Electric wrote: "If you got the money go with the 10k RPM HD...and upgrade the CPU to the next step if its under a 100 bucks...Where is your operating system? Is this a trading computer or a mulimedia computer? I question your use of both in the same machine, as I suspect you want both...use separate machines and isolate yuor trading..." OS is Windows XP Media Center. This will be a combo trading computer and for everything else. For trading, I use esignal and an order entry system for the prop firm. I, also, like to use the internet and listen to music while trading.
It's a living and a better one than any job paying 30% more in Corporate America. In fact, I would prefer trading for 70k a year than a Corporate America jobby job that pays 170k a year. Maybe that is just me.
Quick question on dual core as you guys seem ahead of me in your knowledge. Q Is dual core useable with any software or does it have to be written for dual core (which is the situation with hyperthreading as I understand it) e.g would it be pointless buying a dual core to run Radarscreen on TS2000i as a piece of software from 2000 would not be compatible or would there be a benefit? TIA