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I've been repurposing my Steammachine into an office PC and Plex Media-server and also plan to use steam a Steam Link I bought last year to get my games back into the living room now the PC has moved.
It's going to have a wired connection to the router in the office and to minimize latency for the steam link I'm going to run some dedicated CAT6 (or whatever) down the wall of the house so there is a back-to-back link between a NIC on the PC and the Steam-Link. for this I'm going to have to get another NIC, for my remaining PCIe slot.
It already has an on-board NIC (Realtek® 8111G, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller) which I intend to use for the internet connection/Plex server side of things
For the Steam-Link link I was planning on just adding a cheap Realtek based PCIe NIC like the TP-Link TG3468 that can be picked up for peanuts.
but as latency is the important factor with the Steam-Link I was wondering if it is worth considering a more expensive option to reduce latency?
Or am I worrying about this too much seen as it's just a Steam-Link connected to a TV
PCPartPicker part list:
CPU: *AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£88.28 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Scythe BIG Shuriken 2 Rev. B 45.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£41.42 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: *Asus A88XM-Plus Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Memory: AMD R9 Gamer Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£95.93 @ Misco UK)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£67.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£189.91 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit
Case Fan: ARCTIC F12 PWM 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.67 @ Ebuyer)
Case Fan: ARCTIC F12 PWM 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.67 @ Ebuyer)
Case Fan: ARCTIC F12 PWM 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.67 @ Ebuyer)
It's going to have a wired connection to the router in the office and to minimize latency for the steam link I'm going to run some dedicated CAT6 (or whatever) down the wall of the house so there is a back-to-back link between a NIC on the PC and the Steam-Link. for this I'm going to have to get another NIC, for my remaining PCIe slot.
It already has an on-board NIC (Realtek® 8111G, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller) which I intend to use for the internet connection/Plex server side of things
For the Steam-Link link I was planning on just adding a cheap Realtek based PCIe NIC like the TP-Link TG3468 that can be picked up for peanuts.
but as latency is the important factor with the Steam-Link I was wondering if it is worth considering a more expensive option to reduce latency?
Or am I worrying about this too much seen as it's just a Steam-Link connected to a TV
PCPartPicker part list:
CPU: *AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£88.28 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Scythe BIG Shuriken 2 Rev. B 45.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£41.42 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: *Asus A88XM-Plus Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Memory: AMD R9 Gamer Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£95.93 @ Misco UK)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£67.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£189.91 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit
Case Fan: ARCTIC F12 PWM 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.67 @ Ebuyer)
Case Fan: ARCTIC F12 PWM 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.67 @ Ebuyer)
Case Fan: ARCTIC F12 PWM 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.67 @ Ebuyer)
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