Recent content by bishop

Completely disagree about building your own computer. And in comparison to some trading rigs out there, it's a lot more than a few hundred that you would be saving. Anyone with technical know-how will be able to avoid compatibility issues by double checking their components to make sure they all...

MSI 890FXA-GD70 That board has 5 pcie slots as well so even if you weren't going the eyefinity route, you could still put some cheap dual dvi cards in there (for ex. quadro 1500s will run around $20 or less on eBay).

If $22 or so for an active adapter is too much (try amazon), you probably aren't trading with enough capital anyway. Besides, you can get 20-23" monitors these days for sub $100 if you look around for when specials are going on--in comparison to buying a display port monitor that will more than...

Big deal to spend around $22 (look on Amazon for active) each when you can get 21-23" monitors these days for sub $90 when specials are ran. I run two of those cards and have had no issues with 10 monitors. Had some issues when I had 14 monitors but that was due to using a mixture of other cards.

Buy a UPS, but if your power is out, chances are your wifi is out as well, but you could easily tether your desktop to your iphone just as easily as you could a laptop.

Build your own. You can pick up an eyefinity5 6770 with 5 mini display ports for around $120 from newegg. Slap some DDR3 ram in there, a quad core, 500+ PSU and hdd and you're good to go.