Could I look into dual moniters?

[Martin Harris]

I have a 1060 6gb, 16gb of ram and a i5 8600k.

My current moniter is 1080p 60 fps refresh, could I look into getting another moniter?

edit: I want the second moniter for stuff like discord and maps for games, not as an ultrawide

[Komrade]

I don't know, can you? It's your choice.

[Yuki]

If you're gonna use it as an ultrawide, don't until you get a better gpu. If you're using it as an axillary monitor, go ahead.

[r.linder]

I wouldn't really advise it, even if you're not using it for anything graphically demanding because it still takes GPU resources regardless, and the 1060 already struggles with higher settings at 1080p with newer releases. You'd probably have to unplug the second monitor anyway

[Baosas]

For general use, yes. For gaming however, your 1060 will struggle to support the extra load.

[_I_]

any dedicated gpu is strong enough to run 2-4+ displays (or as many vga/dvi/dp outputs as it has)

when running multiple displays its best to match the dpi/ppi on the displays so images do not scale when dragging them across displays
ex. 2x 1080p siaplys with the same size
or if mixing res, a 1920p 22in (100dpi) and 1440p 29in (101dpi)

1 main + 1 accessory will be fine with a 1050+
you will not need to lower game settings to hold the same fps on the main display if the 2nd is an accsssory

[Martin Harris]

Originally posted by _I_:

any dedicated gpu is strong enough to run 2-4+ displays (or as many vga/dvi/dp outputs as it has)

when running multiple displays its best to match the dpi/ppi on the displays so images do not scale when dragging them across displays
ex. 2x 1080p siaplys with the same size
or if mixing res, a 1920p 22in (100dpi) and 1440p 29in (101dpi)

1 main + 1 accessory will be fine with a 1050+
you will not need to lower game settings to hold the same fps on the main display if the 2nd is an accsssory

What do yo umean by accessory? Like not using it to make the screen size bigger?

[_I_]

accessory is a display used to expand windows desktop or a clone of the main display

when full screen games are played, the accessory will still display the desktop and background tasks on it

great for browsing walk-throughs or videos while playing games

fyi, windows taskbar can put put on an accessory while not on the main

most games default to the main, but some you can select to run on the accessory or use nv surround/amd eyefinity to use both (will be much more gpu load, but works best with 3 of the same displays)

[Gravy]

I have a 1060 6gb, i5-7600k and 8 gb ram, i have 3 monitors and it runs well, however when playing more demanding games i tend to disconnect atleast one of my monitors

[Bad 💀 Motha]

PC has been able to handle dual displays since Win98/NT

Also since you have an Intel Gpu, you can run a 2nd or even 3rd monitor off of the Intel gpu so it doesn't impact your nvidia gpu at all.

But having up to 3 screens all running off your nvidia gpu is never a problem and doesn't really impact overall performance if things like games are only going to be configured to use one display.

Keep in mind you will want to then run games in borderless windowed mode so you can quickly jump to using other apps on the other screen(s)

Best bet would be to buy a 1080p, 144hz display and use that Gaming and use the existing 60hz display as your secondary accessory screen. You can configure each screen independently as far as which one is primary, what each are set to for resolution and refresh rate.

[Martin Harris]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

PC has been able to handle dual displays since Win98/NT

Also since you have an Intel Gpu, you can run a 2nd or even 3rd monitor off of the Intel gpu so it doesn't impact your nvidi gpu at all.

But having up to 3 screens all running off your nvidia gpu is never a problem and doesn't really impact overall performance if things like games are only going to be configured to use one display.

Keep in mind you will want to then run games in borderless windowed mode so you can quickly jump to using other apps on the other screen(s)

Best bet would be to buy a 1080p, 144hz display and use that Gaming and use the existing 60hz display as your secondary accessory screen.

Would you recommend using the intel one then? So I can just run my games at full speed regardless

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ok read my edit, sorry about that.

But for just an extra 1080p display, it would be fine to run it off your nvidia gpu if you wish. Extra screens used for just displaying extra apps and not used in the game, all that it would generally do is use a small amount of vram for the extra screen. And since you have a 6gb gpu, it should be fine to do so. If you plug it into the motherboard video outputs (intel gpu) then what will occur is some system ram will get set aside instead, as that would be used as vram for the intel gpu.

[Martin Harris]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Ok read my edit, sorry about that.

But for just an extra 1080p display, it would be fine to run it off your nvidia gpu if you wish. Extra screens used for just displaying extra apps and not used in the game, all that it would generally do is use a small amount of vram for the extra screen. And since you have a 6gb gpu, it should be fine to do so. If you plug it into the motherboard video outputs (intel gpu) then what will occur is some system ram will get set aside instead, as that would be used as vram for the intel gpu.

Ok, so plugging it into the gtx would be best bet so my ram doesn't get taken

[Martin Harris]

144 Refresh rate moniters are more expensive then I'd think for 1080p :/

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Try it out either way and see which way you find is best.

But again I would do this if it was me... buy a 1080p 144hz display that is decent and that uses DisplayPort (DP) and use this for games

Then use existing 60hz display as the secondary, either via dvi or hdmi, depending on what that display has for connection.

[Mannish Minotaur Liz]

I use a dual monitor set up with my Gigabyte 1660Ti 6GB card, mostly just for simple web browsing but Steam has its own guides for games so I don't really use the second monitor that much for it anyway. Things can get weird though if you don't set the game's display settings as windowed borderless. For example like buzzing in-game and freezing but that's more to do with that certain game not behaving like true borderless which is supposed to which I then had to set to windowed with -popupwindow for the game's launch options. Took me a while to figure out why that game was behaving so weirdly. It was a Unity game btw.

I guess my set up is doing fine otherwise?