I just made a small hole to my wardrobe in the wall for 5 cables (ethernet, HDMI, 3 USB), connected UPS, headphone AMP, also my monitor has seven USB3.0 output. Now I have full silence and calmness, also I use sleep mode to wake up by clicking mouse. Zero regrets
The on/off switch is a really neat idea. No "but" afterwards. I am shit with Home Assistant, and I just have it send a wake on LAN packet to my PC. Of course this doesn't do anything to turn it off, and I'm sure there are various pros/cons to either setup... but just wanted to say "thanks for the idea" and also mention what I'm doing. I might seriously consider something like this because I "only" have a 3080ti but this room really does heat up. Food for thought. Thanks for the vid.
As you use Home Assistant you might be interested in what I have set up - I bought a little ESP32 board and use ESPHome to basically bridge the contacts on the power button. Pretty straightforward to set up and as long as your motherboard supports USB power when the PC is off you can easily double-sided tape it on the inside of your case to benefit from the cooling too!
I want to use this solution to run some of my PC games on the TV in the next room. Already figured that long cables would be the easiest way but good thing you brought up the powered (!) USB cables. Also I really dig your sense of humor! Stealthy raunchiness, RGB joke as well as a Critical Role reference... nice!
I used to use an ESP8266 Node MCU to turn my PC from anywhere via MQTT. (It's backstory after if you want to read) Then I decided to take it out, make a smart blind motor (which I then also replaced as the motor wasn't strong enough and I need to get a better motor), then it was being used as a pollution monitor until I fried it when I tried to permanently wire it. At least I now have 3 more now to do all these projects at once. Only £4.50 each.
Ok so how you really do this on a budget: First you live in Yorkshire UK, so you LIKE your PC to give off lots of heat as then you can actually feel your fingers during the winter months, while saving on heating the whole house. I just tell the kids a little chill is character forming and they can always come hang out with dad if they want to thaw out some. Second you build your rack out of 3/4 inch ply with screw in rack rails, find a mid tower case that's less than 19" tall and lay it on it's side, assuming you can't find a cheap rackmount case - I did both. You get the "server rack" vibe going by using shelves on drawer sliders for the "on their sides" PC's. This way you combine rack-mounted audio gear, power conditioner and UPS, with a dedicated DAW/audio PC, a dedicated gaming PC (I like Nobara atm) and an unRAID NAS. Add a KVM - I just switch between my DAW box and "gaming" box - and you're good to go. Seriously I have no convenient space to put my rack out side my office - all the available spaces are either too small or already filled with things my SO insists have to be prioritised, at least until the kids leave home ;)
Been running s setup like this for years, so that fan noise doesn’t get in the way of audio production/engineering (which I barely ever do any more), but it’s still great for the same reasons here: ultra short distance from PC to server, right next to my UPS, etc. You might be having that keyboard not detected issue because your UEFI might not be USB3 compatible? May be a setting for that, or if not add a USB2 cable to your snake and that should do it.
I did this, but thankfully it's just on the other side of the wall. So a normal 16ft USB extension cable, then an optical HDMI cable. Not only no noise, but it keeps the game room from being a sauna.
For the power switch of the pc you could also look into those raspberry pi kvm's over local ip (TinyPilot Voyager and the PiKVM for example) you can even control the bios via hdmi in capture.
I've been running a similar setup for about half a year but with 30 m DP and USB cables with no issues. I've been using WoL to turn on my computer but I like the remote idea!
I've had my system in another room for awhile now and I love it. Same basic set up. I use 15' display port cables and some active and passive USB and audio. All of the audio and USB goes into Keystone jacks in the wall under my desk so wireless devices work fine . Finally a small dock on my desk with USB 3.1 for dumping footage from my camera. No issues whatsoever. Not even a hiccup. I never turn off the PC, only put it to sleep, so moving the mouse or a key on the keyboard wakes it up and I'm off to the races. I loved it so much I did the same thing with my VR rig in my living room. Makes the wife happy not having a PC next to the TV stand!
For me it was even easier. My server room is literally the other side of the wall from my desk. It's a thick sound isolated wall that keeps all the noise out. I put my PC cases on shelves against that wall and only need 10ft cables to my desk. The cables go through the wall behind a sheet of plywood that's 3 inched from the wall and that my desk rests on. So all cables are easily hidden as well!
I'm also running my computer in another room, I specifically put my office next to the garage so I could run cables through the wall (when I designed my house). My computer isn't fast by today's standards but it's pretty loud with 10 fans in it. One thing I'd like to sort out is how to keep my computer from getting dust in its current position. Because it doesn't have to look aesthetically pleasing I think extra dust filtering be that some sort of cover or a grow tent seems like an option
I've been running a 27inch 1440p with g-sync at 144hz on a 15ft display cable and a 20ft usb 3.0 cable for 10yrs works great. I was gonna say a basement is a great place to store a rig too, just have to make a small hole in the floor.
I did something similar. Ran a hdmi cable from my office to the front room tv. Great for those cinematic games that are better on a big 4k TV with a sound system. Wireless keyboard and controller 🎮
I run mine to a cupboard next door which has a vent into the roof. Recirculating hot air is a problem, so I had to make sure I created an effective "hot" or "cold" zone on each side with venting out of the hot side. Power can be done via suspend and wake-on-keyboard. I run Displayport and one USB cable which goes to a 7 port hub. Displayport can also carry sound (like hdmi) but I have a separate USB line with a bluetooth dongle which runs to (almost) the centre of the house for maximum headphone coverage. The hub does my usb wired headset, webcam, ring light, keyboard, mouse, with power supply for lightning and USB-C.
I have my desktop virtualized in proxmox and run about 12' of USB/HDMI cables from my rack to my monitor and USB hub. My rack is in the same room("computer room") but it on the wall/corner behind me, wanted a clean desk and a case takes up "too much room". I've also got our 2 in 1 gaming PC in the rack and have cables running from that to our setups, about 15' at the longest cable. Personally I'd like to go epyc and replace those two machines into one but epyc runs too hot(for the room) and is too much $$ for me right now.
