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Dual monitors, single card

Bandalo

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Quick question about running two monitors on a single GTX 570...

I want to use the dual displays for mostly for work (a 27" Dell primary, and a 24" Dell secondary) Multiple VMs, lots of windows open, etc. Seems to work great for this.

However, if I want to play games, I just want the 27" monitor as primary. The only thing displayed on it while I'm gaming would be the Win7 desktop and a couple CPU/Temp/Gmail monitoring gadgets or similar.

How much will the second monitor affect the frame rates? I'd rather not have to disconnect the cables every time I want to switch between gaming and work if I can avoid it. And having that other window open to see new e-mail, etc would be helpful.

Thanks!
 
Don't worry about a secondary monitor affecting your performance. I know several people that play on one monitor and watch teamspeak/applications on the other with no issues.
 
Sounds good. I was going to try some testing for an fps hit, but I'm incredibly lazy and figured someone would already have an answer! :D
 
i've been running 2 displays off 1 video card and gaming for many, many years but always on nvidia cards. while i doubt ATI/AMD is any different i can't vouch for them. i've never see a performance hit doing so and i have even ran 2 3D accelerated games one on each screen in windowed mode at the same time for a long time when i was addicted to eve online, when you do that what happens is the window that your focused on gets max GPU attention while the other one will drop down in frame rate but mind you eve is pretty easy on the video card so 1 560 Ti gets you into the triple digits constantly :D

also you do not have to go disconnect the 2nd monitor if you want to try benchmarking to see if it matters, all you have to do is open nvidia control panel and disable the 2nd display :)
 
Sounds good, thanks for the information. I've always been a Nvidia fan myself, but I haven't run multi-monitors on anything but work machines before. The gaming rig has always been a single monitor setup until now!
 
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