Got a new pooter for xmyth, has a GA-Z68XP-UD3 MB, i5 2500k OC'd to 4.5Gig, 8 gig memory, ATI HD 5870 1 gig gfx, running Win 7 64 bit ultimate.
I have it mounted on my simulator desk, whish has all sorts of levers and wheels mounted in and on it, as i am building a bus and train sim desk (sad i know)
Now my GF likes to play COD, battle field 3 etc, and there isnt enough room left on my desk for her to thrash the mouse about and hamer on the keyboard whilst killing everything in sight on the monitor.
She has her own computer desk, but her computer can barely handle BF2, no way it'll run BF3,
So the idea is to get rid of her computer, and share mine, ATM the 2 desks are about 10 meters appart, eventually i'll move my sim desk upstairs, and will still have about 10 meters between them after going thru the celing.
What i want to do is connect her monitor, mouse keyboard and headphone and mic to my computer with 10 meter long leads,
apparantly i might be pushing it using a 10 meter long dvi or hdmi cable, but i guess i just have to get one and see, and then use a booster/extender if the signal dosent make it all the way (she runs at 1680 x 1050 res)
usb will deffo need a booster/active cable for 10 meters, and i could possible put the audio and mic for her headset over usb??
any tips on the cables, problems im likely to engounter, another better way to do it.
Once the 2 desks are linked with cables, i want to ideally have the computer automaticaly select the monitor to use based on the login, is that possible?
i.e. when i log in, it sends the signal to the monitor on my desk, puts audio to my amp and speakers etc, when she logs in, it sends the video signal to her monitor (each monitor will be plugged into it's own port on the gfx card) dosent send a signal to my monitor (to avoid it running in dual monitor mode) and sends the audio to her headset over usb only, disabeling the audio outputs to my speakers... thinking possibly doing that with the hdmi port on the gfx card, if it can have the audio re-routed from the speaker jacks to the hdmi port, then split it out at the other end as her monitor dosent have hdmi in, only dvi.
Sorry if this sounds all over complicated, i want to avoid a manual switch for the monitor outputs as we will be running different resolutions, totally different monitors, and when the pooter is upstairs, i want it to be turned on and off remotely from the downstairs desk.
I have it mounted on my simulator desk, whish has all sorts of levers and wheels mounted in and on it, as i am building a bus and train sim desk (sad i know)
Now my GF likes to play COD, battle field 3 etc, and there isnt enough room left on my desk for her to thrash the mouse about and hamer on the keyboard whilst killing everything in sight on the monitor.
She has her own computer desk, but her computer can barely handle BF2, no way it'll run BF3,
So the idea is to get rid of her computer, and share mine, ATM the 2 desks are about 10 meters appart, eventually i'll move my sim desk upstairs, and will still have about 10 meters between them after going thru the celing.
What i want to do is connect her monitor, mouse keyboard and headphone and mic to my computer with 10 meter long leads,
apparantly i might be pushing it using a 10 meter long dvi or hdmi cable, but i guess i just have to get one and see, and then use a booster/extender if the signal dosent make it all the way (she runs at 1680 x 1050 res)
usb will deffo need a booster/active cable for 10 meters, and i could possible put the audio and mic for her headset over usb??
any tips on the cables, problems im likely to engounter, another better way to do it.
Once the 2 desks are linked with cables, i want to ideally have the computer automaticaly select the monitor to use based on the login, is that possible?
i.e. when i log in, it sends the signal to the monitor on my desk, puts audio to my amp and speakers etc, when she logs in, it sends the video signal to her monitor (each monitor will be plugged into it's own port on the gfx card) dosent send a signal to my monitor (to avoid it running in dual monitor mode) and sends the audio to her headset over usb only, disabeling the audio outputs to my speakers... thinking possibly doing that with the hdmi port on the gfx card, if it can have the audio re-routed from the speaker jacks to the hdmi port, then split it out at the other end as her monitor dosent have hdmi in, only dvi.
Sorry if this sounds all over complicated, i want to avoid a manual switch for the monitor outputs as we will be running different resolutions, totally different monitors, and when the pooter is upstairs, i want it to be turned on and off remotely from the downstairs desk.