POTATO 🥔 nice setup! To turn my PC on, I hooked up some GPIO pins on my rock64 + a relay to the PC power switch. I just run a python script to activate the relay and press the power button. The rock64 also runs wireguard so I can remote in and power it on from anywhere (even from my phone).
My primary concern is just heat in a room. I feel like both cpus and gpus have just gone ham on power consumption. At the end of the day, the pc is an inefficient space heater, so a 400w/600w/800w will put that much more heat into a room. I can deal with noise, just put on headphones, but the extra heat gets hard to manage doesn't matter the season. My PC can comfortably keep my room 2 degrees warmer than any other room in the house at
I have always wanted to learn more about multi room computing Thanks for this quick intro to a much cheaper solution than what Linus did. Direct cable runs are the way to go imho just get a duct from point A to B done.
I don't have a particularly beefy computer (with only a RTX 3060) but I invested in a Noctua Headsink for the CPU, a very quiet PSU, a Be Quiet case (that came with two big & quiet fans on the front) as well as using custom fan curves (through a free software called Fan Control) to lower their speeds when I'm just browsing videos, am in calls or recording audio. With all of this (mainly the Fan Control) I don't hear my computer at all even though it's right at my feet. It does get whiny when my GPU ramps up during more intense gaming but otherwise it's very quiet. Several years in the future once it's time to upgrade my GPU I'll likely aim for a Noctual edition GPU to lower it's noise further during the more active moments.
I was actually looking into a set up to run my PC in my office from my Living Room TV for some couch gaming. I was thinking about the thunderbolt route and looking for more info. You helped me realize that is totally overkill and I can just run 1 HDMI cable and an USB one for much cheaper. So thanks, great video :D
I bought a little ESP32 board and use ESPHome in Home Assistant to basically bridge the contacts on the power button - it's great for being able to access from outside the home network (if I'm working remotely and need access to my rig to render, or if I just want to remotely play some steam games). My next step will be to rack mount the setup so that I can have a bit more space round the desk...
I was looking for this solution, i have a custom loop so the noise is not the issue, i want to get rid of all the heat in the room. where did you find the wall cable entry with rubber?
So you've given me my next project. I do music and the noise my PC generates while not bad, would be best to be absent. I fortunately can just move my PC 8 feet to the left and it will clip into the next room, right where I have an entertainment setup and my NAS. All I need is a UPS (already on the list for my NAS honestly) and I need to make a pass through for cables. This also fixes the cable I have hanging from my router that is next to my NAS that goes to my PC. Thanks for making me rethink Linus's idea.
My server is in my closet and everything else is in my bedroom. It's all super quiet, but all the dang blinking lights! Routers, modem, switches, UPS's, printers, monitors, security camera DVR... I hang hats on some and some I use post-it notes with black magic marker over the light sources on others. My gaming PC with the big window facing the wall creates a backlit area behind my monitors.
Came here for a 10m displayport cable video and it didn't disappoint 😂 Also love the fact that you have a server room but still going with the 'as cheap as possible' option. This is my little project for xmas, it's my own xmas present. PS - Why not use wake-on-Lan/packet, I'd forget the remote, so it would be useless to me. I use WOL from my phone/tablet to run my Plex etc
I did a similar thing for my setup but I took a different route USB 2.0 over Ethernet is really cheap Displayport lets you daisy chain monitors so you could have run just one cable then split it off to two or three displays. Though I can't remember how I did it, windows has a feature where you can power on your PC with a keyboard or mouse click.
Would love to do this but im in a rental and don’t have the layout needed. Im less concerned with noise and more with the heat. I live in Minnesota and my office never needs to have the heater on when the pc runs. Water cooling sadly doesn’t help with that as it still dumps heat in the room. That being said it will definitely be on my mind when I buy a place (if that ever happens) and the remote dongle thing is awesome
The wireless power switch is nice but the range could be an issue. I'd just setup wake on lan instead, as long as you are on the same wifi you can actually turn on a PC with wake on lan not just wake from sleep. That way you can just use your phone to wake the PC. You can also add a smart switch as a failsafe backup incase the computer locks up. Just ensure in your bios you have the PC set to power on when restoring power.
My server rack is in the eaves so 1 wall in between the monitors and where i have the PC. I feel like this is a good option to move the PC and clear a bit of space on the desk
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if you need to go further but wanna go with expensive fiber adapters, there is HDBaseT which can transmit 4k@60Hz, USB2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet over a single cat 6/6a cable for up 100 meters
Potato. I work at a school and a lot of our displays are connected using HDMI-Ethernet adapters so they can travel larger distances to the projectors, etc. I believe there are USB to Ethernet solutions too? I wonder if there are hubs that could transmit multiple USB peripherals over Ethernet?
I know this is an old video but did you run into issues finding a video cable that worked over that kind of distance to output the performance you needed from a 4090? I tried to do a similar setup as yours before but couldn't find anything that'd run higher than 4K@60fps over HDMI. I figured it was probably because once I got over a certain length I'd need an active cable that also supplied power, but even when buying a specialist cable exactly for these sort of use cases, I still couldn't acheive a video signal at 4K@120fps without running into a bunch of flickering issues. Not sure if I just got unlucky with the cable or I was missing something. Just wondered if you ran into anything like that. Im about to move house and what was previously a 'nice to have' setup with having things in different rooms is now going to become a necessity, so trying to figure out my options
I really like the approach of this setup however I do wonder, what if we need to go longer? Could a Ethernet cable/adapter works for USB long distance? Getting long video/audio cables is easy enough but usb ends up being the stopping point for this setup... without going crazy in the thousands of dollars.
My ASROCK X570 PHantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 has a thunderbolt 3 controller on board, plus it has a Displayport input that links a gpu to the port so it can output display over thunderbolt. I paid around €200 euro for the board this summer.
