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Hello. I'm a day trader on an archaic Dell4500/478 socket/ intel 845pe/P4 w/ maxed out 1GB RAM. I'm smoking fast!!! Not!! Looking to upgrade to a new system. Should I have one built by a local geek or should I support one of the larger manufactures e.g., dell, HP, Gateway.

I want this sucker to be fast...I've learned somethings about hardware but not enough to take the chances of building it myself. I run several app's at a time. One direct access trading platform, several IM's, a couple of chat rooms, live news wire, and have two experienced traders broadcasting their platforms through webex all through cable internet. I'm suprised my system doesn't tanked all the time

Thinking:
Q6600
4gb ram 800Mhz/1066
Mother board, not sure but I like native support of DDR2 1066 Asus P5K and some of the P35 gigabyte boards.
Video cards: need 4 monitors may uprgrade to 6. I'm doing 2D work and not interested in gaming so is 256MB card enough?
Do I need cooling fans??

Can anyone suggest where I can have one builded?
 
IF you don't want to build it yourself, I'd either go with a Dell, or a PC built by a good, trusted local PC store (not a Best buy type store, but a small "real" PC store). That way, you have someone to provide tech support if needed. And if you buy it local, you should be able to bring it by to fix if there is a problem, rather then dealing with tech support over the phone, and having to mail things back and forth.

If you really running that many apps at once, I would think that Vista 64-bit (or XP-64bit) would be better, and increase your RAM to 8Gig. 32-bit OS's can only use ~3.5Gig.

RAM speed isn't important. Get regular DDR2-800 5-5-5 and don't worry about it. High speed RAM is more expensive and doesn't add any value to business applications.

Any P35 MB will be good, since this is a "mission critical" business PC, you should not be overclocking at all. MSI, Abit, Asus, Gigabyte are all good.

I can't speak to running 4-6 monitors, but as long as you are running 2-D apps (IE not games), 256Meg should be fine.
 
Other than 64 bit o/s does new software that I load onto my machine need to be 64 bit?? Does my trading platform, and anything trough the interent need to be 64 compatiable??
 
32-bit software will run on a 64-bit OS. (Which is good, since probably 98% of all games and Windows programs are 32bit 🙂 )

The only thing that can be an issue is that any hardware you have needs 64-bit drivers. If you have old hardware this might be an issue. Most new hardware have 64-bit drivers, so just check for drivers before deciding.
 
I don't see where a quad-core cpu will gain you much of anything.

Vista will use Windows Display Driver Model which means all your video cards will need the same drivers (or one set of drivers will be disabled). Also be advised that your video memory is effectively split in half when you push two monitors from one card (or 4 monitors from 2 cards, or 6 monitors from 3 cards).

You will need 3 PCIe x16 slots - AFAIK that would steer you to the AMD 790fx and what is called 'hydravision' multi-monitor support. I think your best bet would be the MSI K9A2 Platinum wuth four PCIe 2.0 x16 slots. In 'quad' the slots wil run x8.

nvidia multi-monitor support is called 'nView'. I don't think the ASUS P5 has 3 PCIe x16 slots but the Striker Extreme does ... I do not know what 'mode' they will run if they are all populated.

 
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