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Small Business Home office setup

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  • 20-04-2016 2:12pm
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    di11on
    Registered Users Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks,

    I usually work from home and have a decent home office set up. I play the odd game and so I have a decent enough PC that can play games well and also run engineering simulations.

    We are moving home and I want to optimize the setup. I will have an office that is apart from the house but in the garden, so a little more separate from the house than it is now.

    Also, I have found it a challenge separating work from home life. Sometimes I might "clock off" around 6pm and start playing a game... but then the missus doesn't know any different. So, ideally I would want a PC setup in the house that I can play games on and also a decent PC in the office for running simulations etc. But it does seem like a pity to have to duplicate everything.

    Another thing to bear in mind is that I find it useful to have a simulation PC that is not the pc I run office applications on like word and Excel - because when the simulations are running, the PC will crawl.

    So here is what I'm thinking - A high powered PC in the house which is capable of playing games and can be used as a remote PC when I'm working, for running simulations on. Then I have a modest workstation PC in the office that I run office applications on and can use to remote into the other PC.

    The only problem with this setup is that sometimes I will set simulations to run overnight then that would make my games PC unusable.

    I have a two monitor setup which I find very useful both for gaming and for work - in this setup I can't see a way around duplicating that.

    Since this is my livelihood, I don't mind investing a few shekels to get a reasonably future proof setup.

    Can anyone think of something I'm missing? Technologies or options I haven't considered?

    Edit: I have a decent Dell XPS laptop - I could get a docking station and use that as the office workstation PC? Another thing is, I've been looking at high performance Xeon based servers - it could be nice to have 8 or more cores to throw a load of jobs onto. So maybe:
    Office workstation: Laptop on docking station
    HPC server: New Xeon based server, 8+ cores?
    Home PC: Existing PC

    Thoughts?


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