Nvidia has very confusing naming conventions. It is getting very difficult to make sense out of.

Sorry but the 640 seems to be a genuine Kepler card. It has a larger number of CUDA cores which are somewhat less efficient compared to older cards. 384 CUDA cores for the 640, 96 CUDA cores for the 630. Here is the Nvidia page for the 640 where they also mention Kepler:

http://www.geforce.com ...

Okay, I would imagine that this card is Fermi... next model down the line:

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop ... rce-gt-630

And this is what Anandtech has to say about it:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5845/nvid ... nto-retail

Hi all,

seems like no one has posted info on this yet. It is Nvidia, it is Kepler, and it is new, the GeForce GT 640:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gef ... ,3214.html

They say there will be versions with 2G of memory.

What are flexible raisers?

Look for PE-FLEX16kr-3 - these allow you simply to displace cards from modtherboard so You can tilt them or spread a bit =) to have more airflow between.

That looks interesting. They talk about "system power" and "isolated power", but I am not exactly sure what they ...

Well if I don't go AMD (which I have not yet decided on), then Ivy Bridge is the way to go. PCI-E 3.0, USB3 in the chipset, etc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge ... hitecture)

Not out yet, but coming soon enough.

Okay, here's another question. I tried to search for an answer a bit, it might be somewhere already, but I have not found it yet.

And this is the question: I understand that memory does not add up when using multiple cards. I understand that if there are two cards with 1G and one card with 512MB ...

Yes, that's wise words. But then again, one option might be to buy a cheaper processor now and update later. That requires some studying and research, as the motherboard needs to be one that will support new processors as far in the future as possible.

My funds are quite limited at the moment ...

OK that's good to know... good thing I asked. Well RAM is pretty cheap these days, might as well go for more than 8G.

If AMD graphics is out, that still leaves many AMD processors to choose from... there was one interesting one with three cores.

But it might be better to go with Intel and one of ...

Hi all, my first post!

I am considering buying a new PC and focusing on graphics card oomph most. That means, good power supply and room for expansion on the motherboard. And of course a nice GTX card.

But I wonder, if I am not interested in much else than Octane to start with, how much can I save ...