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Anybody using a gtx 480 with dual monitors
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was mainly thinking of using it with photoshop ect..
Cards need to clock higher to power them. What you're suggesting in theory is that a card should be able to power an infinite number of pixels when this is not the case.
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There will be no problem with it. the people saying you will get high temp issues are speaking a load of rubbish. The card is designed to handle up to two monitors. if it was not there would only be one connection on the card for a monitor.
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Not really a problem. No difference at load whether you connect or disconnect the second display. At idle, though, the card doesn't clock down to power-saving levels when in 2D mode if you have a second monitor connected.
This means for me the card idles at 70C and 40% fan with my custom fan profile. It's not an issue really, as 70C is nothing for this card. However, I do still like to disable my second monitor when I'm not using it to lessen the power and heat flowing through my system.
This means for me the card idles at 70C and 40% fan with my custom fan profile. It's not an issue really, as 70C is nothing for this card. However, I do still like to disable my second monitor when I'm not using it to lessen the power and heat flowing through my system.
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thats what ive done to keep the temps down on my 580 when not gaming ,got a very small 430 to run my second monitor
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The Nvidia cards never seem to downclock from 3D clocks when using dual screens, which is annoying when using the GTX480.
70c idle load of rubbish?
Many people get 60 idle with dul screens on th 69XX series. The 480 is much hotter. 70 is perfectly feasible.
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Indeed, it's what I get at 41% fan speed with two monitors connected. Of course, if I were to set a more aggressive fan profile, I could bring that down, but I can hear the fan at more than 41%.
As I say, though, it doesn't seem to make any difference to load temperatures (though I only game on the one screen).
As I say, though, it doesn't seem to make any difference to load temperatures (though I only game on the one screen).
Same story with pretty much any GPU you get ATI/AMD or nVidia - dual monitors requires a higher amount of processing power which results in higher clocks being run instead of idle.
In terms of the multi monitor experience tho nVidia tends to be a little more robust/less likely to run into issues.
In terms of the multi monitor experience tho nVidia tends to be a little more robust/less likely to run into issues.
Same here, wasn't a fan of near 60C idles on my 6950, so chucked in my old passive 4670 much better temps now
