
Very cool. I've shared this idea of a centralised power house of a computer for many tasks including gaming for a while and I think it's absolutely the right direction.
i dont want to be that guy..but internet speeds in our country is so turtle that i have to buff this for at least 2 huours just to watch 1080p (it was the minimum resolution it was available) and my laptop ain't even 1080p (just saying)..sorry
+Joshua Brown (ANONY_FOX) This isn't using SLI so it could work with 1080s probably, but they don't officially come out till the 27th and it'll probably be extremely hard to get 10 cards for a few months
+Joshua Brown (ANONY_FOX) Actually Nvidea said they will only be supporting 2 way SLI. Which they have stated before, but are now pushing harder on the issue. 3 and 4 way SLI will still be capable with the 10xx series cards.
Joshua Brown Sorry, I saw you mention 2 way SLI support. Which has always been supported by NVidia. As for 3 and 4 way SLI support, which NVidia has never supported in full. Will now require a enthusiast mode in the BIOS to be written. No longer just plug and play. Which is why I elaborated on your comment "1080 series will only work in two way SLI". That is a false statement! In fact "10xx" series will work in 3 and 4 way SLI as well...
+Sna would work better, since their Thermal Output is so much lower! +Joshua Brown (ANONY_FOX) no that's not what you said, you said that >2 GTX1000 Series GPU's cannot be linked together. which is false.
+=LW= Canuck this is not sli, the gpu's are not running game togather. do you see any sli bridges? nope. do you really think 10 way sli has any support RIFLE. this is 10 VM'S each with its own single gpu.
You are going from overpowered costly machines to really practical usage. Really this transition is awesome Linus. I hope I see these machines during Dota2/CS Competitions
I'm so tired of seeing that kind of pc/server/monster or whatever this is... I want reviews of products I actually care as a gamer and standard user, just like before!!
+Santi Torres We already have a review up of the GTX 1080 - the only new graphics card in like.. months.. So I'm not sure what you're asking for. We can't invent new CPUs and video cards on our own..
+LinusTechTips I know, that's what I love, actually I'm waiting for GTX 1070 review. But I would like to see more, for example new Phanteks cases reviews perhaps in a pc build, or may be more budget gaming stuff, those are videos which I miss a lot. It's just only my opinion, anyways I'm happy at least you care about what we think :)
+Santi Torres dude..when we signed up for LTT by subscribing...most of us did it for the crazy stuff Linus does on camera..delidding CPUs...fixing wet Laptops..Whole room water cooling..baking video cards...and not to forget Scrapyard Wars..so better wait for some NORMAL BORING Video to come up for urself.... :/
Over the years I've been moving to centralizing my tech devices, I've home run wired the house, installed home automation control (get rid of piles of remotes), setup dedicated server room, virtualized most systems and now working on something like this system, but not as extreme.
Literally impossible. The fastest anything can go is the speed of light, and at the speed of light the time it would take to go from my house to tokyo is 36 milliseconds. Lower latency is definitely possible, but there's a hard limit as to how low it can go unless our current laws of physics are extremely wrong. edit: and that's the speed of light in a vacuum. The speed of light in an optical fiber is far slower, so the limit with current state-of-the-art materials is actually 54 ms.
So... Steam Streaming is the bottleneck there, right? I mean, I used it, it's pretty awesome, but even a gaming PC and a single thin client (in my case a Windows tablet on top of a docking station working as HTPC) all wired (Ethernet) will still have similar problems (latency, getting wonky at times, dropping resolution, etc). Theoretically, if you build this powerhouse and made wired connections everywhere to use it directly, I guess you could already make a lanhouse or an entire family setup like that. Of course, it'd still be kinda ridiculous the ammount of HDMI and USB cables going around (plus all the signal amplifiers/boosters), but it seems this monster could take it. :P Oh, in the end, I moved my office to the side of my living room and made it like this. Using a wireless keyboard, and a really long HDMI cable. The steam streaming experience wasn't bad... I was very surprised how well it worked, honestly. But man... nothing better than a direct connection. xD
+XSportSeeker he also said many/most of the graphics cards were thermal throttling so I'm not sure running wires would fix everything but it would improve
+XSportSeeker My suggestion (not sure how much it'd cost on top of the $30k PC) is optical thunderbolt. Can split it out at each "client" monitor and to a dock that provides USB connections for input devices. Downside is needing to wire it and the cost, but that would solve the need to bother with HDMI/USB and boosters.
Linus made a video on how to get review samples, and a major point was that you need to be able to get exposure for the product and your channel currently has only 35 subs and no content. Try reviewing cheaper or used products to grow your channel, and then companies will be more likely to give review samples because you will gain their product more exposure to the public.
