If your a PC gamer you NEED to go ahead and jump to Windows 7 or Vista. Soon you'll start finding that someone of your newer games won't install unless you have either of them. One such game, Just Cause 2.

Guru3D, TomsHardware, Anandtech, Dailytech, ArsTechnica, [H]ard|OCP and QJ.net.

I read Hexus net and TechPowerUp when someone provides a link to them, but I don't visit them daily.

Dell makes multiple monitors use DP connectors. You can also use an Active DP to DVI/HDMI connector, not PASSIVE. Those cost about $100 though.

Samsung and HP also make a few DP monitors. Dell's are made under the professional series tag.

How do you monitor the power usage for your machine, is there software for this?Montaya

I base a lot of it off of reviews for the components that I have. A i7 965 @ 3.75Ghz, GTX 480, 1 HDD and 6GB of RAM pull ~460w at full load, ~210w at idle.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-470-480-review/13

Your machine is not going to pull any where close to 2400w.

A 20 Amp 120 volt breaker has a max capacity of 2,400w. I have an i7 920, 4870 X2, 8800 GTX and 3 HDDs and I'm not even pulling any where close to 200w at idle. I'm probably pulling less than 500 watts at full load.

Houses, in the US atleast, use 120v for the main wiring. 20 amps X 120 volts = 2,400 watts. PC components use 3.3, 5 and 12v. 500w on a 12v is roughly 41 amps. That's only, at 80% efficiency, 625 watts which translates to roughly 5.2 amps.

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You can't connect all 3 with HDMI. You're going to have to use at least one monitor on the display port. Details Here

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Sorry if I can't be more descriptive, I read a article on it, but this was like a little over a month ago. I would link it if I remembered where I read it. I visit almost a dozen tech sites daily.

Even if you use an adapter from DP to VGA/DVI/HDMI it still doesn't make a signal that a DP connector makes.

I would suggest taking this up with Gigabyte's support than.

Are you comfortable with reseating the heatsink on the GPU?

Your current GPU has no back, which means it pushes air back into your case. Your HD 4890s I am going to assume were regular HD 4890s, which means that they had a full heat sink cover with a fan at the rear of the card which pulled air in from the case and pushed hot air out the back.

Looking at the case, your probably not getting enough cool air on the bottom. Your video card is just spitting hot air back into your unlike the HD 4890s were.

Should have gone with something like a Cooler Master, SilverStone, Lian-Li or Antec.