Monitor Setups

[MiRai]

First of all, please reply to this thread instead of continually modifying the original post. It's very confusing to have replied to your original post and then all of a sudden there are 50 new lines of text which weren't there before.

These are the displays I was thinking of buying. Which of the two would you get?

28" Hanns-G HZ281 1920 x 1200, VESA 100x100 3ms / This would be the mounting arm I would use - $370 (allready have one)
24" ASUS VW246H Glossy Black 2m 1920 x 1080 VESA 100x100 / This would be the mounting arm I would use $510

Monitors are a personal choice and unless you're a web designer or photographer or some sort of graphic artist, they're pretty much all the same (I might get yelled at for saying that). The only thing I would recommend is that it has a DVI port on it and that you use it.

As for what you've listed:
Do you want a big 28" screen in your face?
You said you wanted 3 screens so, do you have room for 3x 28" screens on your desk?

I wouldn't choose the 28" monitor for the reason I listed that you quoted, and that is that I don't like a 1920x1200 native resolution (other people do). That ASUS monitor also has over 1400 reviews on Newegg compared to the 300 that the HannsG has. I don't uphold Newegg reviews to a high standard, by any means, but that would be a lot of people to be wrong about a product.

This quote will hold true until the new nVidia cards are released (different architecture)

Have any idea when Nvidia is releasing its next generation cards?

ATi has already released the new generation of video cards and nVidia should be doing so in March/April.

Have any idea when Intel is releasing the Ivy Bridge chipsets?

Your Google search is as accurate as my Google search.

Think they will release them in Synergy? Express3 and all that?

Certain motherboards today are already equipped with PCIe 3.0.

I've been reading some stuff recently that's made me reconsider upgrading right now.

russianhaxor Reddit
How badly do you need/want this rig?

Because its going to be obsolete relatively soon and you can probably get 20-30% better performance out of it if you wait a few months...
Hard Drives will get cheaper... and so will SSDs.
If you like this build, by all means build it. There's nothing wrong with it at all. I probably would've picked a different case, but that's generally a matter of asthetics than anything else.

Here's the problem with that statement. If you wait a few months now, then why not wait a few more months for the next best thing? Or even better... If you can wait 6 months why not wait 9 months? Or 12 months?

See where this is going? You get stuck in a waiting game because after one technology gets released the next step up is right around the corner again. However, right now we're close to nVidia releasing their new technology and Intel possibly releasing Ivy Bridge. If you need to upgrade right now, then do so; otherwise, I might wait to see Ivy Bridge pricing compared to Sandy Bridge. Then again, there's also the part where you'd be investing in brand new technology which hasn't fully matured yet and you might find yourself in the middle of a recall like brand new Sandy Bridge customers did last year.

Do you realy think it will be a considerable margin of improvement?

Extreme Tech ForumsThe difficulty of software optimization is a further reason why adding more CPU cores doesn’t help much. Game developers have made progress in using multi-core systems, but the rate of advance has been slow. Games like

Rage and Battlefield 3 — two high-profile titles that use multiple cores — both utilized new engines designed from the ground-up with multi-core scaling as a primary goal.

The bottom line is that its been easier for Intel and AMD to add cores than it is for software to take advantage of them. Seven years after the multi-core era began, it’s already morphing into something different.

At this point we're deviating from your monitor setup but, every single review or benchmark you are going to find on the internet is going to be while playing a single game. Do we buy hardware and build machines so we can play a single game or do we do it so we can play 5 or more at the same time? I think the answer is obvious that multiboxing on a quad-core processor is much better than multiboxing on a dual-core processor. In terms of multiboxing World of Warcraft, more cores = more performance.