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Question

Graphics card for laptop and external monitor

May 13, 2019 11:23AM PDT

Hello,
Im using the 2019 HP spectre x360 with the Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics card, with an external ultrawide 34 inch thunderbolt monitor.
I noticed that with the monitor connected the computer is a little slower, especially when playing video.
I searched and found that it might happen because the graphics card is not strong enough.
My question is first, is that possible that the GTX 1050 is not powerfull enough for that? Beacuse Im not doing gaming or something that really requires a lot from the card.
And if that is the problam, how should I solve it? External graphics card? If yes, which one would do the job?

Thanks

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The 1050 Ti (notice Ti)
May 13, 2019 11:39AM PDT

Is my lowest GPU I suggest today. If you go lower you should accept there can be delays.

Which videos are you writing about? I do notice a sub second delay when the external wakes up but this is normal and not to be fixed since we'd have to move to a desktop and would still see this delay but a little less.

There's also a possible setting you can try. Set the external to be the only display using the Windows Key + P to "Second screen only" for the times you need this to be full speed.

Here I use a laptop with the 1060 GPU and a second display over DisplayPort and it's fine, even for gaming so I wonder what this delay is that you need to drive down.

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PS. There are such docks.
May 13, 2019 11:47AM PDT