Ok, ok, you've sold me. I'll be buying one of the T3500's w/ the 3690 CPU. Sounds like my home setup will be more reliable than what I have at the office. Thanks again for the advice! You guys know your stuff!
I wasn't trying to "sell" you on the T3500... just mentioning that in no way is the T3500 at a good price, "cutting corners". With a W3690, should be a ROCKET... and if you get it for about $500 less than the cost of parts if you BIY, hard to find fault with such a deal. Though the T3500s are good, their mobos were early in the X58 cycle. They don't have the latest USB 3.0 nor SATA III... those features can be added via a PCIEx4 card, if you wish.
Again, I appreciate the advice! Btw, is this the one you're talking about? http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnline...px?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb&brandid=2803&fid=984 Nevermind. I missed it by minutes. It's not there when I refreshed the page. Damn!
http://www.tecstore.net/Produkt/453862/Workstation-CAD--TS70--[Intel-Core-i7-990X] should be sufficient. but if you dont know how to trade... hehe you'll lose that 2200 euro in a day. 24 GB ram! is it enough to test 15 years of emini S&P tick data?
It's almost hit or miss with these desktops. I haven't called Dell, but wonder if they would take my cc/debit card #, and process the transaction as soon as they get another one with the 3690? Btw scat, if I run eight 22' monitors (I have eight 24s at work, and literally have to slide my chair back and forth at times which is a little aggrivating), are there enough 16 slots for the 290 or 300 cards to run eight? I hate to move up to the $500 cards that run four monitors as they have the fans that I KNOW will drive me batty, or put me to sleep. Noise is a MAJOR issue for me. Some guys have no problem with the noise, but I can't handle it.
NVS 290 and 300 are dual-head cards. To support 8 monitors you need to have 4 of them. Thus 4 x PCIe X16 slots on the box. You are back to the original dilemma.
1. T3500s have 2, x16 and 2, x8 slots. You could run NVS 295 x1s in the x8 slots. If you want 4, x16 slots... you're probably stuck with having a rig built with a gamer mobo or one of those 6, x16 jobs like Boli has. 2. NVS 450 cards (quad port) do not have fans. 3. I doubt Dell would process the transaction in the manner you describe. Besides, one might come up with 24G of RAM which they have included in the price at about $600, and/or a $1500, video card and you wouldn't want that. 4. You might want to consider running your monitors in portrait mode to cut down on the side-to-side whiplash. Unless you have IPS panels, the viewing angle on the peripheral monitors might be a bit of a problem however.
I just received a 15% coupon from dell outlet business, that brought the price down to $1036.00. Unlike others here I didn't think I needed anything near that powerful but considering the good deal and that I it seems my hardware lasts forever, I bought one. Thanks scat and others for all the info on this. This was for the w3690.