Dual Monitor

[Jenco12]

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and i want to ask a question. I actually want a 2nd monitor for my rigs specs as follows. So here's the question. I want to ask if there would be a performance drop when im playing a game while browsing or reading a guide from the other monitor?



Specs :
AoC E2070SWN (1600x900) / Main Monitor used for gaming
Dell (Dunno the part number -- 1280x1024) / Secondary Monitor used for browsing, reading forums and other stuffs

Intel i3-3240
MSI H61M-P31/W8
12 GB Ram
Asus Strix GTX 960 Directcu II 4gb
Corsair VS650
Some old casing with two fan (One for intake and one for air out)

[sazrocks]

No, not really.

[emosun]

no

a second 2d monitor would only effect machines performance about 20 or so years ago. once cpu's exceeded several hundred mhz it wasn't a problem anymore.

[Jenco12]

I see so streaming on the other monitor while gaming on the main one won't affect the performance? BTW completely unrelated question is Displayport to vga a good idea or i should go for HDMI to vga one?

[Aidanlockett1]

6 minutes ago, emosun said:

no

a second 2d monitor would only effect machines performance about 20 or so years ago. once cpu's exceeded several hundred mhz it wasn't a problem anymore.

1 or 2 frame at the most if its like dual 4k or something i have a 1080p and a 900p on a 6600 with a 1060 and very small difference from 1 to 2 monitors

[emosun]

5 minutes ago, Jenco12 said:

I see so streaming on the other monitor while gaming on the main one won't affect the performance? BTW completely unrelated question is Displayport to vga a good idea or i should go for HDMI to vga one?

if you can stream and game on one monitor , then adding another will not effect it.

and vga is an analog signal , hdmi and display port are digital , you'll need a powered converter to downgrade the signals to vga.

[Jenco12]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

if you can stream and game on one monitor , then adding another will not effect it.

and vga is an analog signal , hdmi and display port are digital , you'll need a powered converter to downgrade the signals to vga.

Why powered one? So there would be less data loss or something?

[emosun]

9 minutes ago, Jenco12 said:

Why powered one? So there would be less data loss or something?

becuase vga is analog and hdmi and display port are digital

hdmi/display port literally cannot send out an analog signal without some form of chip in between to convert the signal down to analog

[Jenco12]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

becuase vga is analog and hdmi and display port are digital

hdmi/display port literally cannot send out an analog signal without some form of chip in between to convert the signal down to analog

The regular converter(HDMI to VGA) can do that right? What im trying to ask is do i need to powered one or just the regular one?