Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

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IMO, with your choice of cpu I wouldn't consider any less than a SATA III 6Gb/s SSD. Then add a storage drive (spinner) of the capacity to meet your needs.

With your choice of MB and CPU it will be very easy to create bottle neck and give back some of your available performance.
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I would love to have this, but it would surely throw me off budget. Also, how bad a bottle neck do you think it would create?. Would I notice the difference?
 
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I would love to have this, but it would surely throw me off budget. Also, how bad a bottle neck do you think it would create?. Would I notice the difference?
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Sharpen up that pencil! I'm a newegg man myself and a quick search came up with RAM $50.00 SSD $109.99 HDD $39.99

Another $200.00 Now, if your impatient (like Boli :) ) and have to run off to Fry's and hurry up and pick it up you may pay more, lol. Rarely have I seen a case on newegg with free shipping (to big I guess). So with your MB/CPU deal, my math says you'd be around $500 right now..... And all you need is a case, power supply and video cards. I'm getting tired of saying it BUT I bought 4 NVS 295s on ebay for $15.00 ea... As Boli told me when I got them, the cables were ALMOST that much. Keep shopping, Sam i M

As for the bottle neck, will you notice it? Probably not, trading as you described earlier. This thing will be so fast you'd never know, but the idea (in my mind) is to get as fast as you (I) can afford.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227725


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...07611 600006069&IsNodeId=1&name=8GB (2 x 4GB)
 
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I would love to have this, but it would surely throw me off budget. Also, how bad a bottle neck do you think it would create?. Would I notice the difference?
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I suggest that you do a little snap-shot measure of your actual situation before deciding. Everybody trades differently, has different chart setups and different data requirements.

There is a Resource Monitor utility in Windows 7. (Can't recall if they are available in Vista or XP). If you run Win 7:

Start Task Manager. Click on the "Performance" tab. Click on "Resource Monitor..." button.

Then click on the "Disk" tab. This will monitor your disk activities in real time. Run it for 10 minutes during your trading day - especially during "heavy traffic" hour, such as the opening. Get a feel for the disk I/O rate.

Take a note on the "xxxx B/sec Disk I/O". (or written as MB/sec or KB/sec). This should give you a good feel for your disk I/O rate and you can determine if a SSD would benefit you.

My sample screenshot:

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I had reviewed your config. Looks like you made a few different choices (e.g. Windows' edition and 1 more data hard disk). It looks good. Have fun!


RE: I'm sure I can get my computer guy to add the four 295 cards pretty reasonably. Or, is this something I can do myself?

Do you know how to use a small screw driver and hook up cables? If not, pay the guy $100/hour to do it.

Seriously though... the challenge would be to use the driver software to set things up.

Remember to use only 1 dual card first at the beginning. Once you have configured correctly for the first and second monitors, then shut down the computer and add one the second video card (to hook up and test the third and forth monitors), and so on.
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Bolimomo, I'm getting ready to add the 295 cards. Thanks for the advice in the above!
 
Wanted to try something out just for fun.
I added a spare fan to the cpu cooler for a push / pull effect .
I was looking to see if it would make a noticeable difference in temps.
Temps basically steady at 25 Celcius with the machine under normal use.

A decrease of 2 Celsius CPU so far from last temp posting. That's not so bad if someone is looking for a little extra out of their cooler.

Fan is attached with a molex but I would go with a CH fan1 for the fan control from the MB if this was permanent.
I have to run this for days to see the longer results


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What figure are you looking for on disk activity to determine if you need an ssd?
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Well I am trying to gauge the level of disk activities.

If you look at the specs of a SSD... let me take Intel X25-M model SSDSA2MH080G1 for example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167005

The drive is capable of

Sustained Sequential Read Up to 250MB/sec
Sustained Sequential Write up to 70MB/sec

Now if you compare it to your own trading/charting activities... If you constantly hit something like 10 MB/sec, then I think a SSD would probably be benefitial. On the other hand, if you rarely see anything over 100 KB/sec (taking it to the opposite end of the spectrum), then having a SSD for trading probably is not noticeable. I hope this makes sense.
 
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