NVIDIA graphics cards for multiple monitor (2560 x 1600 resolution)

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Actually, I will pay for the machine half of the price of one 30''er so the price of the graphics card does not bother me much.

I am more concerned if my electric installation can handle the power consumption (given 4 x 30''er). Only for this sake it is worth to have low power consumption GPUs.
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Power consumption on the 570 is 38W, max. On the 1700, 42W, max. Nothing to worry about in the "power" department. The average modern computer runs about 150-180W at idle and usually comes with a 350W or greater PSU.

The only "power hungry" components are (1) gamer graphics cards, and (2) PERHAPS a HOT CPU.
 
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Actually, I will pay for the machine half of the price of one 30''er so the price of the graphics card does not bother me much.

I am more concerned if my electric installation can handle the power consumption (given 4 x 30''er). Only for this sake it is worth to have low power consumption GPUs.
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So.... you're going to get a Xeon rig with 2 Quadro FX video cards for about $600? Sign me UP! I'll take a dozen! :D
 
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So.... you're going to get a Xeon rig with 2 Quadro FX video cards for about $600? Sign me UP! I'll take a dozen! :D
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Actually, Dell's 30''er is a bit pricey when it arrives to my country (customs duties + frieght costs).

What I am going to save on the machine I will loose on the monitors.
 
Guys,

I found the right motherboard: Asus P6T6 WS Revolution. It has 6 x PCI Express x16 slots (but 3 slots can be used at 2.0 transfer with x16 speed at one time).

There was one bug in BIOS, but the problem was already solved by Asus (review + 2 short movies): http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTYwMiwsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0

This seems to be the optimal motherboard for my multimonitor setup. In line with your recommendations, I will put NVIDIA Quadro FX570s in it (3 pieces).

I will wait a couple of months till mainstream makers of desktops realese models with this board and will buy one.

Thanks a lot for your input in this thread :)
 
Weird. No PCI slots. I doubt mainstream makers will release computers with this board. $363 street price? This looks like "workstation" all the way.... not even a slot for a sound card... might be an issue for extreme gamers.
 
Yes,

This is a motherboard for the workstation segment.

Dell, HP, Fujitsu-Siemens are making workstations, but most probably Alienware will be the first to introduce this board.
 

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Weird. No PCI slots. I doubt mainstream makers will release computers with this board. $363 street price? This looks like "workstation" all the way.... not even a slot for a sound card... might be an issue for extreme gamers.
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Creative have put out a range of higher end sound cards that are PCIe.

But yeah, that motherboard looks more suited to running data crunching applications. If it had six, dual-GPU video cards running CUDA, that'd be quite a supercomputer!
 
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Just checked. The sound is is built-in.

Regards
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Well, "A" sound capability is built in, but a serious gamer isn't interested in "onboard audio"...
 
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