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What others said is correct. Your just wasting power and increasing case internal temps with two GPU's. Sell the 970 on craigslist or to a buddy, and run all the monitors off your 1070. 

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Hi, 

I want to go to a dual screen set up, but not for gaming on both of them, one would be gaming 

One would be 4K 60Hz (my curent screen) and the future one a 1440p 144Hz.

I have two graphic cards (1070 and 970) and a Ryzen 3700X.

 

My question is : 

If I put a screen on each grapic card, will they compute each for her screen ? Would that impair my fps on games ? Is there anything I should know before trying that out ?

 

Thanks.

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Running multiple monitors has no impact on (single) GPU performance. I game on one monitor and have twitch/youtube on the other and experince no performance issues.

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Yes, it will work fine and each only handles the tasks they have to do (so only work on those GPU loads which are being displayed on the display that is connected to the GPU).

 

But there is no point to have two (high-end) GPUs for that. Just hook them both up to the same GPU, the performance impact is minimal.

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What others said is correct. Your just wasting power and increasing case internal temps with two GPU's. Sell the 970 on craigslist or to a buddy, and run all the monitors off your 1070. 

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1 minute ago, LIGISTX said:

What others said is correct. Your just wasting power and increasing case internal temps with two GPU's. Sell the 970 on craigslist or to a buddy, and run all the monitors off your 1070. 

Ok, I thought running all that on the same GPU would be a bit too much. 

Thanks to all of you for your help.

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1 minute ago, PEagle said:

Ok, I thought running all that on the same GPU would be a bit too much. 

Thanks to all of you for your help.

Nope, normal desktop work is nothing for a GPU. Think of it this way, the first PC you ever had had a monitor, and it likely did "ok" at displaying the desktop and websites etc. I mean, assuming your Win 98+ for your first PC. Now think how much better the graphics cards are today then back then. Desktop usage is not THAT much different, sure resolutions are higher and Win 10 looks better then Win 98 did as far as assets and graphics on the desktop, but compare a Win 98 game to a new AAA title... The GPU is not even trying in the slightest to display a desktop image lol.

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I agree for calculations on complex stuff, however, this means doubling the amount of pixels the GPU is working on. And since Win98SE (my first one), the screen resolution really did get bigger.

But I do get your point. 

Once again, thanks for your help

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