I am currently running a EVGA GTX 570 1200GB card. I just purchased a new monitor, Dell U2711. I notice a huge hit now, and I think its due to driving two monitors. My primary is 2560x1440 and my secondary is 1920x1200 (Dell UlstraSharp 24). If I am gaming on the 2560x1440, everything is fine. As soon as I start multitasking on the secondary monitor (mainly firefox with a moderate number of tabs open) my framerate in games drops drastically. As soon as I close the browser(or other random apps) and restart my game I go back to 130 fps (non vsync obviously). While gaming my GPU and VRAM is fully utilized. I assume that game + driving things on the second display just overtax the card.
What I am curious about is if I were to add my old GTX 285 (given my PS would support it) would I be able to dedicate my 570 to driving my primary 2560x1440 monitor, while I offload multitask to the 285 on the 24" monitor?
The obvious solution is to buy a 590 with 3gb of ram(I dont want to spend 750$) or go with a SLI setup of my same 570 (550 after card and new power supply probably).
Thanks in advance for your time and suggestions.
What I am curious about is if I were to add my old GTX 285 (given my PS would support it) would I be able to dedicate my 570 to driving my primary 2560x1440 monitor, while I offload multitask to the 285 on the 24" monitor?
The obvious solution is to buy a 590 with 3gb of ram(I dont want to spend 750$) or go with a SLI setup of my same 570 (550 after card and new power supply probably).
Thanks in advance for your time and suggestions.