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Heterogeneous Cards & Gaming Performance

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Dunnlang

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I have not been able to find any articles addressing Windows 7 Heterogeneous Multi-Monitor setups and gaming.
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I was wondering if I would see a performance boost from using my GeForce 670 exclusively for my 1920x1080 primary monitor, then using the on board graphics (included with the Asus P8Z77-V Pro). I would use the motherboard's graphics for my secondary monitor and potentially a TV via HDMI (on rare occasion).

It makes sense that offloading work from my primary graphics card could help improve gaming performance. I am concerned though, that the P8Z77 boards do not have a dedicated graphics processor. Would using the motherboard to drive 1-2 displays decrease my CPU's performance? Offloading work from my 670, only to burden the CPU may not be the best bet.

Has anyone else experimented with this?
 
I have. I ran the integrated graphics on my 3570k for an aux 1200p display while gaming on the main 1080p 120hz screen, it was really nice becuase I could fullscreen the game and still have the desktop on the side, just mouse out and do whatever, then go back to the game. I was running 670 SLI and it scaled perfectly on the single screen like the other one wasn't even there.

I don't think you would get any performance increase because the secondary would get shut off anyway if it was attached to the cards unless you play in windowed mode, in which case you may not get full performance anyways.

I was also unable to find any real info on it so I just tried it and it worked fine.
 
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