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July 22, 2013 11:03:10 AM

First, I'm sorry if I'm on the wrong section but I'm not familiar with this topic so please relocate my thread if I'm on the wrong section. I've been interested with Diskless setup since I've heard it from a friend coz I'm planning to build a cyber cafe and searched it on the net. I've read the advantages of this kind of setup and liked it but the sites I've visited did not have the answers to the questions that I have. Because of the "green" advantage which means low electricity consumption. I was wondering what does it exactly do to lower electricity consumption. Which is where my questions comes in.

A.) Does this mean I can use only one system unit for my cafe and just buy multiple monitors ?

B.) And if yes, can it run multiple games at once properly without lagging ?


I'm quite knowledgeable in computers so I was thinking it's impossible that a dual core (which is the system requirement for this kind of setup) or even an octo core can handle multiple modern games running at once without performance drop. But then again, I'm really not familiar with this kind of setup so there must be something with this setup that makes it possible. So I came here to ask.

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July 22, 2013 12:34:04 PM

This type of configuration is possible, but it's very expensive to implement. Generally, for a small network size, it's much more cost effective to set up individual desktop computers instead of trying to run everything simultaneously on a single server. There is a current discussion similar to this going on here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1740485/advice-s...
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April 4, 2014 7:08:31 AM

akimikage said:
First, I'm sorry if I'm on the wrong section but I'm not familiar with this topic so please relocate my thread if I'm on the wrong section. I've been interested with Diskless setup since I've heard it from a friend coz I'm planning to build a cyber cafe and searched it on the net. I've read the advantages of this kind of setup and liked it but the sites I've visited did not have the answers to the questions that I have. Because of the "green" advantage which means low electricity consumption. I was wondering what does it exactly do to lower electricity consumption. Which is where my questions comes in.

A.) Does this mean I can use only one system unit for my cafe and just buy multiple monitors ?

B.) And if yes, can it run multiple games at once properly without lagging ?


I'm quite knowledgeable in computers so I was thinking it's impossible that a dual core (which is the system requirement for this kind of setup) or even an octo core can handle multiple modern games running at once without performance drop. But then again, I'm really not familiar with this kind of setup so there must be something with this setup that makes it possible. So I came here to ask.


A. Yes, you could buy one physical server to host a VM for individual units; however, you will still need a thin client that connects through the network to the server that will have USB inputs for KB/mouse and the monitor.

B. Running games is where the sticky part comes in. If you run a Windows Server host, then yes, it can support games running on the client through RemoteFX, Microsoft's technology for supporting server-based graphics access to remote clients. According to Wikipedia, supposedly it has been tested with up to 12 VMs per GPU. Microsoft has a Technet article about it here. However, if you're planning on running games with heavier graphics loads, then you'll certainly want to test that scenario first. It may or may not work with the popular shooters/battlefield games.
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