GPU: The best deal available out there. I think Boli would vouch for these. I wanted something more than this before Boli put some sense into me. My picture quality is great, even for streaming and Youtube. $7.99!!! <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3390220.png">
Thats awesome Sam. Which website is it ? By the way i understand the following components is required to build great pc? - motherboard - ram - vga - HDD - Ethernet card - processor What else ?
RE: By the way i understand the following components is required to build great pc? - #1) motherboard - this goes hand in hand with processor, and other features like chipset, how many expansion slots, interfaces (NIC, USB, etc.) - ram - anything above 4GB these days you would be all right, I would start with at least 8GB. Why not? - vga - this is refering to the video cards. For trading - 2D charts, not that important - HDD - this will become important if you do a lot of back-testings and optimization. For real-time trading, discretionary style, not that important - Ethernet card - most motherboard has 1Gbit (or at least 100Mbit) Ethernet these days. This is a non-factor. You can spend money on 10Gbit Ethernet if you want. But it won't help you a bit. Because the bottleneck would be where the weakest link it. You can have a 10Gbit Ethernet card, but with a 5Mbps DSL link, you are only going to have a 5Mbps throughput. - #1) processor - most important, that's where the speed is What else ? - Power supply, have high enough rating to drive all the components you put together. I recommend 600W upwards. - Chassis to house all these components - Trivial stuff: keyboard/mouse, wifi if you so desire And... a CPU builder cooler. Not not the CPU cooler. It's bottles of Corona to cool off the guy who builds the CPU.
Good find, Sam! I use a few of these (not the same make but the same graphic chip). NVidia 8400 GS. Mine are with either 512MB or 1GB Ram and DDR3. But I think for what trading needs this will work just fine. Can't beat that, $7.99 to drive 2 monitors. You are our king of shopping!
For the network card I'd go with a dedicated card and avoid using the onboard one since they can sometimes be flaky (esp. the cheaper MBs). Something like the Intel PRO/1000 GT ones are pretty cheap and reliable.
Micro Center. Remember to tell them to take $50/60 off the motherboard if u get the processor from them. At present, they have the cheapest price on processors.
Awesome Sam, you are really great. Buddy can you list me the items again please.. And does the setup will also help me increase to 8 monitors also if required.. or have to add another graphics card.. Please list me all models and brand.. and will it give space for up gradation also. I am currently in Dubai, so i assume micro-center can courier.. Thanks a lot dear. I assume you are professional trader i believe? Which broker you use also.. ECN ? using Currenex ?
What a small world!!!. I was in Dubai just a few weeks back. In regards to delivery, I doubt Micro Center will ship to Dubai. If I were in your place, I would forgo the deal searching as it may be difficult getting those in Dubai. Besides, you can cover up your system in a days work. In regards to being professional, I guess that's what you'd call it, since it's my major source of income. As for my broker, I use multiple brokers, for different accounts AND for different reasons. For my day trading, I stick to IB and Lightspeed. For all other trades, I am split between Fidelity, Scottrade and Ameritrade. In regards to the list of items and price, go to the link below and it's the last post. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=223072&perpage=6&pagenumber=187