Great video! I had a similar issue with noise inside my pc room with exactly this part on my rig. The noise and water cooling became an issue. Then I weight all the costs and work. Then I finally try my best it part of all my parts. (Including 12 bays nas, 2 10g switches, WiFi) … my mora-3 420 pro external radiator under my desk. Oh what a God sent device piece of hardware! Used the adapter to use 4 big noctua fans on each side dual d5 pumps and a bunch of qd3 quick disconnects. Now I can use a very tiny case almost no fans on it. Absolutely can’t hear the fans or pumps under my desk The added bonus… not in my entire life had so much cooling capacity, I can cool 2 entire pc with this things and still god 👍 I can keep by beloved watercooling hobby with expanding a lot a money every time that I go upgrade anything. I just disconnect change the hardware and plug it again. Nice setup anyway! Congrats
I did something similar with the pc 10m away racked in the garage, used hdmi over cat 6 for video, usb over cat 6 balans. But extended the power/reset switch over cat 6 cable and worked absolutely fine to trigger the power on.
I keep kicking this idea around but my distance is too long at ~40 ft. Mostly want to do this because I want to run my PC off a Poweredge R730 so I can have lots of cores.
Thanks for this video! i live in 2nd floor of the house and i always had problem with my room heating up with my 500watt PC (measured it with power meter). I test and it really is my PC giving a me heat problems. might want to move out my pc too
i have a setup 2 years now with pc and server in different room , well is the room just net to my desk , use 3 monitor , and also have the living room tv connected to it , with wirless keybord trackpad , tv has a 15m hdmi to it ,
My pc is in another room since ~2010s :D The only headache for my next upgrade is the video signals, 8k@120Hz cable are impossible to find at sane prices (if they really exist)
My apartment had a random hole in the wall between the main bedroom and the guest room. My desktop sits on this side of it with my server rack two feet away on the other side of it. This seems super logical for my positioning. Only problem is I run a 3700x and a 1060 so I really don't even have any noise or heat to dispel so its probably useless in my case. lol. Thanks for the great video.
I know how you feel. In 2014 I've been obsessed with silence because I had to run my rig in the same room I was sleeping. But main problem was not that, I just thought that modern computing shouldn't require fans just for showing a static desktop. Already had SSDs, no issue there. So I removed every damn fan and managed to get a 1kg heatsink to cool down my CPU (which was a i5 4690, so nothing special) and got it working, even gaming with a 1060... but temps always were over 80°C while gaming, as the GTX was the only thing capable of removing hot air from the case... But at least I had a fanless rig 95% of the time. Never been that happier, nowadays I try to go fanless as much as I can, even for my (smaller) servers but instead of going with power hungry ones, I go clustered with fanless ones.
Sick! It’s always nice to see different options for clean set ups. Not as clean as having your pc built into a desk, but you can only ask for so much haha
my workflow isn't more complex than word and internet browsing so old dell optiplex is fine, i am however looking to consolidate computers and not run a server and gaming pc. I plan on going for a r9 5900x and virtualize my gaming pc on my unraid server and simply use moonlight, steam in home streaming and parasec to remote in anywhere in the house from any client (optiplex, Steam deck, nvidia shield). I could also use the gaming pc vm horsepower remotely if I have a more challenging task. Of course thats the theory and now I'm collecting parts for the build
does G-Sync work properly for you? I haven't been able to find a long (10-15m) DisplayPort cable to reliably sustain G-Sync on 100Hz 3440x1440 screen; speaking of USB, we're using 10m USB 3.0 powered hubs in studios and they work flawlessly for years (both PCs and Macs), no issues with detection on boot, fun fact we can even plug one to each other and get 20m (~65ft) with full usb speeds and enough power for an external ssd :D
I'm using a phoossno 10m DP1.4 cable (can be found on amazon), I regularly play at 165Hz 3440x1440 with G sync no issues. I also got one of their 20m gen2 hdmi cables so I could connect to my LG CX for that 4K 120Hz + VRR goodness
Well this was entertaining, insightful and characteristically Brett. The car fob style PC starter has my eye. Even though my PC is so close to me it would probably be considered a felony in some states. Potato in chip form. I am no basic b**ch Brett. BTW, loving the whole vibe now. Videos really coming a long great. Keep it up man, your killing it.
I know it's been almost a year now, but I did a very similar setup with my fiance and mine's computers. Moved them out of the game room and essentially threw them in a closet. Ran all the cables I needed to and it's a super clean setup. My only gripe is that my secondary monitor's DisplayPort cable seems to be having issues where it'll flicker on and off at seemingly random times. However the fact that the noise and heat are being generated in a seperate room makes up for the mild inconvience of not seeing what my friends post in Discord for a couple of seconds, haha. Glad I wasn't the only guy to see Linus' setup and think "how can I do this, but cheaper?"
Sooo I'm considering doing something like this, I'm using an SST-RM52 Case for my computer, but I don't know how to deal with VR, my Valve Index has remarkably short cables and I don't know deal with those
Nice setup! I've been thinking of building a setup like yours for my workstation. My server room is next door and chilled with ac 24/7, thinking of moving my PC over there and run the cable like your setup. I run 4 displays and 8 usb cables to the PC. Having build the setup, do you forsee any trouble connecting more cables than you did? cheers!
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theoretically, sepreate cables for video and usb (anything else, like audio can be ran though USB) should be quite a bit more reliable but could you could have bandwith issues with usb, would probably be best to run two seapreat lines of usb 2, or find some sort of extender that can do usb 3.
YOU READ MY MIND WITH THE REMOTE POWER SWITCH. So I currently have Dell Proliant M130 that has been setting for like 4 months when I decided I'd pick it up for a good price and use it as a backup server type device. I never even installed the HDD's yet... But I want to access my main desktop in my living room and bedroom for playing emulators. The living room is a short run and I'll certainly be using the method you showed in this video. But the bedroom is at least an 80' run. What are my best options? I could maybe setup the Dell in the bedroom or my laptop and remote access, but I haven't researched it much. Could I do this over ethernet cable? Is that a stupid question? How about that one? Thanks!
