Hey! Glad you got it working & thank you for posting your experience. Bandwidth unfortunately will always be...tricky. For more information we have a whole FAQ dedicated to this sort of thing, but the KVM has no repeater; it tries to be as invisible as possible to not interfere with variable refresh rates or whatever the latest and greatest technology advancement is. So good thinking! I havn't tried the Club3D repeater, but it makes sense it would fix your issue. In the future, if you want to run longer cables, or move your setup around, you could get fiberoptic displayport cables. Since these have a circuit built in they are pretty much lossless in bandwidth. ~ Amber
Hey, thanks for the additional information, and thanks for such an amazing product! :D This KVM has allowed me to keep my sanity with the switch to work-from-home over the past couple years.
I wanted to thank you so much for the Club3D repeater suggestion. I've been battling this video dropout issue on this KVM for over a year. I added that Club3D repeater for my 4k@120Hz, and so far, so good. Thank you so much! I hope @level1techs thinks about this in their future designs, and maybe builds something in to deal with signal integrity issues so we don't need to add these external amplifiers.
Totally glad that helped you out!! :) They're aware of this video, so I hope they take it into consideration too. :) But I also know their goal is to have the signal as "original" as possible for other reasons.
While I was doing my research I found the same KVM and I think it will fix all my issues, but did you ever encounter any input lag or latency issues with the mouse and keyboard? I play fps games and I don’t really want to sacrifice my experience.
No additional lag at all! It takes in bits, and passes them straight through without really buffering anything. I use it for FPS gaming too, and absolutely love this setup
Hi there .. thank you so much for posting this video .. I have the same exact monitor and need to be able to use a KVM switch. I had a quick question. Are you using this Repeater between the computer (display port) and the KVM switch? I'm trying to understand the cable run (i.e. what connects to what). I assume it's desktop ---> KVM switch ---> Repeater ---> Samsung monitor? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
The picture by picture mode lowers the max FPS and disables the color calibration of the monitor, making things look like ass to be honest. For casual viewing, that's fine, but for multimedia work that I do or for gaming, it just didn't cut it. It also doesn't have a way to hook up multiple USB sources, so I'd still need a USB switch to toggle the keyboard/mouse/everythingelse between the systems.
@@circuitrewind I was looking to get the monitor to flip between my work desktop and gaming desktop, but still use the keeb i built for work and the one i built for gaming so wasnt too worried about usb sources. So if I have two sources and only plan to use one at a time does it still mess things up or is that only when trying to do pbp for both sources?
@@Penguinishy pbp is the only time it screws up. if you're doing full screen inputs, its great. the controls to switch inputs are not the best IMO, it is a 4-directional nub on the back of the monitor that isn't too responsive and menu navigation gets wonky sometimes.
a) its going RTX GPU > 0.5m DP cable > repeater > 2m DP cable > KVM > 1m DP cable > monitor b) this monitor can do dual-input! I did test that. however, it limits the monitor to 120Hz, the two halves were not perfectly in sync, so there was vertical tearing in the center, and it disables all color calibration options. This also required NVIDIA SurroundView to still treat it as a single monitor, and it just didn't work out too well in actual usage.
@@circuitrewind Since you have the repeater between the Desktop GPU and the KVM, wouldn't that still not solve your video drop-out issue to your work laptop which is on the other output port?
@@rayw8252 The work laptop is running at 8-bit/channel, 120Hz, vs my production machine running at 10-bit/channel, 240Hz. The work laptop is pushing significantly less bandwidth, and as such not having an issue... also the work laptop is running on a thunderbolt dock, so from the dock to the KVM its only ~18in of cable.
Hey! Glad you got it working & thank you for posting your experience. Bandwidth unfortunately will always be...tricky. For more information we have a whole FAQ dedicated to this sort of thing, but the KVM has no repeater; it tries to be as invisible as possible to not interfere with variable refresh rates or whatever the latest and greatest technology advancement is. So good thinking! I havn't tried the Club3D repeater, but it makes sense it would fix your issue.
