A second monitor question

Hello, I just got the new iMac, and I'm planning to get another display (maybe and 20"). I just wonder if I hook up the second display, will the graphics of the main monitor experience slow down? The card is a x1600 128mb.
Thanks for any info.

Why wouldn't it? It says here that it can support both video mirroring, and extended desktops:
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
Trevor

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Yea, I tried that. That's how I always set up multi monitor (then I have the extend/clone/ect options. But when I did that, the resolution was horrible, the picture was a good 4 inches from each side (left/right) and all the way top to bottom. All settings were full screen, regular resolution, eveyhing exactly the way it runs on my other machines. Just total crap on my msi, and NVidia graphics were still on.
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I forgot to ask something as well. How is the monitor connected? HDMI? DVI? DP? Maybe a diferent cable might change the result? I'll try the monitor thing on my demo unit when I'm back at Memory Express on Sunday and update.

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I have a HP 610-1015xt touchsmart PC with AMD Radeon HD5570. Now I've gone through all the similar questions on this forum and I still had a couple of my own or needed some more calarity on some.
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Jay, I own a notebook without touch but a monitor with touch. I use my monitor as extended monitor. The touch works fine on the extended monitor and works without touch on the notebook screen. I do not face any issues in using this way. Depending on my need, it switch my primary display to the extended touch monitor or notebook screen. Whether it is the primary display or not, when in extended mode, the touch works fine on my monitor.
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I am an HP employee.
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