For the desired solution he is mentioning ... having one in every room of your house is not practical for electrical wiring the house...let alone cooling solutions. Put it all in one custom closet and you solve power with one high voltage terminal, noise isolated to a soundproof enclosure, and the cooling with an elegant design for the closet(vs having to vent out 10 different pcs around the house)
Well linus when a bit overboard. Instead of having 10 GTX 980s you could used 10 GTX 1050TI's since in home streaming only support 1080P 60FPS anways and a 980 is overkill. Also you dont need as much ram as he used, 8GB of ram per user is fine for most gaming applications, also he used super overkill CPUS, each vm/player only really needs 4Cores, You dont need all that SSD storage because HDD's would be much cheaper and the only difference in performance between SSDs and HDDs in gaming is just loading times. Also you dont have to do it on such a big scale, you could used referbished server hardware (which is really cheap) and only have lets says 4 gamers 1 CPU since that is more realistic in a normal household. I myself am actually working on a similar project. I already have a server with 2x X5670's with 24GB of ram and I am going to make 3 gamers 1 cpu. I have 2 GTX 560ti's laying around and a HD 7770 which I am going to throw into my server, give each VM 6 threads and 8GB of ram each with 500GB of HDD space and I would be able to stream 720P 60FPS to my tvs and thinclients around my house. It is deffianlty not as impressive as what linus has done but I would argue that it is more practicle. Since the only time I would actually used all 3 vms at the same time is if my friends come over for a lanparty and all they have is a shitty laptop that doesn't game very well. I would be looking to upgrade the GPUS to 1050tis since they would be able to handle 1080P at 60fps alot better but its a start.
Bitcoins have been ASIC accelerated for a while so it isn't worth it with cards. Some other cryptos are borderline worth it. Mining was always terrible for Nvidia cards (some key instructions missing, AMD was about 2x as fast). You could do protein folding though, but then it would be easier to just use a single OS with 8 cards.
The other video would make for a nice LAN party or internet cafe setup, but this one here is the dream. Won't be possible until someone figures out a way to stream video over the network without major latency issues.
this is wonderful you have really thought about the potential application of this technology - thin clients are a great idea and the hdmi dongles are very cool
For everyone that seems SOOO concerned that he used 2 processing chips in a video that's described as 1 CPU... CPU means "Central Processing Unit" which can refer to the tower as a whole. Also, lighten up. It's a cool video even if that was incorrect which it isn't. Keep up the great work LTT, can't wait to see how you make me jealous of your setup in the next video 😊
This is more of what I had in mind when I saw the title of the video before. This is literally exactly what I had in mind down to the manufacture of the barebone. My problem with it is that you could have easily done this Vmware View and Esxi. Esxi supports every feature you needed.
Did you have a single network cable going to the server or multiple? I would think if all of the network cables were hooked up and setup correctly through a good switch like a Ubiquiti, then the network lag would be negligible. If it's all through a single 1Gbps connection, then I'm surprised at the little lag noticed. Most of it looks like network lag to be honest. I don't think the server was even breaking a sweat.
I love the idea of the house of the future with a home server providing compute and other resources wherever needed. I would also love to see some sort of whole-house cooling. Every device, whether it's a computer or a surround sound receiver or TV or battery backup or wifi router or gaming console or whatever generates heat, and operates better with a longer lifespan if temperature can be controlled. A standard cooling solution that could be connected to easily and which could centralize heat management (dumping it outside in the summer, delivering it to rooms needing heat in the winter) would be amazing. Obviously we're a million miles from anything like that being remotely possible, but I can dream...
Damn Linus, i can see the potential of your vision. A home based tower providing the pc utility on every screen of a home, or a gaming rig for a training esports team who wants to be mobile and efficient,even public pc accesses could utilize these. Too many possibilities. I can already see it happening
I think it's a nice idea, a computer cluster for a multi-player gaming setup. Could it be a good business idea? Like to have potential for renting out one GPU at LAN parties and have the case out of the way to save room, or similarly in arcades you can add some PC games there.
Very cool Linus, this is exactly the solution I've been waiting for, it's not quite there yet latency wise unfortunately but hey the dream is coming closer to fruition! Can't wait for the day though where I can set something like this up in my home and even via a local wireless home network have low enough latency to play any game.
Do more videos toying with this concepts! I'd love to see something closer to what normal people might need or use... For example, how would a Ryzen 2700X with 2 GPUs perform for two gaming stations. Would it be possible to have a variable resources allocation in the case that one of the users needed more cores to encode a video or something like that? I'm really hopping that the next upgrade for my wife and kid (both are gamers!) to be some sort of VM env to save some space and reduce cable management in our home...
So if you wouldn't mind shipping this over to the UK, that'd be great.
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For a channel about tech enthusiasts... there's a lot of hate about enthusiast over-the-top for-fun builds. Sheesh, lighten up people. This stuff is awesome.
+EposVox Cereal
The comments. As I was watching, the top-rated comments were "I'm tired of this unrealistic shit, go back to stuff I can actually buy" etc. etc.
He should have done this as a vlog type video...Advertise partners and show what you have done. Instead he is talking about everything like I'm watching because I'm getting ready to build one myself.
thank god you got rid of that ugly profile picture
You get a mixed audience of tech enthusiasts, deal hunters, and people who want paint-by-numbers instructions on how to assemble things. For the older crowd, it's like the difference between TechTV and G4 back in the day.
Amazing. I really want to see you try and make a cost effective version for just a few gamers!
I'am sub! :D
+Hardware Unboxed N gamers 1 CPU scrapyard wars?
+Hardware Unboxed this inspired me to put one together for myself and my wife. Should be lots of fun!
+Justin2112 That does sound fun. Good luck if you try it
Well, there's the 2 gamers 1cpu rig.
My right ear really enjoyed that tunnel bear add
Same
Linus asks for 8 gtx980ti... Linus gets 8 gtx980ti.
