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guys, what if you built a system in a dual pc case that had a computer capable of gaming and a pfsense router with a network switch in like a 5.25" bay or something. 

 

Imagine it: You roll up to the LAN party. Your friends need that sweet sweet wired connection, rather than running 10 lines to all your buddy's systems, you just run 1 wire to your system, then hook them up to your system's built in router. Sounds pretty dank to me.

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3 minutes ago, tkovalesky said:

guys, what if you built a system in a dual pc case that had a computer capable of gaming and a pfsense router with a network switch in like a 5.25" bay or something. 

 

Imagine it: You roll up to the LAN party. Your friends need that sweet sweet wired connection, rather than running 10 lines to all your buddy's systems, you just run 1 wire to your system, then hook them up to your system's built in router. Sounds pretty dank to me.

Some motherboards have enough NIC+good enough wifi to be used as routers+gaming PC. On their own...

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1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Some motherboards have enough NIC+good enough wifi to be used as routers+gaming PC. On their own...

wifi? thats blasphemy

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Just now, tkovalesky said:

wifi? thats blasphemy

Weight of the LAN party rig dear watson....

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1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Weight of the LAN party rig dear watson....

friends can help you carry it in my dood. they better for all the juicy fast internet you shall provide.

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Just now, tkovalesky said:

friends can help you carry it in my dood. they better for all the juicy fast internet you shall provide.

You'd risk a Linus happening to your rig?

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1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

You'd risk a Linus happening to your rig?

that is a serious concern...

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Enthoo Mini XL DS, mITX gaming rig and µATX side equipped with 2-3x quad port adapters and/or 1-2x dual port adapters?

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Tape a router to your laptop and ur good to go. Its very portable too.

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interesting thought if everyone had mobos with dual ethernet jacks could you just daisy chain them?

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I have a HAF XB Evo with a Netgear 8-port switch bolted to the side.

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16 minutes ago, Dash Lambda said:

I have a HAF XB Evo with a Netgear 8-port switch bolted to the side.

oh good it's not me that's done that, I mean mines a 16 way and posiibly a 24 way one as well, but it's not just me so it's all good. As for this why don't you gte a switch and assign static IPs that way you don't even need a router, and/or buy a router which can act as a DHCP server for you, and stick behind the motherboard tray, sure theres a case with enough space for that easily and wire it out the back wouldn't be too hard to do. 

 

I'm still waiting for them to try and make a laptop as I recon it is easily doable (I just don't have the money to do it :() The hardest part is a battery but I got bored and got a quote for one for about £100-£200 to my response ove I could do it much cheaper, probably.

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Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

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