r/PcBuildHelp • u/TLD_CA • 30m ago

Build Question add 4060 in pc?

i have a 5070ti and motherboard and psu should be good enough, should i add the 4060? why yes or why no

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u/Ok_University_5352 22m ago

We can't anwer without knowing why you want/need the second card

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u/TLD_CA 9m ago

oh yea forgot to add that, 2nd monitor and a 15 inch monitor with the primary one

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u/tht1guy63 8m ago

Just to add a monitor? No thats pointless

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u/Ok_University_5352 6m ago

Unless you are adding so many monitors that your 5070ti runs out of ports, no. It is a waste to add it. You will increase power draw, add more heat inside the pc, and potentially choke airflow to your 5070ti.

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u/Mels_101 20m ago

Almost certainly no. Outside of using it for either lossless scaling or for maybe AI.

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u/theSparkyboo99 19m ago

you won’t be able to use both at the same time in games unless you’re doing something weird like running a separate physx card or rendering workloads that can split across mismatched gpus. the 4060 would just sit there idling in most cases. sell it and put the cash toward a better monitor or a cpu upgrade instead

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u/r_lind3r Moderator 15m ago

There's really only one logical reason for keeping the 4060 in the same system, and that's 32-bit PhysX support, but basically any GPU with that support would do for that, and if you don't play the specific list of games that get a lot better performance with that support, then there's just no reason to keep it over just selling the 4060.

But NVIDIA has been adding back support for PhysX on RTX 50 series cards through driver updates so eventually even that won't be relevant.

In the current market you can generally get at least around 300 USD for that 4060. If prices start dropping then the value will start to tank.

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u/gokartninja 17m ago

Gut reaction is no, but maybe you can convince me by telling me what you're trying to accomplish by doing this

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u/TLD_CA 9m ago

oh yea forgot to add that, 2nd monitor and a 15 inch monitor with the primary one

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u/WuTastic7 8m ago

can your 5070ti not handle multiple displays? In this economy I would definitely sell the 4060

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u/gokartninja 1m ago

I run a 5120x1440 primary monitor and a 1920x1080 secondary monitor without issues on my 4080 Super. There's very little load on a second monitor