Under USD$1000 excluding monitors is more realistic. And you should have plenty of choices. You shouldn't be concerned yourself with mobo (motherboard) if you are to buy a complete box (recommended) instead of assembling your own. Visit your local computer shop like Fry's or something. Look around. Many makes/models to chooce from. The prices are competitive. The key factors of the pricing are: 1) The processor used (from not so fast to really fast) 2) Memory installed (the higher the better) 3) Any higher-end peripherals (e.g. blu-ray DVD drive, etc.) So it really depends on what your needs are (which you had told us nothing about). This is like asking: hey guys what car model would you recommend to buy for under $10,000? If you trade using an internet browser, then a low-end PC will do. Intel i3 class and equivalent AMD processors. Price is about $500 or so. If you trade using many charts, maybe a mid-end PC. Intel i5 class and equivalent AMD processors. Price is about $800 or so. If you need to do a lot of backtesting, real time scanning, real time charts, heavy number crunching, then maybe a high-end PC. Intel i7 class. Won't be under $1000. Probably around $1200-$1300 and up. The other thing to look for is how many PCIe slots available for expansion. These days most pre-configured boxes give only 1. It's only enough to drive 4 monitors if you buy a 4-head display card (more expensive). Or you can buy 2 dual-head display card (PNY, EVGA, etc.) for about $50-$60 each. But you must have at least 2 PCIe slots.
processor : intel i5 200 mobo :ASUS P7P55D EVO 150 usd video card 2 nvidia quadro nvs 290 200 usd ram- Corsair Dominator 6GB PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz Kit: 200 usd hard disc: Western Digital 500 GB Caviar SE WD5000AAJS SATA-300 Internal Hard Drive 100 usd rest around 150 usd total 1000 usd . Does it make any sense? thanx
Contradiction? Personally, I'm of the school that the motherboard is THE, #1, MOST IMPORTANT factor in a trading rig. Especially if you think you might ever run 3 or more monitors.
Try CyberpowerPC.com. Configure yourself an X58, i7-930 rig for <$1000 and buy used NVS video cards on eBay. Cyberpower apprently doesn't sell proper video cards for trading (that is, without noisy fans). Or, get a Dell Outlet Precision T3500 with Xeon W3530 (or better) CPU... Currently they are around $759, but they had one last week for $579. If you're looking to capture a really good deal, you have to check often and be prepared to buy when you see what you want. Good deals don't last.
The easy way is to see which motherboards a large manufacturer of custom-built PCs like scan is using. Then read some reviews on the boards they put in. There is no easy way as you are the only one who knows what excatly you need: how many PCI-E slots, what maximum RAM etc.
ok where do i read how many pci e slots i have? if for example i have this motherboard: Asus P6T SE, Intel X58, Sok 1366, PCI-E 2.0 (x16) does 2.0 after pci-E indicates that there are 2 slots for video cards? is 2 nvidia nvs 295 ok ? do i have to check something else to assemble video card and mobo? what about ram how do i know how many giga i can put on the motherboard and wich brand can i use? is corsair good for that mobo? thanx again guys.
Go to the respective manufacturers website and look up the specs on the particular components. It sounds like you are a fish out of water, go to a local computer shop explain your needs and ask them to give you a quote and list of components that they would use if they build you a computer.
If you assemble your own PC, then definitely the motherboard is important. But if you go to Best Buy or Fry's to buy a PC, from HP, of e-machine, or Toshiba, do they list what kind/model of motherboard they have inside the box? What you are concerned is the available slot(s), how many USB, whether they have networking and audio built it, that kind of thing... wouldn't it? Does it matter if they use a "ASUS" or "Gigabyte" motherboard?