[SOLVED] 2 moniters, 2 different cards, 1 pc

Nikolaj FreakyKillerxD · Jan 16, 2014

Can i run a GTX760 and a GTX660 At same time for dual moniters? No sli of course

Will it burn my CPU or motherboard?

Need a little "professional" advice

i5
8gb ram
ASUS motherboard (new)
2tb hdd

13thmonkey · Jan 16, 2014

i'm running a gt210 and a gtx580, no issues, the secondary does not need to be a powerful card though as you'll never push a lot of graphical processing through it, unless you have a really weird requirement

mi1ez · Jan 16, 2014

You can run dual monitors off either one of those cards without the need for both!

Derza10 · Jan 16, 2014

Yea it is pretty pointless to use both... Just stick with the 760 and connect all monitors to it... adding the second card is just going to cause more power consumption and heat issues.

13thmonkey · Jan 16, 2014

the only problem with dual screens off one card is that the card will never reach idle clock speeds, and therefore runs at full clock speeds all of the time, probably uses more power... it's a known issue since fermi, I think it is still an issue in kepler

Derza10 · Jan 16, 2014

13thmonkey :

That is not true at all.... I use 4 monitors on 1 card, it goes down to idle clocks all the time when i'm not gaming... Did the same thing with my gtx 680, and using a gtx 780 ti right now... It was also never an issue when i had a gtx 570 with 2 monitors...

13thmonkey · Jan 16, 2014

true idle. i.e. 50Hz, or just 2d clocks? my 470 didn't (it was remarked on in some reviews) and nvidia claimed it was a hardware level issue. I suppose they could have fixed that in driver updates if it was not an actual hardware issue. It was one of the big points between the 5850/70 and the 470/80.

Nikolaj FreakyKillerxD · Jan 16, 2014

So hos much will my FPS drop when using 2 monitors instead of one?

13thmonkey · Jan 16, 2014

not much, takes nothing to draw a 2d screen doing not a lot

Nikolaj FreakyKillerxD · Jan 16, 2014

K so using a HDMI and a DVI om a GTX 760 is okay?

Derza10 · Jan 16, 2014

Yea that should work fine... I use 4 monitors on my GTX 780 Ti... display port + HDMI + DVI-D + DVI-I no issues.

You should see pretty much no performance difference when adding the second monitor (Unless of course for some reason you span your game across both monitors).

13thmonkey · Jan 16, 2014

Derza10 :

out of curiosity, what are the lowest gpu clock speeds you get down to?

Nikolaj FreakyKillerxD · Jan 16, 2014

Thank you but screen 1 Is 1920x1080 24" and the other is 1920x1080 19"

13thmonkey · Jan 16, 2014

doesn't matter, it'll look funny, but it doesn't matter to the card, mixed resolution is ok.

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