I solved this problem by chucking my PC into my closet beneath the stairs, hooking it up to Ethernet, and using Moonlight and Parsec to stream to client devices all throughout the house. Has the added benefit of being able to stream games to my phone or tablet away from home. Why Moonlight AND Parsec? I generally get better quality with Moonlight (basically native level, even hundreds of miles away,) but Parsec can be configured to run at boot, before you even log into Windows, which is nice to have as a backup solution for any troubleshooting that might arise.
Great approach to remove heat from your workspace - like you I'm a noise snob for my workspace. Think you should try the challenge to silence things without water. Fighting the little peripheral connection issues would make me rip everything out. Key point of technology is it should just WORK and be there when you want/need it. The old bad days where being in front meant living with issues are no longer acceptable in my book. Push your ability make it silent in the room!
How about running fast networking and RDP? I'd really like to see results of fast network. Unfortunately I have only basic gig network and wireless seems to increase lag a bit. But even that is fairly good experience. I wonder what it would be even on 2.5gig connection. Is it even remotely close to fool user not having direct access to hardware?
Honestly I've been trying the wireless remote and it's been kinda garbage. Then I had the same issue with my keyboard to, which lead me on a wild USB hub journey. I eventually settled on ACASIS hubs and they've been fantastic. That said the Amazon basics hub actually works too, but which would you rather buy?
You dont actually even need that device to remotely turn on pc. It can be done with just a phone. You enable "wake on lan" in bios then download an app(for free of course) and then as long as your phone and pc are connected to same local network (doesnt have to be connected to the internet though) you can remotely turn on pc with a phone.
I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for the fantastic TH-cam video you created. Your support and guidance have been invaluable to me, and I truly appreciate the effort and thought you put into making such an informative and well-made video. Thank you so much for your help!
Have you seen the video that Jeff at Craft Computing did on using his home servers for cloud computing? I think reusing nVidia A16s, P4s and M40s is a great way to get those RTX graphics cheaper and to allocate more resources for your VMs.
I just bought a house and I'm doing this exact thing to make my space quiet for recording music. Just putting a wall with some insulation between me and my computer is more than enough. Also running an ethernet hdmi-extender and some long USB cords to my tv for easy couch-play.
Looks sick! I personally gone with the more expensive fans+cooling and some undervolting for the noise problem :D BeQuiet makes some great silent stuff!
You could also have chosen to use wake on lan to put your pc to sleep and wake it up. I do that for my server and i just wake it up by a button in my home assistant. You just need a phone or any other thing able to access home assistant (or any other solution to send the magic packet)
I had that phase with computers and it was nice when it worked but my setup needed around 15 meters of HDMI cable i got expensive usb to ethernet bridge and HDMI signal boosters and it was never good there was always some problem with it. This was back in early 2000 mind you and the cooling fan technology had not matured enough so it was nice when the setup worked. These days i just prefer to have all my computer stuff at arms length.
did you ever fix the issue with the keyboard? i would be interested to know , im about to move my pc stuff tho i might just use the fiber route i know its costly but i have a 40gbs fiber sooo might as well i also have a beast game rig + 5 servers so i want some sleepy quiet time myself.
well thunderbolt can be good , a friend of mine does it a bit different , he and his family have 5 computers and 3 laptop/notebooks , and a gaming pc , most pc,s only have small storage cause he uses Domain controller , his house also has ethernet in the wall (they renovated the home to be able to do it ) big server pc rack in the basement and super POE switch , if lets say he wants to browse the internet on TH-cam orso and he uses his game pc , and want to switch pcs , he just logs out , logs in to another pcs lets say the one of his wife , that pc with his account now just is set to exactly where he left off on the gaming pc , he uses Cat7 ethernet , its expensive but it works . to keep his gaming pc clean he uses a 2 way fan instalation , couple a fans that blow cool air in it and 2 smallerones on the bottom to blow air out at bit slower pace as the cooling fans , once every 2 days just vacume round the pc dust free
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His Dad's advice is truly S tier stuff. Guy knew his tech! /s
It always came at the most random times too 🤷🏻♂️
I just made a small hole to my wardrobe in the wall for 5 cables (ethernet, HDMI, 3 USB), connected UPS, headphone AMP, also my monitor has seven USB3.0 output. Now I have full silence and calmness, also I use sleep mode to wake up by clicking mouse. Zero regrets
Im using my iPhone to turn on my PC with WOL (Wake on Lan) - and a free app to send a WOL package.
What about cooling?
So much gold sprinkled through this episode. Keep up the great work. I haven't laughed so hard in awhile.
My favorites were the vibrator, the RGB joke and the Critical Role reference ^^
The on/off switch is a really neat idea. No "but" afterwards. I am shit with Home Assistant, and I just have it send a wake on LAN packet to my PC. Of course this doesn't do anything to turn it off, and I'm sure there are various pros/cons to either setup... but just wanted to say "thanks for the idea" and also mention what I'm doing. I might seriously consider something like this because I "only" have a 3080ti but this room really does heat up. Food for thought. Thanks for the vid.
As you use Home Assistant you might be interested in what I have set up - I bought a little ESP32 board and use ESPHome to basically bridge the contacts on the power button. Pretty straightforward to set up and as long as your motherboard supports USB power when the PC is off you can easily double-sided tape it on the inside of your case to benefit from the cooling too!
I want to use this solution to run some of my PC games on the TV in the next room. Already figured that long cables would be the easiest way but good thing you brought up the powered (!) USB cables. Also I really dig your sense of humor! Stealthy raunchiness, RGB joke as well as a Critical Role reference... nice!
I used to use an ESP8266 Node MCU to turn my PC from anywhere via MQTT.
(It's backstory after if you want to read)
Then I decided to take it out, make a smart blind motor (which I then also replaced as the motor wasn't strong enough and I need to get a better motor), then it was being used as a pollution monitor until I fried it when I tried to permanently wire it. At least I now have 3 more now to do all these projects at once. Only £4.50 each.
