How much resource is being used when running both onboard graphics and discrete graphics?

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myfishcantswim

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I currently have one 1080p monitor connected to my graphics card which is a PNY GTX 1060 through DVI. I also have a 1080p monitor connected to my motherboard to use the onboard graphics from my Intel i5-4690k @ baseclock 3.5GHz. My graphics card only has one DVI port and I do not have a monitor that utilizes display port or HDMI. So what I did was plug both of those in, and go into my bios and enable "CPU Graphics Multi-Monitor", with the boot priority being default. Both monitors are working fine now with display extension functioning normally, but I'm concerned I might be overloading my CPU.

So my question is: how much extra load does this put on my CPU? Especially when I'm gaming, I like having another tab open on my other monitor for like Google Chrome or Discord. Will this affect what is on my main monitor while I am gaming? Will it overload my CPU and cause it to crash/overheat? What are the temperature differences when using onboard graphics vs 2 displays off a single GPU?

sorry for all the questions but I'm just trying to be cautious with this new setup. If you have any answers to my questions, and or any other information you'd like to share, please let me know!

Thank you so much in advance!
 
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No extra load on the cpu. If both monitors were on the dpgu, it would be the same amount of resources. It depends what is running for how much resources it uses, even on a single monitor. I don't know what you would have on chrome but things like discord is nearly nothing. It's mostly just more vram usage. A cpu will never ever crash or overheat unless you have a cooler issue or you oced. The igpu uses very little power especially as all gpu acceleration is still done on the main gpu. This means it's mostly idle and that's hardly 1w. You should see no difference in temp.
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No extra load on the cpu. If both monitors were on the dpgu, it would be the same amount of resources. It depends what is running for how much resources it uses, even on a single monitor. I don't know what you would have on chrome but things like discord is nearly nothing. It's mostly just more vram usage. A cpu will never ever crash or overheat unless you have a cooler issue or you oced. The igpu uses very little power especially as all gpu acceleration is still done on the main gpu. This means it's mostly idle and that's hardly 1w. You should see no difference in temp.
 
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