My total screen inch is 137 over 3 screens. Plenty for me. I only trade CL front month outright using mainly sierra charts and 1 small TOS grid to watch correlated markets.
Need a new desktop setup
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If you keep your trading machine lean, and use it only for trading, you can do exactly what you want to do but with half of the specs of the beast you have.
If your machine, with that much power, coughs on a Chrome install, you have more parasitic software baggage in there than you realize.
What’s this? You stalking my posts?
Well at least I can see now you are just forming some sort of issue with me.......hahahahahahaa.
ah well- I guess I’m the only dumb asshole that thinks Chrome is very system intensive for a browser.......oh look, IM NOT. But what would I know- clearly YOU are some sort of technology consultant. BHAHAhaha.
Man, you must have had a lonely Sat night.
Jog on and contribute something useful
I just bought 3 of these for $4.99 each, + shipping to replace NVS 295 cards in other machines. The seller says he still has 4 remaining.
FWIW...
Agree.
My recommendation is to buy "workstation" machines. Used, OK. Dell, HP, Lenovo.. all OK. Buy from eBay. Save 75-90% vs new. Big benefit from buying workstations vs BIY. My Dell T3500s are 9 years old and still running smooth as a gravy sandwich (bought them off lease from Dell Financial Services).... planning to run them until the hardware starts breaking down. ("Newer, Faster, Bigger"... no benefit to my use.) I had a Dell workstation which I sold to a buddy that is now 15 years old. Still good for his "surfing porn" use.
are you a FT trader? I ask cause that would help if I would be able to contribute to the convo
I think almost any decent desktop from a big name brand made in the last 5 years, with only a few mods such as SSD drive, plenty of RAM, and a good graphics card, will do you just fine. The trick is to keep the software from crippling the hardware. Something WinDOHs isn't very good at. If your brokerage offers or allows a trading platform that is available in a Linux version, you might find Debian, Mint, or Ubuntu to be very good for keeping your machine mean and lean, especially if you only use it for trading. You might want an entirely separate machine for web browsing etc. You will get nice fast boot times and a fast and responsive system that way, I am thinking.
When it comes to computing, we are usually our own worst enemy. Most virii (something we Linux users actually dont know much about LOL) are introduced into a system by stupid computing practices. Cookies can be inoccuous or even helpful but they are robbing your computing resources. "Advanced" web browsers combined with media and scripting intensive websites slow browsing down. Web based email... I don't use it, no. A good standalone email client (NOT OUTLOOK!) has a much lower presence on your puter. Gaming? Separate computer. Graphics/Video editing, capturing, viewing, transcoding? Ripping? Music? Sure. Do that stuff. On another computer. Keep your hard drive size reasonable. You don't want a 4TB drive to boot and run from, especially if it is crammed to the gills with multigigabyte files. A good quality 200GB SSD drive will make a big difference, especially if it stays less than half full. If you insist on running WinDOHs, every few months defrag your drive, and every year back it up, wipe it and do a full reinstall. I don't know maybe W10 is better about that than previous incarnations. And for petes sake, if you use WinDOHs, set your file manager to always show filename extensions so you don't click on "HotBabeOnHotBabe.mpg.exe" thinking it is a video you simply must see.
When it comes to computing, we are usually our own worst enemy. Most virii (something we Linux users actually dont know much about LOL) are introduced into a system by stupid computing practices. Cookies can be inoccuous or even helpful but they are robbing your computing resources. "Advanced" web browsers combined with media and scripting intensive websites slow browsing down. Web based email... I don't use it, no. A good standalone email client (NOT OUTLOOK!) has a much lower presence on your puter. Gaming? Separate computer. Graphics/Video editing, capturing, viewing, transcoding? Ripping? Music? Sure. Do that stuff. On another computer. Keep your hard drive size reasonable. You don't want a 4TB drive to boot and run from, especially if it is crammed to the gills with multigigabyte files. A good quality 200GB SSD drive will make a big difference, especially if it stays less than half full. If you insist on running WinDOHs, every few months defrag your drive, and every year back it up, wipe it and do a full reinstall. I don't know maybe W10 is better about that than previous incarnations. And for petes sake, if you use WinDOHs, set your file manager to always show filename extensions so you don't click on "HotBabeOnHotBabe.mpg.exe" thinking it is a video you simply must see.
I am not stalking you. I am trying to invoke in you the understanding that you don't need to go full ape-shit with some crazy Alien-Ware-type gaming PC to do the following...
"My total screen inch is 137 over 3 screens. Plenty for me. I only trade CL front month outright using mainly sierra charts and 1 small TOS grid to watch correlated markets."
You don't need a mega-PC to do that. Just trying to save you money on your upgrade is all. Shoot me in the head if I am out of line on this advice. Sheesh.
I appreciate what you are saying. Thanks. My system though is not some crazy Alienware system and I don’t do any gaming at all.