Two GPUs with 2 monitors in the same system?

[Su1tch]

Hello, i have a question (couldn't find an answer on google), i have a dual monitor setup and i always watch netflix/youtube on the second screen while gaming and this cause a lot of FPS drops (i have a GTX 960) and i was wondering if i could install a second video card to minimize the load on the main card and connect the second monitor to a second card (a low end card or something similar), soo the second card takes the load of the videos wich are being played on the second monitor, is it possible?

[m_tieu]

You could try plugging the second monitor on the integrated graphics if you have that. Otherwise you could get a cheap gpu and it would work too.

[Hydraxiler32]

It might end up being that the CPU would bottleneck your system. but I doubt netflix will affect it that much, maybe a drop in FPS of 5 frames is what I would guess.

[comicsansms]

If you want to watch videos on a second monitor and you are having issues with it in your main gpu,  plug the monitor on your on board graphics. 

[m_tieu]

1 minute ago, Hydraxiler32 said:

It might end up being that the CPU would bottleneck your system. but I doubt netflix will affect it that much, maybe a drop in FPS of 5 frames is what I would guess.

I was thinking something along the lines of that myself. Since its not rendering 3D, it shouldn't be taxing the card that much at all. It could be ram or vram shortage too.

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Hydraxiler32 said:

It might end up being that the CPU would bottleneck your system. but I doubt netflix will affect it that much, maybe a drop in FPS of 5 frames

Yeah I would check your CPU usage while you're running Netflix and a game, because I can run a game on my main monitor and a stream on my second no problem with a GTX 760. If that is the problem then there's not a lot you can do without a CPU upgrade. If that's not the problem, then other stuff people have said here is pretty good advice.

[Su1tch]

Thanks for the answers! i'll try to plug in the second monitor to the on-board video plug, but do i have to change anything in the settings? or it will pickit up automatically?

[m_tieu]

1 minute ago, Su1tch said:

Thanks for the answers! i'll try to plug in the second monitor to the on-board video plug, but do i have to change anything in the settings? or it will pickit up automatically?

You might have to enable it in the bios. On my computer, it turns the integrated output off by default if I have a discrete graphics card plugged in.