Too high and your desktop becomes a jittery/stuttery mess dragging windows around the desktop was almost seizure inducing.
I quickly found out that the most critical parameter to a decent experience was correctly setting the image quality preferences in the driver software.
For a home user, though, I was disappointed that there was no way to turn the ZC/HC “up to 11” and get better performance.Īfter getting over that disappointment, though, that 50mbps or less was surprisingly usable (especially when you consider it’s something like 100x less than what’s being sent from the GPU). Ultimately that makes sense if you have hundreds of these things running on your network you really don’t want each one taking up tons of bandwidth. I was naively expecting the ZC/HC to saturate the 1000mbps connection, but it rarely broke 50mbps. In this “best case” scenario I was a little underwhelmed. I had some problems getting Windows to correctly output to my display GPU and the HC, but ultimately that was mostly an issue with Windows being silly about how you can tell it which GPU to send the desktop to (I have a compute only GPU in PCIE slot 1)įor initial testing, I left the tower next to the monitor and setup the ZC and HC on their own mini network using an old Linksys router - effectively replacing a DisplayPort cable with two 6ft Ethernet cables and a lot of complexity. In other words basic setup is pretty trivial.
Install PCoIP Host Software on the PC (essentially a driver package).Use the included special DVI cable to connect the host card to the GPU’s video out.Plug an Ethernet cable into the host card and connect it to your network.I always leave the host machine on, so I didn’t test that feature.
No power connections required, although there is a header on the host card to connect to the power headers on the motherboard so that the zero client (ZC) can control power.
Note that this will not be from the perspective of an IT professional managing hundreds or thousands of units (i.e. After dbwillis very kindly offered to send me a PCOIP host card and zero client to use in this thread, I decided to write a review.