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You can use one of these to measure electricity usage: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=kill%20a%20watt&sprefix=kill+a+watt%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Akill%20a%20watt Then plug in the numbers: http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/selectors/ups/index.cfm

What do you have the SC setting of "delay between historical data requests" set to? I have mine on 12000 milliseconds and do not get any pacing violations.

Monitors: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236331 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009508 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824260047 Desk stands/mounts...

Tried a half dozen times to flash BIOS but it would hang every time somewhere along the way. MOBO is toast but thankfully the rest of the components are fine. Thanks for the help.

Backup computer is running XP and is about 9 yrs. old, so I was planning to rotate down computer (W7 x64) into backup mode in April when XP support expires. Just installed cloned HDD (was external drive so was not connected to anything during storm) and tried to boot...got to the "starting...

Backup computer is much older and I don't have any spare parts that will fit down computer. Will try to boot from cloned HDD later today. Thanks for your help.

Can only get wireless where I am so have steel pole about 200' from house with 2 antennas on it for 2 isps. First isp has CAT 5e from house to antenna and other one has coax. Buss bars at house and pole and lightning suppressors on each line at both buss bars. Plus multiple ground rods and...

I'm attempting to get my computer back up and running after a lightning strike Sat. night. After trying to boot many times, I have experienced all of the following: will not boot to bios, will boot to bios and then hang, will boot into safe mode but then hangs. I have not been able to boot...

I bought my sister a laser printer because of the inkjet scam, but I didn't know some were unhackable or counted pages. Fortunately, her printer is a Brother and the low toner sensor is easy to fool with some black tape. I will remember to research hackable laser printers if my trusty HP LJ 5...

It's not strictly a business speech, but it's my favorite motivational one. Christopher Walken in Poolhall Junkies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzekDivpK3M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

If you're drowsy during trading you need to put on more size. :D

My laptop is just for when I travel. My main desktop with multi-monitors is the one I was talking about upgrading to W7 x64 with a SSD from XP x86 with a spinner, but you've about talked me into building a new rig! :D The SSDs I am considering are the Samsung 830 or the Crucial M4. I have an...

My laptop with Win7 x64 uses 1.65 out of 4 total gb of RAM at idle. WTF. I'll have 6 gb on my desktop so that should be enough for what I do. Another XP rig with SierraChart and IB running uses less than 1 gb. I tweak my computer according to this guy. Maybe that would help...

Thanks for your opinion. I have plenty of RAM and I prefer to build my own rigs even though it's probably not the most cost-effective way. My thinking was to spend $80 on W7 and add a SSD (which I could use on a new build if necessary). For my multi-monitor setup, I don't really want to spend $$...

"(You're likely not to know it failed until you need it... and then it's too late.)" Very good point. Thanks.

No RAID here. I know backup is not performance intensive but I was concerned/not knowledgeable about this scenario: If I run SSD for main drive and clone to spinner: if SSD fails and I use spinner for main drive, can I then clone spinner to new SSD with no problems and then use new SSD for...

Not sure what you mean by "one source or two." I have 2 spinners...1 is C drive and 1 is E. I use Casper to clone C to E each weekend, and also clone C to external drive every few months.

Thanks for the advice. I was planning to get 2 SSDs next week for my main trading rig. Currently, I have 2 spinners in each of two desktops plus external drives. I clone to the secondary internal spinners each weekend and to the external ones every few months because they're stored off site. To...

Well shoot, I'm not liking what you all are saying :) My main trading computer running XP x86 is 4 y.o. and seems like it's in need of a reformat. I was planning to install W7 x64 over the holidays if I can pick up a SSD on sale next week. Maybe W7 won't seem too slow with a SSD.

Thanks for the update. While I don't have a Dell machine, I am running 4 -290s with XP on a homebuilt rig and was planning to install W7 x64 sometime this winter.