Originally by: Grom Starscream

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Your local gaming shop would rip you off.

The first person to reply to this thread is trolling you. AMD is so far behind Intel now that it's just silly. AMD's new processors have zero chance to even match Intel's current offerings, let alone Ivy Bridge and Socket 2011 coming out in the next few months.

The easiest way to do what you want will be to have a quad monitor setup, imo. HD Televisions could be used for what you want to do, but monitors will give you a better experience. It's up to you to decide how to mount them, but you will need two graphics cards (in Crossfire if you go with AMD graphics or in SLI if you go with nVidia). There's no single gpu card that offers 4 display outputs, although a couple of the dual gpu on a single pcb setups do. You would get better performance out of 2 discrete GPU's either way.

Moving on ... one thing this system is going to have a lot of is heat. You want a case that can deal with heat. There are a number of options available, and it really depends on your preferences for size and noise. If size is no issue and you want the quietest solution, I would highly recommend the Coolermaster HAF X case, as the large 230mm fans used are exceptional quiet.

You'll want a Sandy Bridge core i7 if you are buying immediately. If I were going to spend the kind of money you're looking at spending, I would wait for Ivy Bridge later this year, but you really can't go wrong with the current Sandy Bridge. You'll want to get a quality motherboard and go with the Core i7 2600k, which can be easily overclocked to 4.5 Ghz without any problems at all. You'll want to go with a Corsair H70 sealed water cooling unit or a high end air cooler if you do overclock.

No reason not to go with 8GB of ram since you're going to run the game 4x

The GTX480 was a really loud and hot card that was quickly surpassed. Anyone recommending you use the 480 is just trying to steal from you basically. You could probably get by with 2 GTX 460's in SLI, but if you don't mind spending $1000 on graphics, two GTX 580's in SLI will allow you to play with everything turned up and all 4 accounts going at once.

But again ... LOL @ waiting for AMD's bullroarer. What a tool. The age of blind fanboyism has long passed. It used to be that AMD and Intel had similar offerings and it was just a matter of finding your price point and going with whichever had the best value at the price point. Now? Intel has squashed AMD like a bug. It's not even a competition anymore.

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