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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Quote: Originally Posted by G25r8cer The 5770's have 2 DVI ports and 1 Displayport. The displayport requires a displayport to dvi adapter but, they are cheap. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-280-_-Product Those passive adapters will not work on the 5770. bomberboysk, can you...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    UPDATE: Hi again. After a long week, this configuration has gone through a number of changes, and is now in its final form. I will be ordering parts tomorrow. Thanks to the help I've received from this group, it is now a significantly better system than what I started with a week ago. Thank you...
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    Using 2x5750 to Build a 6 Monitor System

    Starlitjoker, thank you for that. That's a resource I hadn't come across yet. Excellent. Looks like between maxishine on youtube and all the forums and stuff on maxishine website, it'll keep me busy for awhile. Good job, thanks.
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    Using 2x5750 to Build a 6 Monitor System

    I appreciate the input from everyone. Thanks. Yeah, the backup plan is to use 3 x EVGA Nvidia 9500GT 1GB, which is a card I like for its low power, cool, and quiet attributes. But the 5750 also has those attributes, and lets me do it running only 2 cards and at full PCIex16 speed, and would...
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    Using 2x5750 to Build a 6 Monitor System

    Crossfire won't work with Eyefinity yet, you're correct, but I'm not interested in Crossfire anyway. I don't want the 2 5750s for graphics acceleration, only for the 6 monitor outputs that I need.
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    Using 2x5750 to Build a 6 Monitor System

    I'm building a system using 2 of the Sapphire VaporX 5750 cards to drive 6 LCDs at 1920x1080 each, for trading, not gaming. Rest of the system is i7-920, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7, Corsair HX850W, 6 GB RAM.... Will use a DP to DVI adaptor to get the third output on each card. I've been searching...
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    2 Questions about DVI

    Thanks for the help joh06937. The right information at the right time. Thanks for taking the time to help me out.
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    2 Questions about DVI

    Thanks for the help. But I'm not sure if eyefinity is a non-issue for me or is a major problem I've overlooked. I'll read up on eyefinity before I buy, but I'll also describe my setup in case someone is able to clear it up for me: I'm setting up a 6-monitor trading station so that I will have...
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    2 Questions about DVI

    Can anyone tell me, from experience, is there any risk to connecting or disconnecting a DVI cable from the computer while it's running? Can I just yank it in or out the way we can with most USB devices? Or do you have to shutdown and power off? Second, does anyone have experience with having a...
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    £5000 Budget, Build Me A Computer.

    Drenlin, thanks for the urbandictionary link. Useful, saved it.
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Thanks for the info. Yes, I am thinking I will do RAID in a future upgrade, but not in the initial build. Re dual channel, actually my mb and cpu provide triple channel ddr3 support. As I understand it so far, you can use 1GB or 2GB or 4GB DIMMs, and they must be installed in sets of 3. Six...
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    £5000 Budget, Build Me A Computer.

    A little help for the clueless please... What exactly is a troll? I keep seeing that reference around computerforum. I know you're not talking Tolkien.
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    RAM is one of the open questions at this point (the others being choice of graphics cards and the cpu cooler). I think I will ultimately end up putting in 12GB, unless I get lots of feedback telling me that 12GB would have absolutely zero practical benefit to me, and be a complete waste. Right...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Thanks for the heads up, mep916. Now I have 2 excellent coolers to read up on. Agreed regarding the 975, I think that's off the table now. I think I will be perfectly happy with the performance of the i7-920 at 2.66GHz, to be honest. I'm definitely not into competitive benching, but mostly I...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Update: So I believe I have now found the right CPU cooler to meet those requirements... the Noctua NH-D14. It's massive: a 900gram heatsink paired with one 140mm and one 120mm premium fan. Many reviewers are saying it is one of the best air-based CPU coolers they've ever used, and also one of...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Perfect. That's exactly the input I needed. Based on your experience with it, I think the i7-920 is the processor for me. And after 6 months or so, I'll try a bit of overclocking. My concern was that OC would give me a hot, noisy, and flaky system, but sounds like that need not be the case. I...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Thanks for the warning on overclocking. Will proceed with due caution. And if I were to rule out overclocking, that might lead me to decide on the i7-975. I know, you're thinking ridiculous, over the top. I appreciate the advice I am getting from some to go with i5 or i7-8xx cpu as a more...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Yes that would probably be a more sensible approach. Question is, do I have any sense? I'd really like to have an i7-920 at least, and the approach I'm leaning toward right now is to put in a really good CPU cooler and system cooling to mitigate the extra heat, and still end up with the "cool...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Yeah, definitely I'll post a pic when it's done, you can look for that in February. I think I agree, I'm definitely inclined more toward the i7. Nice system you've got there. Would you say your i7-920 at 3.4 GHz is as stable as the stock speed? Must be hotter, have you measured the CPU...
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    Newbie Needs Help Building 6-Monitor System

    Thanks, didn't know the adapter existed. So I should look into the 5770 further because it looks like an awesome gpu, although better than I really need. Does anyone have a 5770?: Would you say it's a quiet card? (Compared let's say to your CPU fan, how much noise?) I've always equated powerful...
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