Lately, since I'm not in my home country right now, and like playing games, I've been using my home computer with a 4070 rtx to play and stream h264 encoded game play, using GeForce experience and moonlight.
But since this uses quite some power and also I dualboot with Linux being the default (I turn on the machine with IPMI, Asus workstation board), then ssh into it, become root and efibootmgr temporarily to boot Windows on next boot and reboot.
In Windows then both TeamViewer is installed, because doing anything in GeForce Experience locks up the Moonlight "server", and the Moonlight streaming stuff, aka firewall opener, so I don't have to wireguard every time.
Although my desktop/workstation is 4k resolution, I stream at 1920×1080 resolution.<p>I can even stream to Twitch at the same time, but it's not ideal. I imagine, I need either a dedicated encoding card or a stronger Nvidia card than the 4070. I get some stuttering every now and then.
6Mbps goes to Twitch, 30 max to me and my 1920×1080 laptop.<p>Since this is all very complicated, I was thinking, have a dedicated gaming machine which doesn't consume that much power, which I can put to sleep or wake via Moonlight.
This looks like a candidate, but it's AMD and idk if that will work.
Ok, I looked it up and phoenix should work if it has VCE (which I assume it does, the article doesnt talk about it).<p>Ideally I could put it in some data center for a minimum fee, but that's wishful thinking, because that fee would not be minimum.
With stadia gone and shadowPC having outdated hardware for expensive prices, it could be something.
TBH I wouldn't mind renting a gaming computer with streaming, but let's be honest, all the offers assume you're not a pirate.
And that's why they're all failing.<p>So yeah this little box (or soc rather) could be my next hardware purchase, a dedicated game streaming machine. :)<p>EDIT: I retract that statement, now that I've searched for 780M performance.
It would require a dedicated GPU.
Oh well.
It's a little weaker than the Nvidia 980M of my laptop, but makes less noise. For energy efficiency it's ok, but if you like playing the latest and greatest, not an option.
It's essential 30FPS 1920×1080 gaming.