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I am thinking of buying Phanteks Evolve X, and I see that it can handle 2 systems at once. But I don't know the advantages of having a dual system in one case. Is there like any advantages to it or is just for like fun.

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5 minutes ago, Fatal1tyXY said:

I am thinking of buying Phanteks Evolve X, and I see that it can handle 2 systems at once. But I don't know the advantages of having a dual system in one case. Is there like any advantages to it or is just for like fun.

Space saving I'd guess? One as a Linux box and one as a Windows machine?

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5 minutes ago, Fatal1tyXY said:

I am thinking of buying Phanteks Evolve X, and I see that it can handle 2 systems at once. But I don't know the advantages of having a dual system in one case. Is there like any advantages to it or is just for like fun.

Pros

1. less bulky

2. Depending on the configuration you may be able to use 1 PSU

3. Dont have to buy another case

 

Cons

1. More heat

2. more cable management in one case

3. can be a pain to work in.

4. Usually need longer cables 

 

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uhhh I guess the fact that you can stream on one PC and have the other one to game without loss of performance from encoding

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5 minutes ago, Fatal1tyXY said:

I am thinking of buying Phanteks Evolve X, and I see that it can handle 2 systems at once. But I don't know the advantages of having a dual system in one case. Is there like any advantages to it or is just for like fun.

There's no "advantage".

 

Some people want to have multiple systems in the same case to take up less space. Some might use one for gaming and the other for rendering, or perhaps the secondary is a server for a NAS or a gaem server. Regardless, it's a niche that you'll know if you need  or not. 

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For like in general. I also prefer Windows

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Do you use more then one computer at your desktop right now?

 

Do you want to or need to run more then one system?

 

I would say there are more sense in having two or three monitors for having more screen-space and having dedicated spaces for your windows and applications. I for one have a secondary screen with Chrome running YT and one screen for "everything else".

 

And a tips, also having dual monitors at work, but work only buys 1080p monitors and coming from dual 1440p at home it is a real downgrade, those extra pixels makes a ton in real estate in my book.

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18 minutes ago, Fatal1tyXY said:

I am thinking of buying Phanteks Evolve X, and I see that it can handle 2 systems at once. But I don't know the advantages of having a dual system in one case. Is there like any advantages to it or is just for like fun.

Is that the full name? Because im googling it and cannot find a case where you could put 2 systems in.
Im kinda curious as to how it would look. Altho i wouldnt need it, i wanna see. :)

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2 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

Is that the full name? Because im googling it and cannot find a case where you could put 2 systems in.
Im kinda curious as to how it would look. Altho i wouldnt need it, i wanna see. :)

 

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You can dual boot on a single piece of hardware, so you dont need two sets of hardware for two OS.

 

The best case I can think of is a streaming setup, encoding system and gaming/whatever system both in the same case.

 

3 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

Is that the full name? Because im googling it and cannot find a case where you could put 2 systems in.
Im kinda curious as to how it would look. Altho i wouldnt need it, i wanna see. :)

Yes, Evolv X can hold an ATX board like the typical Evolv, but can also hold an mITX board at the very top where a top PSU mount on some cases is found.

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10 minutes ago, Fatal1tyXY said:

Video

Thanks for the vid. Clear explenation.

 

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

You can dual boot on a single piece of hardware, so you dont need two sets of hardware for two OS.

 

The best case I can think of is a streaming setup, encoding system and gaming/whatever system both in the same case.

 

Yes, Evolv X can hold an ATX board like the typical Evolv, but can also hold an mITX board at the very top where a top PSU mount on some cases is found.

Yeah i looked at the website (edit: manufacters website that is) but there was almost nothing about the bracket. And in the linked video it was almost the first sentence. :)
Altho looking very sleek i would think the placement isnt the smartest. But i guess its need for the I/O panel. To much heat there near the CPU, RAM and voltage regulation.

But i'd love to have that indeed to encode so my main rig can just do the gaming part. Means less lag on gaming rig and more quality on the stream/video.

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5 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

To much heat there near the CPU, RAM and voltage regulation.

The few places when a small AIO makes sense :P

 

5 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

But i'd love to have that indeed to encode so my main rig can just do the gaming part. Means less lag on gaming rig and more quality on the stream/video.

too bad that you need to stick with Intel for the mITX capturing system. The only PCIe slot of an mITX board is already occupied by a capture card so you need iGPU. Intel has the edge in compute power (a big one comparing to 2400G) with that restriction

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11 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

You can dual boot on a single piece of hardware, so you dont need two sets of hardware for two OS.

And also VM's exist.

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55 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

And also VM's exist.

I was about to say just this. Neither dual-booting or dual-desktop make much sense in most cases, when it's so easy to just run either a Windows-VM on a Linux-host or a Linux-VM on a Windows-host -- it mostly only makes sense for some games that refuse to work under Linux, but you want to use Linux as your main OS.

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Wish I had a dual case. Having two on my table is a hassle. Would make streaming and recording a lot easier for me having everything closer and not having to install more power outlets. 

 

A lot of advantages really. Most people don’t have multiple rigs or the use case for it so they say it doesnt make sense. 

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