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Started by HaloSoccer | | 2 answers
Monitor and GPU
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
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September 28, 2014 4:56:43 PM

The GPU (video card) that came with my computer does not have displayport. Displayport is on my motherboard...My GPU only has VGA, DVI, and one HDMI connection
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September 28, 2014 4:47:32 PM

it would work but might require extra steps since youd be using 2 video cards in your case id just buy displayport cable and use that on the video card with HDMI being the other slot( so both monitors on the same video card)

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