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Quote from radist:

Scat, my friend, nice to see you again.
I'm glad you were joking. LOL.
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Are you kidding? One of my favorite lines from MASH was when Kim Luck tells Colonel Potter, "Colonel go for laugh. No get." :D

ET is like that.

I "go for laugh" sometimes... usually without response. I guess that means (1) I'm and idiot.. what I think is funny, isn't... (2) ET is populated with cynics, or (3) ET is populated with dolts... who wouldn't know a joke if it bit them in the ass. I dunno which??
 
Quote from Bolimomo:

Melanie, didn't we go through this before? This is your third gyration of picking components for your PC.
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Bol, my buddy, practice makes perfect. LOL.

Look at the system I'm ending up with as a result of everyone's help.....

Those monitors alone, for about $200 are led, and spin and turn and flip and move in any direction they almost dance. Our two brains together couldn't even find anything close.

As for Sandy Bridge, you've got to admit without the process of the three gyrations I would have pulled the trigger a tad too soon. Ever do anything like that, Bol?:D

I'm down to the video card --- that's it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

Are you kidding? One of my favorite lines from MASH was when Kim Luck tells Colonel Potter, "Colonel go for laugh. No get." :D

ET is like that.
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Good line. Need to see Mash again.
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

Don't be a PUSSY, GET THE BIG ONE! (Eyefinity 12)

Or if you want to save some money and not have noisy hot video card running all day long...
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So, the hot beast runs noisy, too? I hadn't read that. I saw a great youtube review about it but I'm just a little scared by what other users have said.
 
Quote from radist:

So, the hot beast runs noisy, too? I hadn't read that. I saw a great youtube review about it but I'm just a little scared by what other users have said.
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I don't know about the heat and noise of that particular card. However, many/most high power cards run hot and need significant cooling... that usually means a noisy fan.

For trading, none of that is necessary. A trading rig should run on "passively cooled" (no fan) video cards. Of course if you want to game on the same rig, you need appropriate video cards for that.
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

... many/most high power cards run hot and need significant cooling... that usually means a noisy fan.
For trading, none of that is necessary. A trading rig should run on "passively cooled" (no fan) video cards. ...
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True, but many of today's video cards have variable speed fans. If the GPU has very little load (i.e. trading) the fan will run slower and be very very quiet. I can't hear my friend's 5870 running four monitors when using photoshop on it. When he's running folding on the CPU and GPU, the fan revs up and reminds me of a 747 winding up. When not folding or gaming, he manually sets the fan to its slowest speed for quiet.

I picked up an Nvidia GT 430 from EVGA for my third video card. I couldn't detect a change in noise level or character (very quiet computer case, barely detectable CPU, PS and case fans, other two VCs are passive 8600s). It might rev up if it had a gaming load.
 
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True, but many of today's video cards have variable speed fans. If the GPU has very little load (i.e. trading) the fan will run slower and be very very quiet. I can't hear my friend's 5870 running four monitors when using photoshop on it. When he's running folding on the CPU and GPU, the fan revs up and reminds me of a 747 winding up. When not folding or gaming, he manually sets the fan to its slowest speed for quiet.

I picked up an Nvidia GT 430 from EVGA for my third video card. I couldn't detect a change in noise level or character (very quiet computer case, barely detectable CPU, PS and case fans, other two VCs are passive 8600s). It might rev up if it had a gaming load.
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True. At idle, many high power cards are good on the noise. However, some are still noisy even under low stress.

A "trading computer" vs. a "gaming computer".. is like comparing a city commuter car vs. a sports car. Sure, a sports car can run to Starbucks and the local Quick-E mart... but all of that potential and power is not necessary for grocery runs.

Most traders would be STUNNED at how little data is processed during a market session and how many times "overkill" their system is to handle it. (During the RTH session, my rig runs 20K/s. That's right, "K". Is there any card one could buy today which couldn't handle that by at least 1000x?)
 
Quote from radist:

Here are my choices again, what to do?

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 1GB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA) [-18] More Brand ...

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [-47] More Brand ...
ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [-35] More Brand ...
ATI Radeon HD 5570 1GB DDR3 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [-15] More Brand ...
ATI Radeon HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card
Major Brand Powered by ATI
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+29] More Brand ...
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Paid $200 for a passively cooled 5750 to test. Was going to use it to drive three monitors and get a second one for the other three if it worked well. Driving two monitors (one DVI, one HDMI) it couldn't always keep up with full 1080 video on one. When back to the Nvidia and got a $54 GT430 to drive the last two monitors as a stop gap, now HD video is fine. The 5750 benchmarks way better than the 430. Don't understand.

YRMV
 
Quote from radist:

Canoe -- That's what I had in mind. Is this the one for certain?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...02888&Tpk=sapphire ATI Eyefinity HD 5870 2 GB
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Yup. Exactly it. The Sapphire.
The Diamond has reports of hardware/build issues, and company support reported as problematic.
I didn't check other brands, due to the good reports about the Sapphire and price. Check to see what mini-DP adaptors it comes with vs. which you need.

Also means I can use a micro-ATX MB! ;-)
 
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