Need Help Regarding Dual Monitor

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Sam702

Have this laptop - https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B073TWQNQ4/ref...

Specification in short:
Dell Vostro 3568 -15.6-inch Laptop 7th Gen Core i5-7200/8GB/500GB SSD/Win 10 Home/2GB Graphics AMD

Planning to get a 22/24 inch monitor to connect with this laptop, will doing this put extra pressure on the GPU/CPU?

Is this a good idea to get 1 more monitor with this spec laptop or should i drop this idea?

Some Extra info -
if i open firefox (6-10 tabs) & open edge GPU temp rise to 60+

if i watch online videos temp rise to 60+ but normal when watch downloaded videos

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Your laptop screen resolution is 720p while the external monitor you will connect is most likely going to be 1080p so there will be some extra "load" but nothing much. Your laptop specs are more than enough to easily drive an external 1080p external monitor. When opening multiple tabs in browsers, open task manager & see how much is the processor usage because that will contribute more to temperature rise. Youtube now has many videos encoded in newer video codec which can't be natively decoded by the graphics card in your laptop so processor is used which is always less efficient than graphics card in such tasks hence more usage & temps.

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Main objective is to share approx 6 tabs in firefox  to both laptop and monitor (4-2 each) 

Online video watching is very rare on laptop

As per u .. i should go ahead with  new new monitor plan .. right?

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Get the HDMI one not the VGA.

It will use your GPU usage, but not much.

Better, try once either your relatives or friends home for an hour or two

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will try to borrow someones monitor for couple of hours
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1. will doing this put extra pressure on the GPU/CPU? Ans Probably Not So Much

2. Is this a good idea to get 1 more monitor with this spec laptop or should i drop this idea? Ans before going dual monitor for this old age laptop i would recommend get one monitor 1st and if possible borrow another from friend or someone. test it and then decide

hope it helps

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@Sam702 -- Additional external monitor will need additional graphical processing power and since your laptop came with dedicated GPU, there will be additional load on the GPU. Though it will be minimal, but it depends on at what level the GPU is being pushed right now which is without external monitor. 

Use utilities like GPU-Z to check current load on the GPU. 

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