I ask for 1 gtx980ti... I get grounded for 2 weeks.
+Gerald Ander Lee Your comment just made my day.
+Gerald Ander Lee Just for ASKING?
+Gerald Ander Lee 980Ti will be pointless in a week.
•I received a Titan X from my uncle.
•Asked for a 980ti instead
•Nigga took it the wrong way
•Mom got involved
•According to mom Im ungrateful
•Raised my voice for getting mad at me like wtf
•Grounded me for 2 weeks
•Mom is asian
•Doesnt know what being grounded is
•Life is great
+Gerald Ander Lee my pc burned
Well there goes Titanator lol.
hey Edgar. i'm afan of your videos :) great job
Which build of yours is that?
When i first saw this i though it was titanator
+TechSource lol just saw that video and thought the same
+TechSource haha yes, i saw the thumbnail to that video and thought of linus ;)
This series is the sharknado of the tech world
Perfect analogy
+Mohammed Hamza Sharknado was a low budget production movie. This is pushing the limit of what you can do with modern hardware. The only similarity I can see is that both are 'over the top'.
+The Echelon did you really need to go there?
+The Echelon I was referring to the common B-movie trope of the "bigger and badder" sequels rather than the budget.
+Mohammed Hamza Funny but in truth this has a LOT of potential usage. It's very cool that they use their position to pioneer some things we obviously wouldn't have the gear or money to try out. If you wanted to make a gaming café, set up large gaming room in a ho(s)tel, any of the other imaginable options without having a seperate computer for each taking up space this video/series is extremely helpful and interesting. I hope they continue looking at this until they manage to create a setup realistic enough in usage, price that people could start using and building similar machines. I'm thinking the board, case manufacturers just need to make a dedicated solution. Maybe even if it is in a "produce on demand" form factor given the potentially limited market for these kinds of things. Sharknado on the other hand is a fluke in every way imaginable but perhaps as a bad joke or massively over budgetted, out of control lost bet.
that computer literally costs more than my car
+Puinguin I'm pretty sure your driving a go kart
sad thing we dont even have car :(
Joshua Graham Ik this is old af but many used cars come in at around $2.000, so you could actually buy barely more than 8 for the cost
my pc costs more than my car too :) the benefits of buying used
Lol.. I could buy 75 of my cars with that money.. I paid 400€ for my Golf MK3 Variant. Hell, I could get 4 of my cars for the money I spent on my computer, around 1800€.
It still has 2 CPUs.
Why, Linus, why in the hell did you call it "1 CPU"? It's literally wrong and is worse compared to the simpler "1 PC".
+Alexander Bus because I'm just a bad person, I guess :p
+LinusTechTips this triggers my sisgender power supply
+Official Explosive Likely due to the resolution your phone needs is not rendered yet, you should be able to watch it in-browser.
+LinusTechTips 10 gamers one motherboard more like
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What I want to know is why this video automatically starting playing in 4K on my potato build.
It was uploaded in 4k and you net can handle it
I know same, my computer was lagging for half the video before I realised it was streaming in 4k.
Because you can set your preferred quality in your settings... It's not that hard..
I'm not sure but it's not about preference rather than RUclips starting to process from the top quality to bottom since a while and that's why sometimes the videos' up with 4K but not with 1080 and 720 yet,
Ah, that might be. I never come to that issue, since I watch everything in my subscriptions in a linear form (oldest to newest), so I rarely get to something that's just released.
You should make a new one but using RTX 2080ti's.
Blake Meeker or Titan V's
V1 Bhat well the titan v isn’t meant for gaming really
@@scott7305 who cares it can still do it like a beast.
How about 3090s?
What would be the viewing interest of that? It'd still run.
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uhm, twomad? why does your comment have no likes
how does this have only one like lmao. this is weird to see.
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+Niklas Jensen Yeah like NCIX!
+JBroMCMXCI Yes, what are you talking about
+Niklas Jensen No, I will have none of that.
+Niklas Jensen Not really, lol. He doesn't own most of the hardware companies send him, he actually has to send a lot of it back to the companies that lent it to him. He's also employing a lot of people and paying for other fees, such as gigabit internet, their insanely expensive server, etc. They may get a good amount of revenue from youtube, but that doesn't mean they're swimming in thousands of dollars worth of hardware constantly.
+JBroMCMXCI no clue what that is
So will we be getting a 2 girls and a cup sequel soon?
8 girls, 1 keyboard
8 girls and 1 joystick
+timmy yong 1 joystick, 8 Dildo's
1 SLI Extension 8 girls
10 cpu's, 1 motherboard...
This thing could replace all of the insanely slow 450 laptops in my school
I wish...
360p club! lol
I was here
+Maker's nope 1080p
+Luke Waterhouse Nope 360p still for me tho
i can only watch it in 1080p or 1440p
4k or 2k res :(
wtf why did this default to 4k when i dont even have a 4k screen and the min resolution is 1080
+GhostwarGWPTC haha I have a 1440x900 monitor and 1 Mbps currently..... and its ok 4k!!
+GhostwarGWPTC It's because youtube bas not yet processed other quality levels due to the video just being uploaded.
