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I want to be able to turn my pc on remotely so I can stream games to my phone when i am not at home. I have a wifi card installed in my pc and I cannot run an ethernet cable to my pc or wake on lan. I have an amd gpu so I cannot use moonlight. Is there a way I can turn my pc on with my phone from anywhere? Any suggestions?

Hi, I am gonna be leaving for university and I need help solving my computer situation. I currently have computer I build on my own (RTX3070, 32 GB RAM, 5800X) and since i am going to be leaving for uni i need to figure out what laptop to buy or even if i should buy one. I am going to be studying aerospace engineering. I have 100 / 100 Mbs at home so i can remote into my computer without any problem. I am gonna be studying far from home (I will need to fly home), so taking my pc with me isnt really possible and still i would like to have something better than my ipad air 3. Also I don't want to buy ipad again. There are several ways I can solve my dilema: 1. Buy cheaper tablet for taking notes and just remote for heavier work. Something like samsung galaxy tab... 2. Buy Surface go (i5) and do essentially the same thing as with the tablet, but this would be more versatile and probably i wouldn't need to remote as often. 3. Buy Sufrace pro 9 and hope it will be enough, i could still remote home, but it is more powerfull. But higher end models are pretty pricey. 4. Buy Laptop and forget about taking hand-written. I have a few questions: Is there any other way to take notes digitally and not break a bank? Would any of these options be powerful enough for me? Is there some other alternative aka poweful windows laptop with touch support or notebook with stylus support? Are there any other options I didn't consider. I hope you can help me decide and choose.

I would like to have my gaming rig in a closet and game on it while in my living room. I was inspired by Linus' home gaming setup and was thinking about my options. Budget is not an issue but rather that I'm more or less stuck with cat 7. I live in a rented apartment so I'd rather try to work with what I have instead of pulling new cables. I have one ethernet line from my closet to my living room. What are my options to have a gaming server (probably a beefy computer with unraid similar to this setup) to which I can remotely (within the same LAN) connect and play games? As far as I see it, I either use Linus' approach and pull new cables (fiber optics, display port etc.) such that on the receiving end I only have my monitors and peripherals or I use my existing Ethernet cables that connect the gaming server with some type of NUC/barebones build and then remote desktop to it. Are there any other options that I'm missing? I have a feeling remote desktop is not going to give me the performance I want. I currently have a Samsung G9 and an ROG PG348Q hooked up to my gaming rig together with a boatload of peripherals. Not sure how a NUC would handle that with gsync and all. Basically I'm wondering if there is some kind of extender/adapter that takes display and usb input and routes it via ethernet so that I can connect natively my displays and peripherals over ethernet? Similar to what Linus did with thunderbolt (apparently he wasn't too happy with it in the end)

Hi I build in 2020 my pc and still using it (specs below). The tower and monitors are in my office. I would love to connect my pc to my tv the in the next room, to play there too. I planed to connect my graphic card with an tunderbolt 4 pcie card to a Thunderbolt hub next to the tv (5m distance, optical cabel). there i can split the signal to the tv (hdmi 2.1) and the peripherals. As it seems that no Thunderbolt pcie cards excist that work with my amd motherboard. now my other plan, were i‘m not sure if it works: I have two thunterbolt 4 hubs, one next to the tv and the other at the pc. i connect them together via thunderbolt 4, conect the tv via hdmi to the hub. the problematic sithe is at the pc. would it work to connect a displayport output from the hub to my grafics card to get the signal and the pc via is usbc 3.1 do get the data from the peripherals to the pc. or thos thunderbolt need the thunderbolt connection to the tv? It would be great if someone knows how to get something like this to work. Budget (including currency): 1000.- CHF (not so important) Country: Sitzerland Other details (existing parts lists): TV: - Sony KE-75XH9005 (HDMI 2.1) PC (relevant Parts): - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - MSI B450 Tomahawk Max - MSI RTX 2070 super Ventus OC

