Hey all, a couple of years of ago I successfully build my first PC thanks to this thread. I had no idea what I was doing, but thanks to neogaf, I pulled it off pretty easily. It's an i5-750 with a GA-P55-UD3R motherboard, 16gigs of RAM and a Radeon HD 5850. I'm pretty impressed by how it's holding up and haven't really looked into upgrading it.
However, recently my third media player stopped playback of all recently released video files and instead of buying a fourth media player, I'm looking into hooking my PC up to my living room TV. Some questions have risen and I hope someone here will be able to answer me.
1. My PC is in a room next to my living room and some rough measurements told me a 7 meter long HDMI cable should suffice. Would the signal suffer at that distance?
2. My HD 5850 has a single HDMI out, but I want to hook it up to my monitor and a TV. Should I buy a HDMI splitter or just use my DVI port for the monitor? And if I occupy both HDMI and DVI, will the image display on both screens or do I have to choose the port to output the image?
3. I'm also looking into buying an SSD to speed up the boot process of my PC and the repair and extract processes needed for newsgroups purposes. Do I need anything besides the SSD (Samsung 830 series) to make this happen?
4. To make sure I don't need to go in the next room to use my PC on the TV, I'm looking into bluetooth imput devices. I'll probably get a 360 controller with an adapter for games, but I'd like a compact bluetooth keyboard with a mousepad build in. Any recommendations?