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Secondary display on dgpu or igpu

Hey,

i am getting a tv to put on top of my gaming rig, and as I watch videos while gaming quite often, I was wondering if I should connect the (4K) tv to the integrated graphics in order to make it not influence my games, and to avoid the games making my video lag. My current displays already force the graphics card to push 4960x1600, and I feel like a 4K video on top of that will just butcher the system too much. 

 

My my rig is as follows:

i7 7700k

32 gb (2x16gb) 2666mhz corsair lpx 

MSI z270i Gaming Pro Carbon

480gb corsair force

metric tons of disk drives stuck in random places, some via data, some via network, some via USB 

R9 Nano

Silverstone Fortress FT03 mini

Dell 2007fpb x2, 3007wfp, +some 4K tv (soon)

 

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1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

dgpu, won't slow down the games, uses almost nothing to drive a extra screen.

Well, it wouldn't if it wasn't doing anything, but it will be playing 2k/4k video, online and offline, which does actually use up GPU power.

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1 hour ago, huilun02 said:

Try using the iGPU and see how it holds up with 4K playback

I will, but I don't have the tv yet, and wanted to know the answer now.

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