Budget (including currency): ~2k EUR Country: Netherlands Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: PC games, all sorts, from far cry 6 to Anno 1800. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): This post is less about getting a detailed build recommendation more about asking ideas to solve a particular problem. Since having my baby daughter, finding time to spend at my PC desk ]has been rough, and I would love to do more couch gaming. I would love some technology suggestions on how I can use the power of a new PC to have a great experience on my TV in my living room (a 4k Sony with google TV), and at my desk where I have a 1440P 144Hz monitor. Since I am planning to make a new build soon anyway, any solution would be worth considering. I assume some of the best might involve a particular model of motherboard. A couple of important details: My TV is in my living room at the ground floor of my house My gaming desk is in my attic, 2 stories higher than the living room.asd I have ethernet to my PC(7 year old gaming rig) and my TV already routed. Some options I aware of and how they way up to my needs: Steam link /Steam link app on the TV This is limited to 1080p on the TV and I find performance to be bad and unsatisfactory. If i try to play a game where reaction time is critical (like hand of fate 2) it just becomes a frustrating experience. Big advantage is that this is basically free Steam in house streaming to my old PC from new PC, move the old PC in the living room, or do the same with a steam deck (I am getting one of those as well) I have tried in house streaming at 1080p on a work laptop with no discrete GPU, it was mostly fine if i had the ethernet cable plugged in, not sure how that would hold up if i tried to stream a higher resolution. Also technically free, depends if i will reuse case and power supply of my old PC, I can't be sure of that because I am waiting for the 40 series of Nvidia cards to drop. Build the new PC in a portable form factor (small motherboard) so I can cary the PC downstairs and just plug in a couple of wires Has the potential to have very little compromise in terms of performance It will be more challenging to pick components if I choose this route, especially the motherboard and case/frame (open air might be cool too). Maybe the fine people on this forum can lend a hand but that would be a different post. It will be tricky to figure out a good way to make the process of plugging everything in as painless as possible, buuuut... I do have a 3d printer, so I might make myself a super custom bracket and plug everything in at once like a huge obscene dock. Have some sort of optical connection (Linus keeps mentioning it) from the PC (via thunderbolt I think?) from my attic where the PC is to my living room. I would have to trace cable from upstairs, but it might be doable with some effort and it won't look crap I don't know much about how to achieve this or even what terms to do a search on, some pointers on this would be nice if anyone is aware. This would give me the freedom to build the new PC in a very conventional way, all I would have to do is to make sure the CPU and motherboard support thunderbolt I think. I would love your suggestions on completely different solutions, pointing out obvious things I have failed to consider or at least mention, your own opinions on the above considerations of each solution.