I actually just set up an ESP32 to turn on one of my Proxmox VMs the other day lol
Ok so how you really do this on a budget:
First you live in Yorkshire UK, so you LIKE your PC to give off lots of heat as then you can actually feel your fingers during the winter months, while saving on heating the whole house. I just tell the kids a little chill is character forming and they can always come hang out with dad if they want to thaw out some.
Second you build your rack out of 3/4 inch ply with screw in rack rails, find a mid tower case that's less than 19" tall and lay it on it's side, assuming you can't find a cheap rackmount case - I did both. You get the "server rack" vibe going by using shelves on drawer sliders for the "on their sides" PC's.
This way you combine rack-mounted audio gear, power conditioner and UPS, with a dedicated DAW/audio PC, a dedicated gaming PC (I like Nobara atm) and an unRAID NAS. Add a KVM - I just switch between my DAW box and "gaming" box - and you're good to go.
Seriously I have no convenient space to put my rack out side my office - all the available spaces are either too small or already filled with things my SO insists have to be prioritised, at least until the kids leave home ;)
Surprised you didn't use WOL to turn on the PC.
Been running s setup like this for years, so that fan noise doesn’t get in the way of audio production/engineering (which I barely ever do any more), but it’s still great for the same reasons here: ultra short distance from PC to server, right next to my UPS, etc.
You might be having that keyboard not detected issue because your UEFI might not be USB3 compatible? May be a setting for that, or if not add a USB2 cable to your snake and that should do it.
this dude is literally the funniest tech youtuber there is, so many jokes in his videos every time
I didn't hear one laughable joke..
@@squirrelslax2945 I would suggest watching the video again and maybe obtaining a sense of humour. Hope this helps!
@@28469 I have a sense of what humor is.. nothing in this video was funny. If anything, the attempts to be funny were cringe and felt scripted.
@@squirrelslax2945 it's a very dry sense of humor. Most people won't appreciate it. I loved every moment of this video.
@@ABP8214 Its not dry, it's corny and boring. Worse than dad jokes..
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I did this, but thankfully it's just on the other side of the wall. So a normal 16ft USB extension cable, then an optical HDMI cable.
Not only no noise, but it keeps the game room from being a sauna.
For the power switch of the pc you could also look into those raspberry pi kvm's over local ip (TinyPilot Voyager and the PiKVM for example) you can even control the bios via hdmi in capture.
I've been running a similar setup for about half a year but with 30 m DP and USB cables with no issues. I've been using WoL to turn on my computer but I like the remote idea!
I loved the fact you got a car key to start your computer 😂😂 You'll always impress me with your American way of thinking
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I've had my system in another room for awhile now and I love it. Same basic set up. I use 15' display port cables and some active and passive USB and audio. All of the audio and USB goes into Keystone jacks in the wall under my desk so wireless devices work fine . Finally a small dock on my desk with USB 3.1 for dumping footage from my camera. No issues whatsoever. Not even a hiccup. I never turn off the PC, only put it to sleep, so moving the mouse or a key on the keyboard wakes it up and I'm off to the races. I loved it so much I did the same thing with my VR rig in my living room. Makes the wife happy not having a PC next to the TV stand!
hi Brett. seeing a few new angle shot, please do a studio tour including your video setup. I'm curious to see it.
and also.. Potato
This idea should be officially supported, i can't wait to yeet this pc into another dimension and keep my table area clear.
For me it was even easier. My server room is literally the other side of the wall from my desk.
It's a thick sound isolated wall that keeps all the noise out.
I put my PC cases on shelves against that wall and only need 10ft cables to my desk.
The cables go through the wall behind a sheet of plywood that's 3 inched from the wall and that my desk rests on.
So all cables are easily hidden as well!
I'm also running my computer in another room, I specifically put my office next to the garage so I could run cables through the wall (when I designed my house). My computer isn't fast by today's standards but it's pretty loud with 10 fans in it.
One thing I'd like to sort out is how to keep my computer from getting dust in its current position. Because it doesn't have to look aesthetically pleasing I think extra dust filtering be that some sort of cover or a grow tent seems like an option
Just get buy mac and be done with it😂
@Tavs.fāters I have a Mac for work but there are things I do not available on mac
I've been running a 27inch 1440p with g-sync at 144hz on a 15ft display cable and a 20ft usb 3.0 cable for 10yrs works great. I was gonna say a basement is a great place to store a rig too, just have to make a small hole in the floor.
“My computer is in another room…” is the equivalent of “My girlfriend goes to a different school…”
Bro she was gonna come tonight but she had to wash her hair…I swear
@@RaidOwl 😄
I did something similar. Ran a hdmi cable from my office to the front room tv. Great for those cinematic games that are better on a big 4k TV with a sound system. Wireless keyboard and controller 🎮
7:00 wake on lan? there is a phone app that you can place button on your phone desktop screen and power it instantly
I run mine to a cupboard next door which has a vent into the roof. Recirculating hot air is a problem, so I had to make sure I created an effective "hot" or "cold" zone on each side with venting out of the hot side.
Power can be done via suspend and wake-on-keyboard. I run Displayport and one USB cable which goes to a 7 port hub. Displayport can also carry sound (like hdmi) but I have a separate USB line with a bluetooth dongle which runs to (almost) the centre of the house for maximum headphone coverage.
The hub does my usb wired headset, webcam, ring light, keyboard, mouse, with power supply for lightning and USB-C.
I have my desktop virtualized in proxmox and run about 12' of USB/HDMI cables from my rack to my monitor and USB hub. My rack is in the same room("computer room") but it on the wall/corner behind me, wanted a clean desk and a case takes up "too much room". I've also got our 2 in 1 gaming PC in the rack and have cables running from that to our setups, about 15' at the longest cable.
Personally I'd like to go epyc and replace those two machines into one but epyc runs too hot(for the room) and is too much $$ for me right now.
POTATO 🥔
nice setup! To turn my PC on, I hooked up some GPIO pins on my rock64 + a relay to the PC power switch. I just run a python script to activate the relay and press the power button. The rock64 also runs wireguard so I can remote in and power it on from anywhere (even from my phone).
