Hi, my motivation: wattage concerns and not utilizing my hardware to the fullest. My setup is pretty much historically grown to 3 computers now. one for gaming (win10), one for storage/backup (debian stable) and one for desktop (latest xubuntu). And the desktop hardware is quite old and weak, so it bugs me that the good hardware is "wasted" on a windows system for games only. also with the next hardware purchase I would have to buy win10 because the free w10 upgrade from w7 will break. the short version: I won't buy w10 and have decided to switch to wine/steam-OS gaming. ditching windows completely, nearly all games that I play, run out of the box in wine/steam anyway.
I've read that some setups utilize two graphics cards or IGP with a graphics card. Now I was wondering if both setups could be combined. A minimal stable distribution host for storage and providing what ever is needed for the guests on the IGP. first guest stable desktop for daily desktop needs and work with a passive graphics card for example a GT 710 passed through. second guest a more current distribution as wine/steam gaming guest with a more beefy graphics card passed through. Is this even possible? besides audio and mic config witch could get tricky I presume and keyboard+mouse for 3 systems. My hardware pick so far: - i5-7600k; mainly because of IGP, providing the 3. graphics card for the host. - ASUS Nvidia passive GT 710 and ASUS Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti STRIX for the two guests; Nvidia because I read that AMD has PCIE reset issues and I would like to stop and start guests with the PCIE cards more freely, without host reboots. - ASRock z270 Taichi; provides enough sata and usb for the storage/backup needs. So before I commit to this I would like to hear your thoughts on this. regards, Almer
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