I have a machine used for my stocks trading, which needs dual graphics cards (plus onboard) to display my charts onto all of my monitors. but it's on a giant ATX size board in a giant ATX appropriate case. it's too big considering there's just ONE hard drive in there with my OS.
I want something more efficient, more effective. I want to transition to a mATX board but that board MUST accept dual graphics cards (double-slot), so it would have to be one of those 16x/0x that converts to 8x/8x. and both slots run from the CPU, not one from CPU and one from chipset.
so, um, how do I actually FIND such a board? is there a certain "spec" that matches what I want, like SLI-ready or CrossFire-ready or whatnot? I'm not actually going to SLI/CrossFire the cards because they MUST run independently.
intel or AMD, doesn't matter. but the board & processor MUST have onboard graphics as well, cuz I just run that many monitors.
and it must be affordable! I'm not about to pay $200-plus for a board with wild features that are irrelevant to me.
I want something more efficient, more effective. I want to transition to a mATX board but that board MUST accept dual graphics cards (double-slot), so it would have to be one of those 16x/0x that converts to 8x/8x. and both slots run from the CPU, not one from CPU and one from chipset.
so, um, how do I actually FIND such a board? is there a certain "spec" that matches what I want, like SLI-ready or CrossFire-ready or whatnot? I'm not actually going to SLI/CrossFire the cards because they MUST run independently.
intel or AMD, doesn't matter. but the board & processor MUST have onboard graphics as well, cuz I just run that many monitors.
and it must be affordable! I'm not about to pay $200-plus for a board with wild features that are irrelevant to me.