Need help connecting 2 towers to 2 Cinema displays

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Need help connecting 2 towers to 2 Cinema displays

Help needed, I am rebuilding my workstation and have purchased 2, 27" Cinemas to connect through switch box to 2 mac pros. I currently have it working through a belkin VGA switch and my old monitors but I want to make use of the new higher res monitors.The switch I am looking at is the CS1642 USB 2.0 DVI Dual View KVMP by Aten. I know I will need adaptors but am a bit confused as to which ones. I also believe I will need to get new DVI cables to get full resolution? The two towers are also a question as one is new series 5 with mini display ports and the old one series 1 has upgraded video cards with DVI...

Any advice greatly appreciated...

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Mac Book Pro

Posted on Apr 26, 2012 2:29 PM

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X423424X

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Apr 26, 2012 7:31 PM in response to Dgood133

Just to get the obvious question out of the way; which 27"s did you get? The older mini-displayport version or the current thunderbolt version. If it is the latter there is currenly no way to connect them to a mac pro.

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Apr 26, 2012 7:45 PM in response to X423424X

And if you have the Mini Displayport Displays, there is No CHEAP way to convert from DVI to Mini DisplayPort.

DVI connectors are on your proposed switch?

EDIT: You will need two of these, at US$200 each:

http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-Dual-Link-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-USB-Pow ered.html

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Apr 26, 2012 7:37 PM in response to X423424X

Hi yeah, no these are the cinema display not the thunderbolt versions, one has minidisplay connectors on the cards one is just dvi... The computers I mean, both cinema display are minidisplay...

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