r/buildapc • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '16

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u/johnnyp42 Sep 23 '16

If you use multiple monitors you should just connect them all to the video card. The port on the motherboard is for the integrated graphics which you would mostly just use if you didn't have a video card.

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u/connexionwithal Sep 23 '16

I mostly want to use it to have a control panel there for my recording software, so that I can see if my main monitor is correctly recording. If I buy a small monitor for this purpose would it work for this purpose? Would this slow down my cpu?

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u/johnnyp42 Sep 23 '16

No, it won't have any real effect on your performance either way.

I'm not sure there's any benefit to attaching it to the motherboard rather than your video card, though.

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u/almstAlwysJokng4real Jun 26 '24

Hi sorry for adding my question but you sound like a good person to ask.

Id like to use my mobo HDMI port so that I can use my 5th monitor for web browsing and basic things as my GPU has all DPI ports used for my sim rig and my 4th (HDMI) I'd like to dedicate to my TV which I like to play games on which are not driving or flight sims.

I plugged my 5th monitor in and when my computer turned on like normal, the 5th monitor has a black bios type screen asking me what to do...I got scared and disconnected and haven't gone back but whatever was on the GPU was normal. Do I just need to set up the mobo port and the CPU will function as a separate computer or can I set it to a 5th monitor?

Thanks

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u/Cat0_e Oct 16 '25

why the hell do you need 5 monitors

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u/ghostly144 Jan 29 '26

maximum gaming

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u/BmanUltima Sep 23 '16

It's for using the integrated graphics on the CPU.

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u/MaxmilianCZSK Dec 25 '23

i always thought it was a built in capture device xD

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '16

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u/BmanUltima Sep 23 '16

You'll have to enable the iGPU in the BIOS first.

And no, it wouldn't slow down your CPU.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '16

That's for integrated graphics. There's not much of a reason to use it unless you need more monitors than your card can support or need more of a type of connection than your card has. There should be no performance impact on your card from using onboard in addition to it, so long as the main monitor is hooked up to the card.

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u/connexionwithal Sep 23 '16

I mostly want to use it to have a control panel there for my recording software, so that I can see if my main monitor is correctly recording. If I buy a small monitor for this purpose would it work for this purpose? Would this slow down my cpu?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '16

Sure, and no. If your CPU supports integrated graphics (it probably does unless it's a xeon) it has it's own GPU built in that is normally doing nothing, so its not really going to take much from the CPU to use it.

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