Core i7 Rig: Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping eVGA X58 SLI LE 12gb OCZ XMP eVGA GTX 280 34 GB Western Digital Raptor 2 X 1Tb Seagate Barracuda 850 Watt Silverstone Decathlon Fully Modular Power Supply Thermaltake Armor Full Tower Cooling: Swiftech MCP655-B Pump Swiftech GTZ Waterblock Black Labs GTX 260 Radiator Feiser 1/2" Inner Diameter Tubing EK-Multioption Reservoir Coolant is a mixture of distilled water, biocide, glycerin, and dye. Quad-Core Rig: Asus P5N32E SLI Plus Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping 2gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer eVGA 8800GTS 500gb Western Digital Black 500 Watt Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus Zalman CNPS9700 Frozen Cpu noise dampening material
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping eVGA X58 SLI LE 6gb Corsair XMS3 (3 x 2GB) Asus GTS 250 1GB 1Tb Hitachi 7K1000.B 750 Ultra LSP750 Shitty Stock case Cooling: Shitty stock air cooling Windows 7 RC
My objective: I am mostly @ work. 40+ hours and I hardly go on, but I plan on running a few LCD monitors primarily for multi purpose/function. 1 for news, 1 for typical stuff, and etc. Computer will be on 24/7, some w/ a few LCD monitors for news and etc. My desire: 4 LCD Monitors @ LEAST 24 inch wide. I will get these 1 by 1, as budget permits. Currently: I have 1- 17 inch LCD, 15 inch LCD I can temporarily used (VGA connection I think, not even DVI) on my LAPTOP I don't need to get everything at once, in fact I don't want to since it would depreciate. So I plan on getting my new comp, w/ very basic components and just 1 VGA w/ 2 DVI? I want to be able to use my laptop too kind. - - - - - - - - CASE: Cooler Master Storm Sniper Thing is, my projection is 4th Q for buying. Well just throwing this out there. I don't need anything fancy, but I am leaning on i7 and stuf.
Haha. It's even cooler when it's running. Anyway, on to the matter at hand. If you're not going to do anything graphics intensive on the 4 screens, it might be better if you settled with a single high powered card and split the 2 DVI with a Y-cable. You'll save a lot of money by doing this. However, if you're doing graphics intensive work on the screens, you'll need to run 2 cards independently.
I think I will want to run 2. LOL Or maybe by 4th q they will have 4 in 1s. I think some already on market. I dunno whats really intesne or not, but yeah. tvb 1, news/calbe tv on another. as u know..
Graphics intensive would be like Photoshop, 3d Modeling, gaming (not solitaire or flash games) You can run 2 if you want to. If you're going to do that and you don't need the performance, you don't necessarily have to spend money on the latest cards. There are some cards that offer 4 DVI outputs. You might have to do some research to see how well they work Sapphire Radeon HD4850 X2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102809
I'd say go 64 and take advantage of DDR3's Triple Channel. You could go with 32-bit but you'll be stuck with 3 gb of ram.
^naa i mean are there cpu's that are 32 bit and cpu's that are 64 bit, i dont get that, i thought the cpu is either 64 or 32.. can my dual core do 64?
Heh nobody told me that!!, if i get that will it be better or slower? it will use mt 4 gigs atleast but will all my programs work? what ill do is run 64 bit off one my hard drives if that is allowed
I guess it's a given. I can't seem to find any processors newer than a Pentium 4 that doesn't have 64-bit support. I don't know if it runs slower but it feels about the same as 32-bit version on the quad core setup. From what I've experienced so far most of the programs do seem to work.
I think there's more to it than just RAM. I'll do some research and get back to you on what I've learned.
ty knoc i got my 32bit OS on my system, now can i install the 64bit version on another harddrive and use that too? how do i switch between the two when i boot up?
Yes, you can install the 64bit os on a second hd and configure dual boot. See below for general understanding: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread24776.html# http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?threadID=264088
