So I have a lovely new home office with three desks, one for me, and one for each of the children with my wife in her own personal office ( we sacrificed a dining room to the tech gods but that's just a lifestyle choice 
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I have my personal PC in said new office, the wife has a macbook pro and the kids have, well, one machine built of offcuts, odds and sods and one machine that is just a surface pro 1 hooked up to a monitor that can just about struggle with World of Warcraft.
The wife's mac ... we do not speak about "the mac"
So with my main concerns being long term gaming viability, footprint, heat and noise reduction probably in that order is it feasible to keep the wife and kids monitors, ditch their existing kit, replace it with decent desktop machines running nvidia GPU's which, and this is the key point, I install in the garage, and stream everything to Nvidia Shield Tablets over my home network which will be gigabit wired to the office where the router lives.
If the kids were not going to grow up to be gamers, which they will, damnit, I would have gone down the virtualisation route and run VM's on a chunky server I have in the loft next to the FreeNAS box but full on commercial style desktop virtualisation is not going to let them play Everquest Next / Landmark etc.
It struck me that this shield based solution might let me run the CPUs/GPUs in a very cold, quiet environment that's only going to annoy the cat.
My alternative solution has been looking down the M-ATX route for a chassis based on, for example a corsair carbide 240, but that's still going to cost more space heat and noise than mounting a shield tablet on the back of the monitors. Do the tablets support keyboard / mouse etc?
All advice gratefully received.
Ed.
)I have my personal PC in said new office, the wife has a macbook pro and the kids have, well, one machine built of offcuts, odds and sods and one machine that is just a surface pro 1 hooked up to a monitor that can just about struggle with World of Warcraft.
The wife's mac ... we do not speak about "the mac"
So with my main concerns being long term gaming viability, footprint, heat and noise reduction probably in that order is it feasible to keep the wife and kids monitors, ditch their existing kit, replace it with decent desktop machines running nvidia GPU's which, and this is the key point, I install in the garage, and stream everything to Nvidia Shield Tablets over my home network which will be gigabit wired to the office where the router lives.
If the kids were not going to grow up to be gamers, which they will, damnit, I would have gone down the virtualisation route and run VM's on a chunky server I have in the loft next to the FreeNAS box but full on commercial style desktop virtualisation is not going to let them play Everquest Next / Landmark etc.
It struck me that this shield based solution might let me run the CPUs/GPUs in a very cold, quiet environment that's only going to annoy the cat.
My alternative solution has been looking down the M-ATX route for a chassis based on, for example a corsair carbide 240, but that's still going to cost more space heat and noise than mounting a shield tablet on the back of the monitors. Do the tablets support keyboard / mouse etc?
All advice gratefully received.
Ed.
