I’d like to place my SWorkstation in the server rack for a couple of reasons. For one, it’s a large E-ATX system, and I’d like to get the space back under my desk, the server rack has much less circulating dust, and the server rack also has a nice UPS.
For the most part, I can get by using a much lower-power system (either a laptop or a small and quiet intel NUC/Mac Mini type of system) for day-to-day stuff, but there are a few tasks that I’d like the horsepower of the bigger system (and a real GPU), one of which is gaming, most notably Microsoft Flight Sim.
I’d like to find a solution to have connect the monitors and USB peripherals reliably to the machine in another room. The cable run(s) between the locations would be about 40-50 feet.
There is fiber and 10Gbe throughout the house.
Obviously that is way too far for USB to work, natively, and would probably be pretty sketchy on the video side as well. I don’t need crazy fast latency, since I’m not playing FPS games competitively, but I’d really like to get it down to non-noticeable input and video lag.
Ideally I think i would have something like a Thunderbolt hub on my desk, which connects to the PC (located in the server rack a few rooms over) via some kind of thunderbolt-over-fiber contraption.
The only two products I have found that do this are 1) a very expensive Corning fiber optic cable, and the even more expensive Icron Raven USB extender, both of which have plenty of reports of flakiness and high latency.
Check out the github and see if you like what you see. I’ve had good luck getting my few reported bugs fixed promptly on sunshine. Haven’t had any moonlight bugs to report.
If you don’t need more than 4k@60hz and can live with usb2 speeds an hdbaset extender will set you back 350-600usd … if you need usb3 and more and can run fiber you will need to spend at least the same amount for a single usb3 extender…
I know Linus LTT (because he made a video/s about it) use an Icron dock so that he and his wife can have their rack mount computers elsewhere in their house.
Wendell also did some work with Linux to get the docks to also work with the Level1 KVM’s if that is also something else you need.
Right, the 4k@30Hz is for the HDMI one … unfortunately the Displayport One is not really for sale
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