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Tired of daily crawl through cable spaghetti, need good KVM switch

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Hello good people, your collective advice recently helped me massively upgrade my PC, for which I'm eternally grateful. But the issue I'm facing now has to do with the double-edged sword of working from home.
 

I'm a technical artist/graphic designer, and as part of my newly-permanent work-from-home position, my employer sent me home with a Dell workstation, along with the expectedly crappy Dell monitor, cheapie keyboard, mouse and headset. Like every other designer on my team, I immediately ditched their peripherals in favor of using my own existing setup (how does anyone get anything done without at least dual monitors??) 

 

But the 2x daily (at least) ordeal of crawling around under my desk to reroute all the cables (my personal PC sits on my desk in a place of pride, my work PC sits underneath in a place of shame) is really starting to get to me. I can't have nice things like cable management of any kind, or dustbunny-free hair. I know I need a KVM switch, but the one I was provided when I brought the issue up with IT was a cheap no-brand plastic one that stopped working within 2 weeks (started causing massive lag and erroneous keystrokes, doubling, sticking, etc.) and I'm now a bit hesitant -- I want to guarantee I won't run into those same issues again.

 

I'm providing a little diagram of what I've got going on in terms of peripherals, with two caveats:

 

1.) My current monitor setup isn't permanent. I have two Asus VS24As, 1920x1200, and they've done the job for a long time but I'd like both better resolution and color accuracy going forward, and would ideally like the KVM to support up to 4K to accommodate that likely upgrade soon. (Home PC has 2x HDMI and 2X DisplayPort out, work PC just has 4x Mini DisplayPort out so I'm currently using adapters to HDMI)
2.) I know a nice metal housing =/= quality internals necessarily, but ideally I'd like the KVM to have some weight to it so it can sit nicely on the desk without the bend of all the cables going into it moving it around. The old plastic one was constantly sliding around and falling behind the desk.

 

Any advice or recommendations would be much appreciated!

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15 minutes ago, Halixis said:

Any advice or recommendations would be much appreciated!

Well, it ain't cheap (or in stock, at the moment), but Wendell's channel(s) Level1Tech has sourced very-high-end KVMs that fit your needs (I think).

Main System (Byarlant): Ryzen 7 5800X | Asus B550-Creator ProArt | EK 240mm Basic AIO | 16GB G.Skill DDR4 3200MT/s CAS-14 | XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 | Samsung 990 PRO 2TB / Samsung 960 PRO 512GB / 4× Crucial MX500 2TB (RAID-0) | Corsair RM750X | a 10G NIC (pending) | Inateck USB 3.0 Card | Hyte Y60 Case | Dell U3415W Monitor | Keychron K4 Brown (white backlight)

 

Laptop (Narrative): Lenovo Flex 5 81X20005US | Ryzen 5 4500U | 16GB RAM (soldered) | Vega 6 Graphics | SKHynix P31 1TB NVMe SSD | Intel AX200 Wifi (all-around awesome machine)

 

Proxmox Server (Veda): Ryzen 7 3800XT | AsRock Rack X470D4U | Corsair H80i v2 | 64GB Micron DDR4 ECC 3200MT/s | 4x 10TB WD Whites / 4x 14TB Seagate Exos / 2× Samsung PM963a 960GB SSD | Seasonic Prime Fanless 500W | Intel X540-T2 10G NIC | LSI 9207-8i HBA | Fractal Design Node 804 Case (side panels swapped to show off drives) | VMs: TrueNAS Scale; Ubuntu Server (PiHole/PiVPN/NGINX?); Windows 10 Pro; Ubuntu Server (Apache/MySQL)


Media Center/Video Capture (Jesta Cannon): Ryzen 5 1600X | ASRock B450M Pro4 R2.0 | Noctua NH-L12S | 16GB Crucial DDR4 3200MT/s CAS-22 | EVGA GTX750Ti SC | UMIS NVMe SSD 256GB / TEAMGROUP MS30 1TB | Corsair CX450M | Viewcast Osprey 260e Video Capture | Mellanox ConnectX-2 10G NIC | LG UH12NS30 BD-ROM | Silverstone Sugo SG-11 Case | Sony XR65A80K