Overview Budget (including currency): 2000 - 5000€ Country: Sweden Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: - Games - VR - Programming - VMs - 3d software (Blender) - GameDev (Unreal Engine 5) - probably some AI stuff (neural networks, image generation, etc.) - CUDA compatibility is a plus in some cases - no video editing or streaming plans - no mining Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): - practically no existing parts - I'm planning to buy something before the end of the summer - resolution and refresh rate: I'm planning to have 2 screens, either 1920 x 1080 or 2560 x 1440 (I don't think I really need 4k) and I want to try 120Hz since I've never tried it before. Also it would be cool to have great colors, brightness etc. (But I assume it has mush less to do with specs of the PC). But also I'm thinking about buying a VR headset and I assume it's basically 2 quite dense high resolution screens. Intro Hello! A short intro about me: I want to get an advice in 2 areas: - component selection for a PC build - organisation of storage for multiple devices (I'll talk about it in the end) Computer part Overall I want to have some latest components like: - a modern cpu like i7, i9 or Ryzen - a modern GPU: either Nvidia 30** or AMD equivalent (or maybe 20** if it makes sense) - a lot of DDR5 memory (32gb or 64gb) - pci 4.0 NVMe SSD or 2+ Tb (ma-a-aybe 1 tb will be fine as well) - mother board, PSU etc, that will support it Preferences: - I would like it to be silent. Not as silent as possible at all costs, but quiet with reasonable performance compromise. (e.g. 5% less performant but 30% more silent, or 20% quieter for extra $200 etc.) - I don't want any RGB, I want it emit as little visible light as possible (I don't mind some small indicator LED's, but not glowing fans) - I want it to be AIR Cooled, water cooling looking quite neat for me TBH, but I want to make sure nothing can leak anywhere as I want to be able to leave it running unattended (or minimize the risk of doing that) - I want it to be stable rather than cutting edge performant (no BSODs, no burn out components etc., so I guess less overclocking to be on the safe side) Note: down in the text I ask questions like "Which Nvidia cards support GeForce now?". While I can google such information I do ask it anyways because: - you may have some not obvious knowledge (e.g. "rtx 3080 support it, but 3080Ti does not", or "all 30** support it but it's unstable on AMD CPUs" etc.) - if you want to recommend me a particular piece of hardware (e.g. Ryzen 7 3700x) I want you to be able to consider these additional requirements in the form of question (e.g. will it support GeForce Now) Special needs: That's the biggest reason to create this post. - good virtualization capabilities (mostly GPU passthrough) - remote access technologies (e.g. vPro https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/business/enterprise-computers/resources/kvm-over-ip.html) - and potentially some other non-obvious features 1. Virtualization I really wanted to have setup that uses VM tech heavily for a long time. What do I need it for: a. separation and isolation of working spaces. I want to be able to fully isolate an environment which I use to work, from one I use to game and from ones I use to download a sketchy software to try it out etc. b. repeatability and repairability or OS state. i.e. I want to be able to create snapshots of states, apply and manage them freely. (E.g. I want to be able to install 100 mods on Skyrim save a snapshot while it works, then install 30 mods more, realize it's broken now and go back to a working state snapshot.) c. get best of Linux / Windows world. - I want to play games, use some software (Photoshop, Unity, Unreal Engine, some less popular ones) - On the other hand I want more control over my system, I want to be more sure it does not spy on me, that it will not decide to reboot and install super urgent updates when I go afk for an hour etc. d. why not dual boot: I have it right now on my laptop and it does not work for me. I want to be able take a pause on my work, go to another screen, play some CS:GO, then after 15 minutes go back to my code/3d-project/etc and continue here. Or even switch back and forth while I'm dead etc. So the need to reboot kills it for me and one of the systems slowly gets forgotten. How I see it working: - I have a host machine setup - it is connected to needed peripherals (screen, keyboard, kvm-switches, etc.) - it has a hypervisor installed (VirtualBox, or most likely Qemu/KVM) - the hypervisor is able to pass the GPU to the VM's so I expect them to gain close to host performance (at least 90%) Whenever I want to play let's say Skyrim, I run a dedicated VM with ready to go setup, it appears on one of the screens, while I still have my linux desktop on another monitor so I can watch youtube meanwhile (it's an example). If I want to work with UE5 I run it separately as a VM as well. If a friend created a hello-world game and send me it as `totally-not-a-key-logger.exe` I can safely run it in a VM as well. If I want to work on my docker based project I can run a linux based VM. If I liked a really promising GTA5 mod that extends the gameplay dramatically, but it patches a bunch of exe files and is published on some smallish website nobody ever heard of I can easily install it inside a VM far away from the workspace where I store I credit card details and pay the bills. etc. Hardware support Why am I writing all this rather software configuration stuff here is because I want to buy full VM friendly hardware. Most obviously I want to be able to passthrough GPU. I tried it in the past unsuccessfully and got stuck because of some Nvidia specific issues. But I tried it with the hardware I had on hands. Now I have freedom to choose stuff which is proven to work fine. So the questions I have for this part are: - What should I look for a good VM support in CPU's? As far as I know virtually all modern CPU's support VT-d, AMDvi etc. But I might be missing something big here. (e.g. whether it matters to have integrated GPU etc.) - Is there a difference between Nvidia vs. AMD right now? As far as I remember there was in the past and Nvidia drivers are more 'closed' ones so it's harder to do some of that stuff with Nvidia's cards. And it was even recommended to buy AMD ones. - Is there a difference within the same brand of GPU and what to look for there. e.g. let's say it's known that 30 series support Passthrough while 20 series don't. - Should I have some considerations choosing some other components? e.g. DDR5 memory does not work with VT-d (as an example) and I would like to know something like that. - It would be great to see some ready to use proven to work setups. - I'd appreciate any feedback and personal experience with that system. - How much software I can expect to run this way? Will I be able to play AAA games, or performance would be far from host? Will I be able to play CS:GO or I get immediately VAC banned because they'd detect I run it in a VM? Will I face lots of instability? Frequent crashes, BSODs etc. Remote control capabilities. vPro? I find it really useful sometimes to be able to remotely control the machine, and I mean to control all of it, including OS installation and restoration, BIOS settings etc. This can be achieved with KVM-over-IP setups. But as far as I understand intel support something like that natively (vPro, AMT etc.) Here I want to understand: - if it's worth to have it? - does AMD have something similar? But overall I can easily sacrifice it if it requires a performance drop, significant price increase or lack of other features. Nvidia GeForce Now If I understand it correctly this (and probably other similar) technology allows not remotely control the host, but game on it with some comfort. I expect to see some picture quality / framerate drops as well as some reasonable latency increase. Of course I don't expect to be able to play CS:GO competitively with such setup but it'd nice to be able to play some slow to medium paced games (Skyrim, Sims etc.) remotely. The question is: - is it limited to Nvidia? - which Nvidia card support it? - does AMD support something similar? - is it worth it? How I want to use the PC - as I mentioned before I want to be able to use VM's extensively - play games - play VR games - software development - 3d modeling - game development Programming I want to be able to have many IDE instances opened, a few dozens tabs of stackoverflow and potentially a few VM's containers running. It's one of the reason I want to have some extra RAM. But from CPU / GPU perspective I expect to be way lower than AAA game consumption. In some rather techy applications it may be beneficial to have CUDA cors (if a piece of software is only support CUDA or optimized for it) 3d modeling Sometimes I feel like my laptop struggling with my highly unoptimized Blender models, so this area may benefit from an upgrade. Game development I really want to try out new UE5, but not even dare to install it on my current laptop. So it would be great to be able to play with it. I don't think I need enterprise level gamedev working station though. Something that is suitable for indie gamedev would be good enough. Games I plan to play a few older titles and I want to highlight a few modern-ish titles I have interest trying out or playing. (it actually would be nice to know if some newer hardware does not support older games e.g. Morrowing won't launch on rtx3090) Older ones: - TES Series (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) + lots of mods - GTA5 - CS:GO Newer ones: - Insurgency: Sandstorm - Escape from Tarkov - Witcher 3 - Cyberpunk 2077 (probably) VR Gaming I don't know what to consider in regards of VR Gaming. I'm not sure I'll buy a VR set right away, but I want the PC to be able to handle it in the future. I'm leaning towards buying Valve Index in the future. Game-wise I'm looking for: - Half-life: Alyx - Skyrim VR and any other compatible titles. Network and organization of space Previously I described only the tower part of the setup. But besides the case I expect to have more equipment in the future: - PSU - ethernet network switch - NAS - some smaller network devices (e.g. raspberry pi) - KVM-over-IP device - separate server like pc etc All of that will be interconnected through wired network and power lines. If I keep all of it under/on the table it would supper messy. So instead I thought about storing and running all of in some sort of a shell. Something that looks like a server cabinet, where I can put my tower pc, some other devices and manage external cables. Plus I can put a few fans there to help cooling the PC and other devices. Questions: - Is it a reasonable thing to do? (or e.g. it will inevitably lead to overheating) - What can I use as a cabinet/shelf? The real server cabinets cost quite a lot and I don't think I need them. I also found this server looking shelf in IKEA https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/ivar-skap-med-doerr-gra-mesh-60483972/ and wondering if it's possible to reuse some general purpose furniture for that idea? --- I'm looking for any ideas / feedback from you

