Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

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I'm still debating on whether to get the 750W or 850W :confused:
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Don't lose sleep over it. Just get the 850W if you are not sure. Difference in $20 maybe? :)
 
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Okay. I see. In layman's terms, SLI is a mechanism that links two or more video cards together to produce a single output. It is parallel processing of sort. The typical application is in video games. To use SLI, they use some ribbon cables to connect multiple video cards together (thus you see the pin layouts on the top of the card). Since trading primary deals with 2D charts, we have no use for SLI really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface
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Makes more sense Boli. I thought the process of having more than one GPU on a mobo for running multiple monitors was more the idea. Thanks for that little bit of education. I'll add another bottle of Corona in your ice cold barrel :D
 
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Don't lose sleep over it. Just get the 850W if you are not sure. Difference in $20 maybe? :)
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Minus 1 bottle of ice cold Corona for making me spend extra :p .

I can handle $20 for that peace of mind. I've decided on Corsair. Thanks for all the help buddy
 
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Well... my "rule of thumb" is alway just eye-ball the size of the heat sink. Yes size matters! LOL... The bigger the heat sink (tiki...), the more power the card consumes. After all, the heat has to come from somewhere! :D
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Sure does have those large heatsinks and surprising it is not one of the big energy consumers. Designed to run cool and yet it draws only from the power supplied from the MB.
The 8600's in my other machine use an additional power connected to the card.

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Thanks TIKITRADER for posting that information on the engt430 . I looked high and low for the power consumption number of those cards, and never really found anything concrete. Remember boys the maximum power consumption of the Quadro NVS 295 is 23 watts. That's what sold me on these cards for my trading computer (and Scat of course) and the resolution and the fanless heatsink and the # of Digital Outputs and the they're single slot. And yes it's true, I recycle my empty toilet paper rolls :D

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_295_us.html
 
Good morning guys. This is what I found along some research:

"You can connect 2 or 3 video cards together that have the same/ identical specifications which would combine the 3 video cards together and give way much higher performance than 3 single video cards. You can almost expect 3 times more performance than a single graphics card. For this we need a motherboard that's i.e. 2 way or 3 way SLI capable. At the same time we need a graphics card that's also 2 way or 3 way SLI capable."

The GPU and mobo I want/have, have the SLI capability. Would you link the 3 cards together?
 
Does anyone know of comparable GPUs (EVGA 9500GT), that may have 3 outputs, maybe 2xDVI and 1X VGA @ around $50-75. Maybe I can get away with 2 cards instead of 3 :confused:

Note: The monitor I have does not have HDMI input.
 
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