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Can you use multiple monitors with different refresh rates?

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I'm curious to know if it's possible to play games using three monitors, except with a central monitor that uses g-sync, and the side monitors are at 60Hz.

 

Any idea's?

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You can use a multi-monitor setup while having different refresh rates, if you play the game on one monitor and not with Nvidia surround, this applies to G/Freesync, i don't know about what happens with Gsync in surround.

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Different refresh rates might be hard on your eyes however...

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Just now, Leonard said:

You can use a multi-monitor setup while having different refresh rates, if you play the game on one monitor and not with Nvidia surround, this applies to G/Freesync, i don't know about what happens with Gsync in surround.

I doubt it would be possible, you'd probably get tearing or something like that...

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Just now, NPSTR107 said:

I doubt it would be possible, you'd probably get tearing or something like that...

In surround you mean?...agreed or you will get a combination of tearing and one screen slower than the other causing the game to crash.

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3 minutes ago, Leonard said:

In surround you mean?...agreed or you will get a combination of tearing and one screen slower than the other causing the game to crash.

Yeah, in surround. I suspect it would cause a lot of problems...

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1 hour ago, NPSTR107 said:

I'm curious to know if it's possible to play games using three monitors, except with a central monitor that uses g-sync, and the side monitors are at 60Hz.

 

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Assuming you're talking about gaming, it would be noticable, but if regular scenarios, it would be totally fine. I have a 144hz monitor and a 60hz monitor side by side and since I dont game on the 60hz monitor, I dont notice the huge discrepancy when browsing the webs or monitoring temps

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2 hours ago, NPSTR107 said:

I'm curious to know if it's possible to play games using three monitors, except with a central monitor that uses g-sync, and the side monitors are at 60Hz.

 

Any idea's?

All monitors must be set to the same refresh rate when using NVIDIA Surround. G-Sync cannot be used unless all 3 monitors have G-Sync.

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