I just picked this up from aliexpress, yes it's quite expensive, more so for me becase i grabbed the kit with all 4 of the atx controle units and all cables needed aside from HDMIs that were not included, I also pared it with a completely overkill cm4 8gb model with 32gb of emmc and I also installed a basic 256gb nvme ssd becase I want to see if I can get pikvm to serve the nvme ssd straight in as a usb storage device, If I can get it to do that then I will set it up as a vendoy installer as I have this controlling 4 fully speced out appliances, 2 jonsbo n3 itx builds one with a 5700x3d and a rtx 4060 half hight card that I wanted to setup as a remote steam system and I realy wanted to be able to switch between windows and Linux as needed becase I love to tinker and having a ipkvm enables some serious tinkering, I also have that "server" setup with 4 16tb exos hdds in an raid0 array(don't judge me, im fully setup with a more than sufficient 3,2,1 backup solution for the critical stuff) this is just "working" storage, I've also dropped in a pcie 16x to dual m.2 and pcie 8x risser that works with 4.0 as that gpu is only using 8pcie lanes at 4.0 speeds so I couldn't justify losing those other 8 lanes that enabled me to add in alot of nvme storage to use as not only the install target but also for log and caching of the zfs array that is the 4 exos 2x18 drives that are in the other 4 bays on the jonbo, it's a gigabyte itx pro board with dual m.2 but only 4 sata ports so the 16x drives are on a m.2 to sata adapter that is also on that risser....ya my point is, it's alot of hardware to be limited to a single os and only bw able to access it locally if something needs troubleshooting, one the os is installed and setup with the help of this new ipkvm I then install nomachine and remote in and am able to take full advantage of the hardware from my little asrock deskminis that I have several of in many "workstation" setups around my home office, they are also setup with m.2 based 10gb aqc103 networking as is all 4 of the appliances that are remote and managed by the pikvm, the other systems are mostly itx amd APU based one other is also in a jonsbo n3 but instead of a low profile Nvidia gpu it is equipped with a 4port marvel AQtion nic that is setup to act as a virtual Lan for the other 3 systems and is also my access point to those other systems on the network aside from the 2.5gb backup that is also on all 4 systems that is setup on a seperate 2.5gb Lan that is ran to the "server" area that is also soft switched via a aliexpress itx build that has 4 intel i226 nics and I added a 5th Realtek 2.5gb ngff m.2 based nic for the Wan to differentiate the Mac address in a cli when I seeing up my bespoke Debian based bridging appliance lol so technically there are 6 systems out there now including the pikvm... I also have 2 other apu based itx builds in generic 4bay appliances that are primarily used for more storage and also since they are lower power they handle the majority of my other homelabs services and containers that I utilize in a variety of applications...
I gota say so far I'm impressed with the x680, there are some things that need polishing, like the edid stuff for hdmi resolutions and again mass storage serving is still iffy but it's still early for this product so we shall see
