--- title: Best of Both Worlds: Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a... description: A developer shares how they turned a Windows gaming PC with an RTX 5070 into a headless Linux GPU server accessible via SSH, without dual-booting or giving up... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/best-of-both-worlds-using-a-gaming-pc-s-rtx-5070-from-a-separate-linux-workstation-5ejbtfk6u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best of Both Worlds: Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares how they turned a Windows gaming PC with an RTX 5070 into a headless Linux GPU server accessible via SSH, without dual-booting or giving up... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/best-of-both-worlds-using-a-gaming-pc-s-rtx-5070-from-a-separate-linux-workstation-5ejbtfk6u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5EJBtfk6u.png og:image:alt: Best of Both Worlds: Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Best of Both Worlds: Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares how they turned a Windows gaming PC with an RTX 5070 into a headless Linux GPU server accessible via SSH, without dual-booting or giving up gaming. The setup uses WSL2's NVIDIA driver passthrough so CUDA works inside Ubuntu, with a portproxy relay and SSH config alias for seamless access from a separate Linux workstation. Key gotchas covered include WSL idle shutdown (fixed with a scheduled task running `wsl -- sleep infinity`), Ubuntu 24.04 ignoring sshd_config port settings due to systemd socket activation, networking issues with Docker/mirrored mode, nvidia-smi PATH problems in non-interactive SSH sessions, and virtualization needing to be enabled in BIOS. The end result lets PyTorch (cu128 build for Blackwell) run CLIP-based image search on the 5070 from the Linux dev machine, while the gaming PC remains fully functional for gaming. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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