- Buy a Lenovo (or HP or Dell) with onsite hardware support. - Xeon E5 8-core. - 16GB-32GB of RAM. - Seagate XT Momentus Hybrid HD (500GB or 750GB) ran in RAID. - Dual FirePro 2460 mini-DisplayPort graphics cards (8 displays). - Dell 23"-24" IPS displays. With multiple apps you want more cores, I wouldn't worry so much about the fastest CPU unless you're doing backtesting, spend that money on RAM. Judging by the Xeon E5 systems above, I would think you would have no problems getting a machine around $3k.
Doobs , I'm traveling now and I'll put my 2cents when I get back for next week.. But I have owned 4 puget systems pcs. I push them hard so i highly recommend... Currently 4 monitor with ssd drive, 16 gb ram. Runs my stuff great and they support unlimited.
Thanks for all the replies. From what I am hearing the six core i7 is the better way to go, as opposed to the lower clock speed Xeon E5-2620s. Here is a proposed build from Puget that fits my budget: Motherboard- Asus P9X79 Deluxe CPU- Intel Core i7 3930K 3.2GHz Six Core 12MB 130W Ram- Kingston 32GB DDR3-1600 (4x8GB) Video Card- 2 x AMD FirePro 2460 PCI-E 512MB Hard Drive 1- Intel 520 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5inch SSD Hard Drive 2- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s CD / DVD- Asus 24x DVD-RW SATA Case- Fractal Design Define R4 Titanium Grey Power Supply- Antec TruePower New Series 650W Power Supply CPU Cooling (Air)- Gelid GX-7 and additional chassis fan OS- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OEM SP1 Warranty- Lifetime Labor and Tech Support, 3 Year Parts
that looks sweet...I may need to pick up one of those...keep us informed on how stable it runs with your trading software
- I would go for 64GB (of course, this is what I have on my P9X79 / 3930K) - Get 2 x 1TB HDs and config them RAID1 (mirroring) - I recommend the Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 for CPU cooling - but this realistically cannot be shipped mounted (neither should the Gelid GX-7 IMO, but it might be within the Intel specs)
Thanks. -Is upgrading to 64gb really worth it? -I'm not that familiar with RAID setups, is RAID1 the way to go? -The fan is the one they recommended. How is the Noctua better?
Nice, thanks man. I'm glad to hear that you are satisfied with them. They have been a pleasure to deal with so far.