This is a super interesting project, and the video is really well presented and explained, if you prefer that format.

I think this method could be brought even further by using ‘thin clients’ (a cheap laptop or used office mini-PC), making it possible to access the main gaming rig from any room in the house as long as you have access to a good network speed.

Utilizing a ‘dummy’ HDMI or Displayport stick, which simulates a monitor for the GPU, you could then remote into the gaming rig from a thin client-like PC through Parsec or Moonline/Sunlight, allowing you to use it as a fully fledged gaming or workstation PC.

If anyone decides to go that route, be aware that AMD GPU’s have pretty notoriously bad encoders/decoders, so I’d recommend sticking with Nvidia or Intel GPU’s.

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    Well I’ll be damned! AMD does seem to have up their encoder game with the Navi series onward.

    They were rightfully called out as having pretty bad encoders before that though, which I personally experienced on an RX 480 I used to have in my system. It made parsec a bit blurry and added quite a bit of latency.

    Also, I would stand by the recommendation to avoid older office PC’s with AMD graphics, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

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      avoid older office PC’s with AMD graphics though, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

      The key word here being older. These days, AMD CPUs have a couple of Navi graphics cores built in, and they’re good for both office tasks and video encoding.