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"Sharing peripherals between PC's"

Got two PC's beside each other that I want to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse with.

Someone mentioned a KVM switch (or something similar) and have seen a few things that might be suitable but the prices range from around £10 to over £40.
Anyone recommend a suitable solution to this problem to allow me to run both PC's at the same time and switch between which one uses the monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Thanks if you can help.

Ah, found one that looks like it will do it
[URL]http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007DTDB/qid=1106516645/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-6961373-3439851[/URL]

In that case, I'd spend £100 doing what Coin suggests.

I got a new PC not that long ago. Use it mostly to play games.
The other one has all my uni stuff and dads work stuff on it.

At the moment we have to keep switching all the stuff over but this means we can't share stuff between the too which would be useful.

I'd guess it's so that he can use one to download and stuff while the other will play games etc.

Hmmm... Nope.

Sorry, but why do you have two PCs minus monitors and keyboards? You can pick up all those real cheap, real quick!

Got two PC's beside each other that I want to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse with.

Someone mentioned a KVM switch (or something similar) and have seen a few things that might be suitable but the prices range from around £10 to over £40.
Anyone recommend a suitable solution to this problem to allow me to run both PC's at the same time and switch between which one uses the monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Thanks if you can help.