Cool thanks. I'm moving my rigs from a spare room into the garage soon so noise won't be as much of a concern. I think your config will be my new template 
High power ATX PSUs with lots of PCIE sockets have become hard to source lately and the server options make much more sense. I guess you can safely run a couple of risers per PCIE socket with a splitter?
High power ATX PSUs with lots of PCIE sockets have become hard to source lately and the server options make much more sense. I guess you can safely run a couple of risers per PCIE socket with a splitter?As some of the other forum members have pointed out, you can certainly use splitters - for my money, I'd rather just have dedicated PCI-E cables whenever possible, and the particular configuration I use has ample amounts of both (the DPS-2000BB + Optimizer breakout board). As we move forward though, this will become less and less of an issue as each progressive generation of video cards tends to use less and less power.