PC in my Basement

[Studmuffin1134]

I have a really old house and i am retrofiting it with ethernet and putting a mini datacenter in the basement u know standard nerd stuff i want to get all the heat out of my room my pc makes a lot of heat what is the best way to get my pc in the basement but the keyboard mouse and display in my room which is 2 floors up and so that i can support 4k hdr and 60hz?

[YoungBlade]

This sounds like basically the setup the Linus has in his house. He uses optical Thunderbolt cabling to send data from his computer to his mouse, keyboard, and monitor. You could do the same, although it will be rather expensive.

[Shimejii]

13 minutes ago, Studmuffin1134 said:

I have a really old house and i am retrofiting it with ethernet and putting a mini datacenter in the basement u know standard nerd stuff i want to get all the heat out of my room my pc makes a lot of heat what is the best way to get my pc in the basement but the keyboard mouse and display in my room which is 2 floors up and so that i can support 4k hdr and 60hz?

Just deal with it. Quite honestly its not even that bad for the most part unless you have a 13900k+3090ti/4090 type hardware. 200-400W of heat is not really enough to worry about, if you dont have window or something in the room then you could try looking at some other things.  650W-1000W yeah i can start seeing that becoming an issue in a smaller room if you dont have a window or ventilation. But if you have a window, there is no point in doing that.

 

Doing what linus did is not only dumb, its REALLY expensive, and not only that there are SO many issues that come from it that simply dont happen if you just run the system there. You could also just have the server down there and remote in from your main PC in your room, that is much easier to set up then trying to run cables 2 stories up and hope that they work.

[ChatTemplar]

Linus uses fiber optic cables routed trough his home to be able to use his pc "remote". And to run it on multiple different setups, he uses a KVM from level1 (link to level1 KVM's: https://store.level1techs.com/?category=Hardware )

But i would recommend sitting trough the "heat" rather than spending lots of money on stuff like this.

 

[Aaron_T]

In addition to the thunderbolt suggestion, you could also:

1. install 10gb cabling like cat6 or cat6a (if your house is especially noisy)
2. get a 10gb over copper switch
3. Move your main PC to the basement and install a 10gb ethernet adapter in it

4. Buy a low cost mini pc to run at your desk upstairs with a 10gb nic (maybe USB C for the mini PC)

5. Get a license to Parsec and remote from your mini pc to your main PC, or just use game streaming

EDIT: All the above would work well with 2.5gb ethernet also honestly and not be that expensive, but 10gb ethernet is fun(and costly fyi)

[The 8-Bit Time Traveller]

On 4/12/2023 at 12:53 AM, Aaron_T said:

In addition to the thunderbolt suggestion, you could also:

1. install 10gb cabling like cat6 or cat6a (if your house is especially noisy)
2. get a 10gb over copper switch
3. Move your main PC to the basement and install a 10gb ethernet adapter in it

4. Buy a low cost mini pc to run at your desk upstairs with a 10gb nic (maybe USB C for the mini PC)

5. Get a license to Parsec and remote from your mini pc to your main PC, or just use game streaming

EDIT: All the above would work well with 2.5gb ethernet also honestly and not be that expensive, but 10gb ethernet is fun(and costly fyi)

This is probably the most efficient way of doing it. The Linus setup seems overly complex and a little bit unreliable.
I do something similar for steam in home streaming, but the PC is in a different building with a 100mbps wireless bridge between it an my house, and for 1080p it works like a charm

[Needfuldoer]

On 4/17/2023 at 1:37 AM, The 8-Bit Time Traveller said:

The Linus setup seems overly complex and a little bit unreliable.

Many people think they should replicate Linus's setup, because that's what they've seen him use and it seems like a good idea on paper.

 

It's actually appropriate in a vanishingly small number of cases.

[Alex Atkin UK]

On 4/18/2023 at 9:59 AM, Needfuldoer said:

Many people think they should replicate Linus's setup, because that's what they've seen him use and it seems like a good idea on paper.

 

It's actually appropriate in a vanishingly small number of cases.

He even mentioned in a video recently that the solution he uses doesn't work for everyone due to compatibility issues with Thunderbolt and hardware combinations.  So its an expensive experiment that might not even work.  He can do it because if it doesn't work he can just go out and try something else, may even get it for free through a sponsor.

He does what he does because he has money to burn, the rest of us don't.  I very much enjoyed his house moving videos, but in reality his garage is probably larger than my entire house.  His solutions rarely apply to the rest of us, its just fun to see what you can do with effectively unlimited funds.  But you need to keep perspective, a lot of what he does is not realistic for most of his audience to replicate, that's not really the point of those videos.

[Stahlmann]

On 4/12/2023 at 12:39 AM, YoungBlade said:

This sounds like basically the setup the Linus has in his house. He uses optical Thunderbolt cabling to send data from his computer to his mouse, keyboard, and monitor. You could do the same, although it will be rather expensive.

He had thunderbolt in his old house and had heaps of trouble. Now he uses seperate optiical HDMI  (or DisplayPort) and optical USB cables for each computer.