I am putting together a sim rig and planning to use the computer I use for a variety of tasks. The sim rig will have a triple display and my current office computer also has a set of 3 non-sim displays. It seems like a waste to have a compute for the sim and a separate computer for my office tasks. Has anyone created a setup where you can use the same computer for your sim rig and your office tasks? Can I flip a switch on a computer and change from a set of 3 sim rig displays to a set of 3 different office displays? Can I just add another video card to my computer?
Share Computer Between Sim Rig and Office
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You probably need to look into splitters, one example
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I have been using everyday and sim towers for a while now ( had single tower for decades)
As gaming PC get powerful they consume a lot of power
Using a 3200G instead of 3900X for most of the day dropped my power bill
to under $200 the first time ever
For office work a 3200G is all you need it even multi tasks burning, encoding, downloading, browsing etc no worries at all
I only use 2 monitors but both are connected to both towers so I have all options
The best thing I ever did was to buy the Orico 15 port hub and a Corsair GTX thumbdrive ( 440 mb/s ) 128GB
Now everything from each computer ie: things you can't lose are on it
I leave it in the hub 24/7 so it boots with each computer
I keep nothing important on local drives which also means when you go out you can take your thumbdrive with your phone ......don't sync a single password local
As gaming PC get powerful they consume a lot of power
Using a 3200G instead of 3900X for most of the day dropped my power bill
to under $200 the first time ever
For office work a 3200G is all you need it even multi tasks burning, encoding, downloading, browsing etc no worries at all
I only use 2 monitors but both are connected to both towers so I have all options
The best thing I ever did was to buy the Orico 15 port hub and a Corsair GTX thumbdrive ( 440 mb/s ) 128GB
Now everything from each computer ie: things you can't lose are on it
I leave it in the hub 24/7 so it boots with each computer
I keep nothing important on local drives which also means when you go out you can take your thumbdrive with your phone ......don't sync a single password local
You could use something like a Gigabyte Aorus graphics card, the 5700XT version has 6 ports that can be used simultaneously or if you prefer Nvidia, the Aorus versions of the RTX cards also have 6 outputs in total although only 4 can be used at any one time. I assume you could switch between them easily enough in nVidia control panel though.
I am using an Aorus RTX 2070. So could I use 3 outputs from the card for the sim rig (surround), 1 output from the card for a office display, and 2 more outputs from the on motherboard video output for 2 additional office displays? If yes, would the sim performance take a hit from the office displays? Wow, 6 total displays.
I gave up on that. The security implications of those many games and their associated tools alone make this non-viable.
And the most expensive part of my gaming computer is the graphics card, which the desktop normally doesn't need(*).
(*) I actually could use a more powerful GPU in the workstation for molecular dynamics calculations but that doesn't apply to most people.
And the most expensive part of my gaming computer is the graphics card, which the desktop normally doesn't need(*).
(*) I actually could use a more powerful GPU in the workstation for molecular dynamics calculations but that doesn't apply to most people.
You could also do it that way I think assuming your CPU has on board VGA capability, but with the Aorus you probably have 6 outputs on the card itself that I assume you could just use those for your 6 monitors and switch between sim setup and office setup via NVidia control panel?
Duh! Great suggestion. Thank you. That is now my plan. I hope switching is easy. I always need to fiddle when I change from surround to standard mode. Will be interesting to switch from 3 in surround to a different 3 displays in standard mode.
Switching is not difficult, but it takes time.. You can use this software to switch on-off surround easily. https://github.com/falahati/HeliosD...5Ym-2k6zRKtZ5W2Myfpy7VxbIDFMfTKMaWLv9YFiQWl4A
I also landed with this setup. Seems very reliable and efficient. I just use the win key - P option to switch between primary and secondary display.
