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WhiteCobra

WhiteCobra

WhiteCobra

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I was wondering if you could have a quick look over and see if you would change anything...

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5970 2048MB GDDR5 Graphics Card @ £446.49

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail @ £223.24

BenQ G2420HDBL 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black X3 @ £500.52

G.Skill RipJaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit X3 @ £82.24

Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard @ £72.99

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS) @ £72.99


Total: £1,404.18


Anything that's not listed here I am reusing...



Also what is the hitachi finance service like? Im interested in paying over 4 months so i got enough to live nicely :)
 
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3 Monitors...

And i dont see much use in me getting a better motherboard... I need a miniATX so it's never going to be the best mboard... Unless there's a real reason why i should get a better one?


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Basically my current rig has died.. Motherboard.. so thought i'd take this opportunity to do an overhaul... I haven't got time to be fiddling with overclocking or nothing so i've just decided to go for top end cpu and gpu... and make use of eyefinity :)
 
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So you're doing three separate builds, and you only need one graphics card? Correct?

Edit: Okay, so you're going to utilize Eyefinity.

You won't need three computers to run all that :) It's done through one computer and one graphics card.
 
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I think he's doing one build, which would mean all he needed was SLI GPU's no? Not 3 motherboards...
 
You do realise the 5970 is massive, so if you only have space 4 a miniATX how will you hav space 4 a 5970...
Your answer to the reason of having 3 mobo's is to run 3 monitors? Im confused greatly.
 
Copy and paste fail on my behalf.. Only purchasing 3 monitors :)

I'm using a antec p180 mini as a case.. It has plenty of room for the gpu with the lower HDD cage removed... Should fit in there with a good 2" of room left...
 
Could run 3 monitors off of one 5970 with EyeFiniti.

So long as one is connected via Display Port.

Also, if you have a microATX case you'll need to check you've got the 12" of clearance for the 5970. (ETA - k, you've checked :p)

Maybe get an SSD instead of one of the HDDs?
 
Yeah it's got the 12" clearance :)


Have i understood it correctly i will need either a Active DP>DVI or DP>VGA... I'm edging more towards VGA as it's much cheaper... and if im right the VGA adaptors supports the 1080 resolution?
 
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