How to get VGA to HDMI In of ASRock board?

[Noitidart]

Hi all I got the ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ mother board because it has HDMI In.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157457

My current monitor is VGA and I connected to the Extreme6 VGA output.

Now I have my old computer which I want to connect to the HDMI In of my Extreme6. This old comp is VGA only. So I did some research and people say to get a converter, then take vga from old computer, connect to converter, then take hdmi from the converter and into the Extreme6 HDMI-in.

But then will this show on the VGA monitor I have connected to the Extreme6? Or does HDMI-in of AsRock display on whats connect to HDMI-Out?

second bonus part:
(reason im asking is because i didnt buy the vga to hdmi converter yet, i was thinking maybe it might be more cheaper to get a cheap gfx card for like 10 bux which has hdmi-out and then plug from there to HDMI-In of Extreme6 what do you think?)

 

[Cristi72]

Hello,

It is better to buy a cheap KVM system:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817107354&cm_re=kvm-_-17-107-354-_-Product , for USB;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817107311&cm_re=kvm-_-17-107-311-_-Product, for PS/2.

Or are you want to do some video capture from the older PC?

 

[Noitidart]

Hello,

It is better to buy a cheap KVM system:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817107354&cm_re=kvm-_-17-107-354-_-Product , for USB;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817107311&cm_re=kvm-_-17-107-311-_-Product, for PS/2.

Or are you want to do some video capture from the older PC?

Thanks for that rec! i was really hoping to take advantage of the HDMI-in so i could do that video streaming and capture etc.

 

[Cristi72]

Thanks for that rec! i was really hoping to take advantage of the HDMI-in so i could do that video streaming and capture etc.

Yes, for video capture your idea of using another card with HDMI out is the winner, as the VGA capture cards are expensive, but I don't know if you could see in realtime the captured stream for the other PC. I think the software will do the capture in realtime, but you will have only a preview window of some lower resolution and not a full-screen one.

EDIT:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815100098&cm_re=vga_capture_card-_-15-100-098-_-Product

It has pretty high requirements CPU-wise; please check your capture software to see if the requirements are comparable.