Howdy All,
I watched the three videos Linus put out on the multi-gamer 1 box and was inspired to do something like this on my own. I remember the glory days of hauling your machine over to a friends place to stay up late with some buddies and play video games till the wee hours of the morning. Unfortunately we all grew up, got jobs, wives, and a bunch of other things that make that sort of thing and impossibility these days. So i thought, what if I could build a machine for a reasonable amount of money that could allow me and three friends to all play games together and online with one machine. People show up for 2-3 hours, play some games, and then head home. What initially sparked my interest was an article from tech spot http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/ that talked about a dual cpu machine capable of rendering and playing modern games with the best of them, but doing it for a cheaper price than brand spanking new stuff. So i thought taking the articles advice and using 2x E5-2670s (SR0KX). They are around 100 bucks CAD on ebay and seem like a good deal at the moment. I figured with two of those as a beginning It would be a good place to start. However, I have never build a machine like this and we are way outside of my knowledge base when it comes to parts compatibility with virtualization in mind. So i figured I would turn to you fine folks to give me a hand with this sort of thing.
Here are the requirements:
I want a machine capable of running 4 instance of windows, so me and some buddies can all play games together, online, and with each other, usb headsets and all. I am looking at doing all the blizzard games at 1080p 60 on High settings and the rest of modern games at 1080p 60 on Medium settings, nothing fancy, just get the job done. I also want this build to include monitors, keyboards, mice, and headsets, nothing super awesome, just functional. I figure a good starting place would be 2x E5-2670s (SR0KX), but who knows, I could be way off base here. Now the real deal is I want to try to do this with a 1500-2000 CAD budget.I know that'd gonna be the hard part. I would love to hear what you guys have to say and what you would recommend. If you can't squeeze the monitors and accessories in with your suggestions, no big deal, but I would love to try and get everything for no more than 2000 CAD.
Once we get all the details hammered out, Ill do a build summary, takes some pictures, maybe the odd video. So you all can see your handy work.
Thanks Everyone and I appreciate your time,
Frank
P.S. I live in British Columbia and have a preference using NCIX, but I will use whatever.
