My motherboard died on my PC so it's prompting me to rebuild my computer.
Here is what I want to do - please tell me if my plan should work or if you can think of a better way.
-My bedroom is on the 2nd floor, right above my living room.
-My bedroom is where my PC resides, along with two 22 inch monitors.
-On the first floor I have a 46 in HDTV
I want to upgrade my video card, I am thinking to a Radeon HD 5850 and hook up my two monitors to the DVI ports, and then run a long HDMI cable down to my TV. I will leave my existing keyboard and mouse in my bedroom and then purchase a wireless keyboard and mouse that will work from downstairs on my PC in my room.
In my current set up i stream movies to my TV downstairs via TVersity and it's worked really well but I would love to be able to use anything (surfing web/games) on my computer downstairs, not just movies.
I was thinking that I could clone my primary display to the TV downstairs and then just adjust the resolution between them whenever i am using one vs the other. From basic research I've found that the 5850 can only run DVI x 2 and DP concurrently, but I would never need to have all three going at once. I also don't mind having to buy an active DP>HDMI converter either if i have to.
Also does anyone have any experience with these: http://www.laptopdesk.net/futura-with-two-regular-mouzpads.html I think this would work well in the setup i am trying pull off.
I have looked all over the internet and I haven't really found much about anyone trying a setup like this.
So do you think this could work? What about audio, can i have it send audio through HDMI and also to PC speakers (I do have a seperate sound card, creative fatality extreme gamer)? Any recommendations?
Thanks in advance!
Here is what I want to do - please tell me if my plan should work or if you can think of a better way.
-My bedroom is on the 2nd floor, right above my living room.
-My bedroom is where my PC resides, along with two 22 inch monitors.
-On the first floor I have a 46 in HDTV
I want to upgrade my video card, I am thinking to a Radeon HD 5850 and hook up my two monitors to the DVI ports, and then run a long HDMI cable down to my TV. I will leave my existing keyboard and mouse in my bedroom and then purchase a wireless keyboard and mouse that will work from downstairs on my PC in my room.
In my current set up i stream movies to my TV downstairs via TVersity and it's worked really well but I would love to be able to use anything (surfing web/games) on my computer downstairs, not just movies.
I was thinking that I could clone my primary display to the TV downstairs and then just adjust the resolution between them whenever i am using one vs the other. From basic research I've found that the 5850 can only run DVI x 2 and DP concurrently, but I would never need to have all three going at once. I also don't mind having to buy an active DP>HDMI converter either if i have to.
Also does anyone have any experience with these: http://www.laptopdesk.net/futura-with-two-regular-mouzpads.html I think this would work well in the setup i am trying pull off.
I have looked all over the internet and I haven't really found much about anyone trying a setup like this.
So do you think this could work? What about audio, can i have it send audio through HDMI and also to PC speakers (I do have a seperate sound card, creative fatality extreme gamer)? Any recommendations?
Thanks in advance!