Not going to use the other monitor for a secondary? It's not like the 4090 can't handle it...
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It's funny, I was rewatching the Mars Curiosity landing a couple days ago and the thought occurred "another brown planet" lol.
Nah, as I have plenty of additional real estate. Maybe my sister Kathy living next door could use my Acer 21:9 monitor or donating it to Goodwill would make someone out there happy when Christmas gets near. I like helping others at Christmas.
On the other hand I looking for perfection (and never in real life finding it with computers or humans) would need another exact MSI monitor mounting it above my current one or to the side. Mounting is easy with so many hardware options but only one DisplayPort on my RTX 4090 GPU that MSI likes for 175 hz refresh rate. Going with 2.0 HDMI which is a complaint many have with this MSI monitor not going to 2.1 on the second monitor goes to 60 hz.
Then again while playing Elite Dangerous on the main monitor, bringing up ED support websites, watching YouTube videos, checking emails, responding to friends on social media with A/V 1080P What's Up and Skype connections and buying stuff on Amazon 60 hz is more than enough.
So how many monitors do you use or would like to add?
Regards
An RTX 4090 is a bit of overkill for ED... 
I have an RTX 3080, and a 120Hz 4k g-sync display. The GPU has no problems in running the game at that resolution at that refresh rate. Doesn't even get warm. On foot content (especially in concourses) can drop the framerate to something like 90 fps (which is unnoticeable thanks to g-sync).
I don't use a second display mainly because it would mess up with g-sync. (The other display would also need to support g-sync in order to not mess it up in the primary display. I don't have another g-sync display.) G-sync has this quirk that if there's any hardware acceleration going on a secondary non-gsync-display, then the g-sync in the primary display will stop working (and thus you start getting tearing, or jumping framerates if you use vsync in-game, which usually you shouldn't if using a g-sync display.)
I have an RTX 3080, and a 120Hz 4k g-sync display. The GPU has no problems in running the game at that resolution at that refresh rate. Doesn't even get warm. On foot content (especially in concourses) can drop the framerate to something like 90 fps (which is unnoticeable thanks to g-sync).
I don't use a second display mainly because it would mess up with g-sync. (The other display would also need to support g-sync in order to not mess it up in the primary display. I don't have another g-sync display.) G-sync has this quirk that if there's any hardware acceleration going on a secondary non-gsync-display, then the g-sync in the primary display will stop working (and thus you start getting tearing, or jumping framerates if you use vsync in-game, which usually you shouldn't if using a g-sync display.)
I have a Monoprice Dark Matter 1440p Wide screen for my main monitor and a very old ASUS 1080p, 23" monitor for my second. 2 monitors is almost required for Elite but I don't think that I'd need a third for gaming. I have a small, USB C, 15" monitor that I use when working. I raise the wide screen up and set the portable screen underneath it with Autocad running on it and the program on the main monitor.
The main monitor is 144hz and the others are 60 Hz. Works well for what I'm doing. Here is my setup.
Thread 'My cockpit is... Done?' https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/my-cockpit-is-done.615535/
I've never had an issue with running a second monitor that was non G-sync. I was an early adopter of G-synch and, while my current monitor is G-synch compatible, I've feel the system runs quite well with the monitor set at 144hz and the system set with a 144fps cap. Elite doesn't benifit from G-synch like a shooter does.An RTX 4090 is a bit of overkill for ED...
I have an RTX 3080, and a 120Hz 4k g-sync display. The GPU has no problems in running the game at that resolution at that refresh rate. Doesn't even get warm. On foot content (especially in concourses) can drop the framerate to something like 90 fps (which is unnoticeable thanks to g-sync).
I don't use a second display mainly because it would mess up with g-sync. (The other display would also need to support g-sync in order to not mess it up in the primary display. I don't have another g-sync display.) G-sync has this quirk that if there's any hardware acceleration going on a secondary non-gsync-display, then the g-sync in the primary display will stop working (and thus you start getting tearing, or jumping framerates if you use vsync in-game, which usually you shouldn't if using a g-sync display.)
Yes on max settings the 4090 exceeds 144 FPS (choose to cap it for to match the monitor), then I've installed ReShade with Pascal's RTGI with upped the ray counts, SSMA, MXAO, Sharpen, and others and the FPS ranges from 71-88. Detail, lighting, vivid/saturation noticeably better.An RTX 4090 is a bit of overkill for ED...
I have an RTX 3080, and a 120Hz 4k g-sync display. The GPU has no problems in running the game at that resolution at that refresh rate. Doesn't even get warm. On foot content (especially in concourses) can drop the framerate to something like 90 fps (which is unnoticeable thanks to g-sync).
I don't use a second display mainly because it would mess up with g-sync. (The other display would also need to support g-sync in order to not mess it up in the primary display. I don't have another g-sync display.) G-sync has this quirk that if there's any hardware acceleration going on a secondary non-gsync-display, then the g-sync in the primary display will stop working (and thus you start getting tearing, or jumping framerates if you use vsync in-game, which usually you shouldn't if using a g-sync display.)
All games that don't run at the full refresh rate of the display benefit from gsync.
Without gsync (or AMD's equivalent) the game will always run at either an integer fraction of the display's framerate (if vsync is on), or will exhibit tearing (if vsync is off). The former will cause stuttering (because the framerate will be making large jumps), the latter is highly annoying.