The monitor is like 10 feet away from my TV. Thanks to playing games that require heavy grinding like WKC I can regularly watch stuff on my computer while playing WKC because I can see both from my chair.
now with the cords I can do the opposite as well in case I have stuff to watch that's on my DVR and watch that as I play the game on my monitor
or if someone wants to use the TV then I can just play on the monitor instead of having to do something else
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