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okay, thanks for the sentiment, but really I'm just overly anal about having a neat, organized and silent setup. Speaking of anal, I even changed the opamps in my dedicated sound card... and look at my cable management!!!
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
- Did a quick search for the Vangaurd B85 and I could only find it on Amazon for $180+$25 shipping, so the gryphon is probably going to be the way I go, but I'll do a more exhaustive search before I order.
- After looking more closely at the video card, per your suggestion, I realized that card did support 4 monitors but one of the connectors is an old d-sub vga, so I'm now on the (Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/Displayport SLI Ready Graphics Card GV-N660OC-2GD).
- Newegg has the (G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866) on sale right now for $143.99 with promo code: EMCPGPF33
check out their dual dvi $29.99 ($27.99 at the counter at checkout / sale) MSI GeForce 210 video card, just get 2 and now you have seemless 4 monitor support
in the US, the ASUS B85 doesn't exactly go by that same name I noticed he quoted...
I simply will not get ripped off from those other online vendors again (newegg, tiger..., etc....)
thats like the price of the Gryphon!! even in Australia the Vanguard is only $129... it might not be imported to US? If its more than $130 in US, def. go the Gryphon
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thats old generation now also - and displayport can be a pain unless you have monitors with displayport. Check the Gigabyte 750ti which has 2 x HDMI and 2 x DVI, and 2GB memory, and runs super cool and efficiently
good deal! def. for the Gryphon as Vanguard only can use 1600 - the Gryphon IS a better board, if you dont mind paying for CPU overclocking features that you wont use
cheers! I'm in a diff time zone, so my favourite item in the room is the sofabed
kickmic- That graphics card looks great, but now I have more research to do to see if I want a displayport or not . I like that case also but I like the fractal define mini a little better.
kronie- I saw your previous post about micro center and looked at their website then and I double checked again and their prices are higher on all the components I listed.
Best single source I have found for learning about building a multi-monitor system. I have tried so many search phrases, none of which got me exactly what I was looking for. So, my washing machine broke and I got on YouTube to find out how to fix it, and this popped up... lol. Finally.
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1024MB DDR3 PCIe 2.0 x1
$47.99 $143.97 (3 of them to run 6 monitors)
TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Wireless N Dual Band PCI Expres
$34.99
Total of 774.
Don't know too much about technical hardware aspects so some input would be appreciated! Basically just want something that can run ninjatrader / metatrader and microsoft office suite as this will only be used for trading work.
AMD3+ boards are several years old now with no plans to update as AMD will focus on its APU's.
The FX6300 is a hard CPU to beat for the price, however I'd be inclined to go for an Intel i3 current socket and corresponding Intel B85 series motherboard which you can do for the same $$.
uses less power, produces less heat, the included heatsink fans are quieter than AMD's. Performance wise, around about the same, but you get the latest tech on the 1150 chipset board without having to revert to external drivers.
OCZ PSU's no longer have manufacturer warranty as OCZ went bust. Also, 750W is way too much power which means your system runs less efficiently - those GPU's you selected don't draw much power - Go for an Antec 520W or similar
the single greatest performance boost you can get in a system is from an SSD - a 60GB will fit Windows and the programs you want to run. All your data can then be kept on your conventional HDD.
