Hey Guys,
Background
I recently bought a Dell XPS 8700 and two U2414h monitors with a dual monitor stand directly from Dell. My problem is that when I received my monitors, Dell did not send me an hdmi cord to hook them to my computer. Upon further inspection, I found out that the hdmi port on the Nvidia GTX 745 is bad so I couldn't hook my monitors up to the GPU because the monitors have only hdmi, displayport and mini-displayport connections. The Nvidia GTX 745 has VGA, hdmi, and DVI connections. The motherboard of my computer has hdmi and a displayport connection.
Questions
My main question is that when Dell finishes sending someone out to replace my GPU on my CPU will it work hooking up one of my monitors via hdmi to my GPU and the other monitor via hdmi to my motherboard?Will I have any performance loss by not connecting both monitors to the GPU?
I've been lurking around the forums trying to find answers to any of these questions. Any help would me much appreciated. Specs for my computer are below.
Specs
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4790 Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.0 GHz)
Windows 8.1 (64Bit) English
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz - 4 DIMMs
1TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 745 4GB DDR3