Sizing up a new machine, want advice!

[opt]

So Im deciding that I would like to house my 4 shamans on there own seperate machine so i will be using my druid on my main pc and on my alt pc using my 4 shamans. The system im considering is the following
Intel Core2Duo E6850,
n680i SLI,
4GB 800MHz RAM,
320GB SATA2,
2x8800GT 512MB SLI
Basically would running 4 monitors on this machine work fine or would i be having to bumb down the graphics, also has anyone had any luck running 4 monitors on the same machine with horizontal span or whatever how does that work?

[-silencer-]

You're probably going to have to disable SLI to run 4 monitors - both cards in non-sli mode. The rest of the machine is fine to run 4 alts. I'm running 5 accounts on 1 machine that is very similar, but with only 1 8800GTX and 2 large monitors.

[MaxD]

Intel Core2Duo E6850, Do you have your midn set on this chip? I run the q6600 with the 680iLTsli and am very happy with it, and I am a AMD fanboy. Make sure you get a beefy powersupply for upgrading. I went with a 1000w (overkill) but I will never worry about not having enough toughpower 750w from Thermaltake is perfect.

[MaxD]

You're probably going to have to disable SLI to run 4 monitors - both cards in non-sli mode. The rest of the machine is fine to run 4 alts. I'm running 5 accounts on 1 machine that is very similar, but with only 1 8800GTX and 2 large monitors.

I tried this with the 8800GT and I had to run Non SLI for 2 so yeah you will have to run Non SLI on both. (for now)

[opt]

Intel Core2Duo E6850, Do you have your midn set on this chip? I run the q6600 with the 680iLTsli and am very happy with it, and I am a AMD fanboy. Make sure you get a beefy powersupply for upgrading. I went with a 1000w (overkill) but I will never worry about not having enough toughpower 750w from Thermaltake is perfect.

My current cpu is an amd4200x2 and i too am a fanboi of amd, but after the excessive reviews and comparrisons I realised that i made the wrong choice. The q6600 is the same price as the e6850 so I think it maybe a better choice to go for the quad.

[Wilbur]

Always go for the quad-core.
For the money, there is no better chip out there at the moment.

[MaxD]

good deal