In home streaming?

pumaz · 24 Sep 2017 at 10:07

Would a Gigabyte Brix 2807 with 4GB ram, 120GB SSD running Windows 10 do a better Job of streaming than a Steam Box?

smogsy · 24 Sep 2017 at 13:11

streaming as the client or Host?

if its going to be the client, anything will do. providing a decent NIC is involved
if its the host then its all down to the GPU/Nic

RumbleBee · 24 Sep 2017 at 15:29

If you are talking about the client I fully endorse the link box.

I stream to a steam link and it's perfect. No stutter or fps loss as far as I can tell. I can just walk over to my TV, picked up the steam controller and boot the main PC from there. The gaming PC, which is in the dining room boots up, auto launches steam and as the monitor is off you'd not think I even had a gaming PC.

I use a long LAN cable tucked tucked on the skirting board, but I did try taking the steam link upstairs and using it wireless. Also seemed perfect.

Cant see how any hardware can beat it to be honest.

pumaz · 24 Sep 2017 at 20:16

I already have and currently using Steam Link and acquired the Brix a while ago from MM and wondered if there would be any advantage in swapping out the Link for the Brix?

Client btw.

Columbo · 24 Sep 2017 at 22:01

No none, I used a full blown HTPC previously to stream and now use a Link.

BlizzardX · 25 Sep 2017 at 04:26

If anything, you might get more consistent performance as the link is designed purely for streaming and won't have other processes running.

smogsy · 25 Sep 2017 at 07:34

BlizzardX said:
If anything, you might get more consistent performance as the link is designed purely for streaming and won't have other processes running.

I've not tried link but isn't the 100m connection a bottleneck for say 4k? 12mbps isn't exactly high for a 4k stream.

Of course 1080 fine.

Witcher1980 · 25 Sep 2017 at 07:51

The link is a great piece of kit, only game to have issues is Witcher 3. This game looks rubbish using the link wired. It is a known problem but as far as I know no fixes work with it.

The-Plethora · 25 Sep 2017 at 09:04

RumbleBee said:
If you are talking about the client I fully endorse the link box.

I can just walk over to my TV, picked up the steam controller and boot the main PC from there. The gaming PC, which is in the dining room boots up, auto launches steam and as the monitor is off you'd not think I even had a gaming PC.

How have you set this up? I have a steam link and find it pretty frustrating to use at times (wired in). Do you have your gaming PC auto login to windows on boot (do you remote boot by wake on LAN?) I read a thread on that but didn't like that it left my main PC insecure if someone nicks it.
The other frustrating issue I had was when you launch a game you haven't played for a while and it want's to install Visual Basic or C++ distributable or whatever, the screen on the link freezes and you have to go to the PC (upstairs in my case) click the dialog box and then head back downstairs to the link which is annoying. I saw another suggestion where you can edit the steam shortcut to launch as an administrator which should stop all this appearing but you still get a dialog box on launching steam that you have to go to the PC to click. Must be a way around this without disabling UAC or something. Maybe running team viewer remotely from the phone might deal with a lot of these annoyances.

RumbleBee · 25 Sep 2017 at 14:35

The-Plethora said:
How have you set this up?

Yes I have my gaming PC auto logon, then to auto launch steam. The Steam link starts this process via the Wake on LAN. I'd not considered any insecurities. It's just a PC in the corner which I can stand up to see if needed.

Regarding games with installers and stuff. I always run the game locally first. I'm 75% of the time at my desk anyway, but on the occasion where I want to try a new game from the couch I'll try it locally first.