 

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Network:

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                           ┌─────────────── Office/Rack ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Google Fiber Webpass ────── UniFi Security Gateway ─── UniFi Switch 8-60W ─┬─ UniFi Switch Flex XG ═╦═ Veda (Proxmox Virtual Switch)
(500Mbps↑/500Mbps↓)                             UniFi CloudKey Gen2 (PoE) ─┴─ Veda (IPMI)           ╠═ Veda-NAS (HW Passthrough NIC)
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╩═ Narrative (Asus USB 2.5G NIC)
║ ┌────── Closet ──────┐   ┌─────────────── Bedroom ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
╚═ UniFi Switch Flex XG ═╤═ UniFi Switch Flex XG ═╦═ Byarlant
   (PoE)                 │                        ╠═ Narrative (Cable Matters USB-PD 2.5G Ethernet Dongle)
                         │                        ╚═ Jesta Cannon*
                         │ ┌─────────────── Media Center ──────────────────────────────────┐
Notes:                   └─ UniFi Switch 8 ─────────┬─ UniFi Access Point nanoHD (PoE)
═══ is Multi-Gigabit                                ├─ Sony Playstation 4 
─── is Gigabit                                      ├─ Pioneer VSX-S520
* = cable passed to Bedroom from Media Center       ├─ Sony XR65A80K (Google TV)
** = cable passed from Media Center to Bedroom      └─ Work Laptop** (Startech USB-PD Dock)

Retired/Other:

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Laptop (Rozen-Zulu): Sony VAIO VPCF13WFX | Core i7-740QM | 8GB Patriot DDR3 | GT 425M | Samsung 850EVO 250GB SSD | Blu-ray Drive | Intel 7260 Wifi (lived a good life, retired with honor)

Testbed/Old Desktop (Kshatriya): Xeon X5470 @ 4.0GHz | ZALMAN CNPS9500 | Gigabyte EP45-UD3L | 8GB Nanya DDR2 400MHz | XFX HD6870 DD | OCZ Vertex 3 Max-IOPS 120GB | Corsair CX430M | HooToo USB 3.0 PCIe Card | Osprey 230 Video Capture | NZXT H230 Case

TrueNAS Server (La Vie en Rose): Xeon E3-1241v3 | Supermicro X10SLL-F | Corsair H60 | 32GB Micron DDR3L ECC 1600MHz | 1x Kingston 16GB SSD / Crucial MX500 500GB

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2 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

Well, it ain't cheap (or in stock, at the moment), but Wendell's channel(s) Level1Tech has sourced very-high-end KVMs that fit your needs (I think).

Oh wow, you weren't kidding, that's... definitely more than I wanted to spend. To be clear, if DisplayPort is the factor driving the price up, I'd be fine with being limited to HDMI as long as I could still get 4K 60hz out of it. I was thinking ~$200 would be the top of my range, but if that's unrealistic for my needs, I guess I'd need to reconsider this as a solution. Thanks though, at the very least the fancy option is a good point of comparison!

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1 minute ago, rmgdnz said:

Not too sure about display KVMs, but for usb I've been using this usb switching hub. It works flawlessly and includes a remote so you can put the hub somewhere hidden.

Thanks for the recommend! If I can't find something satisfactory that switches both the monitors and peripherals, this would definitely be an option for at least handling the USBs. If you don't mind me asking, how long have you been using this hub?

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23 hours ago, Halixis said:

Thanks for the recommend! If I can't find something satisfactory that switches both the monitors and peripherals, this would definitely be an option for at least handling the USBs. If you don't mind me asking, how long have you been using this hub?

I've been using it for over a year, no issues yet!

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