Yup that is the problem, and if you use 2 vga cards that have 2 slot coolers then you start to lose slots fast.
The reason I need so many slots is this;
I need a sound card;
A graphics card, something fast, I have not decided what yet and i would like to possibly SLI or Crossfire. This might be asking just a little bit to much thou;
A TV-card (something like the all in one wonder pro card) I need this as I want to one watch TV on my PC and do video editing.
Then I was looking at the killer nic for a network card. Now in theory and on paper this thing looks great but in real world performance is it really worth it? So I might scratch this.
The other PCI card is the PhysX Card, I do play a few games that support it so it would be nice.
To add to this I need a SATA II / SAS card to run at least 4 drives in some kind of raid setup for my video editing.
Other drives in the system will be 2x 150 Gb WD Raptor running In raid 0 for games, 2x 74Gb WD Raptors also running in raid 0 for my OS and Virtual PC and a 1TB drive for backups and crap storage, I have not decided which brand yet.
The system will also have 8Gb of RAM 4x 2GB sticks and 3 22” LCD’s.
So as you can see I want my cake and I want to eat it to.
I plan to build this PC bit by bit over the next 6 months.
But I need to start with the motherboard and this is my problem, what board do I get. Let’s not even start talking about bandwidth issues.
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