+GhostwarGWPTC I couldn't figure out why my laptop was crying and stuttering, was staring at resources, and couldn't figure why it was happening.
realised youtube messing up by re-seting our quality auto settings lol
+GhostwarGWPTC same for me only 1080, 1440 and 4K.... I will be waiting like a 1h to download this...
+GhostwarGWPTC i get like 2fps on my chromebook :D
OmG :O im not the only one with the dream of having one "house-pc" wich powers vms in every room and can be used completly independent from the other vms...
+Augsburg Lp I've wanted to do this for ages! No Off-the-shelf/Commercial "it just works" solution yet though. I'm glad Linus is making this a known thing- May encourage the support for virtual gaming PCs.
+Augsburg Lp not at all, I am also in the process of building something like this using ebay sourced last generation xeon parts, some amazing deals possible.
+Augsburg Lp There is apparently more of us :D I wanted dual or quad G34 socket motherboard, as they are relatively cheap on ebay. Initially two AMD 16core opterons 62xx or 63xx, as they are like 50€ each. Some ram ofc, this will be probably the most expensive of the hardware :D. The gpus, well, any secondhand radeon could do, HD 5970s or so for now.. But with this, every VM can have just one gpu. You can not distribute the power dynamically. AMD released first hardware-based virtualization gpu - S7150x2 just this year, so we need to wait for that to come to consumers territory. Also nvidia GRID can be interesting too, but it is software-based mainly, but still very cool.
Suhkma Dheek
yeah, that can be a bit of a problem. But TFLOPS and prices.. from what I found, older ATI cards had fewer problems with IOMMU than nvidia ones. And for r9 nanos, I think that was just temporarily problematic due to still new buggy drivers. We will see.. I would like to see current state of this, especially with KVM or even openstack :D That would be nice.
I think the titanator is beaten.
lol
Lol
there is a server that can do 16 GPUs but you might need to cool naked GPUs with no fans and run them as a single card
TWERX Yepp, the titanator had 8 titan x, this beast has 10 cards!
jonathan oxlade what server is that I'm interested in bulking something like this for my family home
This was very interesting. I like seeing the over the top builds, and I wish I had the resources to do this kind of thing myself!
I wonder if you could deal with the card thermal issues by using PCIe breakout cables. I don't know how long you can get those before you start to lose performance. But If you can get a reasonable cable length then you could build a rack on top of the server, add more spacing between the cards and perhaps put some tower fans in the room to move air around better?
I'm also interested in the thin client stuff. The zotac mini PC's look interesting. My main work server is at home, so I'm using a Lenovo Miix 300 (atom z3745f) with splashtop to remote access it. It works pretty well but I'd like a bigger screen and keyboard when doing that. For the moment I'll just buy one, hook up the tablet to micro HDMI, slap in a dongle and keyboard/ mouse combo and live with it. But I may update this to a permanent "at her place" zotac mini-pc solution instead.
Sorry didn't mean breakout cable. Showing my age there! I mean the PCIe x16 extension cables/ riser cable.
What's next ? 20 gamer
+Hardeep Kaur don't tempt me :p
+LinusTechTips 10 Gamers in VR is better
+Hardeep Kaur Hahaha, Gangbang in VR.
+Hardeep Kaur omg setup a 4-8 player hover junkers match for 1 computer!
Most likely LAN party Vancouver 1 cpu.
review of the 4k wireless video transmitter?
It's not a transmitter, it's just a “fake screen” because Steam is retarded and can't run headless.
wat? its plugged into display port isnt it just a wireless display port connector?
cakebrin3r No. Steam needs to think there's a screen connected in order for the streaming to work. This thing just takes in the video stream (and throws it away) and sends EDID saying it's a 4k 60Hz monitor. Its only purpose is to convince the graphics card that there's a screen connected (even though there isn't one).
***** so then where the hell do i get a magic wireless display port connector?
You don't. They don't exist. The required bandwidth would be too high. There are some wireless display bridges but they mostly suck (they use heavy video compression, so they're suitable for office work, but not much else).
I still breathe manually every time I see a LTT intro.
I know this comment is 4 years old but goddamnit that got me
Most accurately these builds would be x gamers 1 motherboard.
Again, aside from this actual one because relying on barebones client side hardware adds more motherboards - heck whole computers.
yeah isn't there a game service that's kinda like this where they house the actual hardware somewhere, receive input from you and stream the output of the game to you?
Sure over a not so great internet connection you'd be looking at 100ms, but what if the service was rolled out like some streaming services where there are a few hundred service hubs so there's almost always something nearby (and therefore around 20ms) and those service hubs communicated with each other for multiplayer gaming. While I still firmly believe having your own hardware would always be better for everything but your wallet, we're not all that far off from cloud gaming being a possibility.
Plus, this was done over gigabit ethernet with likely a ten gigabit (potentially multiple) for the server. far far faster than most internet service.
There is a service like that already, Geforce Now - shield.nvidia.com/game-streaming-with-geforce-now
I use it on my Nvdia Shield and it works pretty well actually.
CPU AND PC IS FUCKING DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
still love it
I think he is just trolling at this point due to the massive response the first time he made the mistake.
at school they call a tower PC a CPU and an NUC a mini cpu XD
Indonesian? yup, this is really annoyed me. Mangga dua (Biggest Computer store center in Indonesia) seller even called PC = CPU
Its a reference to 2 girls 1 cup. 2 gamers 1 PC/Tower doesn't ring as well.
