Alright, I really hope I’m not screwed, but here it goes.
My wife is awesome and bought me the L1Techs KVM. The two computers are my desktop computer with a 1080 Ti and a laptop with a RTX 4070.
In a nut shell, that means I have two DP running from my desktop’s GFX card to the KVM and a powered HDMI-to-DisplayPort converter for one of them (due to the fact that the 1080 Ti only has 2 DP ports).
My laptop is going to be connected to the KVM via this dock that Dell sells (the WD22TB4). The dock, similar to my 1080 Ti has 2 DP ports, so those are connected with DP cables. For the third output for the GPU, I’m using USB type-C with thunderbolt to DisplayPort.
All this is probably fine, but here’s the kicker: None of my monitors are DisplayPort. I found this DP 1.4 to HDMI 2.1 cable by Cable Matters (PM me for a link)
I bought 3 of these, and now that I’m all done buying hardware I feel like I’m nervous that the HDMI monitors are going to be my downfall.
If anyone has any advice, I would be super grateful. For what it is worth, it is totally possible that everything will work fine. But I wanted to message here just in case!
So basically, is what I’m trying to do insane? I just want to be able to take advantage of this amazing KVM my wife bought me. Just super concerned that I will need to buy a bunch of new monitors to do it and I just don’t have the cash for that right now.
Thanks,
Anthony