Anyone use the IGP for a second display while gaming?

Don't see it mentioned much, but anyone using the intel video out on a second monitor on a gaming machine?

I take issue with using my 780ti's juice to do anything besides make my framerates do things "that the human eye can't detect" ...so I keep my "slave" 19x10 display running off the hd3000 on my 2600k.

At 4.5ghz with hyperthreading on most games MAY get to 50% CPU usage. BF4 being the exception, max around 60-70%.

Honestly I see no downsides to this setup. Keep all my monitoring crap on it while I game, and I don't have to insult my 700 dollar graphics card with mundane things like keeping tabs on when my web browser tells me to click here for free poker chips!

That's what I do mostly because I don't have all the right ports on my 280x.

if you did, would you rather use the 280x?

only reason I could see not to use that would be trying to drive a 60+hz monitor.... but then you wouldnt be using the IGP anyway.

Lol the intel options allow for pixel overclocking....Hrmmmm

I considered it once but Photoshop CS6 and Creative Cloud with graphics acceleration enabled won't open because the Intel driver is supposedly incompatible and not supported by the program. It pops up an error box then shuts down.

"... something-something is not supported on Intel blah-blah-blah... please update your driver..."
(something along those lines)

The clincher: Driver is updated for the i7 3770 IGP, and before that the i5 2400 IGP.

I've ended up just disabling the IGP altogether.

Yup. Game on my primary 750Ti, 2nd monitor on IGP

So do you use the secondary monitor to display another screen of your game or just to have your desktop on it?

I use my 7970 for my main monitor only, I had a 650ti in as a physx/secondary gaming card (so I could have a main game open then WoW on a second monitor) but ended up not using it much since I don't play WoW for now. Took the 650ti out for an HTPC and use the haswell IGP and it works just fine for playing videos/browsing the web, etc. I mostly do it because hooking up more than one monitor to the 7970 causes it to stay in some sort of mid power state even when I'm not doing anything and it wastes electricity and generates heat, so I just use a different card for my second and third monitors. Plus it offloads GPU usage when watching movies or using flash on those monitors and gaming on the main (Diablo 3 is one of the games I do that a lot in)

That sounds cool, I recently had a secondary 1080p monitor hooked up to my system and watched playoff hockey games while I was playing Dota 2 on my primary but I ran both monitors off my GPU.

I haven't really thought about doing this, will definitely have to try. Especially since I have tons of gadgets open on my secondary monitor.

I run 3 monitors, my two secondary displays are both powered off the onboard Intel video.

I first set it up this way back when I was running 2x 4870x2 in Quad Crossfire. For some reason, with that setup, having secondary monitors attached to the primary 4870x2 would cause all 4 GPUs to run at their full clockspeed all the time. Thankfully, if I just had my main monitor on the 4870x2, and the other two running off the Intel Video, the clockspeed of the 4 GPUs would go way down during idle like they are supposed to. With 4 older inefficient GPUs that was a big difference in power/heat.

Since then, I've upgraded to 2x GTX680 SLI, which doesn't have the same problem. I still however enjoy and appreciate the simplicity that comes with only having my main display powered by my gaming GPUs.