4k60 displayport kvm?

[f5alcon]

I am wanting to upgrade my main PC to be able to handle 4k gsync gaming. That will require a lot more power usage, and 80% of my computing is just desktop apps, I work from home a few days a week, so I will have a much larger power bill. I want to get a cheap laptop/desktop that is low wattage and use that for general use and be able to switch to the gaming system when I am doing that. With G-sync requiring a single displayport as the only input I can't just have the monitor plugged into both sources and switch that way and use a cheap usb switcher for keyboard and mouse. So far I have only found $800 KVMs and for that much money running my main system all of the time is cheaper, my computer now use about $25 a month in power, adding a 2nd GPU might make it $26-27 a month. A low end system is probably half of that and costs a couple hundred. So my break even would be 2-3 years, but with an $800 kvm my break even is 10 years. 

[Sauron]

With the premise that I would stay away from both gsync and freesync for now:

 

What you want can be more easily and safely achieved if you use (relatively) low power components. Operating systems and motherboards have become quite good at handling power management. If you buy a core i5 4690k and 2 gtx 970s (turning off one of them when you aren't gaming) power consumption should be very low while doing simple tasks, and relatively low when doing something more intensive. Before I recommend anything however you should provide your current specs, your budget, and your location.

 

@f5alcon by the way please follow your topics

[techguru]

you don't need to get a second system

if you aren't doing anything major on the pc...it won't use the extra power

 

just because you get a 1000w psu...doesn't mean its using 1000w all the time

[f5alcon]

With the premise that I would stay away from both gsync and freesync for now:

 

What you want can be more easily and safely achieved if you use (relatively) low power components. Operating systems and motherboards have become quite good at handling power management. If you buy a core i5 4690k and 2 gtx 970s (turning off one of them when you aren't gaming) power consumption should be very low while doing simple tasks, and relatively low when doing something more intensive. Before I recommend anything however you should provide your current specs, your budget, and your location.

 

@f5alcon by the way please follow your topics

Right now I have a phenom II 1055t, dumping that for intel, and a GTX970, so I would just add another 970. 

 

you don't need to get a second system

if you aren't doing anything major on the pc...it won't use the extra power

 

just because you get a 1000w psu...doesn't mean its using 1000w all the time

 

Yeah that's true, the load power consumption is about 90 watts different between a intel nuc and 4690k. which is only about 2 cents an hour. That was with power saving features enabled, I usually turn all those off because I overclock, but that might be more of an older AMD issue and not a current i5 problem. 

[techguru]

the new stuff from intel and nvidia use alot less power then you might think when idle

truefully I don't think you need a low end pc for your post here

maybe  just a few changes in the hardware or the config

[f5alcon]

the new stuff from intel and nvidia use alot less power then you might think when idle

truefully I don't think you need a low end pc for your post here

maybe  just a few changes in the hardware or the config

From what I found my phenom ii had a load wattage of about 300w for a whole system and I have all power saving off, so it is close to that all of the time, a 4690k is about 100 and would actually be lower at idle. So based on the fact that my computer uses about $25 a month now. I could save $15 a month just by going to intel and pay for the switch in a couple years. But i can check with a kill-a-watt.