You've got eight machines humming behind your desk and a cable tangle that makes your neck hurt. Every time you need to check a different PC, you're unplugging, re-plugging, hunting for the right monitor. Stupid. Fixable.
The ATEN CS1798 kills that. One keyboard, one mouse, one monitor – all eight HDMI machines on tap. Switch between them in seconds, not minutes. Audio's built in, so you can listen to whichever box you're working on (two speaker sets, one at a time).
Need more than eight? Cascade it. Three levels deep gets you to 512 machines from the same console. Running multi-GPU rigs? Stack up to eight switches with standard USB cables and compare video outputs side by side without rewiring your whole bench.
ATEN's on-screen display lets you jump to any connected PC, tweak settings, then back them up or restore later. No more "which one did I change?"
Multimedia keyboard support works out of the box. No driver dance. No compatibility guesswork.
One console. Eight machines. Sorted
| brand | ATEN |
| model | CS1798 |
| port_count | 8 |
| video_interface | HDMI |
| audio | 1 |
| cascade_levels | 3 |
| max_computers_cascaded | 512 |
| osd | 1 |
| multi_display_stacking | 1 |
| multimedia_keyboard_support | 1 |
| category | KVM Switch & Video |
| subcategory | Desktop KVM |
| rrp | 879 |
