How much would an extra 4k monitor/tv decrease my performance if it was only used for youtube/netflix

byr9n

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Was just wondering if anyone knows how much it would decrease it by. My main monitor is 1080p 144hz and second is 1080p 60hz. Would only use it for watching things / browsing.

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Could only suggest it may decrease performance if you are multitasking but that depends on several things and differing scenarios, say you are running a flash game on the 1080p 60hz, browsing a blog on the 1080p 144hz and streaming youtube on the 4k no I don't think you would see a decrease, if you are streaming 4k on Netflix running BF1 on ultra on 1080p 144hz and rendering on the 1080p 60hz yes you probably would see a decrease. it all depends on what you are doing 4k streaming takes a lot of data for your internet connection and could throttle that, rendering/gaming/mining will take a toll on the GPU, multi-tasking takes a toll on the processor.

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Could only suggest it may decrease performance if you are multitasking but that depends on several things and differing scenarios, say you are running a flash game on the 1080p 60hz, browsing a blog on the 1080p 144hz and streaming youtube on the 4k no I don't think you would see a decrease, if you are streaming 4k on Netflix running BF1 on ultra on 1080p 144hz and rendering on the 1080p 60hz yes you probably would see a decrease. it all depends on what you are doing 4k streaming takes a lot of data for your internet connection and could throttle that, rendering/gaming/mining will take a toll on the GPU, multi-tasking takes a toll on the processor.
 
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Would probably not even watch 4k while gaming but even then i only really play wow