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CaptainRamvan

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/11pat

With my budget in the $1000-1200 range, this is what I was able to come up with (I'm at the upper end of the budget however).
My activities on the system will only be limited to trading stocks and performing market analysis. I'll be tracking multiple charts on each display, while running trading software from TD Ameritrade. I'll also have Skype up, as well as a few other programs to do analysis such as Metastock and a web browser.

So far pcpartpicker has everything compatible, but I'm wondering if I could improve on the current selections? Here are a handful of questions that I still have before pulling the trigger this week.

Do I need a cpu cooler?
Is my power supply enough?
Of the video cards selected, will they be enough to run 6 monitors at 1080p?
Do I want to get a single video card that can handle 5 monitors and perhaps run a 6th monitor from the motherboard?

Right now I have 3 Asus VS248H-P 24" monitors and 2 Viewsonic vx2235wm 22" monitors. I'm most likely donating the 22" monitors and grabbing 3 more of the Asus monitors I have.

If there are any recommendations to streamline the system I have built, whether it's choosing parts that aren't overkill (I don't know if I have chosen any overkill parts for the job), or other parts that can lower the cost of the system, it would be greatly appreciated!

 
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Since your going for a marketing build there is no reason to get Intel and you can save quite a bit of money by going with AMD. Yopu can get an 8 core 8230 for $159.99. AMD CPU's are known more for productivity than gaming so you will be better here with AMD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113285

The 7750 does not support crossfire so you will have to go up to a 7770 model to get support for crossfire.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121642

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202023

You will also have to get a higher wattage PSU as 550w will not be enough for two video cards and the rest of the system.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207011

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139051

By going with AMD you would naturally have to change the motherboard.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131874

You won't need to get an after market CPU cooler since one comes with the CPU, unless you are going to do some overclocking.
 
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The Radeon cards have Eyefinity support and will give you six monitors. Currently that's the only choice that you have. there are cards that will give you more than six but you'll only be able to have the exact same thing on al the monitors. You want to have different things running on the monitors so it will have to be Eyefinity.
 
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is crossfire required on the video cards i need in order to run eyefinity?
 
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I'd consider a card like this especially since I can also pull it out and reuse it when I upgrade to build a bigger rig with ..... 12 monitors!
 
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Hey inzone, on your first post you recommended getting the 7770 model video cards to get crossfire support, but in your later posts you mention that I only need Eyefinity and crossfire isn't needed. Is it good to have the 7770 with crossfire just to have it?

 
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The purpose of crossfire like SLI is to link two or more video cards and increase performance especially in gaming, I know what your using the setup for primarily but still linking the cards is a performance benefit and can possibly be beneficial with what your doing.
Something to consider is to get one video card of a higher model instead of two lower model but it would be your choice as to which way you want to go. Video cards are easy to add once your up and running and don't necessarily have to be put in when you build.
So if your going with the 7770 then two will be better then one but I don't know if you will see any benefit from it.
 
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Could I run 6 monitors from a single 7770? Or can I only run the amount of monitors equal to that of the outputs of the card? If there was a way to use a splitter for 2 of the outputs and get 1080p resolution for the screens that are split, that'd be awesome, but I'm sure that's not the case.

Unless I get a card that has 6 ports, I will have to get 2 video cards? I guess I could get a 7770 to run 4 monitors, and then another lower end card that supports eyefinity to run the other two?

 
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I'm not 100% familiar with Eyefinity since I run Nvidia cards, but the principle of Eyefinity is that you can run up to 6 monitors on it. Yo get the desktop extended to all six you woulkd have to have separate port connections so that each display can get it's part of the desktop.
If you want the same thing on the monitors then you can get splitters and such to connect to the one card or find a card with 6 ports.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131474

This card has 5 ports and would give you the 6 monitors, most of the time the Eyefinity setups are using 5 monitors and you can find single cards with 5 ports. If you want to go with a second card you will want to have the same model because crossfire does not work on all models. I don't know if a lower model card will work with Eyefinity and give you the extended desktop without being connected in crossfire. Having multiple programs open at the same time on different monitors you need to have the extended desktop.
 
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Is there a specific resolution that goes out from each port? I just want to make sure I hit 1920x1080 resolution on all my monitors (I will have lots of separate windows open to track stock market data and charts). What nVidia card would you recommend, if any?
 
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I'm thinking it's looking pretty good. OCZ power supplies are not on my list of top quality PSUs but being Gold certified would help with quality. Maybe do a little research on that PSU to see what the general consensus is, I'm not trying to say it's not good just me being cautious. It does have quite a good discount on it and your getting it for almost half price.
I noticed that you only have the SSD for your storage drive and only having 256gb is not a lot of space. Are you considering a regular hard drive for storage?

I think you will be very happy with that build and it will serve your needs.
 
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I won't normally be storing much data, but I might as well chuck in a 1TB HDD for storage just in case. As for the power supply, if the one you recommended is on the top quality list, I'll go with it instead :)

Thanks for all the help inzone!
 
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