Hey Everybody - need help selecting motherboard & video card pair
I'm looking to build from scratch a relatively high performance machine for active daytrading. I need 6x 24" monitors..though 8 would be preferable. I trade global macro...so the amount of execution systems, charts and trade blotters just takes up a lot of room..and I need to be able to see it all, all the time..hence all the screens.
I had my amazon shopping cart ready to go with the Intel P67 Extreme motherboard and 2 ATI FirePro 2460 video cards ..and then i realized...dope...windows XP only supports 2 monitors per video card.
For older execution software compatibility reasons, I am stuck with 32bit windows XP
So, what motherboard will support 4 PCI Express video cards, as well as the i7 core chip and 16GB of RAM
I was looking at the Intel Corp. Single Pack DX79SI LGA2011
(yes, i know that XP only supports 4 GB of RAM...but i'll be running Windows 7 on another hard drive and will boot switch between the 2 when I want to use the setup for A/V editing and game stuff on the weekend)
This DX79 motherboard has 3 PCI Express slots...So i could put in 3 Radeon HD3450 512MB video cards..and support 6 monitors (1 DVI, 1 HDMI..and ignore the VGA port...per video card)..This is closer..but doesn't support 8 monitors...just 6
Does anybody know of a similar motherboard that has 4 PCI Express slots...or....can I use the P67 Extreme mother board with 2 PCI Express Video Cards and 2 old school PCI video cards (that would be preferable)? If so, can anybody find a dual digital output (DVI and/or HDMI) video card that is old school PCI? (i haven't had much luck on amazon)
I already have the monitors w/stand....so i'm just builing the PC now. It was looking to be around 1500 so far. I don;t mind spending a couple hundred bucks more...But i'm having a hard time finding the right combo of motherboard and video cards.
Any ideas?
I'm looking to build from scratch a relatively high performance machine for active daytrading. I need 6x 24" monitors..though 8 would be preferable. I trade global macro...so the amount of execution systems, charts and trade blotters just takes up a lot of room..and I need to be able to see it all, all the time..hence all the screens.
I had my amazon shopping cart ready to go with the Intel P67 Extreme motherboard and 2 ATI FirePro 2460 video cards ..and then i realized...dope...windows XP only supports 2 monitors per video card.
For older execution software compatibility reasons, I am stuck with 32bit windows XP
So, what motherboard will support 4 PCI Express video cards, as well as the i7 core chip and 16GB of RAM
I was looking at the Intel Corp. Single Pack DX79SI LGA2011
(yes, i know that XP only supports 4 GB of RAM...but i'll be running Windows 7 on another hard drive and will boot switch between the 2 when I want to use the setup for A/V editing and game stuff on the weekend)
This DX79 motherboard has 3 PCI Express slots...So i could put in 3 Radeon HD3450 512MB video cards..and support 6 monitors (1 DVI, 1 HDMI..and ignore the VGA port...per video card)..This is closer..but doesn't support 8 monitors...just 6
Does anybody know of a similar motherboard that has 4 PCI Express slots...or....can I use the P67 Extreme mother board with 2 PCI Express Video Cards and 2 old school PCI video cards (that would be preferable)? If so, can anybody find a dual digital output (DVI and/or HDMI) video card that is old school PCI? (i haven't had much luck on amazon)
I already have the monitors w/stand....so i'm just builing the PC now. It was looking to be around 1500 so far. I don;t mind spending a couple hundred bucks more...But i'm having a hard time finding the right combo of motherboard and video cards.
Any ideas?