I’ve been using a rather complex setup to connect my laptop and desktop to two monitors. I have both the Level1 USBC KVM and an ATEN Displayport 1.2 KVM. After some rearranging of cables, this has come out to be pretty much optimal for my use case; I use thunderbolt cables to connect my Laptop via its thunderbolt port, and my Desktop through the VirtualLink usbc port on my RTX 2080.
Issue
I am trying to get my hands on an RTX 3080, but when I do, it will not have a VirtualLink port. How should I get a USB3 5gbps + DisplayPort 1.2 signal to the Level1 USBC KVM from my desktop?
Options I have thought of:
Keep 2080 in a secondary slot; the 3080 might be able to copy the framebuffer to it for display out?
Buy a Thunderbolt 3 add-on card (would need to work on x570)
Some sort of unholy merge connector to inject DisplayPort into a USBC connection
Some weird capability of my mobo that I’m not aware of?
I don’t have one, I know there is a thread around here that discusses it in depth.
It has DP in and a display port connection along with 2 nebulous “USB-C” connections. Not sure exactly what it’s cabable of, or compatible with, see if it matches you needs maybe.
Yes the tb adapter would work. Also there is a thing called bi directional USBc adapter but not all of them will work because some want power from the USBc side which the kvm won’t give.
So it’s a bit reeeeee
And the bi directional cables often don’t have a USB facility on the dp side for hooking up usb
I didn’t see that it had a DisplayPort 1.4 stream per-thunderbolt cable; this is a pretty nice feature. From the rumblings I hear about USB4 having backwards compatibility with Thunderbolt 3, hopefully the Titan Ridge aic can be a solution that lasts for 4-10 years.