This is going be long to explain but here goes, I have a Gene-z Gen 3, 3570k @4.6 perfectly stable. and a Sapphire HD 6970. pc is over a year old now and ive ran at these clocks and these components the whole time. i have a really neat monitor setup that i enjoy involving 2 extended displays from my main, all running their respective native resolutions... main display is a 20inch 1680x1050 lcd, 2nd screen is a 19 inch 1360x768... and my 3rd display is a 720p 50inch plasma native at 1280x720. This configuration im about to go into actually stopped working suddenly when a old pc game i was adamant on playing refused to run with .net framework 4.0 and needed 3.0 installed, that caused a conflict with intels integrated graphics gui and drivers. anyways... was time to zero out ssd and format finally so it working again... here is what im doing... the 19 and 20 inch monitors are hooked up via dvi to my 6970, and my 50 inch plasma tv is plugged in via hdmi to the motherboard, from there i go into bios settings and set default display adapter from integrated, i can only see my boot up from my tv, but once windows loads the first time doing this i can easily go into screen resolution settings in windows and change my main display from the tv to my 20 inch monitor and change the 19 inch and the plasma to extended displays, this is beneficial for me because my pc is the main source of entertainment in my apartment and lets me game on one screen, google on another, and put a movie or tv show on the plasma, my pc has no issues handing final fantasy 14 at max settings on my main display as well as a 720p bluray on the plasma and firefox running a dozen tabs on FFXIV quests and items im looking up all the time. Now the issue i had before when i had my pc running like this previously was intel graphics was being sneaky and changing my plasma resolution to 1920x 1080 trying to convince me that 1280x720 is not my native resolution, i assure that it is, this was a 650 dollar panasonic, looks great.. wont go into the dynamics of resolutions and viewing distances, but it is a very nice looking picture. i had to manually change the settings so it would no longer try to change it thats not a big deal, but when i have missed it and it does in fact put my plasma on 1080p after about 30-40min of watching a movie on there it will blue screen, this is not a issue at 720p ever nor does my pc ever hit a bottle neck with all this 3 screen multitasking. but my concern is that i may be doing something that my cpu was not intended to be doing. can doing this cause any kind of conflicts or damage to my processor or motherboard at all?
Coolermaster Cosmos II
Asus Maximus IV Gene-z Gen3
Intel i5 3570k
16 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Seasonic 1050 PSU
128 GB Crucial M4 SSD
3 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black HDDs
Crossfire 2 Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Toxic Edition (Unlocked to 6970s)
Corsair H100 Push/Pull with 4 Scythe Kaze Maru 140mm @92.4 cfm