Hi folks ,
first thanks for jumping in and reading this post .
Now let me give a little backstory for my problem, I have an Asus ROG strix gl502vs that I have bought probably 4.5 years ago, this laptop has been through a lot, and long story short it's physical missing a battery, not all the keys on the keyboard are working, and due to it missing a battery it hard crashes randomly (something about the video driver looping etc , but I'm pretty sure it's because of a spike load and because the power brick can provide it , vid driver crashes).
I can still play on it but I can't do something serious on it as it can crash on very important moments and I lose all my progress etc.
Now the other half of the story is that I don't have a desk,ie no space for a desk, so im working/gaming from my bed.
So I looked at small factor cases and in theory if I can find someone that would build something / find a few products and hacking them together for low profile desk, and then maybe I can have a desktop with keyboard,mouse and monitor, but then I will have to deal with cooling it, as I live in a hot country, it's also very deserty tldr allot of issues with cleaning and cooling, so not an ideal solution.
Another solution that I have looked at was , external GPU, and then I scratched that idea immediately because it will draw some extra power to power the port, and my laptop will sometimes crash when I plug in my phone to charge or battery pack or even my cooling surface (can't mmber the name , but the thing with the fans that you connect to the laptop and put it under it ).
Another easy solution, pay for a battery and keyboard replacement and fixes (some contacts are missing from the PCB), it won't be cheap , but it's not a long term solution as my laptop is getting old and newer titles are harder to run (mainly because of the weak CPU).
Lastly, my real question and a solution that I think might be possible, but couldn't find someone with the exact setup /I have more questions about is using my laptop as at least a monitor to a medium/full Tower PC(so down the line when I move I have a good tower, upgradability etx) that I can shove under my bed , and clean it every month.
So can this be done? I think my one of my USB ports is USB 3.1 , so could it be possible with it ?
Is a KVM a solution here ? If I connect a KVM where is the processing done( I guess on the same machine where the monitor is so mby it's not a solution here). What about input lag ?
Any other thoughts ?
Thank you