+Jason C Lmao
8 gamers 1 cpu phew no sweat do 8 gamers 1 gpu if u dare ;)
You can't.
Maybe if they're running Tetris
/s
quit being so negative.
***** Why do you have to be so judgemental.
This is now my favorite channel I have ever subscribed to. Just so informational!
When Linus uses Freesync monitors with Nvidia GPUs.
*sigh*
+Suhkma Dheek If you think google is bad at reading, try using bing.
+Tyler Weigand It's not like gsync is gonna work for a network stream anyway, one of the downsides of such a set up.
+Suhkma Dheek Google is trying to tell you the same shit everyone with a brain will tell you. Google is trying to tell you that G-Sync is a scam. Google is trying to help you.
+edwardecl True forgot about that
+Tyler Weigand This ain't the forst time. He used G-Sync monitors on the 7 gamers/1 cpu build (which used R9 Nanos)...
Children in Africa could've eaten those GPUs.....
Thats such a retarded joke. The point is that the money that was pointlessly spent on those GPUs could have been spent on food for starving people.
But empathy isnt "cool" anymore, we are a generation of egocentric sociopaths.
+Smokey Nope the joke is that nvidia cards taste like lime
***** I rest my case.
Actually it'd make them sick
You just killed 8 African children
Good job, do you feel good about yourself?
Kareleos Wrong. Video Cards have RAM in them and Ram is edible.
Linus is like the mad scientist of PCs
I don't know how long it has been this way, but i am very glad that he made the intro quiet... in the past the intro blasted through my speakers and threw me against the wall
what if you used this pc for one gamer
I doubt anyone would need more than 1000 FPS on ultra in any game,if you have more than 60 FPS on ultra setting,well you know the saying: ''If it ain't broken,don't fix it.''
Hyper Graphics unless you have a 144hz monitor
you'd need a 1000hz monitor lol
well I mean you wouldnt be getting any performance boost out of having that many gpus but it would probably be amazing for bitcoin mining
@@meisterwald3032 at 640x480 Pixels.
Whats about a Video of 1 Gamer, 8 CPUs instead of 8 Gamers, 1 CPUs? ;)
What I don't get is why you left it at "some of them are thermal throttling". I understand this is probably a huge time sink but a real solution to try to mitigate those problems would be cool
+Jordan Fair would need to water cool. Could actually use a separate rackmount radiator box.. Hmm....
+LinusTechTips I like where that's going. Apparently it's a thing. An expensive thing, but nevertheless it exists. www.frozencpu.com/products/13368/ex-wat-172/Koolance_ERM-3K3UC_Cooling_System_-_Copper_-_No_Nozzles_.html
+LinusTechTips Although I guess using 4U blanks and mounting a rad would work as well. Or a cheap case and just destroy it to put rads everywhere since your cooling so many 980TIs. That would probably work out to be the best option. Shouldn't be too much custom work either since you would only be cutting holes for the rads, a pump, and a res, and mounting them. This could work...
+LinusTechTips I think it would be awesome to see the entire rig water cooled...would also be fun to perhaps see an active water chiller cool everything down in the system.
+LinusTechTips
DO IT.
Although the installation might be a night mare... try putting 10 GPUs into their respective PCI slots?
What you should do is get the GTX 980 Hydro Copper edition, those blocks have upward facing ports.
If you then attach quick disconnect fittings you'd be able to plug in the cards individually.
You can then connect them through small quick disconnect bridges and have them in series.
It's easier to remove a single card in case you need to, but would make the last card about 20-25 C warmer then the first since the water would rise about 2-3C per block.
or use a long bridge with multiple T blocks and quick disconnects to have them run in parallel.though you'd need some beefy pumps to handle the loss in pressure from 10 blocks, but the cards would run at approximately the same temperature.
Another option is do a hybrid parallel/Series, two lines coming in, and split them up to sets of GPUS (5x2, 2x5, 4(GTX980)x2+2(titans) and then combine the lines back up to the rads.
It would be an insane water cooling project! with lots and lots of hours of fun aka crying silently in a corner because there's something wrong somewhere.
Love this kind of content, showing what happens when cutting edge enterprise level hardware gets in the hands of crazy enthusiasts like me!! Would love to see some sort of follow up to this!
Tfw no GTX 1080s
+Julius White They only have, and could only get 1
It's not even available to consumers yet.
yeah ik
+MysteryMii215 didn't they release the founders edition the 7:th, to get more money?
Albin Sigurdson It comes out on Friday.
(May 27th)
i saw this and thought oh god not again
+williamg209two lol
Intel got the chips, and Kingston brought the beer. =D
And Zotac can't forget about Zotac, they got the reefer.
+Montgomery Bojangles 😂
+Montgomery Bojangles what about NVIDIA? They brought the hookers
+Montgomery Bojangles although only 2
This is exactly what I wanted to built in my home. Thanks for building this! Very awesome.
That pc could probably render avatar in REAL TIME
It's crazy how people are complaning... Just enjoy the damn thing or gtfo.
This concept is not clear to most people on RUclips.
+Lord AJ especially in the comments section.
