So lets work here , I read again the post from a printing ( quite a long text
)
Here what I get out from the main use of the PC (
it's to the OP to correct me if I'm wrong here)
Huge Multi-Display power,
principally not used for gaming
Fast access time storage. Extra
temporary storage with plan to use some king of server later ???? don't really know what he is planningThe OP will add
SSD drives later
My sugestions :
If it was a principally a gaming rig , I will say to wait for the Fermi and buy 2 of them with an extra physx card
if he need it , it will give him for sure the 3 DVI output for is 3 LDC , but it's not the main use of the rig, Nvidia GPU are pain on the eyes with long usage, I think he is better to loose a little bit on the FPS and go with ATI base on those facts
. I will suggest if no one came here to talk about xfire with eyevision to visit the GPU section, we have member experienced with it
. Because you need 2 GPU with your setup, and if you plan to game on 3 LCD you need eyefinity with 2 high end GPU to drive your setting ( all true we can ask CM if his 5970 is enough for his 3 lcd ) if the xfire do not work well, we back to square one and have to go the Nvidia way.
that's if the op plan to play with his 3 LCD
Processing power: First of all you need
x16 x16 x8 minimum with your need of GPU, especially that you will use high end card.
Now let be Intel fan boy a little bit
:
the actual platform that jump to my eyes is the 1366 one, you have your GPU lanes , quite of a hell CPU power too, and also a sexa- core in the way, I ear about march
, 6 gb of memory will be enough to start with . Since I'm not so fan boy
I will welcome other to comment in AMD solution, I can't do it
I have no experience with AMD, not because I'm Intel fan boy, but I start with Intel and always continue this way, because I'm use to it
The storage: Let's build your PC with focus on is main usage, the temporary extra storage is not the main thing.You plan to buy 1 or 2 SSD may be raid 0 :
You don't need raid 0 with SSD, it's DAM fast, and with SSD you have to trim or use other device to clean the drive, or it will lost quite a huge performance. The trim function is not at best with many drive in raid 0
Don't add SSD latter, start with it right away, it's a pain in the ... to reinstall a Windows months later, using cloning from HD to SSD, is simply not the thing to do with SSD, due to the kind of controller it use
Buy a 80 or 120 gb SSD , put your OS in it, and the
most important application
that need fast acces time. that's it , Use a Black WD for the programs
, forget the raid 0 even for the game, my reason is that I'm not pretty sure that SSD mix well with raid 0 on the same onboard controller. ( all true we can use the second controller that mainly all high end board have, but it will not be as fast) buy an other SSD for your game latter
IF you need that kind of boost, wait to see if you like gaming, I spent quite a lot of money to game, and I do it 1 hour a week
( but I'm pretty good sharp shooter guy, don't play around if you see me someplace
)
I will see later where you place few HD for temporary main storage
The case: unless you are the kind of crazy folder to put your thing strait on the bar
or your washing machine
or some kind of wood crate
you need a case. well they know who they are
All case around $ 100 and more do the job, some do it betterOk enoght I have to work sometime time too
other members suggestion and correction : keep focus on the need of the OP
( I work real hard on this post
, 1 hour and not for the $$$.$$. )