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When gaming...have you put anything like a video on the secondary "for the wife/kids or whatever" and noticed any performance loss?

you might see a decrease there but nothing unbearable, ive had youtube videos on my secondary while gaming, i was even watching the microsoft E3 conference in HD while playing Civilization V and everything was fine.

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I have a dell 1280 x 1024 moniter and was wondering if adding it to my setup as an extra moniter would have any real noticeable frame rate drop. Also is there any way i can set it to turn off when i play a game

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So, this is going to be a secondary monitor where you wouldn't be playing games? If so, it should't affect gameplay unless you extend gaming over two screens with something like eyefinity.

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If that second monitor is OFF when gaming, you will not lose any performance.

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The performance will probably not be significantly affected, provided that you have a decent graphics card. One issue you may run into, though, is that the second monitor is a different resolution than the first, so some parts of windows get kinda screwy when that happens.

 

Also, you can connect the second monitor to your iGPU if you don't want the extra load on your GPU.

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If that second monitor is OFF when gaming, you will not lose any performance.

Dude Seriously...

And when Its ON..You will not lose performance either...

Gaming on a single monitor when having a second connected and running will NOT take anything away from you performance wise.

 

@ idle times, instead of dropping to 350mhz it will only drop to 500mhz due to dual monitors being connected. This happens to EVERYONE, so if you see it, don't stress.

As Stated, losing performance will only happen if you run in a window..and drag the window resizing it to encompass BOTH screens, then obviously it has to render more.

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Dude Seriously...

And when Its ON..You will not lose performance either...

Gaming on a single monitor when having a second connected and running will NOT take anything away from you performance wise.

 

@ idle times, instead of dropping to 350mhz it will only drop to 500mhz due to dual monitors being connected. This happens to EVERYONE, so if you see it, don't stress.

As Stated, losing performance will only happen if you run in a window..and drag the window resizing it to encompass BOTH screens, then obviously it has to render more.

If it is on you will lose 1-2FPS. (Idling at desktop)

And if you are whatching videos from youtube, you will lose 5-10FPS. :)

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If it is on you will lose 1-2FPS. (Idling at desktop)

And if you are whatching videos from youtube, you will lose 5-10FPS. :)

We were Talking about losing gaming performance on a single screen by having a secondary connected. Not idle desktop FPS.

When your gaming on a single screen, You should be concentrating on that..... Not watching something on your secondary monitor.

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Yes I forsee some people who watch on a second screen and play games on their primary. But if this was your plan, then you should have setup a system that was capable to do so beforehand.

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I have a main 1080p monitor that i game on, and a secondary 1280x1024 which idont even turn off when i play a game, there is no noticable difference!

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I have a main 1080p monitor that i game on, and a secondary 1280x1024 which idont even turn off when i play a game, there is no noticable difference!

When gaming...have you put anything like a video on the secondary "for the wife/kids or whatever" and noticed any performance loss?

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When gaming...have you put anything like a video on the secondary "for the wife/kids or whatever" and noticed any performance loss?

you might see a decrease there but nothing unbearable, ive had youtube videos on my secondary while gaming, i was even watching the microsoft E3 conference in HD while playing Civilization V and everything was fine.

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ok thanks everyone :)

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