Ok, no one has liked my suggestion of using two old 520's in SLI to run 3 monitors. So i will take the hint. What I want to know is why? Just so I understand more, not like questioning your advice. It's foolish to ask for advice, then not take it....lol
I have a thought or plan for this rig, so I'm going to try and explain it. If I'm off my rocker please let me know my train of thought is going in the wrong direction....
What ever I build, it won't be touched until the rig dies. My Dad won't upgrade, change bios, or re do any settings. So to future proof this would be a waste. He will use it until it simply won't preform anymore.
So.....since this will be used for 1 main program and constant viewing of pics and data wouldn't this rig be better suited to spend most of the budget on ram and SSD? I'm thinking of getting a good to really good i5 (i'll try to OC it) and very reliable and stable MoBo but with out all the extra bells and whistles. This rig is going to quite bare, 1 SSD, 1 drive, 1 vid card. Pretty empty.
I'm also thinking of maxing out the ram now. i know it would be cheaper to buy 8GB now, and in a year or so to add another 8GB but I don't see that happening. I don't think my Dad would do it. Also if I OC then the settings would completely change and he doesn't know anyone to fix them. The cost of shipping the rig back and forth would cost more than the savings of the ram.
Does anyone have experience or strong opinions of ASUS MoBo's? His is working great for 6+ years, I have only heard good things about their reliability. I have also been out of the game for a long time and basically know nothing all over again....lol.
So far all the suggestions have been great and I know a few items I'm strongly interested in. As far as the SSD, I like the OCZ (4) because it's suppose to be the fastest. What conserns me is the neg reviews at newegg. The people who said they "tested" say it doesn't perform as advertised. Is there an OCZ rep on here that can rebut this?
I have a few cases in mind. I'll list those a bit later to get opinions on build quality and stuff like that. They are all plain and are more functional than anything. 1 big feature I'm looking at is USB 3.0 for the front ports. I like that 20 pin USB connector so there isn't a cord hanging out the back. It's going to be air cooled and most likely close to stock so I don't have a bunch of fans, quieter the case the better.
I really like all the other "help me posts". It's cool to see all the other suggested rigs are not copies. I hadn't seen 1 suggested rig match another persons.
EDIT:
Ok thinking about his current build. I installed an already out of date vid card when I first built it. Right now I think that's the issue he is having. win 7 has killed his rig. Since that upgrade (had to) its been running slow. So I don't want to do that again.....
I was thinking of getting a PCI Express 3.0 card (cheapest) and seeing how that turns out. I really don't want a fan, I like having a fan less in this build. I went to the egg and came up with this.....
HIS HD7750.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161417
So I have to ask, how do u actually hook up 3 monitors? Should I look for a card with 3 ports that work at the same time? Google has not helped me one bit. This seems like most people don't use 3 monitors. I was under the impression that a card would have 3 HDMI ports or something like that.
Edited by InVeNtOr - 6/26/12 at 10:28am
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