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I'm interested in building a workstation that can handle the following activities without a problem: running 4-8 simultaneous VMs (each requiring little CPU and memory) web design in Photoshop/Illustrator software development in Visual Studio and other IDEs moderate video encoding/decoding...

What about the GIGABYTE GA-MA780G-UD3H which has DVI and HDMI out? Couldn't I just get a simple HDMI to DVI converter to connect to one of the dual monitors, while the other is connected straight to the DVI?

Thanks for the quick and thorough response. Would I need a video card at all? At the moment it seems that any onboard video cards can handle CS 1.6 and older games at low resolutions. Are there mobos with onboard video that can output to dual 22" monitors without a problem?

Sorry for making it hard on you guys ;) I wanted to really push the $500 to the limit. I can stretch my budget to $750 before shipping and taxes, this should help a lot.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc I'll mainly be doing software development (Visual Studio) and design with Photoshop/Illustrator. I will be running up to 8 simultaneous virtual machines when I am away from the machine. Each VM runs lightweight...