Best Weird Server?

[SkyTheTechie]

Hi there! I an new to the LTT Forums.

I have seen the LTT Video where he kinda replaced all his pc’s in his house, I essentially want to do the same thing.

 

But heres the thing, our house has 2 gaming computers which are AMD GPU, and AMD CPU. Another has an NVIDIA GPU, and Intel CPU.

 

My mother has a little hp laptop which is just turning to crap, our powerbill is just rapidly rising for the amount of pc’s and laptops we have in this house, my moms poor little powersupply is going crap so she has to keep it plugged in.

 

My dad doesnt even have a laptop, even just for watching youtube on. He has to use my personal pc because thats the only fastest computer we have in this house..

 

I want to make it up to them and get a VM Server with 5-8 VMs on.

 

All windows 10, except a few that will be running Linux, and etc.

 

What would be the perfect vm server to keep 2 gaming computers the same for the vm ones, and have the others non gaming?? And ofc grab a storage rack, what would be my price range in total for everything? 

I also dont want to build one because I never did one before and I dont want to just mess up everything. I hope I cleared everything up for you guys to understand, respond ofc when you can. Thank you guys!

[RONOTHAN##]

This is the type of thing that if you have to ask, you can't afford it. An Epyc based server would be necessary, with a GPU running for each VM you want to have (Good GPUs for the gaming VMs, GT 1030s or similar for the other VMs). An Epyc chip with enough cores to give each of those 5 would cost about $2000, and an server would probably cost about the same. With all the storage and GPUs to throw in, it would probably cost about $6000 all together at the low end. For that price, you can about 10 last gen gaming PCs and outperform it.

[SkyTheTechie]

6 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

 

This is the type of thing that if you have to ask, you can't afford it. An Epyc based server would be necessary, with a GPU running for each VM you want to have (Good GPUs for the gaming VMs, GT 1030s or similar for the other VMs). An Epyc chip with enough cores to give each of those 5 would cost about $2000, and an server would probably cost about the same. With all the storage and GPUs to throw in, it would probably cost about $6000 all together at the low end. For that price, you can about 10 last gen gaming PCs and outperform it.

 

Hi Ronothan! Thank you so much for the reply, yes that would be something much expensive. If we dropped the VM’s down to 4, would that lower the price a bit? Still keeping the 2 gaming vms.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, SkysXP said:

Hi Ronothan! Thank you so much for the reply, yes that would be something much expensive. If we dropped the VM’s down to 4, would that lower the price a bit? Still keeping the 2 gaming vms.

Its still noramlyl cheaper to just have multiple desktops or laptops, much easier to setup, and less issues. There is a reason why there is no crentral server for home uses and people just have desktops and laptops.

 

 

[SkyTheTechie]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its still noramlyl cheaper to just have multiple desktops or laptops, much easier to setup, and less issues. There is a reason why there is no crentral server for home uses and people just have desktops and laptops

Well the main reason why I would like to do this, our house is not cluttered at all, so having a desktop for each station, either doesnt look appealing to the eye, or its just to big. Laptops, we really only use a laptop if were going out, but my mom has one because she doesnt want to use a desktop type of thing.

 

I was able to happen and fine a little vm server online for around 200-300. If I would keep them separate and buy that one and a gaming one, would that lower the price?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, SkysXP said:

Well the main reason why I would like to do this, our house is not cluttered at all, so having a desktop for each station, either doesnt look appealing to the eye, or its just to big. Laptops, we really only use a laptop if were going out, but my mom has one because she doesnt want to use a desktop type of thing.

 

I was able to happen and fine a little vm server online for around 200-300. If I would keep them separate and buy that one and a gaming one, would that lower the price?

Your not gonna find a vm server that can provide a good graphical experince for 4-6 users for that price.

 

A laptop or small desktop would add about the same amount of clutter as having one big server and thin clients, so its not really heping you here.

 

[gdb123456]

by having only one server you have 1 point of failure, imagine a dead motherboard, this would make you been without all the pcs for a while. Having multiple pcs also gives you more reliability.

[Bombastinator]

It sounds like the end goal is you want to reduce household energy use.  This doesn’t strike me as a very efficient method.  A kil-a-watt (a device that measures appliance draw at the wall) might be a more efficient investment for that.  It might not even be the computers that are the big problem.  

[Maverickfftytwo]

On 2/1/2021 at 3:59 PM, SkysXP said:

Well the main reason why I would like to do this, our house is not cluttered at all, so having a desktop for each station, either doesnt look appealing to the eye, or its just to big. Laptops, we really only use a laptop if were going out, but my mom has one because she doesnt want to use a desktop type of thing.

 

I was able to happen and fine a little vm server online for around 200-300. If I would keep them separate and buy that one and a gaming one, would that lower the price?

If you want to reduce the footprint of your desktop PC's I'd recommend small form factor builds for the gaming PC's, and Intel NUC's or AsRock DeskMini's for the non-gaming PC's. The NUC's or DeskMini's can be VESA mounted behind the monitor to give a more "all in one" feel to the workspace, without many of the downsides of actual all-in-one systems.

 

The gaming PC's will hold you hostage to space due to the GPU. The only other alternative I can think of for saving space would be the desk PC's LTT is so fond of, but that's quite the project and expense.