Seeking builds for a business computer

[TheProfessionalMan]

Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP

Budget Range: $1500 max, like to stay under $1000

System Usage from Most to Least Important: GIS, Google earth, 10+ IE tabs, 5+ excel spreadsheets, RSS Feed software, Outlook, multiple word documents

Are you buying a monitor: Yes - loads of them

Parts to Upgrade: (e.g.: CPU, mobo, RAM): New Build

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, TigerDirect, and Amazon

Location: Houston and/or Louisiana

Parts Preferences: AMD CPU

Overclocking: Not Really

SLI or Crossfire: If required and best option or multi-monitor setup

Your Monitor Resolution: 1 touch screen monitor in portrait + triple monitor setup



I posted back in August about a business computer, and stubbornly or not, I have been waiting for black Friday/black November to try to save a little money; I've been as patient as I can but I am damn sick and tired of this Lenovo Thinkpad laptop and this Intel Core 2 Duo T5670 processor among other things .

Here are the facts:

I'm building 2 computers; one for my dad and one for me.

They are each going to have 4 monitors, 1 will be a touch screen in portrait view.

I have basically already settled on an AMD processor, probably an FX-8320 instead of the 8350 to save a little cash.

All my PC building experience is with gaming computers and I don't want to overdo it, but it's worth the money to me to have a good system for work.

This is the CORSAIR CX series CX500 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply that I have had my eye on - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027 , but I want to know the best way to run 4 monitors on that PSU or a similar one.

I use google earth a lot and I'm getting into GIS work with ESRI ArcGIS, but it seems a lot of that is not graphics intensive. Funny enough; a graphics bottleneck is one of my biggest worries. That's one of the reasons I was thinking of going crossfire or SLI videocards instead of 1 video card with display port dongles and all of that.

I can have 15+ IE windows open, 5+ excel spreadsheet, 5+ PDF's, outlook email, word documents, RSS feed program etc. I'm definitely going to get a SSD; I'm thinking 240 GB and up.

I'm looking for business computer solutions that can support 4 monitors at a time and for some reason I am trying to keep the build under $1000 each.

Here is the build I have so far -- sorry if it is not very organized guys; I just got done working for 10 hours in our small business.

Monitors
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2 x Touchscreen HT231HPBU @ 250 - tigerdirect

CPU
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2x AMD FX-8320 @ 160 - newegg

HD
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2x Toshiba HDTS225XZSWA SSD @ 160 - newegg
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 @ 110 - newegg

Motherboard
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2x MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS @ 70 - newegg

Ram
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G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C9D-16GXM @ 150 (plus 15% discount) - newegg



If anyone can give build suggestions I would appreciate it. Thanks for your help.

 

[lp231]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($159.99 @ TigerDirect)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($31.27 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($127.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($174.93 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.95 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($135.38 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($135.38 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Enthusiast 650W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1039.36
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-07 16:28 EST-0500)

Some AMD video cards can support up to 4 monitors, but that's only for Eyefinity. Not sure if it can run independent displays. One catch for it to work is one must run at display port. Currently display port monitors and adapters aren't cheap. So the best alternative to to get 2 graphic cards.
These will not run in CrossFire. but independent of each other. All you need is a cheap card, but I didn't pick them because it has a VGA, and most monitors these days don't use VGA except for the very sub $100 models.