HTPC for games - upgrade vs completly new solutions

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I have a small pc under my TV that I use for TV, games films etc

Everything apart from games could be achieved with minimal hardware and I'm now at the point where I need more grunt

The box is small and thus heat becomes a problem.

It's an old h61 (I think) chipset. And dual core.
Is got a 7950 gpu in there

Now what I don't want is to maintain two PCs, but I play more on the TV than the desktop.

Do I have to bite the bullet and upgrade? If I do I need more performance with no more heat!


Or does anyone have any other solutions?
 
Have you tried in home streaming? If your home network is decent (or your PCs are hooked up via ethernet at least) steam at home streaming works quite well.

For non-steam games, I use Nvidia's solution but I see that you have an AMD card so that might not be a possibility (don't know if AMD has an alternative). What is your desktop PC running? Personally I've just got an Nvidia Shield TV hooked up to my TV that does all I need it to for HTPC purposes (mainly Plex for me), with the desktop beast doing the heavy lifting elsewhere.
 
my oldest lad is still using my old 7950 it copes fairly well with modern games not on the highest setting but not on the lowest either. have you checked the gpu and cpu use while in games?
 
Steam In-Home Streaming is definitely an option if your desktop has enough grunt (preferably over a hard-wired connection and not WiFi, though it's often fine on WiFi too).

You should probably list the full spec of the HTPC if we're to really help, and what kind of games you want to play on it :)
 
I will have to find out the HTpc spec. It's so long ago I can't remember
Everything is powerline. I've managed full blu ray transfer rates (more than 10MBytes/s I think)

Haven't tried steam stream.

It would probably save on power if I could strip out the gpu. As when watching films I really don't need anything but Integrated graphics

Game I'm thinking of getting is fallout 4

Come to think of it I think it's an i3 2120, and 7850.

PC upstairs has plenty of grunt with twin 280x (no nvidia cards anywhere)
 
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