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Justfloyd
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I am adding a case monitor to my pc build for hardware monitoring. The monitor is an old 7" 1024x600 I used for a Raspberry Pi. My GPU is 5090 and my CPU is Ryzen 9950X3D. Can I use the onboard graphics for the case monitor instead of the 5090 or is it better to run it off of the 5090 as well? I have never done this before, so not sure of the best way to set it up. Also My research has led me to Aida64 for the information display setup. Two questions, is it hard to "build" the screen/hardware info in a nice dash or is it a tough learning curve, and if so is there a forum/website that users post their dash for others to use? Thanks!

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I am not familiar with setting up the software for your use case, but I do know the integrated GPU will work just fine for this task. You may need to enable a motherboard UEFI setting to keep the integrated GPU active when a discrete GPU is detected. Just plug a monitor into the motherboard video out and, if it works, then no setting change is needed.

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i mean, you have possibly the best (consumer) hardware money can buy, i doubt that both the iGPU and the GPU would actually feel the presence of such a tiny monitor lol

 

give it a try, i personally don't think there would be any issue in either slot but i might be wrong, and i'm actually curious to see what other say 

 

probably there's plenty of tutorials about how to "build" the dashboard, i guess you will need to use AIDA64 api to retreive data and put it together with some open source software that converts the data into diagrams and graphical stuff in general, i would ask chatgpt to make me a dashboard using python, it's probably doable fast and nicely this way too 🤔 

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1 hour ago, OhYou_ said:

maybe the play is to use a displaylink adapter on an internal usb port header to run the display. 

I have a cable for running power from a usb header to the display, but had not considered using it for the video as well. Can the displaylink provide power and graphics? 

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1 hour ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

i mean, you have possibly the best (consumer) hardware money can buy, i doubt that both the iGPU and the GPU would actually feel the presence of such a tiny monitor lol

 

give it a try, i personally don't think there would be any issue in either slot but i might be wrong, and i'm actually curious to see what other say 

 

probably there's plenty of tutorials about how to "build" the dashboard, i guess you will need to use AIDA64 api to retreive data and put it together with some open source software that converts the data into diagrams and graphical stuff in general, i would ask chatgpt to make me a dashboard using python, it's probably doable fast and nicely this way too 🤔

I use this pc for playing with local LLM's I'll have to see if they can build the dashboard for Aida64 to send the data to. 

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