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Quad monitor is AWESOME. Can't recommend it enough! So much room for activities.

Oh yeh, you can do that as long as you aren't planning on gaming on that display connecting the two GPUs in crossfire/SLI. My fourth display is getting wired up tonight all being well. Never tried vertical displays. Doesn't appeal to me really.

No expert but I do own one. I have a 1998 1.3 GX. Front crossmember (but that isn't structural really), sills and where the rear sub frame mounts to the body.

I concur, but to be fair to Jardo he didn't say that he had.

Silly old forum, doing multiposts again.

Hmmm, I'd be surprised depending on your config. My 5830 was 2 generations older than that and I didn't need an active adapter. I just used a DP to DVI passive adapter and a DVI to HDMI cable. Still using it now on my GTX960 SLI setup and planning on buying another 2 adapters today so I can run my 3 main monitors all on displayport, so that I can use one of the other outputs to run my old 22" that I've mounted above the middle one.

What GPU have you got? I've got one of these and it worked perfectly on my ATI HD5830 Crossfire and my current nVidia GTX960 SLI setups. It has been a bit of a minefield for many years, and basically they had to cobble the extra port onto existing functionality/standards for some reason, and only the current nVidia 9** series really use new technology which allows you to connect 4 displays directly to the card, or daisy chain upto 4 monitors if they are compatible with the latest displayport standard. That said, 3 monitors have been possible on most mid/high end graphics cards released in the last 5 years, so depending on what card you've got it could be possible.

Have you checked you can run 3 monitors? Plenty of GPUs (both on-board and discreet) have multiple outputs but only support running 2 displays at once. I wouldn't worry too much about PPI personally. I used different PPI monitors at home for years and my monitors at work are different now. You only notice if you're looking for it. If you do anything that spans displays (gaming etc) then you really should try to have monitors of the same make and model anyway (ideally from the same batch).

I've been with my missus for nearly 4 years, and we've tried to watch one or two star wars films. Falls asleep, every time. Bitch...

Could just turn up in the doorstep at 3am with a running chainsaw in your hand, "Oh hi neighbour, I could hear you were up and just wondered if you wanted to walk my chainsaw with me?"

I had a female friend who treated lads like that, she always spends time with her friends before her boyfriend. He's clearly there just to fill the gaps. Or was anyway, she dumped him recently for complaining too much.

What sort of work do you do? DDR4 is a decent step up and worth considering IMO. I'd always go with hyperthreading CPUs as I've do plenty that use more than 4 threads. I've done an ITX build for my minecraft server and pretty happy with it, but you are limited. They usually only come with 2 RAM slots and 1 PCIE slot for example. Wouldn't use it for my main desktop system, just to restricted. If your 8320 works well, why upgrade?

Unless you need to access the newer hardware pass-through stuff in Skylake (for passing hardware through to virtual machines) I honestly wouldn't both with skylake. £320 for the 6700k vs £240 for a 4790k, and performance wise they're pretty close. As you want single threaded, I'd go for a 4790k over a 5820k. I have one and while it's an amazing workhorse, it's not clocked very high and is VERY hot and thirsty. 140w tbp vs the 4790k at 95w. I'd go with mATX, purely because I have ATX and ITX systems and I really some of the new mATX systems, like the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv. My rule generally though is to choose a case first. That's the bit you see the most after all.

Some areas are quite bad haha. This build is pretty much finished now, so before long I'll learn to use this camera and get some decent pictures when the daylight is decent. Having a worrying problem at the moment though. Since I messed around trying to get dual boot working (impossible with my SSDs in RAID0) my system takes ages to post, and it will take 30 secs at the login screen before the keyboard connects and I can type anything. I think there's something up with the USB3 controller...

He's talking about getting lower wattage components so they generate less heat. Got a new camera and failing to learn how to use it, but thought these weren't too bad.

1 case fan?! Not surprised your GPU is struggling haha. I have 5x120mm intakes, 3 120mm and 1x140mm exhaust. I did have another 2 intakes but had to take them out so my tubing would go in.

It's winter time, just improve the case airflow to control the noise and enjoy the free heating.

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg Absolute dream car right there.

I seriously hope someone from your work googles you at some point.

Oh I seeeeee. That was a top bit of marketing naming that.

Got a motherboard to go with it? Will be a nice system that. Seriously though dude, get an SSD to go with it. They're the best thing since PCIE sockets.

Aye, Samsung F3 1tb by the looks of it? I also have 2 and they've been faultless for five years. Weird that both of yours have died at the same time. I'd just go with any cheap 7200rpm desktop drives, but buy two and use software to sync them. Wouldn't bother with RAID personally, it allows for drive redundancy but any other component in the system can still fail, including the RAID card.

Nah not for £150. I'd either go with your plan, or start saving for a new build.

Yeh, Intel. For dabbly gaming on a single display at 1080p or less, you should be OK but don't expect anything special. Not sure about categories and that but my mate's A10 is not as fast as my old 965BE, so definitely not as fast as a 1075T. Can't comment on the other CPUs you mentioned though as I don't follow AMD any more, they haven't really made a high-end desktop CPU since 2011 (everything since has been a refresh) so I stick to Intel these days. If anyone is interested, my hardline tubing has arrived for my next project (watercooling my main desktop). Everything else is on the way, and I've gone with the same fluid, tubing and fittings as in this image: http://cdn.overclock.net/f/f1/f1cb92eb_DSC_01102_zpsc6a7998b.jpeg CPU only loop for now, as there are no waterblocks available for my GTX960s but if I ever feel the need for more gaming horsepower I'll upgrade them. It's mostly used as a workstation so CPU, RAM and storage matters more to me.

I've always trusted HD Tune. Is it a software or hardware RAID you're running them in?