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LeonardK

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    LeonardK got a reaction from AndyCapets in German layout K70 blue/brown switch   
    Yeah, it's nice that you have such a flourishing gaming culture over there
    Well, we are going to get the K70 and that is the only keyboard I want right now anyway, so I'm happy.
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    LeonardK reacted to Rekhyt in Design my new workstation   
    You won't find triple channel workstation grade boards anymore, they're all quad.
     
    If you want a dual CPU solution you can go this route for the board. It has guarateed Xeon Phi/Nvidia Tesla compatibility and supports ECC memory which you might want if you do render jobs and such. It has a c602 chipset that will suport the Intel Xeon E5 2600 lineup. You could for instance get two 2650's, which are the "value" option for 8-core CPU's or stick with six cores which will be less expensive (starting at 400$ each). There's no secret, 2p setups are expensive.
     
    If you don't want dual, you can essentially copy my rig: The 3930K/3970X offer the best non-xeon performance you can currently find and the motherboard is workstation-grade and also has guaranteed Phi/Tesla support. (I think we may have similar needs; what is it that you do?)
     
    Both boards support all the SATA3 bandwith you'll probaby need. The board I have has what I'd consider "better" audio quality, as far as on-board audio goes, but nothing exeptional.
     
    If you plan on using around 4 drives, get NAS-grade ones (Seagate NAS or WD Red) because vibrations become a factor. For the SSD's you can go with the options you listed, or get two smaller ones and Raid them for more speed.
    You might also want to consider SSD caching, which isn't natively supported by the C602/X79 chipsets, but Asus have implemented their own version of it on both boards I mentioned (and several others).
     
    As far as cooling goes, all-in-one liquid cooling is absurdly simple to set up (easier than the bulky air coolers; the only cooler I ever had to struggle with was the Noctua NH-D14 because it's so huge. Liquid coolers are tiny around the socket area, making the installation simpler) and very quiet. You can go Corsair H series or Swiftech h220 if you can get one where you live.
     
    Get a big brand PSU, anything from Corsair, Seasonic, BeQuiet!, etc. will do
     
    As for cases the Fractal Design XL r2 is silence optimized, is priced honestly, and has all the drive capacity and cable management you need but it is quite big and heavy. However with a workstation you are looking at bigger motherboards and generally more wires and hardware, so it seems like a good option for the price given the constaints.
     
    Ivy Bridge E is not worth the upgrade, price or wait. You're looking at a 5-10% performace boost in some scenarios. The only compelling reason to upgrade/wait will be when intel adds MORE CORES to the chips instead of locking them down and being lazy.
     
    EDIT: Also Titan cards are based on the same architecture AND have the same double precision floating operation performance as Teslas, making them the ideal alternative if you do heavy CUDA programming or computing. They also support Hyper-Q and Dynamic parallelism if you're into that
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    LeonardK reacted to ShadyHost in answer quick. I'm being trigger happy on amazon   
    Alright so I got the ve247h
     
    If I change my mine later ill just replace one of my monitors with the 144hz. I can do 3+1 aux using dual GTX 670s right?
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    LeonardK reacted to LeonardK in Upgrading My Dual Monitor Setup   
    Hi everyone,
     
    I'm looking for some advice in purchasing two new monitors.
     
    Right now I'm using two 22" 1680/1050 displays from different manufacturers, both of relatively low quality.
     
    I work at the computer a lot and so I'm looking to update both in size and resolution.
     
    I'm looking for 24"-27" monitors with resolutions 1080p or if possible 1440p.
      I do play games, but they are not a focus for me and thus response-time is not an important factor. 
      I do a fair bit of screencasts, so an aspect ratio of 16/9 would be helpful.
      I do not need them to function as a USB hub like the ones from Dell always seem to do.
      A high height and/or adjustable height would be appreciated.
      Since I'm running a dual monitor setup, relatively thin margins on the sides would be nice.
      My price range is anywhere from 150-400€ per device. That equates to about $525 per display.
    If these demands can already be met at a lower price point I would be happy to choose that option.
      If you think I'm missing anything here that I should be concerned with, please let me know so that I can make a better decision. I'm a Technical Director, meaning I provide technical tools for artists, so the new displays don't need to be color proof, but having decent color accuracy would be helpful.
     
    I feel kind of guilty just asking here, because I usually always do my own research, but it's hard to get a good idea of which purchase has the best value when you haven't paid attention to a market in so long.
    I hope that there is someone on the forum here who knows what's up and can give me some good suggestions.
     
    Thanks in advance!
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