[SOLVED] 4 Gamers 1 PC

[Ggaabbee55]

Hello Everyone,

Just trying to build a LAN Gaming PC for Myself and Family to enjoy occasionally, I want the PC to be able to handle World of Warcraft @ 1080p 60fps High Settings along with Rainbow Six Siege and GTA V (Not sure if i'm stretching it), all while be affordable I seen OZTalksHW create the build i'm looking for however he has yet to make a part two and no benchmarks, but he claims to have only spent $1500, which would be nice if the same can be achieved here. I do not care about aesthetics (maybe an industrial feel), but if possible would love to play 1440p ultra settings most modern games by myself when not being used by 4 gamers. Not sure exactly how this is possible and what allows 4 gamers to play on one PC but I'm ready for this project.

Appreciate Everyone's Time
Thanks

 

[Eximo]

Multiple gamers on a PC requires virtualization and a lot of setup. Essentially you will run 4 computers off of one host system. You will need 4 monitors, keyboards, mice, audio solutions. Five OS licenses, possibly a license for the VM software. Probably some fancy USB cards to get enough ports. The proper way would also be independent GPUs for each user. Which is going to mean a very expensive motherboard to cram all that in, or expansion cards and external enclosures. Dual slot cards will occupy fully even a high end motherboard. You will have to be sensitive to storage speed and memory usage, 32GB if you want to give each person like 7GB of memory (some will have to be reserved for the Host OS) Very expensive overall.

If someone says they can get away with it for $1500 for even those older titles, I would be surprised.

I am not certain the free virtualization tools out there allow for GPU sharing. I kind of thought that was reserved for more expensive solutions, but I might just be out of date there. If they do, then it is slightly more feasible, but the other requirements would still be there.

To get 1440p Ultra standalone is about $1500. There you would want about $600-800 to go towards the GPU (RTX2070 Super or RTX2080), and get a decent i5 or R5 processor to pair with it, or more.

If you are serious about this, it is going to take a lot more research. Do you have the free time to do that?

You could just go out and buy a nice desktop for yourself and a couple of mid-range laptops, even used, that can run WoW, RSS, and GTAV.

https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000X-00SV2

i5-7500HQ + GTX1050 + 8GB, + 1TB hard drive. $620

 

[Ggaabbee55]

Multiple gamers on a PC requires virtualization and a lot of setup. Essentially you will run 4 computers off of one host system. You will need 4 monitors, keyboards, mice, audio solutions. Five OS licenses, possibly a license for the VM software. Probably some fancy USB cards to get enough ports. The proper way would also be independent GPUs for each user. Which is going to mean a very expensive motherboard to cram all that in, or expansion cards and external enclosures. Dual slot cards will occupy fully even a high end motherboard. You will have to be sensitive to storage speed and memory usage, 32GB if you want to give each person like 7GB of memory (some will have to be reserved for the Host OS) Very expensive overall.

If someone says they can get away with it for $1500 for even those older titles, I would be surprised.

I am not certain the free virtualization tools out there allow for GPU sharing. I kind of thought that was reserved for more expensive solutions, but I might just be out of date there. If they do, then it is slightly more feasible, but the other requirements would still be there.

To get 1440p Ultra standalone is about $1500. There you would want about $600-800 to go towards the GPU (RTX2070 Super or RTX2080), and get a decent i5 or R5 processor to pair with it, or more.

If you are serious about this, it is going to take a lot more research. Do you have the free time to do that?

You could just go out and buy a nice desktop for yourself and a couple of mid-range laptops, even used, that can run WoW, RSS, and GTAV.

https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000X-00SV2

i5-7500HQ + GTX1050 + 8GB, + 1TB hard drive. $620

Well now you have changed my perspective, I was hoping have a cool setup for the family but now I'd rather just buy separate rigs and create an illusion of one station. Thanks for your time Eximo !

 

[Eximo]

Neat in concept, a nightmare in practice. The need to do this type of thing is minimal, so the software to do it is really designed for running server VMs or distributed processing from client systems.

Yeah, if you went with a pile of low end gaming desktops, you might come out ahead as well. Though laptops have more utility for other activities.

Lots of OEM desktops you can buy and just drop in a low power GPU. With GTX1650 and 1660, or RX560 out there, no reason you can't make some decent light gaming rigs.

 

[Ggaabbee55]

Neat in concept, a nightmare in practice. The need to do this type of thing is minimal, so the software to do it is really designed for running server VMs or distributed processing from client systems.

Yeah, if you went with a pile of low end gaming desktops, you might come out ahead as well. Though laptops have more utility for other activities.

Lots of OEM desktops you can buy and just drop in a low power GPU. With GTX1650 and 1660, or RX560 out there, no reason you can't make some decent light gaming rigs.

Yeah it seems like a lot for something so simple. I'm sorry to take more of your time but i'm curious what you think of this build I put together for 1080p 60fps ultra settings
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pCtc29.

Thanks again !

 

[Eximo]

You should look at a higher quality PSU, but now is certainly the time to pick up 2600 CPUs. 8GB of memory is a little low, there are certainly games out there that demand more, so if you can push that to 16GB you should do so.

I'm a little out of date on the latest games at 1080p, but the 1660Ti should do pretty well at them, certainly 60FPS will be no issue for most games.

 

[Ggaabbee55]

You should look at a higher quality PSU, but now is certainly the time to pick up 2600 CPUs. 8GB of memory is a little low, there are certainly games out there that demand more, so if you can push that to 16GB you should do so.

I'm a little out of date on the latest games at 1080p, but the 1660Ti should do pretty well at them, certainly 60FPS will be no issue for most games.

Appreciate all the help Thank you !!!