PC in another room

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The question is, who has a PC in another room to which they use it - any information/issues on the matter?


My PC is in the lounge, next to some AV shelving for my home cinema.

There's a utility cupboard, with boiler/fuseboard, just behind where my AV shelving in the lounge.

I was thinking next time I build a PC I will put it the utility cupboard and feed the cables through.

This will remove all ambient noise that my current PC makes, allow me to go overboard on cooling for overclocking and free up my desk space for a bigger monitor or something.

One small issue for me at the moment is VR cabling, but soon it will be wireless.
 
I've used the Steamlink to play a computer in another room before on the tv - I would recommend doing over ethernet only, wireless can have issues - even AC.
 
Habakkuk said:
I've used the Steamlink to play a computer in another room before on the tv - I would recommend doing over ethernet only, wireless can have issues - even AC.
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I take my gaming quite seriously, will be feeding cables through wall. USB, ethernet,video

It's only 2-3 of metres away, otherside of the wall
 
I remember Linus did a video where he had their PC's at home in a server cab setup and the monitors etc in the 'gaming' room. IIRC he used thunderbolt cables to a cradle so he only had to punch a hole big enough for 1 cable to fit through.
 
I have tried 2 approaches to this...

Steam Link: If you have a good quality wireless signal or cabled it works well. However what drove me nuts was that you have to have the PC logged in to be able to connect and I don't like the idea of setting it to auto login just so the steam link can connect. Also when running games that crash or want to install /net framework version XXX or whatever you either have to go downstairs to the PC and click ok or have team viewer running on a device to click the prompts remotely, bit annoying.

Cabled: I had my PC downstairs under the TV connected to a 1080p screen with mouse and keyboard. I then ran 2 10M long USB extensions upstairs through the ceiling for keyboard / mouse along with a 10M long HDMI cable. I had issues with the displays, the upstairs TV was 4K and if I disabled the 1080P TV downstairs it was fine, otherwise I would get stuttering in games (Geforce 1080). It did work though and the silent gaming with no PC noise was very nice. If I didn;t have 2 displays it would have worked perfectly.
 
Glanza said:
I remember Linus did a video where he had their PC's at home in a server cab setup and the monitors etc in the 'gaming' room. IIRC he used thunderbolt cables to a cradle so he only had to punch a hole big enough for 1 cable to fit through.
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I will see what 'thunderbolt cables' allow you to achieve.

You'd have mouse/keyboard/usb audio device/monitor at the least.

Then there's card reader, Vive VR headset - so second display device + usb.
 
You see this ladder shelf unit on in the first photo, well on the other side of that wall is the next photo - a utility cupboard.

I could feed cables through that wall to my desk, I could get a bigger monitor and won't have the noise from my PC fans.

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boilerroom by dancook1982, on Flickr
 
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dancook said:
I will see what 'thunderbolt cables' allow you to achieve.

You'd have mouse/keyboard/usb audio device/monitor at the least.

Then there's card reader, Vive VR headset - so second display device + usb.
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I wouldn't look in to the solution Linus used too much it was horrifically expensive.

2nd image not working by the way.

but yes in theory your idea would work. if you don't mind putting holes in walls for a silent gaming experience go for it. Just make sure the cupboard/room/space you are using has enough airflow to keep the pc cool.

for reference I put my server in a very small cupboard and used a vent in the door coupled with 2 x 140mm slow RPM pc fans to keep the cupboard at ambient temps.
Not sure how said cupboard would deal with a gaming pc however.
 
MassiveJim said:
I wouldn't look in to the solution Linus used too much it was horrifically expensive.

2nd image not working by the way.

but yes in theory your idea would work. if you don't mind putting holes in walls for a silent gaming experience go for it. Just make sure the cupboard/room/space you are using has enough airflow to keep the pc cool.

for reference I put my server in a very small cupboard and used a vent in the door coupled with 2 x 140mm slow RPM pc fans to keep the cupboard at ambient temps.
Not sure how said cupboard would deal with a gaming pc however.
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I fixed the image so you can see the cupboard now :) bit of a mess but can be cleaned up.

Silence for films, and more space on my desk - both good things to come from a hole in the wall, which wouldn't take much i think.
 
I'm thinking I will not bother with this, instead build a silent watercooled pc to put under my desk in the lounge.

My current pc is watercooled but it's not possible to be silent.
 
My pc is in a small under stairs cupboard, it is through the wall from my TV and accessible from the lounge, i have a hole drilled through the wall and some conduit over it to feed the TV HDMI and the amp digital sound from it. Keyboard and mouse get plugged into a usb hub under the tell and go back to the hole via the conduit and surface mount box covering the mess.
The space it sits in is quite small but more than big enough for a mini tower, its running on water and has oversized Rad on the cpu cooler so as it heats up in the little space it doesnt throttle, the space is accessed from a half cupboard in the lounge, and is sound isolated from the rest of the room by two doors - most of the time it is silent even under heavy load.
 
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