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

Don't lose sleep over it. Just get the 850W if you are not sure. Difference in $20 maybe?

 

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

 

Minus 1 bottle of ice cold Corona for making me spend extra .

I can handle $20 for that peace of mind. I've decided on Corsair. Thanks for all the help buddy

 

Good info. though. Thanks for posting.

 

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.




Thermal design power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power

 

engt430

 

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

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

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

 

You guys are killing me! I have to look up this stuff at night, and it's becoming a job just trying to keep up!