I've currently got two monitors running, one main IPS 1920x1200 and the other a tiny 19'' cheapo dell. I've got two more of those dells and my GTX 560 only supports two monitors. As a coder I've never got enough screen space and would like to use those 2 dells as additional auxiliary displays, bringing my total monitor count up to 4.
I know the problem in the past was the incompatibility of discrete and onboard graphics - you could run either, not both. With a 3570k and Z77 chipset I'm pretty sure that's been solved to some degree - the virtu MVP software is bundled with my mobo and if you've ever heard about it it basically uses the onboard graphics processor to help with v-sync and whatnot. It even allows you to plug in your monitor to the motherboard connector and still use the GPU for rendering as necessary (at the cost of some performance obviously) - no info about using both though.
I didn't get the mobo yet, still in shipping. So my question is has anyone had success running a multimonitor setup on similar hardware with outputs split between onboard and discrete ports?
Edit: Mobo is Asrock Z77 extreme6
I know the problem in the past was the incompatibility of discrete and onboard graphics - you could run either, not both. With a 3570k and Z77 chipset I'm pretty sure that's been solved to some degree - the virtu MVP software is bundled with my mobo and if you've ever heard about it it basically uses the onboard graphics processor to help with v-sync and whatnot. It even allows you to plug in your monitor to the motherboard connector and still use the GPU for rendering as necessary (at the cost of some performance obviously) - no info about using both though.
I didn't get the mobo yet, still in shipping. So my question is has anyone had success running a multimonitor setup on similar hardware with outputs split between onboard and discrete ports?
Edit: Mobo is Asrock Z77 extreme6
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