+pktuchec monnom (jof343) It's really funny to see how many people complain about the intentional "1 CPU" branding. I guess their OCD can't process that it is one LOGICAL CPU :D.
Just imagine playing GTA 3 on this beauty
How about all GTA from GTA III to GTA V?
I had actually had a similar idea to do this at my house but was not quite sure how to do it. I found this quite enlightening.
30k for 10 gamers? well you can get much better performance if you just make a 3k rig for everyone.
Stop being sensible damn it
G'day, how about the 2019 version of a household centre.. Keen..!!
can you water cool this whole thing cause that would be a sweet video or oil cool it that would be even coolyer
+Celtic704 or you could mount an AC coil thingy in the front to pump in super cool air
+Celtic704 Do you mean a phase change?
hugo holder ummm......sure...I guess? I don't know what a phase change is
***** yeah that would probably happen
he would need a much larger case to start, but I do agree that would be cool!
Very cool. I've shared this idea of a centralised power house of a computer for many tasks including gaming for a while and I think it's absolutely the right direction.
One day all of this will be on a single chip about the size of a general consumer CPU.
Cough 3990x cough
i dont want to be that guy..but internet speeds in our country is so turtle that i have to buff this for at least 2 huours just to watch 1080p (it was the minimum resolution it was available) and my laptop ain't even 1080p (just saying)..sorry
+xLi41 blame youtube
I watch on 1440p on my 1366x768 laptop because I can
+xLi41 its processed now
I feel you guy, I'm in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico with 256k satellite Internet.
+dm4uz3 I watched 4K video on a same res laptop as you. It was fun.
would this work with the 1080? ._.
+Joshua Brown (ANONY_FOX) This isn't using SLI so it could work with 1080s probably, but they don't officially come out till the 27th and it'll probably be extremely hard to get 10 cards for a few months
+Joshua Brown (ANONY_FOX) Actually Nvidea said they will only be supporting 2 way SLI. Which they have stated before, but are now pushing harder on the issue.
3 and 4 way SLI will still be capable with the 10xx series cards.
Joshua Brown Sorry, I saw you mention 2 way SLI support. Which has always been supported by NVidia.
As for 3 and 4 way SLI support, which NVidia has never supported in full. Will now require a enthusiast mode in the BIOS to be written. No longer just plug and play.
Which is why I elaborated on your comment "1080 series will only work in two way SLI". That is a false statement! In fact "10xx" series will work in 3 and 4 way SLI as well...
+Sna
would work better, since their Thermal Output is so much lower!
+Joshua Brown (ANONY_FOX)
no that's not what you said, you said that >2 GTX1000 Series GPU's cannot be linked together.
which is false.
+=LW= Canuck this is not sli, the gpu's are not running game togather. do you see any sli bridges? nope. do you really think 10 way sli has any support RIFLE. this is 10 VM'S each with its own single gpu.
You are going from overpowered costly machines to really practical usage. Really this transition is awesome Linus. I hope I see these machines during Dota2/CS Competitions
I'm so tired of seeing that kind of pc/server/monster or whatever this is... I want reviews of products I actually care as a gamer and standard user, just like before!!
+Santi Torres We already have a review up of the GTX 1080 - the only new graphics card in like.. months.. So I'm not sure what you're asking for. We can't invent new CPUs and video cards on our own..
+LinusTechTips reasonable but savage. just how i like it
+LinusTechTips I know, that's what I love, actually I'm waiting for GTX 1070 review.
But I would like to see more, for example new Phanteks cases reviews perhaps in a pc build, or may be more budget gaming stuff, those are videos which I miss a lot.
It's just only my opinion, anyways I'm happy at least you care about what we think :)
There are 2 million other subscribers, you're not special.
+Santi Torres dude..when we signed up for LTT by subscribing...most of us did it for the crazy stuff Linus does on camera..delidding CPUs...fixing wet Laptops..Whole room water cooling..baking video cards...and not to forget Scrapyard Wars..so better wait for some NORMAL BORING Video to come up for urself.... :/
add a sli bridge and 40k gaming is here
minecraftvideo2547 doesnt work minecraft kiddo
It wouldnt be 40k, it would either be 32k or 64k
nyoai the original commenters username
Memer_Rick whoosh
minecraftvideo2547 you mean SLI Highway system?
DAMN IT, MY 1.4Mbps CONNACTION CAN'T KEEP UP WITH 1080P, DAMN IT, I WANT TO SEE DOE!
stick to 720p
+Macky Clemen Has not processed yet :\...
Try with your 1.4Mbps connEction instead
+Dechlan Hillard #FiberMasterRace
+Dechlan Hillard oh
Over the years I've been moving to centralizing my tech devices, I've home run wired the house, installed home automation control (get rid of piles of remotes), setup dedicated server room, virtualized most systems and now working on something like this system, but not as extreme.
Why 980Ti's and not 1080?
1080's aren't out yet and this probably wasn't the most recent project
+gustaff franz seriously?
+MarioDragon 1080 got released like yesterday
man gustaff
+Dr.Toxic Uhh no, it releases on the 27th and to answer OP's question, they only got 1 1080 as a review copy
8 gamers 1 cpu sounds like one of those gross 2 girl 1 cup things.
it is
What does 2 girl 1 cup mean?
@@JamButter123 google it, if you like chocolate ice cream youre golden
Threadripper and/or i9 revision?