Hey, is there any way I could without special hardwear (DP over ethernet covertors, ect.) conect to my pc over ethernet (with something like raspberry)? The result being that I could play on my pc in another room.

How do I setup remote play anywhere steam link from one PC to another PC NOT on my home network? I cannot find a single guide describing the steps on how to do so. I can get it working on my home network but have no clue how to do so for one PC to another that is outside my home for remote play co-op.

I have a windows PC I usually use to game when Im home, and a Mac for school. Every now and then when I'm not home I like to play games, and recently tried the Microsoft Remote Desktop client. It works well enough for what it is, except when I go to play games (Minecraft Java and GTA V are what I tried), the mouse starts having issues. In Minecraft, the mouse seems accellerated beyond control, and only looks down, and in GTA V there are similar issues with uncontrollable acceleration issues with the mouse. When I'm on the desktop, these issues don't exist. The mouse works fine on edge, the desktop, and other non game apps. Any idea what could be the issue and/or causing it? Thanks!

I have a gaming pc and ps4 in my office. My wife and I play games together so I will grab my 2015 macbook pro and sit with her in the living room and stream the game to my laptop. Every 2 or 3 minutes the picture and sound will drop down to about 4 or 5 frames per second and glitch out like crazy for 5 seconds or so. I'll list the troubleshooting steps I have taken below. 1. Updated the router to the latest firmware. 2. Run a wifi analysis to be sure it's not congested (using 5Ghz about 7 ft from the router and I'm the only one on the channel) 3. Installed remote play and steam on another mobile device and streamed via wifi (with zero lag spikes). So clearly the problem is limited to the macbook's wifi. Is there anything about the way OSX handles wifi that would cause lag spikes like that? BTW both my PC and PS4 in the office are tethered with ethernet.

I'm looking for a way to emulate Dualshock 4 button presses on my PS4 from my computer without using remote play. I intend to run a macro that grabs a picture of the screen from a capture card, and depending on what it sees it will execute a task, such as pressing a keyboard stroke or moving my mouse. (https://www.jitbit.com/macro-recorder/) I plan to use this as the brains of my operation. However, I need to communicate back to my PS4 with button presses depending on what the macro outputs. It would be a lot simpler if I could use remote play, however I will need it to be able to sign into and log out of accounts, disconnect from the internet, etc. without being disconnected from my computer. I have the solution to how my PS4 will communicate with my computer, but I don't know how my computer can communicate back to the PS4 with the proper button presses. This includes the software/ hardware needed to communicate with the console as well as how I can emulate the button presses. All knowledge, generosity and help is appreciated.

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