Quote: Originally Posted by muldrick
I have the "display" PC up front. I have the main PC in the rear. If want to display on the screen what the main pc is doing...to truly work "through" the rear pc...to use the front unit as a display ONLY, then I can't go wireless. If I go wireles then I'm pretty much working "through" the front (display) pc, at only 400Mhz. (not the rear 1.2GHz)
Am I not correct?
If I am, then I would need to use the Par Technologies IREZ Capsure (50600) Video Input Card (
http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Par_Tech..._Capsure_50600 )
This way I am using the front pc as a display only. Am I wrong?
well, yes and no.
if you use a remote access program, like RAdmin or UltraVNC, you will be using your 'display' computer only to control the 'truck' computer. kinda like a glorified mouse and keyboard. all the processing is done within the truck pc, not the display pc. the control end of the software (which will be on your display pc) uses very little resources and can run on less than a pentium I. all of your mp3 playback, gps, etc. will be at 1.2ghz, not 400mhz.
however, if you want to use your setup to play videos or DVDs, you might want to go with the wired solution, using the video input card, since there will be lag between what the truck pc and what is seen on the display pc if you're just using wireless remote access. the visual lag shouldn't be a problem for regular computing, but with video, it seems it would set the audio/video out of sync, and perhaps be jerky.