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5:01 - 😂Gotta keep the vib charged. I'm freaking dead. You da geek bro

His Dad's advice is truly S tier stuff. Guy knew his tech! /s

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

So much gold sprinkled through this episode. Keep up the great work. I haven't laughed so hard in awhile.

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.

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.

this dude is literally the funniest tech youtuber there is, so many jokes in his videos every time

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!

My PC raises my room temp so much, anyone that enters it complains and quickly walks out, so I can't wait to give this a go! I have the same USB Hub as you, but unfortunately it's never successfully powered any USB 3.0 webcams like my Elgato, but hopefully using an extra active USB 3.0 extension cable from the PC to the webcam works. $130 project to end my years of sleepless, sweaty nights, and friends complaining about my PC fan on voice chat *fingers crossed.* Thanks for the simple video, and showing that this MUCH cheaper route does indeed work fine.

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 ;)

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 loved the fact you got a car key to start your computer 😂😂 You'll always impress me with your American way of thinking

Surprised you didn't use WOL to turn on the PC.

I love coconut hand soap, it foams great and the taste is really close to the real thing

This idea should be officially supported, i can't wait to yeet this pc into another dimension and keep my table area clear.

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.

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.

"comment your favorite hand soap flavor" 🤣 love this!

“My computer is in another room…” is the equivalent of “My girlfriend goes to a different school…”

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 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'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!

Dad always had good advice. And Raid Owl always has good videos even my non-tech wife can appreciate.

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

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).

lol, I died with the rgb part

“One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.” -Edgar Allen Poetato

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.

Those long expensive thunderbolt cables are notorious for being easily damaged, multiple standard cables was the best way.

I fixed the "No keyboard detected video" by plugging in my USB hub to the top left usb port on my motherboard I/O. That is the first usb that the MB detects.

this video has a chaotic energy thats just always creeping in the background

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.

"I'm a potato" - great channel, love your delivery method.

Po-Tay-Toe...Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!

Your dry and subtle humor just slays me! Lol

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!

"Not His Wife" 🤣🤣

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.

Po-ta-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

Vibrator lmao.

Thanks for the giggles! I’d love to run a 3d scanner in my garage, using my workstation that’s inside my house. Can it be done? 🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼😎🍀☮️

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.

Potato powered vibrator This gives me an idea. I mean your idea gives me an idea with my office.

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!

You can enable power on keyboard in any bios since 1989 and use a key combanation to power on any pc.

potatoes, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew

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

You don’t need onboard thunderbolt, just a tb header and addin card

I LOL'd at that Minesweeper clip! ❤

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

Gonna do this to set up a second VR headset, this one in the living room next to my game room

We've ascended to keyfobs for our computers. I love this timeline

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

Potato, but said like potato, and not like potato. Anyone who says potato is still a good person though, and I still respect them.

Every now and then your head moved between the two black hexagon tiles and it looked like you were an … off putting Mickey Mouse …. Not sure why but I got a really good giggle out of that, thanks! 😂 Also, great video 👍

Potato chips and chips are the best combo ever made in the world.

Someone who has done exactly what I was gonna do in a similar space with similar distances... excellent.

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.

Nice work, the dad jokes were great 😂

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.

Texas toast. That's what my PC makes while editing. I have the same system and the Z790 Hero.

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 run the same DP cable at 25ft, one 25 ft usb c extension cable to a usb hub that runs my keyboard, mouse, controller, camera, and I have wireless headphones so the receiver is connected directly at the pc without any issues. Simple, voila! Much cooler room and no noise! Back to pushing my gpu to run 4k games without an issue in my room. 😅

Vibrator hahaha, nice one.

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 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.

my favorite hand soap has to be the "burnt 4090 rtx" it gives off a familiar aroma and nice plasticy smell

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

7:00 wake on lan? there is a phone app that you can place button on your phone desktop screen and power it instantly

Definitely considering the remote power on route with my 2nd floor home office desktop. Thanks Brett!

Who's Raid Owl? Also, duhh you went with #1. Who doesn't love a baseball sized hole in the wall accommodating all those wires? Not ... speaking from ... personal exp.. alright, yes, I am. I've basically got a bundle of underwater submarine cables in my house.

Been trying to get in to ARM boards, and the first one I just bought was a... Le Potatoe...

Since I have a server rack, I have considered this. My 25u rack could easily hold a beefy UPS, 1 4u Truenas Server, with the obligatory DS4246 taking up another 4u, 1 4u Proxmox server, 1 4u dedicated machine, 1 4u cloud gaming server and a switch and patch panel. Now I just need to sell a kidney to be able to afford this...

Lol, I have not seen Linus' video. But I'm also considering abandoning a room of my house to noise. So, this video is appreciated.

Vibrator lmaoooo

Potatoes go in a root cellar, which has a cooler temperature... you should put your server room in the root cellar with the potatoes.

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 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.

I didn't have anywhere to put the computer, so I put the radiators in the crawlspace. Only moderately stupid, I now have to worry about taking components sub-ambient

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.

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)

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?"

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.

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!

the word potato or something

PO-TA-TOES... boil em, mash em, put. them in a stew!

fully loaded baked potato

"Vibrator" huh.

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 ,

The jokes make me chuckle.

4:02 truly exemplary

Of course I saw this after spending hours and hundreds of dollars on case aesthetics, tasteful RGB, and tying in the style of my room and monitor backgrounds. Maybe next time 😩

When you think about it, aren't we all just potatoes trying to make our ways in the world?

Very cool idea, for me the heat is the worst.

I'm doing the same thing with my pc! But my rack is right next to me. I'm doing it just for the thrill.

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.

Boil'em mash'em stick'em in a stew

I was expecting a lot more potatoes in the comments. LOL

It's potato, not potato.