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[JEMC]

ganoncrotch said:

JEMC said:

OS could be installed relatively easy, and I don't really mess too much with it, so I would get it sorted in 30 min or so. Downloading all the games again would take a lot more time and I'd lost my savegames, something that would piss me more than everything else.

About your splitter/KVM confuses me. Do I really have to connect it to the monitor? I assumed to use the kvm only to connect the same pair of keyboard+mouse to both PCs and connect them directly to the monitor.

The monitor cable just goes from PC to KVM then to monitor, you just have 2 seperate monitor cables going to the seperate PC's gpu's and then when you push the button on the kvm it'll swap over so that both the mouse, keyboard and monitor all change over, it just lets you use the same k/v/m with 2 machines, why would you want to connect a monitor directly to 1 of the PCs but not the other? If it's power to run that resolution you could always just run a 34" monitor in 1080p from the weaker PC hardware inside the case... it'd look pretty bad at that size right in front of you, but still would work better than having an old CRT monitor always on your desk for the old PC I think? (not old, but weaker PC I mean.)

 

edit.... oh... you could obviously be talking about a monitor with multiple inputs... but even then if you were always going to want the keyboard mouse and screen to be linked to the active PC in the box, then it'd take out a level of confusion of a screen displaying the wrong "channel" while your keyboard and mouse are directed to another PC, best to just run all through the kvm and it's 1 press to swap the 3 each time.

Yes, I was taking about connecting both PCs directly to the same monitor trough DisplayPort and cicle between them.

Now that everything is digital, I thought that it would be easier to do :-/.