00:43 the "Not his wife" sticker really got me! 🤣
My primary concern is just heat in a room. I feel like both cpus and gpus have just gone ham on power consumption. At the end of the day, the pc is an inefficient space heater, so a 400w/600w/800w will put that much more heat into a room. I can deal with noise, just put on headphones, but the extra heat gets hard to manage doesn't matter the season. My PC can comfortably keep my room 2 degrees warmer than any other room in the house at
I have always wanted to learn more about multi room computing Thanks for this quick intro to a much cheaper solution than what Linus did. Direct cable runs are the way to go imho just get a duct from point A to B done.
Exactely! I want to play some of my PC games on the TV in the next room without an LTT-Style "Media Center". This solution is way easier.
I don't have a particularly beefy computer (with only a RTX 3060) but I invested in a Noctua Headsink for the CPU, a very quiet PSU, a Be Quiet case (that came with two big & quiet fans on the front) as well as using custom fan curves (through a free software called Fan Control) to lower their speeds when I'm just browsing videos, am in calls or recording audio. With all of this (mainly the Fan Control) I don't hear my computer at all even though it's right at my feet. It does get whiny when my GPU ramps up during more intense gaming but otherwise it's very quiet. Several years in the future once it's time to upgrade my GPU I'll likely aim for a Noctual edition GPU to lower it's noise further during the more active moments.
I was actually looking into a set up to run my PC in my office from my Living Room TV for some couch gaming. I was thinking about the thunderbolt route and looking for more info. You helped me realize that is totally overkill and I can just run 1 HDMI cable and an USB one for much cheaper. So thanks, great video :D
I bought a little ESP32 board and use ESPHome in Home Assistant to basically bridge the contacts on the power button - it's great for being able to access from outside the home network (if I'm working remotely and need access to my rig to render, or if I just want to remotely play some steam games). My next step will be to rack mount the setup so that I can have a bit more space round the desk...
I was looking for this solution, i have a custom loop so the noise is not the issue, i want to get rid of all the heat in the room. where did you find the wall cable entry with rubber?
So you've given me my next project. I do music and the noise my PC generates while not bad, would be best to be absent. I fortunately can just move my PC 8 feet to the left and it will clip into the next room, right where I have an entertainment setup and my NAS. All I need is a UPS (already on the list for my NAS honestly) and I need to make a pass through for cables. This also fixes the cable I have hanging from my router that is next to my NAS that goes to my PC. Thanks for making me rethink Linus's idea.
My server is in my closet and everything else is in my bedroom. It's all super quiet, but all the dang blinking lights! Routers, modem, switches, UPS's, printers, monitors, security camera DVR... I hang hats on some and some I use post-it notes with black magic marker over the light sources on others. My gaming PC with the big window facing the wall creates a backlit area behind my monitors.
Came here for a 10m displayport cable video and it didn't disappoint 😂 Also love the fact that you have a server room but still going with the 'as cheap as possible' option. This is my little project for xmas, it's my own xmas present. PS - Why not use wake-on-Lan/packet, I'd forget the remote, so it would be useless to me. I use WOL from my phone/tablet to run my Plex etc
Not his wife 😂😂
Dad always had good advice. And Raid Owl always has good videos even my non-tech wife can appreciate.
I did a similar thing for my setup but I took a different route
USB 2.0 over Ethernet is really cheap
Displayport lets you daisy chain monitors so you could have run just one cable then split it off to two or three displays.
Though I can't remember how I did it, windows has a feature where you can power on your PC with a keyboard or mouse click.
That is often a bios setting. Likely in the same area as wake on Lan and other power settings.
Would love to do this but im in a rental and don’t have the layout needed. Im less concerned with noise and more with the heat. I live in Minnesota and my office never needs to have the heater on when the pc runs. Water cooling sadly doesn’t help with that as it still dumps heat in the room.
That being said it will definitely be on my mind when I buy a place (if that ever happens) and the remote dongle thing is awesome
The wireless power switch is nice but the range could be an issue. I'd just setup wake on lan instead, as long as you are on the same wifi you can actually turn on a PC with wake on lan not just wake from sleep.
That way you can just use your phone to wake the PC.
You can also add a smart switch as a failsafe backup incase the computer locks up. Just ensure in your bios you have the PC set to power on when restoring power.
My server rack is in the eaves so 1 wall in between the monitors and where i have the PC. I feel like this is a good option to move the PC and clear a bit of space on the desk
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if you need to go further but wanna go with expensive fiber adapters, there is HDBaseT which can transmit 4k@60Hz, USB2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet over a single cat 6/6a cable for up 100 meters
Definitely considering the remote power on route with my 2nd floor home office desktop. Thanks Brett!
Potato. I work at a school and a lot of our displays are connected using HDMI-Ethernet adapters so they can travel larger distances to the projectors, etc. I believe there are USB to Ethernet solutions too? I wonder if there are hubs that could transmit multiple USB peripherals over Ethernet?
I will try the long separate cable approach and for audio I will get DAC with toslink so I don't lose signal over the distance
Vibrators definitely can set it over depends on the vibs power supply they make some good but low power ones. Glad you had the right one!
I know this is an old video but did you run into issues finding a video cable that worked over that kind of distance to output the performance you needed from a 4090? I tried to do a similar setup as yours before but couldn't find anything that'd run higher than 4K@60fps over HDMI. I figured it was probably because once I got over a certain length I'd need an active cable that also supplied power, but even when buying a specialist cable exactly for these sort of use cases, I still couldn't acheive a video signal at 4K@120fps without running into a bunch of flickering issues. Not sure if I just got unlucky with the cable or I was missing something.
Just wondered if you ran into anything like that. Im about to move house and what was previously a 'nice to have' setup with having things in different rooms is now going to become a necessity, so trying to figure out my options
You don’t need onboard thunderbolt, just a tb header and addin card
Thank you for this, the top search result for this type computer mod was 14 years old.
I really like the approach of this setup however I do wonder, what if we need to go longer? Could a Ethernet cable/adapter works for USB long distance? Getting long video/audio cables is easy enough but usb ends up being the stopping point for this setup... without going crazy in the thousands of dollars.
