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    Stable Overclock: Graphic Cards Using Direct Power Link vs Board Powered

    Thanks to all the folks who guided me towards using 2x Radeon 5xxx series cards for my setup. The setup's goal is to have 2600K with some over-clocking say (4-4.5Ghz) with 24x7 reliability, and the ability to drive 6 1080p monitors for non gaming applications. The primary option I am considering...
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    Best Setup to drive 4+ Monitors for Non-Gaming Applications

    I am a stranger to the world of crossfire, SLI and Eyefinity and am trying to learn. Most multi-head workstation cards cost a lot and I feel that the best bang for the buck is in the consumer grade cards. 1. This is a new 2600K + Asus Pro P67 based build. Board supports 2x PCI-EX at 8...
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    "Defragmenting" a SSD based RAID setup

    Anand has an interesting article here about using SSDs in RAID-0 without TRIM support. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3618/intel-x25v-in-raid0-faster-than-x25m-g2-for-250 He talks about potential performance degradation and ways to avoid it (smaller partitions, sequential writes etc.). I...
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    Wait for Sandy Bridge or Not for GDI based applications.

    I want to make a computer for my trading needs. It needs to support four monitors and be fast in processing real time tick data. There is a lot of chart drawing etc., but it is all 2-D and very likely CPU limited with little being off-loaded to the GPU. Many applications are single threaded in...
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    Single Core Performance: Xeons or i7

    My work includes running a real-time data-intensive application, whose main loop is single-threaded. This application is based on Microsoft .NET 3.5, and Forms which uses a lot of GDI+ commands for drawings/chartings. This particular library uses software rendering for most hardware operations...