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Overview: I DONT have a smart tv rather a flatscreen with an hdmi port. If I were to build a pc say with an amd athleon 2 and a good wifi card, how good would gaming performance be if it was hooked up wirelessly to a pc with a core i7 6700k and a gtx 1070.

In deapth: My theory is taking a junk pc (like Athleon 2 with a wifi card), and over wifi, connecting it though LAN to a Gaming PC (i7 6700k and gtx 1070). Would
1: I be able to load games on the Gaming PC but stream them through the junk pc and eventually to the TV (Games loaded and playing on Gaming PC but being streamed through junk pc)
2: If Q1 can be accomplished would gaming performance be wortha damn?
 
Solution
I'm not sure of the Steam streaming system requirements. I know the 6700k and gtx1070 is not a problem, as long as it's over gigabit LAN.

I don't know what exact CPU you want to use, but the CPU need to be able to decode the video fast enough. I know my 2410m with HD3000 graphics does fine over Ethernet.

As far as wifi. It depends on your signal strength and available bandwidth. I never tried Steam streaming over wirelessAC, so I dunno how well it'd work. I advise against using wifi, but if you want, go with the best wireless AC wifi card and wireless AC router you can, and hope for the best. Run on 5Ghz and hope for no interference.

What the guy said about your TV being too slow doesn't sound too correct to me. I doubt even a 60hz...
1) This can be done with Steam in home streaming.
2) Since TVs are not gaming panels, there would be a noticeable amount of display lag. Also, no matter how fast your WiFi is there would still be input lag. The rest of the experience would be determined by the gaming capabilities of your main machine and the ability of your client machine to quickly send the output to your TV.

I don't necessarily recommend this, thanks to the fact that you'll be using a TV and you won't be hard wiring the machines together via Ethernet.
 
I'm not sure of the Steam streaming system requirements. I know the 6700k and gtx1070 is not a problem, as long as it's over gigabit LAN.

I don't know what exact CPU you want to use, but the CPU need to be able to decode the video fast enough. I know my 2410m with HD3000 graphics does fine over Ethernet.

As far as wifi. It depends on your signal strength and available bandwidth. I never tried Steam streaming over wirelessAC, so I dunno how well it'd work. I advise against using wifi, but if you want, go with the best wireless AC wifi card and wireless AC router you can, and hope for the best. Run on 5Ghz and hope for no interference.

What the guy said about your TV being too slow doesn't sound too correct to me. I doubt even a 60hz TV will have noticeable lag, considering everything else is perfect. Consoles have plugged directly into TVs for decades and none of them really complain about TV lag.
 
Solution
Your problem is how do you get the video feed sent over the ethernet cable. Its not like you can take your video card and hook a ethernet cable to it. They do though make HDMI extenders that run over a pair of ethernet cables....but they are not actually running ethernet just using the same cable.

So in effect you have put a pretty a very expensive video card in your computer and are not going to use it for anything really.

Still lets step back and look at how this is done for example with game streamers. They use software or hardware to capture the image being sent to their monitor. It is then encoded and send out as a IP stream. Now things like twitch because of how it is done you have close to 15 full seconds of delay. That mean when if a stream was watching his own feed and pressed a button it would take 15 second to show up on the screen. You would not even be able to surf the web much less play a game with delays like that.

In your house it would be much less but there is always significant time it takes to capture a frame of video data and encode it and send it. Even 1 second would be unusable and I suspect it is more like 3-5 seconds and it will be variable which makes it even worse.
 


TVs manufacturers simply don't consider speed a priority. Sure, it's 60Hz, but how much of a delay is there before the input is put on screen? Many gamers consider anything longer than 5ms to be a bad monitor. Most TVs take longer than 30ms to display the input.

None of them complain about TV lag? That's because they don't try to use gaming panels. If they did, they'd never go back.
 


Doesn't matter, response time causes blurring not lag and is still no where near the bottle neck of his theoretical setup
 


Thanks for your reply. The CPU is definatly capabile of decoding video. I pulled it out of an 2014 HP Pavilion.