In the future, if you want to run longer cables, or move your setup around, you could get fiberoptic displayport cables. Since these have a circuit built in they are pretty much lossless in bandwidth. ~ Amber
Hey, thanks for the additional information, and thanks for such an amazing product! :D This KVM has allowed me to keep my sanity with the switch to work-from-home over the past couple years.
Fiber optic display port cables. Interesting idea.
I wanted to thank you so much for the Club3D repeater suggestion. I've been battling this video dropout issue on this KVM for over a year. I added that Club3D repeater for my 4k@120Hz, and so far, so good. Thank you so much!
I hope @level1techs thinks about this in their future designs, and maybe builds something in to deal with signal integrity issues so we don't need to add these external amplifiers.
Totally glad that helped you out!! :) They're aware of this video, so I hope they take it into consideration too. :) But I also know their goal is to have the signal as "original" as possible for other reasons.
beautiful vibrant setup!
While I was doing my research I found the same KVM and I think it will fix all my issues, but did you ever encounter any input lag or latency issues with the mouse and keyboard? I play fps games and I don’t really want to sacrifice my experience.
No additional lag at all! It takes in bits, and passes them straight through without really buffering anything. I use it for FPS gaming too, and absolutely love this setup
Good stuff!
Its no Odyssey Ark, but it'll do ;)
Hi there .. thank you so much for posting this video .. I have the same exact monitor and need to be able to use a KVM switch. I had a quick question. Are you using this Repeater between the computer (display port) and the KVM switch? I'm trying to understand the cable run (i.e. what connects to what). I assume it's desktop ---> KVM switch ---> Repeater ---> Samsung monitor?
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
Ohh .. never mind .. I see you've answered this question below. Did you keep the same KVM switch?
@@Re5ist_ance yeah, still using it today!
@circuitrewind Have you had any issues with VRR passing through your repeater and KVM?
Question I thought this monitor had built in source switching and pbp. Why is an external kvm necessary?
The picture by picture mode lowers the max FPS and disables the color calibration of the monitor, making things look like ass to be honest. For casual viewing, that's fine, but for multimedia work that I do or for gaming, it just didn't cut it. It also doesn't have a way to hook up multiple USB sources, so I'd still need a USB switch to toggle the keyboard/mouse/everythingelse between the systems.
@@circuitrewind I was looking to get the monitor to flip between my work desktop and gaming desktop, but still use the keeb i built for work and the one i built for gaming so wasnt too worried about usb sources. So if I have two sources and only plan to use one at a time does it still mess things up or is that only when trying to do pbp for both sources?
@@Penguinishy pbp is the only time it screws up. if you're doing full screen inputs, its great. the controls to switch inputs are not the best IMO, it is a 4-directional nub on the back of the monitor that isn't too responsive and menu navigation gets wonky sometimes.
Where did you put the repeater, at the input or at the output of the KVM?
BTW, can’t that monitor run two inputs in split screen by itself?
a) its going RTX GPU > 0.5m DP cable > repeater > 2m DP cable > KVM > 1m DP cable > monitor
b) this monitor can do dual-input! I did test that. however, it limits the monitor to 120Hz, the two halves were not perfectly in sync, so there was vertical tearing in the center, and it disables all color calibration options. This also required NVIDIA SurroundView to still treat it as a single monitor, and it just didn't work out too well in actual usage.
@@circuitrewind Since you have the repeater between the Desktop GPU and the KVM, wouldn't that still not solve your video drop-out issue to your work laptop which is on the other output port?
@@rayw8252 The work laptop is running at 8-bit/channel, 120Hz, vs my production machine running at 10-bit/channel, 240Hz. The work laptop is pushing significantly less bandwidth, and as such not having an issue... also the work laptop is running on a thunderbolt dock, so from the dock to the KVM its only ~18in of cable.