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Does two Monitors hurt the GPU?

Carter29
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Hi,

I was wondering if two monitors hurts your gpu overtime? Also does it affect gaming performance? 

 

 

 

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Wait. What do you mean by that. No it should not and yes it does affect gaming performance negatively because of 2 monitors instead of 1. What gpu are we talking about. Generally you put more power to the gpu to handle and could potentially degrade it

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If you only use one for gaming then no, having one monitor for the game and the other just sitting there will not hurt it. If it does its like maybe 1 fps or something small. No worries! Add a monitor! :D

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I just run one monitor off the GPU and the other off the inbuilt graphics (only use for web, word, etc).

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Don't make fun of me for this, but I'm using a Radeon x1300/x1550 GPU. The card itself isn't ten years old when I got it. The driver is from 2010. So it is an old card.

 

What do I mean by hurting it? Well I mean the lifetime of the card I want it to last as much as it can. I don't have money for a new card right now. 

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As long as you don't do graphically demanding stuff on the second screen it's overall no prob and only a marginall performance impact.

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It won't degrade the card. 

that's what video cards are for

to display video

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Will it overwork the GPU having two monitors? The actual chip inside?

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1 minute ago, Carter29 said:

Will it overwork the GPU having two monitors? The actual chip inside?

No. And I want to know where did you get that idea :P

 

 

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No, it doesn't hurt it. 

It will take more resources to run a second display so there may be more power draw during idle and your gaming performance might take a small but negligible hit. 

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