dual monitor setup which graphics card ?

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hi guys
Sorry me again , just brought a Dell U2412M monitor & thinking of having a dual monitor setup ..
Now I've got a Inno3d Geforce GTX560ti card in my system at the moment , now will this card be ok with Lightroom & photoshop running a dual monitor system ?
 
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Just be aware that NVidia cards, when driving two monitors will not clock down into power saving modes, and will run at full speed and power all the time. It's for this reason I have a second card for my second monitor. My main card is a GTX980 (big screen and game a lot), and a little cheap GT720 for the second screen. They now both clock down to next to nothing at idle.

If you plan on this, then also be warned that Windows 10 needs cards of the same type and WDDM version... so a Fermi cased card can not be used with a Maxwell based card... they must be able to use the same driver release.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Just be aware that NVidia cards, when driving two monitors will not clock down into power saving modes, and will run at full speed and power all the time. It's for this reason I have a second card for my second monitor. My main card is a GTX980 (big screen and game a lot), and a little cheap GT720 for the second screen. They now both clock down to next to nothing at idle.

If you plan on this, then also be warned that Windows 10 needs cards of the same type and WDDM version... so a Fermi cased card can not be used with a Maxwell based card... they must be able to use the same driver release.
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your not wrong card fan running loud with both running ...
 
I thought I'd give the on board Intel graphics a try before buying a graphic card. And that runs 2 monitors fine. So I'm going to leave it at that.
 
ianp5a said:
I thought I'd give the on board Intel graphics a try before buying a graphic card. And that runs 2 monitors fine. So I'm going to leave it at that.
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I'll try that ..
Sounds like a plan
 
It's only NVidia cards that do this, so the onboard Intel graphics will not exhibit this behaviour.
 
Pookeyhead said:
It's only NVidia cards that do this, so the onboard Intel graphics will not exhibit this behaviour.
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so if I have monitor 1 on NVidia card & monitor 2 on on-board graphics will it still do it ?
If so what cards should I get ?
 
I run both from the on board graphics. One monitor plugs into the hdmi plug and the other into the dvi plug. No graphics card is installed.
 
graycbr said:
so if I have monitor 1 on NVidia card & monitor 2 on on-board graphics will it still do it ?
If so what cards should I get ?
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No.... because there's only one output on the NVidia card being used, so all should be well.
 
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