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Jaybelz
By Jaybelz
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I recently got my girlfriend into World of Warcraft, the problem is that she has a small i5 Toshiba school notebook. She tried playing on it, but only averaged 15 fps. She is looking to get a new laptop for grad-school, but doesn't really want a gaming laptop since it'll be used primarily for class. We talked about building a rig together, but it's just not practical yet. So I was thinking about a recent video Linus and Luke did together, when they made two machines out of one tower. So I was thinking it might be worth buying a second graphics card and running a virtual machine off my build. Since I'm new to this, I was wondering what the community thought of the idea, and if I had the hardware to pull it off.

 

My current build:

 

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($99.99 @ Micro Center) 
Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($179.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  ($333.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($128.79 @ Newegg) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($89.88 @ OutletPC) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-AC56 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($61.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Monitor: Acer S271HLbid 60Hz 27.0" Monitor  ($259.99 @ Amazon) 
Monitor: Acer S271HLbid 60Hz 27.0" Monitor  ($259.99 @ Amazon) 
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow Chroma Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($159.99 @ B&H) 
Mouse: Razer Razer Naga 2014 Wired Laser Mouse  ($59.99 @ Best Buy) 
Headphones: Razer BlackShark Headset  ($94.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2300.32
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As of right now, she'll probably only be playing WoW so I don't think she'll need a crazy GPU to get max settings. What would you recommend?
 
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If you plan to use Unraid (cough KVM). You can dedicate the IGPU for the Hypervisor and then have two GPU's set up one for each VM and split the other system resources... so yes that would work.

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You'll want to ditch the Razer gear.

You'll need beefier specs

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You'll proberbly want another gaming grade GPU since the IGPU isn't great. A 750ti or 950 will do the job. Maybe another couple CPU cores for heavy multi tasking.

 

 

 

 

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Also, change the PSU to an EVGA G2/seasonic.

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You'll proberbly want another gaming grade GPU since the IGPU isn't great. A 750ti or 950 will do the job. Maybe another couple CPU cores for heavy multi tasking.

I'm not an expert at this but a quad core CPU could be an issue as each rig only gets 2 cores

8 threads are enough.

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I'm not an expert at this but a quad core CPU could be an issue as each rig only gets 2 cores

Agreed, buy at least an 8 core CPU, at least then both would have 4 cores each.

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You'll proberbly want another gaming grade GPU since the IGPU isn't great. A 750ti or 950 will do the job. Maybe another couple CPU cores for heavy multi tasking.

 

Thanks for the 750ti recomendation, that's probably the exact card we'll end up getting!

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If you plan to use Unraid (cough KVM). You can dedicate the IGPU for the Hypervisor and then have two GPU's set up one for each VM and split the other system resources... so yes that would work.

 

I re-watched the tutorial video Linus did, and it seems he had two virtual machines just like you suggested. Would I be able to keep my current machine and just add her virtual machine on top of mine or would I actually need to run two VR's instead?

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I re-watched the tutorial video Linus did, and it seems he had two virtual machines just like you suggested. Would I be able to keep my current machine and just add her virtual machine on top of mine or would I actually need to run two VR's instead?

 

You would need to run two VM's with a Hypervisor (unRAID) and make both VM's boot on startup.

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