KVM needed?

[JamTriv]

Budget (including currency): <£1000

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming- Euro Truck Sim, GTA, Minecraft, normal work programs, RDP tools, 

Other details: I currently have a personal desktop with i5-9600k, 16GB RAM, GTX1660 with 3 DP and 1 HDMI and a work laptop with i5-7200U and 8GB which has a docking station with 2 HDMI and 1DP. I have three screens, 1 ASUS with 1 HDMI, DVI and VGA, and another 2 screens (AOC) with 1 VGA and DVI. I currently use two DP --> DVI adapter. Currently I have to switch two screen connections around when I am working. I use all three screens both when I am working and gaming, I would like to find a KVM or some other contraption which would allow me to just plug and play between my laptop and desktop as I am working from home all days of the week at the moment and it is a hassle to switch the cables each time. 

 

If someone could give some pointers on how to make this more efficient I'd be grateful as my office is unlikely to reopen any time soon. Thank you!

 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, JamTriv said:

Budget (including currency): <£1000

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming- Euro Truck Sim, GTA, Minecraft, normal work programs, RDP tools, 

Other details: I currently have a personal desktop with i5-9600k, 16GB RAM, GTX1660 with 3 DP and 1 HDMI and a work laptop with i5-7200U and 8GB which has a docking station with 2 HDMI and 1DP. I have three screens, 1 ASUS with 1 HDMI, DVI and VGA, and another 2 screens (AOC) with 1 VGA and DVI. I currently use two DP --> DVI adapter. Currently I have to switch two screen connections around when I am working. I use all three screens both when I am working and gaming, I would like to find a KVM or some other contraption which would allow me to just plug and play between my laptop and desktop as I am working from home all days of the week at the moment and it is a hassle to switch the cables each time. 

 

If someone could give some pointers on how to make this more efficient I'd be grateful as my office is unlikely to reopen any time soon. Thank you!

 

So yo want the screens on one computer to display stuff from another computer how about the keyboard?  Do you want to use the laptop keyboard or the desktop keyboard?  Also the pointing device (KVM is keyboard, video, mouse). I see a software option advertised on LTT sometimes but I’ve never used it. Might be a good option or a bad one in your situation, I don’t know.  Seems to work with a bunch of different systems .

[JamTriv]

Yeah, I want to be able to switch between computers. Would be good to to share keyboard and mouse, hadn't thought of that. I can't install software on the laptop unfortunately so it would have to be cable.

[brob]

I think something like https://www.startech.com/en-gb/server-management/sv231tdpu34k could work.