Need more display outputs - How?

[SE_Lain]

I've got a GTX 1060 6gb Founders Edition. So there are 3 displayport outputs and 1 HDMI output. The HDMI is used up by my 4k 60Hz TV and the 3 DP outputs by my two monitors (1x 4k 60Hz and 1x FHD 60Hz but 21:9) and my Rift S.

So now I got another FHD 60Hz monitor (standard 16:9) and don't have any display outputs left. The monitor takes both DP and HDMI btw. The other two monitors as well, but the Rift S only takes Dp and the TV only HDMI.

 

I already checked my options. Apperantly I could use a DP splitter, but those are active and cost like 80€. I could also use the HDMI port on my motherboard, but I'm pretty sure it would rout the Signal of my GPU through the CPU resulting in a performance loss similar to laptops without a MUX switch or even worse it would start using the IGPU of my i7 6700 or something.

There are also some relatively cheap USB 3.0 (or whatever it's called now idk) to HDMI/DP adapters, but I suspect they'd have the same problem as the motherboard's HDMI output described above. 

 

So now the question, what should I buy or not buy, can I get away without buying anithing and what would result in a performance loss or other problems.

 

Thanks in advance and excuse any language mistakes as English is not my native language.

[KingTdiGGiTTy]

44 minutes ago, Coolius said:

even worse it would start using the IGPU of my i7 6700 or something.

Are you planning on gaming on this monitor?

You could just game on the others and not on this one so running it off of the iGPU wouldn't be a problem.

[GuiltySpark_]

I don't see what the problem is with using the motherboard output and the iGPU for this display. You have quite a few, are you planning on gaming on this new one? 

[SE_Lain]

Well I heared that windows can lag a bit when you drag them from a GPU rendered monitor to an IGPU rendered one and vice versa so I wanted to know if there's a better way to do this.

Also I don't want to run into problems because something uses the IGPU even though it should be using the GPU. And since I don't know about the behaviour when you have 2 GPUS, I've just had the IGPU disabled in the bios up until now.

[GuiltySpark_]

Its quite seemless. I ran a display on my i5's iGPU for years in conjunction with my Nvidia GPU. 

[SE_Lain]

And programs? How do they determine what GPU to use?

[GuiltySpark_]

Well, games you have to select a display and TBH if your primary display in Windows is connected to your GPU, games normally start there anyway. Productivity apps that have some sort of GPU acceleration such as Premier allow you to pick a GPU. 

 

Anything else.. I don't know but its never mattered. You're imagining a problem in your mind that doesn't actually exist. 

[SE_Lain]

On 1/13/2022 at 9:49 PM, rickeo said:

Well, games you have to select a display and TBH if your primary display in Windows is connected to your GPU, games normally start there anyway. Productivity apps that have some sort of GPU acceleration such as Premier allow you to pick a GPU. 

 

Anything else.. I don't know but its never mattered. You're imagining a problem in your mind that doesn't actually exist. 

Alright, thanks for the information, I was just unsure and didn’t want to try something that I thought would probably create problems.

I will try using my motherboards HDMI output then!