2 gamers 1 computer

[irvingarcia57]

Hello Linus Community, I am interested in using my computer to play with 2 people. Cost wise it is cheaper than buying a whole new system. Ive seen linus's video and others like it but I have some questions in regards to the specs. I know in the video linus uses top of the line specs but I have good specs but not over the top.

1. Does the ram have to be 32 gb of DDR4? I have 16 gbs of DD3L and Im wondering if I will have to completely get new ram or just add to my current one.

2. What happens to the desktop I already have? Linus made a brand new computer so it wasn't clear what happens when you already have a working os.

I cant think of any other questions but I might have more. But that is all for now.

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, irvingarcia57 said:

1. Does the ram have to be 32 gb of DDR4? I have 16 gbs of DD3L and Im wondering if I will have to completely get new ram or just add to my current one

No. The thing with running 2 VMs is that they can use at most half the amount of total memory installed. If you only have 16GB of DDR3, then each VM only gets 8GB. Good enough, but not great either.

 

4 minutes ago, irvingarcia57 said:

2. What happens to the desktop I already have? Linus made a brand new computer so it wasn't clear what happens when you already have a working os.

Havent worked with VMs myself, cant answer that

[Crunchy Dragon]

32GB of RAM is recommended so each gaming rig can have enough to run games smoothly. DDR3 or DDR4 doesn't matter, as long as whatever platform you choose has the processing power.

 

Bear in mind that at least one of the gaming rigs will be a virtual machine. So you need enough RAM for the hypervisor(which is the title given to the part that runs the host OS and virtual machine(s)), as well as enough for each virtual machine.

 

The easy way would be to upgrade your hardware to be able to work with this proposed configuration, and build it off of your current machine as much as possible. That way you can use your current OS as the host OS and one of your gaming rigs, and then just virtualize the other gaming rig.

[Salv8 (sam)]

yea, they really didn't explain it well but they use UnRAID (a paid product), it's a bit complicated to set up and i would recermend using something like QEMU on Ubuntu server as a starting point.

3 minutes ago, irvingarcia57 said:

1. Does the ram have to be 32 gb of DDR4? I have 16 gbs of DD3L and Im wondering if I will have to completely get new ram or just add to my current one.

nope, so long as the host has aleast 2GB (or 4GB i am unsure with UnRAID, ubuntu is 2GB) to itself, each of your VM's can have 8GB so in total you should have 12GB for a setup like this.

7 minutes ago, irvingarcia57 said:

2. What happens to the desktop I already have? Linus made a brand new computer so it wasn't clear what happens when you already have a working os.

I cant think of any other questions but I might have more. But that is all for now.

it's another OS, you would have to wipe your current one to install the new one

 

unless you really need two computers in one, getting two small separate computers would be easier and less of a hassle to work with