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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4892555" data-attributes="member: 41321">This will likely not be true.  One of the things that most remote desktops cannot do is video.  I would not expect to be able to run modern games over a remote desktop session unless you have really expensive remote desktop software and really REALLY good network equipment.  Most networks can't handle the amount of data needed to replicate a fast-moving image like from a movie or a game.Honestly, for a home setup I do not think this is worth it.  Most things the average home user wants to do on a machine (check email, word processing, browse the web) they can do with a cheap machine even without remoting into a hefty server.  The exception is video games and movies, and if you want to do that over remote desktop you will probably end up spending as much on the RD software and network equipment than you would on decent PCs that each have a decent video card.Also keep in mind that in most cases two computers each running one copy of an intensive program (like a game) will often perform better than one suped-up computer running two copies of that same program simply because there are fewer places to get bottlenecked if there are multiple machines doing the work (for example, no matter how huge your server machine is, it only has one bus).In my experience (I'm a technical support manager), remote desktop is only good in factory/business environments where the central server is expected to do some serious non-video-related calculations and the remote clients are just there to view that data.  Or if you are running one "headless" system (a PC without a monitor, mouse, or keyboard).You could, however, buy one "headless" machine to use as a file server.  That machine doesn't even have to be anything special, it just has to have a network card and a ginormous hard drive.  Then everyone in the family could keep their files on that machine.  (Just make sure you do regular backups in case that one machine goes kaput.)Edit: Something else to think about is that if you do get an RD system working and the main server goes down for some reason then all of the machines in your house are now just crappy machines that don't have any software installed.</blockquote>

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