Rtx2070 super

[Daytona701]

I’m new to this Pc world. I have a prebuilt I buy power pc with a rtx2070 super. But I’m not entirely sure if it’s the super. Its the gigabyte wind force one. But anyways my question is I have a 2k 144hz monitor that I have been running at 1080p cause I don’t want to hurt my Pc. Should I be worried about running 2k at 144hz? 

[Daytona701]

I also run 2 monitors. The second monitor is just a 1080p 144hz monitor. 

[Midnitewolf]

Your not going to hurt your PC, worst case scenario your just going to get low FPS and not be able to fully sync up with the maximum refresh of your monitor. (Providing you have a Freesync or Gsync compatible monitor and it is enabled on both the monitor and GPU.)

[Stu_Bear]

Ummm...you can't hurt your new pc by asking it to work at 1440p...just enjoy it.

[Daytona701]

14 minutes ago, Midnitewolf said:

Your not going to hurt your PC, worst case scenario your just going to get low FPS and not be able to fully sync up with the maximum refresh of your monitor. (Providing you have a Freesync or Gsync compatible monitor and it is enabled on both the monitor and GPU.)

The 2k monitor is free sync 

[Daytona701]

1 minute ago, Stu_Bear said:

Ummm...you can't hurt your new pc by asking it to work at 1440p...just enjoy it.

I just don’t want to anything to over heat and or break lol. I’m a ver paranoid person lol 

[Stu_Bear]

well we are all guilty of wanting to protect our hardware...especially when new.  That said the manufactures have built into the hardware fail-safes to protect it.  If your components start to overheat...the hardware will dynamically throttle back on their own to lower temps to safe limits...which can make things predictable...and sometimes boring   

[Midnitewolf]

1 minute ago, Daytona701 said:

The 2k monitor is free sync 

Cool.  

 

1 minute ago, Daytona701 said:

I just don’t want to anything to over heat and or break lol. I’m a ver paranoid person lol 

 

Both CPUs and GPUs will thermally throttle and/or shut down automatically to prevent damage by heat so you really shouldn't have any issues.  As I mentioned, worse case scenerio, your frames per second will go down but this this has to do with visual quality, not something malfunctioning.  

 

What you may have issues with is visual quality on your monitors.  You seem to have one monitor capable of 2560 x 1440 resolution and the other capable of 1980 x 1080 and I am not sure if the GPU can set individual resolutions to accommodate the different resolution capability of your monitor. You might be in a situation where you have to pick one or the other which means one or the other of your monitors is going to probably have bad picture quality since the resolutions your running on that monitor isn't its native resolution. 

[Zando_]

25 minutes ago, Daytona701 said:

 I don’t want to hurt my Pc.

Lol no worries, you can't hurt your PC by running games. There's some specific apps that can maybe harm components due to creating an unrealistically high power draw and overheating them, but 1) you'd have to install and run them yourself and 2) OEMs wisened up and their GPUs automatically throttle under that kind of load (called a power virus), specifically so they can't hurt themselves. 

Only real way to hurt your PC is to force it to run higher than safe voltages and either let it degrade over time or run it very very hot, also for extended periods of time. And Nvidia won't even let you do that to a 2070 Super without actually modifying the hardware, so again that isn't really possible. PCs are pretty damn good at not cooking themselves nowdays. 

As for running heavy load, that's what they're built for. Both GPUs and CPUs are fine to be run at 100% load 24/7 for the foreseeable future. 
 

1 minute ago, Midnitewolf said:

What you may have issues with is visual quality on your monitors.  You seem to have one monitor capable of 2560 x 1440 resolution and the other capable of 1980 x 1080 and I am not sure if the GPU can set individual resolutions to accommodate the different resolution capability of your monitor. You might be in a situation where you have to pick one or the other which means one or the other of your monitors is going to probably have bad picture quality since the resolutions your running on that monitor isn't its native resolution. 

Nah, they're fine. I've ran 1080p monitors with a 2560x1080 on the side, multiple people run the 1440p/1080p on the side combo, some run two 1440p monitors and a 4K one, all sorts of combos. GPUs are fine with different resolutions, windows can be funky sometimes but that's really it. You'd only run into issues if you tried to run surround (where you tell the GPU to treat all your monitors as one gigantic one) with different resolutions, using one for your games and one for discord or youtube or something is bueno. 

[Midnitewolf]

15 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

 

Nah, they're fine. I've ran 1080p monitors with a 2560x1080 on the side, multiple people run the 1440p/1080p on the side combo, some run two 1440p monitors and a 4K one, all sorts of combos. GPUs are fine with different resolutions, windows can be funky sometimes but that's really it. You'd only run into issues if you tried to run surround (where you tell the GPU to treat all your monitors as one gigantic one) with different resolutions, using one for your games and one for discord or youtube or something is bueno. 

Cool to know.  I run a Ultrawide so haven't ran dual monitor for years and when I have run multiple monitors they have always been the same resolutions so wasn't sure.  I do remember that at one time it used to be an issue but it is good to know that the technology has changed.

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, Midnitewolf said:

Cool to know.  I run a Ultrawide so haven't ran dual monitor for years and when I have run multiple monitors they have always been the same resolutions so wasn't sure.  I do remember that at one time it used to be an issue but it is good to know that the technology has changed.

Yeah, I think it used to be funky, but newer hardware just keeps improving on that front. Seen people having issues with one panel being g-sync/freesync but the other not (I never did, ran a G-Sync panel with a normal 1080p ultrawide on both my 1080 Ti and 1660 Ti without issue), but I think even those have been mostly weeded out with recent hardware releases.