Not trying to totally derail your thread here but what is your arrangement with Bright? Don't firms usually pay for their trader's hardware? How much do you pay them in commissions for them to tell you what they think you should buy? Are you remote or in the office â why not ask them to pay for your machine? If they wonât pay for it consider asking yourself if you really need a new machine and how much you might or might not benefit from it.
On another note, an i5 CPU with a decent motherboard and two 320gb HDD in a RAID0 (or 4 in a RAID10 or RAID5) would be plenty fast. "as much ram as you can afford" is also a very poor statement. Will you be running x64 software? SSD is a waste of money and will only allow you to boot and open programs quickly but there is little extra speed added once the system is up and running. Look at the Western Digital Black series drives, the 640GB black is an excellent drive.
Are your trading systems single or multi-threaded? If they are single threaded then you care about clock speed as the program won't be able to use multiple cores therefore making faster clock speed per core a main concern. If they are multi-threaded you may want to consider an i7 920 and be done with it (or minor OC it).
As for RAM, if you are going DDR3 its triple channel so you want sticks in sets of 3, three 1GB sticks are better than two 2GB sticks. Do you run Excel-intensive applications or models? Do you use 2003 or 2007 (Office 2k3 or 2k7)? You are leaving out a whole lot of details in terms of how you will use your system and seem to have been blindly led down a road of either someone bullying you into buying what they want to sell you â or getting whatever is âfastestâ within your budget.
For a normal Windows7 64-bit computer with Office 2007 and 90+% of the trading software out there you would be fine with an i5 like I linked to below. Get something over 3.0ghz â either the 3.2 or 3.4, or buy the âunlockedâ and over clock it. Run 6GB of DDR3 RAM (three 2gb sticks) and be done with it. Look at the NVIDIA NVS 295 card if you insist on HDMI, if not look at any number of cheaper cards such as the NVIDIA 290 that you can buy used for $50. FWIW, I personally think HDMI is overrated.
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Seems like you are buying a computer to buy a computer and NOT buying a trading computer for what your trading needs. Consider fully evaluating your needs prior to shelling out a ton of cash on something thatâs going to be overkill in areas you will never need and lacking in areas that you will use daily.
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