LinusTech builds computer that supports seven gamers simultaneously

Linus Sebastian, known for the website LinusTechTips and the YouTube channel of the same name, has built a computer that is capable of running seven game systems simultaneously from one housing.

To achieve this, the PC uses, among other things, two Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 processors and seven AMD Radeon R9 Nano video cards. In total, the device costs about 30,000 dollars to build, converted about 27,500 euros.

To provide an optimal gaming experience for each of the seven virtual machines, each system has its own one-terabyte SSD. The complete system also has eight times 32GB DDR4 RAM and everything comes together on the motherboard, an Asus Z10PE-D8 WS. The entire system has water cooling and this is one of the reasons why LinusTech has chosen a Caselabs Mercury S8 housing.

The video posted on its own YouTube channel shows how the system works. The whole thing is controlled on the basis of unRAID Server Pro software and has been made working with a number of bios tweaks that LinusTech does not go into further. The end result is one computer on which seven separate gamers can play simultaneously. The machine will be on display at Kingston at CES 2016.