Desktop Virtualization Help

[ZeroViewers]

Budget: $2000 USD

After watching the 7 gamers 1 cpu. Link 

I was wondering if it was possible to achieve a similar Idea i have in kinda the same vein. Used keyboards,Mouse, Monitors are a dime a dozen and USB headsets are cheap as well really. Would it be possible for me to setup a single "server" for say 10 people to have access to a virtual OS. I host game nights with my friends where we are constantly looking up things on our phones and grabbing docs off of Google Drive. Also with two small children that are both getting into light gaming I'd love to just be able to run some cables to their rooms instead of building a gaming rig for the four of us in the house. I don't need to game at 4k, hell 720p is fine for most of what I want to do. I already have a router and wifi ran out to the barn, Honestly what are my options here. 

Thanks!   

[kerradeph]

At $2000 it will be a bit tight to get decent performance for anything more then 2-3 clients. 

 

You would want or might even need a higher end E3 Xeon or maybe one of the higher end new Ryzen CPUs to give you a good number of cores that you can split off to each machine as well as support sharing PCIe devices. You'll want probably 32 minimum GB of memory going up to 64 or 128 would be better but would quickly eat through your budget. You'll also need a dedicated graphics card per host you want to run. All of this together it going to make your budget very tight. You might be able to look at used stuff. Used graphics cards would cut the price significantly. You might be able to look at used servers on Ebay for your motherboard, CPU/CPUs, and the memory, but then you'll be looking at wanting to shove it away into a rack in another room since it'll probably be quite loud. 

[Swealteek]

19 minutes ago, ZeroViewers said:

Budget: $2000 USD

After watching the 7 gamers 1 cpu. Link 

I was wondering if it was possible to achieve a similar Idea i have in kinda the same vein. Used keyboards,Mouse, Monitors are a dime a dozen and USB headsets are cheap as well really. Would it be possible for me to setup a single "server" for say 10 people to have access to a virtual OS. I host game nights with my friends where we are constantly looking up things on our phones and grabbing docs off of Google Drive. Also with two small children that are both getting into light gaming I'd love to just be able to run some cables to their rooms instead of building a gaming rig for the four of us in the house. I don't need to game at 4k, hell 720p is fine for most of what I want to do. I already have a router and wifi ran out to the barn, Honestly what are my options here. 

Thanks!   

Well. i dont recument it. and especially if it's your first time white VM's maybe try  on your own PC and test/ get a feal for it. and save a extra 2000$. gpu prices are inseen now. And the motherboard to support the gpus is gone coste about 25%. Not to manche the cpu that gose in it.

TL:DR: build a X number of gaming boxes instedt of one power house.

 

[ZeroViewers]

3 hours ago, kerradeph said:

At $2000 it will be a bit tight to get decent performance for anything more then 2-3 clients. 

 

You would want or might even need a higher end E3 Xeon or maybe one of the higher end new Ryzen CPUs to give you a good number of cores that you can split off to each machine as well as support sharing PCIe devices. You'll want probably 32 minimum GB of memory going up to 64 or 128 would be better but would quickly eat through your budget. You'll also need a dedicated graphics card per host you want to run. All of this together it going to make your budget very tight. You might be able to look at used stuff. Used graphics cards would cut the price significantly. You might be able to look at used servers on Ebay for your motherboard, CPU/CPUs, and the memory, but then you'll be looking at wanting to shove it away into a rack in another room since it'll probably be quite loud. 

This was exactly what I was thinking gen or two older equipment. Maybe server with dual xeons. Maybe some older graphics cards that can game just not crazy. Just not sure where to start.