My ASROCK X570 PHantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 has a thunderbolt 3 controller on board, plus it has a Displayport input that links a gpu to the port so it can output display over thunderbolt. I paid around €200 euro for the board this summer.
You can enable power on keyboard in any bios since 1989 and use a key combanation to power on any pc.
Great video!
I had a similar issue with noise inside my pc room with exactly this part on my rig.
The noise and water cooling became an issue.
Then I weight all the costs and work.
Then I finally try my best it part of all my parts. (Including 12 bays nas, 2 10g switches, WiFi) … my mora-3 420 pro external radiator under my desk.
Oh what a God sent device piece of hardware!
Used the adapter to use 4 big noctua fans on each side dual d5 pumps and a bunch of qd3 quick disconnects.
Now I can use a very tiny case almost no fans on it.
Absolutely can’t hear the fans or pumps under my desk
The added bonus… not in my entire life had so much cooling capacity, I can cool 2 entire pc with this things and still god 👍
I can keep by beloved watercooling hobby with expanding a lot a money every time that I go upgrade anything.
I just disconnect change the hardware and plug it again.
Nice setup anyway! Congrats
I did something similar with the pc 10m away racked in the garage, used hdmi over cat 6 for video, usb over cat 6 balans. But extended the power/reset switch over cat 6 cable and worked absolutely fine to trigger the power on.
What USB dock are you using. How’s the computer holding up on another room?
I keep kicking this idea around but my distance is too long at ~40 ft. Mostly want to do this because I want to run my PC off a Poweredge R730 so I can have lots of cores.
Thanks for this video!
i live in 2nd floor of the house and i always had problem with my room heating up with my 500watt PC (measured it with power meter). I test and it really is my PC giving a me heat problems. might want to move out my pc too
Is there any reason to use that keychain remote to start computer instead of WOL and some super simple WiFi board?
i have a setup 2 years now with pc and server in different room , well is the room just net to my desk , use 3 monitor , and also have the living room tv connected to it , with wirless keybord trackpad , tv has a 15m hdmi to it ,
My pc is in another room since ~2010s :D
The only headache for my next upgrade is the video signals, 8k@120Hz cable are impossible to find at sane prices (if they really exist)
My apartment had a random hole in the wall between the main bedroom and the guest room. My desktop sits on this side of it with my server rack two feet away on the other side of it. This seems super logical for my positioning. Only problem is I run a 3700x and a 1060 so I really don't even have any noise or heat to dispel so its probably useless in my case. lol. Thanks for the great video.
Ya dang. Weird place for a hole to be in the wall.
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I know how you feel.
In 2014 I've been obsessed with silence because I had to run my rig in the same room I was sleeping.
But main problem was not that, I just thought that modern computing shouldn't require fans just for showing a static desktop.
Already had SSDs, no issue there.
So I removed every damn fan and managed to get a 1kg heatsink to cool down my CPU (which was a i5 4690, so nothing special) and got it working, even gaming with a 1060... but temps always were over 80°C while gaming, as the GTX was the only thing capable of removing hot air from the case...
But at least I had a fanless rig 95% of the time.
Never been that happier, nowadays I try to go fanless as much as I can, even for my (smaller) servers but instead of going with power hungry ones, I go clustered with fanless ones.
Sick! It’s always nice to see different options for clean set ups. Not as clean as having your pc built into a desk, but you can only ask for so much haha
Then your desk is hot and probably noisy tho
Potato.
Also I've been thinking about doing something similar. I only have a smaller server and I would just build a desktop in the room next door.
great set up... but no RGB... I spend extra on the LL corsair fans just for the RGB!!! I need that beautiful RGB
RGB does give you a 10% performance boost so that makes sense
my workflow isn't more complex than word and internet browsing so old dell optiplex is fine, i am however looking to consolidate computers and not run a server and gaming pc. I plan on going for a r9 5900x and virtualize my gaming pc on my unraid server and simply use moonlight, steam in home streaming and parasec to remote in anywhere in the house from any client (optiplex, Steam deck, nvidia shield). I could also use the gaming pc vm horsepower remotely if I have a more challenging task. Of course thats the theory and now I'm collecting parts for the build
What kind of case do you need to rack mount a gaming PC like this?
does G-Sync work properly for you? I haven't been able to find a long (10-15m) DisplayPort cable to reliably sustain G-Sync on 100Hz 3440x1440 screen;
speaking of USB, we're using 10m USB 3.0 powered hubs in studios and they work flawlessly for years (both PCs and Macs), no issues with detection on boot, fun fact we can even plug one to each other and get 20m (~65ft) with full usb speeds and enough power for an external ssd :D
I'm using a phoossno 10m DP1.4 cable (can be found on amazon), I regularly play at 165Hz 3440x1440 with G sync no issues.
I also got one of their 20m gen2 hdmi cables so I could connect to my LG CX for that 4K 120Hz + VRR goodness
Inspirational, thanks! What's your feedback on the remote's battery lifespan? Mine drains within weeks.
I haven’t had to change the battery yet 🤷🏻♂️
Well this was entertaining, insightful and characteristically Brett. The car fob style PC starter has my eye. Even though my PC is so close to me it would probably be considered a felony in some states.
Potato in chip form. I am no basic b**ch Brett.
BTW, loving the whole vibe now. Videos really coming a long great. Keep it up man, your killing it.
I know it's been almost a year now, but I did a very similar setup with my fiance and mine's computers. Moved them out of the game room and essentially threw them in a closet. Ran all the cables I needed to and it's a super clean setup. My only gripe is that my secondary monitor's DisplayPort cable seems to be having issues where it'll flicker on and off at seemingly random times. However the fact that the noise and heat are being generated in a seperate room makes up for the mild inconvience of not seeing what my friends post in Discord for a couple of seconds, haha. Glad I wasn't the only guy to see Linus' setup and think "how can I do this, but cheaper?"
