Question about the computer to buy

[saxon22]

Quote from kiwi_trader:

But you'll never get one of those "why did it slow down then" feelings again.

I've got an e6600 core2 with 2G's of 800MHz ram and its way too fast for ZeroLine Trader, SierraChart and IB TWS. I don't know which apps/threads are running on which of the cores and I don't really care. But it does a great job with the flight sim I bought a couple of years ago when you couldn't get a processor fast enough to run it without pauses (LockOn).

To save my new 380G Hard Drive I run SeirraChart on a RAM drive ... I like the idea of getting rid of all those nasty disk accesses.

Unless you like noise get a quiet case and quiet processor fan. Also get graphics cards that don't need to spin their fans up under normal use - silence is golden.

How do you run it on RAM drive????? Are any programs needed to do that???? What is the trick????

 

[FanOfFridays]

Quote from bighog:

A big hard drive is not needed for general pc use. Myself, using a pc for movies, pictures and music is not using a computer properly. Music,.........get a ipod, movies buy a HDTV, pictures get prints. How many pictures do you need?

With respect, bighog, I think that's changing, at least for some users. Convergence is the catchword, isn't it.

Families will still have a TV room with a big screen, but I can see the day when that big screen is just a remote monitor hooked up to the central computer and all media are requested through the computer. Home music can be the same way with wirelessly connected remote speaker setups.

The LCD monitors I am looking at these days are actually HDTVs as well. I have been realizing that for my needs, there may soon come a day when I don't need a TV (i.e. paying the cable company, at least for their current coaxial out-the-wall product) because my needs might be met over the 'net (news, sports, and sports, in that order).

Certainly the gaming console manufacturers are trying to create some convergences.

I don't think component home electronics are dead yet, but options are going to be available soon enough. These will be attractive to singles living alone for sure.

Quote from bighog:
DELL is yesterdays pc to buy mail order. DELL is notorious for sending less than advertised outdated shit in the warehouse in your new box.

Agree with this 100%. They were pulling some weird stuff with their monitors, establishing a line with a nice S-IPS panel then swapping in cheaper panels when the units started moving in numbers.