Recommendations for building a servers

[AndrewNZ]

Budget (including currency): +$5000 NZD

Country: New Zealand

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

• Gaming 
  • Xbox game Pass (Halo)
  • Stream
  • Epic (Fortnight)
  • Minecraft
• Programs
  • MS office 365
  • Chrome

I want to build a server rack with decent CPU, ram, SSD, and graphics, virtualise 3 machines for gaming and productivity, all placed in a 2U or 4U server rack. In the long run I want the ability to upgrade ram, CPU, motherboard, graphics over time. Also want to build with in mind in the future that I will have a managed ethernet switch (POE) as well. Each person in the household would have their own environment with mouse keyboard and mouse.

 

or would you recommend cloud servers for gaming (if internet is good).

 

Any suggestions would be awesome.

 

Thanks

Andrew

 

[drdrewnatic]

Why do you need one big server? What's wrong with just building three PC's?

[LIGISTX]

1 hour ago, AndrewNZ said:

Budget (including currency): +$5000 NZD

Country: New Zealand

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

• Gaming 
  • Xbox game Pass (Halo)
  • Stream
  • Epic (Fortnight)
  • Minecraft
• Programs
  • MS office 365
  • Chrome

I want to build a server rack with decent CPU, ram, SSD, and graphics, virtualise 3 machines for gaming and productivity, all placed in a 2U or 4U server rack. In the long run I want the ability to upgrade ram, CPU, motherboard, graphics over time. Also want to build with in mind in the future that I will have a managed ethernet switch (POE) as well. Each person in the household would have their own environment with mouse keyboard and mouse.

 

or would you recommend cloud servers for gaming (if internet is good).

 

Any suggestions would be awesome.

 

Thanks

Andrew

 

You don’t want to do this for many reasons, but the big one is you can’t split GPU’s across VM’s; you would need a GPU for each VM, and at that point you might as well just build individual PC’s. Trying to get the IO (USB, monitors, audio etc) router out to each workstation is a nightmare, on top of the issue of literally needing to build a server that can actually house multiple GPU’s.
 

Yes, with time, money, and skill this can all be overcome. But it’s not worth it as it will just not work out very well.