I kept saying holy cow during the entire video, this pc is extreme. Great build linus
360p masterrace!
+Fortzon im there with you son
Im hoping it can run minecraft shit....
+Nylat But can it run minesweeper?
Are you serious? It won't even run dos
Albert Einstein If you say it, id trust it
+Alfred Zianini But can it calculate 1+1=2?
+NecroLord takes some time but it can ...
1 CPU my ass
true
Literally impossible. The fastest anything can go is the speed of light, and at the speed of light the time it would take to go from my house to tokyo is 36 milliseconds. Lower latency is definitely possible, but there's a hard limit as to how low it can go unless our current laws of physics are extremely wrong.
edit: and that's the speed of light in a vacuum. The speed of light in an optical fiber is far slower, so the limit with current state-of-the-art materials is actually 54 ms.
Dhrumil Shah (Personal) yea its 44 cpud
Dhrumil Shah (Personal) I see 69 likes
People call the computer itself a cpu... Linus is lying my ass.
very good and entertaining video ! keep it up ltt team
So... Steam Streaming is the bottleneck there, right? I mean, I used it, it's pretty awesome, but even a gaming PC and a single thin client (in my case a Windows tablet on top of a docking station working as HTPC) all wired (Ethernet) will still have similar problems (latency, getting wonky at times, dropping resolution, etc).
Theoretically, if you build this powerhouse and made wired connections everywhere to use it directly, I guess you could already make a lanhouse or an entire family setup like that.
Of course, it'd still be kinda ridiculous the ammount of HDMI and USB cables going around (plus all the signal amplifiers/boosters), but it seems this monster could take it. :P
Oh, in the end, I moved my office to the side of my living room and made it like this. Using a wireless keyboard, and a really long HDMI cable. The steam streaming experience wasn't bad... I was very surprised how well it worked, honestly. But man... nothing better than a direct connection. xD
+XSportSeeker he also said many/most of the graphics cards were thermal throttling so I'm not sure running wires would fix everything but it would improve
+XSportSeeker My suggestion (not sure how much it'd cost on top of the $30k PC) is optical thunderbolt. Can split it out at each "client" monitor and to a dock that provides USB connections for input devices. Downside is needing to wire it and the cost, but that would solve the need to bother with HDMI/USB and boosters.
+om3ganet you would be needing one thunderbolt PCIe expansion card per each VMs.
Linus asks for a few 1tb SSDs and he gets them
I ask for 50$ and I get "GET IT URSELF"
You have 35 subs and linus does promotion on his 2.6 mil channel!
Linus made a video on how to get review samples, and a major point was that you need to be able to get exposure for the product and your channel currently has only 35 subs and no content. Try reviewing cheaper or used products to grow your channel, and then companies will be more likely to give review samples because you will gain their product more exposure to the public.
You're an idiot.
+TheAviroGamer I don't intend on doing reviews
+Henry Walsh please specify the reason I'm an idiot, is it because I have a sense of humour unlike you?
30k$ pc, xD can i have only 1k$ from that?
+Proxum: jon lajoie!!
***** Good job. You are the reason this society sux so hard =]
+That Guy you can't be That Guy cause I'm That Guy!😎
This is awesome, your vision for the future of computing is basically dead on what I've imagined.
wouldn't it be cheaper to buy 8 different comps?
Of course
But that wouldn't be as fun.
TheNinjaNerds too much space required
For the desired solution he is mentioning ... having one in every room of your house is not practical for electrical wiring the house...let alone cooling solutions. Put it all in one custom closet and you solve power with one high voltage terminal, noise isolated to a soundproof enclosure, and the cooling with an elegant design for the closet(vs having to vent out 10 different pcs around the house)
Well linus when a bit overboard. Instead of having 10 GTX 980s you could used 10 GTX 1050TI's since in home streaming only support 1080P 60FPS anways and a 980 is overkill. Also you dont need as much ram as he used, 8GB of ram per user is fine for most gaming applications, also he used super overkill CPUS, each vm/player only really needs 4Cores, You dont need all that SSD storage because HDD's would be much cheaper and the only difference in performance between SSDs and HDDs in gaming is just loading times. Also you dont have to do it on such a big scale, you could used referbished server hardware (which is really cheap) and only have lets says 4 gamers 1 CPU since that is more realistic in a normal household. I myself am actually working on a similar project. I already have a server with 2x X5670's with 24GB of ram and I am going to make 3 gamers 1 cpu. I have 2 GTX 560ti's laying around and a HD 7770 which I am going to throw into my server, give each VM 6 threads and 8GB of ram each with 500GB of HDD space and I would be able to stream 720P 60FPS to my tvs and thinclients around my house. It is deffianlty not as impressive as what linus has done but I would argue that it is more practicle. Since the only time I would actually used all 3 vms at the same time is if my friends come over for a lanparty and all they have is a shitty laptop that doesn't game very well. I would be looking to upgrade the GPUS to 1050tis since they would be able to handle 1080P at 60fps alot better but its a start.
10 virgins gaming pc :D
+Elite Exposure He has a wife and two kids...
Rekt
+Elite Exposure 7 virgins i think. Luke has a gf and Jon has a wife.
+TheGuruGamer And a third on the way.
guys, its a joke, it wasnt directed towards linus or anyone in particular.
