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.
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!
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.
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!
For a trader it is okay Just selected my case http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1277&ID=1408 Isn't it nice ?