Hello.
I'm planning on building a day trading PC with 4 to 6 monitors. I'm a beginner so I'll probably start with 4. I'm a little confused about what is the best setup for my needs.
Anyway, I'm wondering if it is best to have a dedicate machine for trading and nothing else? Is this the usual way? The issue is that I also want a powerful rig for making music, doing photoshop, video editing and maybe gaming too. I'm not sure if I should combine them in to one system. If I do, I'm sure I'll have to have a machine that is overkill for trading and it might cause problems because of graphic cards requirements, noise, etc.
I was thinking of a new haswell 6 core 2.5 GHZ with 32gb RAM. Is that overkill for day trading? I'll potentially be using tradestation, esignal, etc. I'll be having a 512 MB SSD, and a quiet case and quiet CPU cooler. The issue is that for games the graphics cards are too noisy for music and business. That is why I'm not sure if I should just forget gaming on PC and buy a console.
Either that or I go with a cheaper 4 core i7 processor designed for games (devil's canyon) for the trading machine with some cheap video cards like NVS, etc, and build a more expensive rig for music, etc. The issue is i need quiet graphics cards in both of these systems, so that is why I was thinking of combining. However, the business graphics cards might not be enough for graphics work and monitor array I'll be buying for trading might not work well for music applications and graphics (because that requires properly calibrated monitors for graphics), so that's another concern.
Budget is around 3K for either one or two systems.
Any advise appreciated.
Thank You
I'm planning on building a day trading PC with 4 to 6 monitors. I'm a beginner so I'll probably start with 4. I'm a little confused about what is the best setup for my needs.
Anyway, I'm wondering if it is best to have a dedicate machine for trading and nothing else? Is this the usual way? The issue is that I also want a powerful rig for making music, doing photoshop, video editing and maybe gaming too. I'm not sure if I should combine them in to one system. If I do, I'm sure I'll have to have a machine that is overkill for trading and it might cause problems because of graphic cards requirements, noise, etc.
I was thinking of a new haswell 6 core 2.5 GHZ with 32gb RAM. Is that overkill for day trading? I'll potentially be using tradestation, esignal, etc. I'll be having a 512 MB SSD, and a quiet case and quiet CPU cooler. The issue is that for games the graphics cards are too noisy for music and business. That is why I'm not sure if I should just forget gaming on PC and buy a console.
Either that or I go with a cheaper 4 core i7 processor designed for games (devil's canyon) for the trading machine with some cheap video cards like NVS, etc, and build a more expensive rig for music, etc. The issue is i need quiet graphics cards in both of these systems, so that is why I was thinking of combining. However, the business graphics cards might not be enough for graphics work and monitor array I'll be buying for trading might not work well for music applications and graphics (because that requires properly calibrated monitors for graphics), so that's another concern.
Budget is around 3K for either one or two systems.
Any advise appreciated.
Thank You
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