Nvidia GTX 980 Ti Triple monitors, 1 for gaming

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Hello people. I recently upgraded to a new 1080p monitor after already having 2 other identical 24inch 1080p monitors (new one is 144hz while older ones are 60hz). I currently have a gtx 980 in my system and it seems to run fine with my 2 older monitors so i was considering using all 3. I only plan to use my new monitor for gaming (normally high settings, not ultra, FPS is important because i play a lot of FPS games competitively, and the other 2 monitors for youtube/facebook/other-shit that's not gaming. My question is would this impact my gaming too much if i don't have video or anything intensive running on the other 2 monitors? I don't really want to burn out my graphics card, so to speak, I'm not really sure how that impacts it tbh. My new monitor is using the dvi connection while my other 2 monitors will be connected into the card using a dvi-to-hdmi converters. Just wanted any input before i go by another dvi-hdmi converter, any insight would be helpful, thanks!
 
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For the most part, they just take vram and ram. 1080p is only a couple hundred MB vram with just some tabs open or video. Most tasks aren't active so don't use the gpu or cpu so it doesn't affect fps. Anything small is a few unnoticeable fps.

Video playback is not graphic intensive. Gpus don't even clock all the way up for video, that's what 2d mode is for, and you still hardly see 1-2% usage. I bet 100mhz idle clocks still has less than 10% usage. Even igpus can do 2x 4k. Video playback takes next to nothing. It doesn't affect cpu either. Idle tabs open with fb are idle. Yt should be using the gpu. Discord or other voice chats use very little and has no effect. With a single monitor all these apps use the same resources sitting...
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Well, in theory unless your doing video playback you should only see a drop of a few frames in games not much though. As for burning out your video card? No, in fact it would put more load on the CPU than it would to the GPU, assuming your not doing anything graphics intensive like video playback on another monitor you should be fine as long as you have a decent CPU.
 
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For the most part, they just take vram and ram. 1080p is only a couple hundred MB vram with just some tabs open or video. Most tasks aren't active so don't use the gpu or cpu so it doesn't affect fps. Anything small is a few unnoticeable fps.

Video playback is not graphic intensive. Gpus don't even clock all the way up for video, that's what 2d mode is for, and you still hardly see 1-2% usage. I bet 100mhz idle clocks still has less than 10% usage. Even igpus can do 2x 4k. Video playback takes next to nothing. It doesn't affect cpu either. Idle tabs open with fb are idle. Yt should be using the gpu. Discord or other voice chats use very little and has no effect. With a single monitor all these apps use the same resources sitting behind a game and you probably already leave them open.
 
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I know video playback isn't "intensive", used the wrong word sorry, I just meant you will see some dropped FPS with other tabs open that are active, for the most part it wont be noticeable but it will be there.
 
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