Is watercooling a trading system a bad idea?

[easymon1]

If you really want silent IMHO the best option is a thin-client solution. Put a big old beast in a telco or climate controlled room (or shoved in your basement somewhere) and run hardware or software PCoIP or RemoteFX and use a thin client. No noise, no heat, not even that much more of a cost increase.

Winston, always good company! Hey kind sir, where is found good -simple- info on using thin-client, ballpark costs, how to attach 14 monitors; like that...? Thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCoIP#PCoIP_Protocol

 

[WinstonTJ]

Winston, always good company! Hey kind sir, where is found good -simple- info on using thin-client, ballpark costs, how to attach 14 monitors; like that...? Thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCoIP#PCoIP_Protocol

Not possible currently. I believe that the max on the true thin clients is quad-monitor (4) support and there are only three devices out there on the market that have that ability. All the rest are dual monitor support.

You could use a desktop and flash it with thin client firmware - running from a USB thumb drive... but that doesn't do anything other than remove the potential failure of a HDD (but you increase the wear and potential failure of a thumb drive).

Running 14 monitors off one system is foolish in my opinion. It's going to suck memory and resources more than you know and the span of one mouse over that many monitors is going to really be an issue.

Problem is that hardware memory is addressed before RAM which means your FSB (front side bus) and northbridge may get maxed out just with the PCI bus bandwidth going between the video card memory and the CPU... then add in the cross bandwidth going to the actual DIMMS and sticks of memory and you will crush all but the top server-grade motherboards that are either dual or quad socket built for GPU or PCI flash memory applications.

 

[Bolimomo]

Running 14 monitors off one system is foolish in my opinion. It's going to suck memory and resources more than you know and the span of one mouse over that many monitors is going to really be an issue.

RE: mouse

Not a big deal in my opinion. I have computers that typically drive 8 to 10 monitors. Granted don't use a real mouse. You don't want to "lift and lower" repeatedly. Waste of energy and cause CTS later on. Buy a trackball. Set the pointer device speed to the highest. You can go across the entire span of 10 monitors in just a few strokes. Easy.

When I have these multiple monitor set up, I rarely change a thing or make annotation through out the trading day. I set up everything the way I wanted, off hours, and leave them running during market hours and don't touch them.