Sooo I'm considering doing something like this, I'm using an SST-RM52 Case for my computer, but I don't know how to deal with VR, my Valve Index has remarkably short cables and I don't know deal with those
Nice setup! I've been thinking of building a setup like yours for my workstation. My server room is next door and chilled with ac 24/7, thinking of moving my PC over there and run the cable like your setup. I run 4 displays and 8 usb cables to the PC.
Having build the setup, do you forsee any trouble connecting more cables than you did? cheers!
theoretically, sepreate cables for video and usb (anything else, like audio can be ran though USB) should be quite a bit more reliable but could you could have bandwith issues with usb, would probably be best to run two seapreat lines of usb 2, or find some sort of extender that can do usb 3.
YOU READ MY MIND WITH THE REMOTE POWER SWITCH. So I currently have Dell Proliant M130 that has been setting for like 4 months when I decided I'd pick it up for a good price and use it as a backup server type device. I never even installed the HDD's yet... But I want to access my main desktop in my living room and bedroom for playing emulators. The living room is a short run and I'll certainly be using the method you showed in this video. But the bedroom is at least an 80' run. What are my best options? I could maybe setup the Dell in the bedroom or my laptop and remote access, but I haven't researched it much. Could I do this over ethernet cable? Is that a stupid question? How about that one? Thanks!
I solved this problem by chucking my PC into my closet beneath the stairs, hooking it up to Ethernet, and using Moonlight and Parsec to stream to client devices all throughout the house. Has the added benefit of being able to stream games to my phone or tablet away from home.
Why Moonlight AND Parsec? I generally get better quality with Moonlight (basically native level, even hundreds of miles away,) but Parsec can be configured to run at boot, before you even log into Windows, which is nice to have as a backup solution for any troubleshooting that might arise.
Yeah I’m a fan of Parsec. I did a video on it awhile back.
Your dry and subtle humor just slays me! Lol
Great approach to remove heat from your workspace - like you I'm a noise snob for my workspace. Think you should try the challenge to silence things without water. Fighting the little peripheral connection issues would make me rip everything out. Key point of technology is it should just WORK and be there when you want/need it. The old bad days where being in front meant living with issues are no longer acceptable in my book. Push your ability make it silent in the room!
How’s the latency, if it’s good I plan to rout the cables from my room to my living room in order to play games on the tv.
How about running fast networking and RDP? I'd really like to see results of fast network. Unfortunately I have only basic gig network and wireless seems to increase lag a bit. But even that is fairly good experience. I wonder what it would be even on 2.5gig connection. Is it even remotely close to fool user not having direct access to hardware?
Question, I want to control my Gaming PC from (1 at a time) my garage and my gaming room with. 2 sets of peripherals to one pc.
Do you actually utilize 128gb of RAM? I have 64 and hardly come close even running virtual machines
Honestly I've been trying the wireless remote and it's been kinda garbage. Then I had the same issue with my keyboard to, which lead me on a wild USB hub journey. I eventually settled on ACASIS hubs and they've been fantastic. That said the Amazon basics hub actually works too, but which would you rather buy?
You dont actually even need that device to remotely turn on pc. It can be done with just a phone. You enable "wake on lan" in bios then download an app(for free of course) and then as long as your phone and pc are connected to same local network (doesnt have to be connected to the internet though) you can remotely turn on pc with a phone.
@@Marko-ij4vy thats great and all but there's a lot of consumer CPU's that actually don't support wake on lan
I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for the fantastic TH-cam video you created. Your support and guidance have been invaluable to me, and I truly appreciate the effort and thought you put into making such an informative and well-made video. Thank you so much for your help!
You’re so kind! ☺️
Have you seen the video that Jeff at Craft Computing did on using his home servers for cloud computing? I think reusing nVidia A16s, P4s and M40s is a great way to get those RTX graphics cheaper and to allocate more resources for your VMs.
Yep! But since this is my main rig I wanted full performance/features
I just bought a house and I'm doing this exact thing to make my space quiet for recording music. Just putting a wall with some insulation between me and my computer is more than enough. Also running an ethernet hdmi-extender and some long USB cords to my tv for easy couch-play.
Looks sick!
I personally gone with the more expensive fans+cooling and some undervolting for the noise problem :D
BeQuiet makes some great silent stuff!
USB vibrator? Where can I get one of those?
"I'm a potato" - great channel, love your delivery method.
Vibrator lmao.
RO kinda being "yeahh that was a joke"
You could also have chosen to use wake on lan to put your pc to sleep and wake it up. I do that for my server and i just wake it up by a button in my home assistant. You just need a phone or any other thing able to access home assistant (or any other solution to send the magic packet)
I had that phase with computers and it was nice when it worked but my setup needed around 15 meters of HDMI cable i got expensive usb to ethernet bridge and HDMI signal boosters and it was never good there was always some problem with it. This was back in early 2000 mind you and the cooling fan technology had not matured enough so it was nice when the setup worked. These days i just prefer to have all my computer stuff at arms length.
did you ever fix the issue with the keyboard? i would be interested to know , im about to move my pc stuff tho i might just use the fiber route i know its costly but i have a 40gbs fiber sooo might as well i also have a beast game rig + 5 servers so i want some sleepy quiet time myself.
Yep I just used a different usb hub
well thunderbolt can be good , a friend of mine does it a bit different , he and his family have 5 computers and 3 laptop/notebooks , and a gaming pc , most pc,s only have small storage cause he uses Domain controller , his house also has ethernet in the wall (they renovated the home to be able to do it ) big server pc rack in the basement and super POE switch , if lets say he wants to browse the internet on TH-cam orso and he uses his game pc , and want to switch pcs , he just logs out , logs in to another pcs lets say the one of his wife , that pc with his account now just is set to exactly where he left off on the gaming pc , he uses Cat7 ethernet , its expensive but it works .
to keep his gaming pc clean he uses a 2 way fan instalation , couple a fans that blow cool air in it and 2 smallerones on the bottom to blow air out at bit slower pace as the cooling fans , once every 2 days just vacume round the pc dust free