Building my own Core2Duo system

said in Swartzenegger's voice....Traders make my day :) as I pull out my scuzzi driven Bill gates enforcer... (it has a blue laser light in its case, and when I pull the trigger it makes simulated machine gun racheting noises)


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Just because Apollo 11 got to the moon on 32KB's of ram doesn't mean we all have to buy girly Apple computers Savant
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Quote from gnome:

For trading you want quiet and reliability. You don't need video power... and in most cases, you don't need much CPU grunt, either.
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Could you recommend a system for the ultimate in quietness and reliability?
 
Quote from taodr:

Asus a very good stable motherboard. Who ever is advising you is talking out their ass. Stay away from enermax products. Just order system you can afford and is good enough for trading and spend the nervous brain power on making money.
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I think his point was that it's an old and cheap Asus. Also I'm finding it very informative to research for this PC and it might even be good fun to spend a weekend building it once I have all the parts.
 
Quote from ElectricSavant:

trader28...

shouldn't you be trading? i didn't charge you a desk fee just to sit around talking on ET...
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My computer has attained sentience and trades for me... thats what happens when you shell out a few bucks instead of whining like a bum about how all you need is a pocket calculator to run your charts
 
hey doesn't HP have a calculator that runs Excel? does it come in red and have those buttons with funny symbols?

hey I could trade commodities..where they draw their charts by hand...hmmm...let's see lumber for katrina...

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My computer has attained sentience and trades for me... thats what happens when you shell out a few bucks instead of whining like a bum about how all you need is a pocket calculator to run your charts
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Quote from notouch:

Could you recommend a system for the ultimate in quietness and reliability?
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You might want to do an internet search. There are companies who advertise "quiet" PCs... mostly to be used as part of home entertainment centers where you wouldn't want fan noise to distract from your movie.

Most of the noise comes from the PSU, CPU cooler, and video cards. You can build (or replace parts) to quiet specs yourself.

Or, I hear the recent Dell 9100-9200s are very quiet. Then just get video cards without fans and you'd be all set.

(My trading rig is a Dell 8300... it's low noise because of the CPU cooler. Then, I've replaced the PSU with a SilenX. I have 3 video cards + TV tuner, but no GPU fans. It all runs nice and cool/quiet.)

If you want a gaming machine, high heat and high fan noise are OK because the audio from the games will drown it out. But all that noise, all day long can be a drag for trading.
 
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