Quote Originally Posted by Alptraum View Post
5870 was sorta an ok but nothing terribly great to write home about from what i've seen and read.
What? The 5870 is a great card, and still trumps the AMD cards currently released (the 6800 is really the low end of the spectrum for the new cards, but meh), and the 5970 is really two 5850s in crossfire (not entirely sure about the XFX BLACK, it might be two 5870s, clocks seem to match). MY POINT BEING: YOU CAN GET THE SAME SOLUTION AS THE XFX 5970 BLACK FOR LESS BY PURCHASING TWO 5870 EYEFINITY6 cards!

In fact, you could buy three 5870 eyefinity6 cards for the price of one 5970 black card. The only limiting factors are: motherboard layout and power supply. Just think of all the monitors you could run! 18! OMGSWEET YAY THINKING

(also please to note the extra horsepower would come in handy when playing graphically intensive games, as well as for splitting rendering of each clients between cards)

That hard drive is fine, all it does is bypass the limits on speed for SATA2 interfaces, not that big of an issue. Again, to save money (and preserve precious motherboard space for graphics cards) you could get any number of other solid state drives, even Buy two of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227590 and you'd be just fine.


thinking about alternatives is good.