Imagine the Bitcoins you can mine with this atrocity? xD
Electricity would probably cost more than you would make meaning negative profit
Linus needs to conduct a controlled scientific study on this.
You would need AMD cards for any respectable bitcoin amount... but then it would be a fireball
Bitcoins have been ASIC accelerated for a while so it isn't worth it with cards. Some other cryptos are borderline worth it. Mining was always terrible for Nvidia cards (some key instructions missing, AMD was about 2x as fast). You could do protein folding though, but then it would be easier to just use a single OS with 8 cards.
@@TheConceptBoy He has, it's on the channel now.
The other video would make for a nice LAN party or internet cafe setup, but this one here is the dream. Won't be possible until someone figures out a way to stream video over the network without major latency issues.
if you set the video speed at 1.25 he actually sounds like a normal person
0.5 is awesome :D
thanks guys, now i gotta go back and rewatch em all twice now
Use the new amd eypc 32 core CPUs
Now do this with 10 rtx quadros , quad intel platinum and chill it with 5 activeaquas
Who wants a vid like that likes so he can see it
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this topic deserves a refresh
10 titan/Quadro rtx, quad threaddripper 3990x, 2048GB 3000GHz RAM, and more
10:10 considering you did a video about a bunch of servers doing the whole Lan-Center thing, a few days ago. I'd say that went pretty fast...
Please make a video on how to get free hardware from manufacturers. I make over 1,000 PCs a year and I never get any free hardware...
I guess it's just the cold HardTruth that he got lucky and you didn't. ...
he made a video on it
make videos on it, he gets free hardware because when he makes videos on it, he automatically brings in customers for the manufacturer...
Colton doesn't know how to talk
Some people aren't as natural when a camera is pointed at their face, which could explain his somewhat cringe-y response on the 10 gamers PC.
Can I borrow that computer for some bitcoin mining? pls?
Bentuldum The Great lol
That's was exactly my vision! Thanks Linus for making it! If we work in this field, infinity is the limit.
let rearrange the letters from 8 gamers one CPU to 8 gamers one cup ;)
CPU < CUP
10 gamers 1 cup
XD
the part where Linus staff tests the server PC... the cringe is real.
this is wonderful you have really thought about the potential application of this technology - thin clients are a great idea and the hdmi dongles are very cool
mine bitcoins with that and earn more money xd
@Linus Tech Tips
We need to see an updated version of this with some kind of stay at home twist.
THIS is why i love LTT extraordinary tech contant !
For everyone that seems SOOO concerned that he used 2 processing chips in a video that's described as 1 CPU... CPU means "Central Processing Unit" which can refer to the tower as a whole. Also, lighten up. It's a cool video even if that was incorrect which it isn't. Keep up the great work LTT, can't wait to see how you make me jealous of your setup in the next video 😊
This is more of what I had in mind when I saw the title of the video before. This is literally exactly what I had in mind down to the manufacture of the barebone. My problem with it is that you could have easily done this Vmware View and Esxi. Esxi supports every feature you needed.
Did you have a single network cable going to the server or multiple? I would think if all of the network cables were hooked up and setup correctly through a good switch like a Ubiquiti, then the network lag would be negligible. If it's all through a single 1Gbps connection, then I'm surprised at the little lag noticed. Most of it looks like network lag to be honest. I don't think the server was even breaking a sweat.
I love the idea of the house of the future with a home server providing compute and other resources wherever needed. I would also love to see some sort of whole-house cooling. Every device, whether it's a computer or a surround sound receiver or TV or battery backup or wifi router or gaming console or whatever generates heat, and operates better with a longer lifespan if temperature can be controlled. A standard cooling solution that could be connected to easily and which could centralize heat management (dumping it outside in the summer, delivering it to rooms needing heat in the winter) would be amazing. Obviously we're a million miles from anything like that being remotely possible, but I can dream...
Would have been awesome to see some network statistics on that beast :D
Damn Linus, i can see the potential of your vision. A home based tower providing the pc utility on every screen of a home, or a gaming rig for a training esports team who wants to be mobile and efficient,even public pc accesses could utilize these. Too many possibilities. I can already see it happening
I can't wait for the video of popcorn popping, while still on the shelf, in that building one day.
Your vision of the future is EXACTLY like mine. That's cool!
Fibre connections between the computer and the mini computers would help a lot.
Great and awesome project it will be useful in the future
I think it's a nice idea, a computer cluster for a multi-player gaming setup. Could it be a good business idea? Like to have potential for renting out one GPU at LAN parties and have the case out of the way to save room, or similarly in arcades you can add some PC games there.
Very cool Linus, this is exactly the solution I've been waiting for, it's not quite there yet latency wise unfortunately but hey the dream is coming closer to fruition! Can't wait for the day though where I can set something like this up in my home and even via a local wireless home network have low enough latency to play any game.
Do more videos toying with this concepts! I'd love to see something closer to what normal people might need or use... For example, how would a Ryzen 2700X with 2 GPUs perform for two gaming stations. Would it be possible to have a variable resources allocation in the case that one of the users needed more cores to encode a video or something like that?
I'm really hopping that the next upgrade for my wife and kid (both are gamers!) to be some sort of VM env to save some space and reduce cable management in our home...