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Dual-Mons

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locutus24

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I have been running dual-mons for a while, and its been a good time. My question is though do dual mons cause drag on the vpu, cause i have one mon hooked up to my onboard intel extreme ;) and the other to my nvidia card. Would running duals off my nvidia card cause it to slow down more while playing games. I have a ge-force fx5200 with a 2.4ghz p4, my nvidia has dvi and vga on it, and i have the dongle changer for the dvi.
 
Basically you just lose a little memory bandwidth since it needs some to redraw the 2nd screen.
I run 2 screens on my 6800GT and really don't notice any difference. Some cards may show more or less of a difference. Say you're running a 2nd screen at 1280x960x32-bit @75Hz. 1280x960x4x75 = 351.6MB/s. On a 6800GT that's just over 1% of the available mem bandwidth, so it's really not noticeable, and the missing 5MB of texture memory doesn't bother it either. Cards with less mem bandwidth may take more of a hit. It'll also depend on what you're doing of course. 5000 series GeForce cards tend to get GPU limited a lot if pixel shader action is going on, so in a lot of cases you may not notice anything.
Of course, if you're running it off of the integrated, you're taking bandwidth away from your CPU, so that may be worse than running it off of your vid card.
I'd just try it and see what happens. It's easy enough to switch back.
 
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