Approximate Purchase Date: Between now and after holiday season
Budget Range: Approximately $3,000 US
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
Business/Work stuff mostly: Running Multiple VMs of varying sizes simultaneously, running 4x 24" LCDs at 1920x1200, working on large, complex visio diagrams and excel spreadsheets, running Cisco Movi without it bringing the system to its knees, converting video from one format to another....
I'd also like to be able to play an occasional game at an insanely high resolution.
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, monitors, speakers
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, I built my last 2 PCs from parts bought from them.
Country of Origin: US
Parts Preferences: None, I have no loyalty
Overclocking: Maybe, but not so important
SLI or Crossfire: Only if a single GPU cannot meet my needs.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200, and eventually higher, on 4 LCDs (or more at some point.
Additional Comments: I would like a quiet PC that doesn't act like a space heater. I'm looking at SSDs for my OS and VM drives, just not sure which ones. Looking through the forum, the ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 looks like a good motherboard, I especially like the 10 SATA ports onboard. When I was looking at an AMD rig, the ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 Radeon HD 6950 2GB caught my eye as well.
I am an IT consultant by trade, I specialize in planning, design, implementation and support for enterprise videoconferencing for a global Tier 1 carrier. I run multiple VMs at any given time, some for remote access, others for testing and demonstration purposes. I would like to be able to run at least 4 or 5 VMs simultaneously and still be able to use the PC for web conferencing and presentations, Visio, Excel, Word, etc. As mentioned above, I have four 24 inch LCDs running at 1920x1200, and since gaming isn't a priority anymore, if I can get away with a single video card, that would be nice, but I have no real objections to running SLI or Crossfire to get what I want, which is stable performance across 4 or more displays.
My current PC is a 2.6 Ghz core 2 quad with 8 GB of RAM, with 2x 8800 GTX video cards and a couple TBs of hard drive space.
Budget Range: Approximately $3,000 US
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
Business/Work stuff mostly: Running Multiple VMs of varying sizes simultaneously, running 4x 24" LCDs at 1920x1200, working on large, complex visio diagrams and excel spreadsheets, running Cisco Movi without it bringing the system to its knees, converting video from one format to another....
I'd also like to be able to play an occasional game at an insanely high resolution.
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, monitors, speakers
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, I built my last 2 PCs from parts bought from them.
Country of Origin: US
Parts Preferences: None, I have no loyalty
Overclocking: Maybe, but not so important
SLI or Crossfire: Only if a single GPU cannot meet my needs.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200, and eventually higher, on 4 LCDs (or more at some point.
Additional Comments: I would like a quiet PC that doesn't act like a space heater. I'm looking at SSDs for my OS and VM drives, just not sure which ones. Looking through the forum, the ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 looks like a good motherboard, I especially like the 10 SATA ports onboard. When I was looking at an AMD rig, the ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 Radeon HD 6950 2GB caught my eye as well.
I am an IT consultant by trade, I specialize in planning, design, implementation and support for enterprise videoconferencing for a global Tier 1 carrier. I run multiple VMs at any given time, some for remote access, others for testing and demonstration purposes. I would like to be able to run at least 4 or 5 VMs simultaneously and still be able to use the PC for web conferencing and presentations, Visio, Excel, Word, etc. As mentioned above, I have four 24 inch LCDs running at 1920x1200, and since gaming isn't a priority anymore, if I can get away with a single video card, that would be nice, but I have no real objections to running SLI or Crossfire to get what I want, which is stable performance across 4 or more displays.
My current PC is a 2.6 Ghz core 2 quad with 8 GB of RAM, with 2x 8800 GTX video cards and a couple TBs of hard drive space.
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