I got this message through my NCIXcom YouTube channel where I post NCIX Tech Tips videos.

ive started putting together my first rig and so far ive only gotten the case and the psu (cosmos-s, real power modular 850w) now for the next step i need your wisdom and advice… i was thinking about something along the lines of:
EVGA x-58 3-SLi
PNY 9800 GT XLR8 OC SVGA ( X2 )
INTEL CORE I7-920
6 Gb of corsair dominator Ram

what afvise do you have and will this support three 22″screens comfortably??

The only real changes that I would recommend making to this configuration are the video cards and the 6GB of Dominator RAM.

If you want to play modern games on 1680×1050 monitors (running on all three monitors), then you’ll need one more powerful graphics card to go with a 9800GT. Something like a GTX 280 would be a good fit with the recent price drops. That way you can run the more powerful card with two monitors and the less powerful card with only one. Another configuration option here would be to run 3 9800GTs so all three screens will be equally powered.

If you don’t need top performance in 3D applications on all three screens, then a 9800GT is overkill for your extra monitors. You’d be better off spending your money on one good GPU and then a super cheap one. Something to be aware of is that running multi-monitor in SLI (in 2D… 3D is still limited to only one monitor) is limited to 2 monitors. You can only plug in one additional monitor to the same video card as your SLI focus display.

For the RAM, I would just recommend going with regular XMS3 unless you’re planning on some serious overclocking. Core i7 is not very sensitive to higher memory bandwidth (or lower latencies), so inexpensive memory may save you a few dollars to spend on higher end GPUs.