One pcfor two rooms

[SkaFreak]

Hello everyone, 

here is my Problem:

I have a gaming pc with two monitors in my bedroom. I want to connect the PC to my TV/AV-Receiver, so I can play games or watch movies on the big screen. 

How could this be realised? Running an HDMI + USB is difficult because the cables would be at least 12 m long. I dont the displays in both rooms at the same time, and I will propably just get two sets of wireless keyboards plus mice.

Is there an elegant way to accomplish this with streaming devices of some sorts or a single cable like linus is doing it in his personal rig at home? 

 

Thanks already for the help and have  nice day

 

 

[Cypresser]

Subbing, here for the same reason

 

@LAwLz

[mtz_federico]

You could use a fiber thunderbolt cable and a thunderbolt dock with a thunderbolt pci card on your pc

[SkaFreak]

Unfortunately those Cables are still thunderbolt 2, would work but they are super expensive as well. If you add the cost of a Hub and a thunderbolt pcie Card i am not that far away from a second pc. Something Like Powerline for Displays would be awesome. Or a way to Screencast. But I guess the lagency would be to high dir gaming anyway. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

Obviously things like Steam in-home streaming could be used, although its never going to be as good as a native HDMI and USB connection into that room.  I'd be tempted to use an Android TV box such as ShieldTV as that will play the video files natively for best quality.  If you have an NVIDIA GPU that would also allow you to use their own streaming tech for games.

As for extending the PC itself, I've ran passive HDMI up to 7m at 4K 60Hz HDR but it can take a bit of hit and miss to find a cable that actually handles it.  Likewise USB 2.0 extensions will usually work at that distance so keyboard and mouse are fine, especially if you use wireless so the cable wont need to be as long as the HDMI.

You can get active extenders for things like HDMI, but sometimes they introduce extra latency or degrade the picture quality so I'd question if Steam streaming wouldn't be just as good then.

[Mnky313]

18 hours ago, SkaFreak said:

Running an HDMI + USB is difficult because the cables would be at least 12 m long.

If you only need keyboard/mouse/controllers USB 2.0 would work fine, there are tons of affordable USB 2.0 active cables that are 50-100FT long (plenty for what you need). HDMI extenders/active cables exist but you could always try couplers and cables, I've personally had 1080p signals running over a 25FT+15FT+8FT (48FT, ~14.5M) HDMI is no issue (using only passive couplers and cables).

[dlink377]

1. Using Long HDMI Cable and Wireless Keyboard Mouse
2. Using HDMI to 2x CAT6 Extender if you had direct link from your PC to TV and Wireless Keyboard Mouse
3. Using HDMI to Single CAT6 Encoder/Decoder, increase latency and reduce image quality, but it works if you have one network cable connected directly and Wireless Keyboard Mouse
4. Using NVIDIA / Steam In Home Streaming on Second Low Power PC / Raspberry Pi in your TV/AV Receiver, RDP or VNC if your want to control your PC
5. The best is still ofcourse Thunderbolt 2 cable and hub that Linus uses, would be so expensive tho. I don't think it is worth it at all if you only need < 20 meters, as HDMI/DP and USB cable easily reach that distance (hit and miss).

Personally I would just try to run HDMI and USB cable, but I know it is just impossible for some people. If that is the case, then streaming would be the next best choice.

[SkaFreak]

Thanks for the help!

I will try to connect directly with HDMI, if that doesnt work the Nvidia Shield really seems to be the way to go for me. I wont be streaming CS:Go or similar on the TV anyway so a little latency will not bother me I guess. I already own a GTX1080ti, so thats good. On top of that I get Android TV, so I can run pretty much all the apps I need without even using my desktop. 

And I have just read that the Shield is awesome for emulating Retro Games, which means I wont need to get an N64 / Gamecube  

 

I will let you know how it all turned out.