£400 trading PC setup help!

jeffrey12 · 26 Feb 2013 at 12:17

Hi,

I'm looking to build a trading pc that will power up 3 screens. This will be used strictly for trading and the odd internet browsing. I'm come up with the following specs. Please let me know if they seem sufficient.

AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95

MSI A85XA-G65 AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £85.99

Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SATA 2.5" 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (CSSD-F120GB3A-B) £85.99

Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99

Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK) £49.99

Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99

thanks for your time

Doomedspeed · 26 Feb 2013 at 12:25

The A10 5800k looks sufficent enough for your uses, if not too much..

The MSI board does have 4 outputs, which will you be using. Theres 1 X HDMI, 1 X VGA, 1 X DP and 1 X DVI.. What monitors will you use.

The RAM is a bit expensive.

You''l only really need 430W PSU too.

jeffrey12 · 26 Feb 2013 at 12:33

looking to get a few 2nd hand ex office monitors probably all 19inches.

from what i was told its easily possible to overclock this ram..

hmmm, will the graphics card on the APU be more than sufficient to power the 3 monitors..?

thanks

Doomedspeed · 26 Feb 2013 at 12:36

jeffrey12 said:
looking to get a few 2nd hand ex office monitors probably all 19inches.

from what i was told its easily possible to overclock this ram..

hmmm, will the graphics card on the APU be more than sufficient to power the 3 monitors..?

thanks

I was more after, what connectors your using, so i could spec you some adaptors if you needed any.

The RAM is overclockable but i don't see why you'd need to do that?

I am not sure.. Have you checked if the motherboard can support 3 screens?

jeffrey12 · 26 Feb 2013 at 12:45

from what i've read online it should power up 3 monitors
'Up to three monitors can be driven at a time, but do note, due to limitations, the HDMI and Display Ports cannot be used simultaneously'

and by taking that into consideration i'm guessing the screens will need to be one of each of the following: HDMI, VGA, DVI

i thought that overclocking the RAM slightly can give me a slight increase in speed without destabilising the system due to the RAM being very good. could be wrong.

thanks

Doomedspeed · 26 Feb 2013 at 13:17

Good times, so you will be able to use all HDMI, VGA and dvi.

I don't think you'd gain much of a speed increase if any.. 1600mhz is fast enough.

Another notes, id switch the SSD, corsair SSD's are great. Look at Plextor, crucial (m4) and Samsung SSD's, they are the most reliable products.

jeffrey12 · 26 Feb 2013 at 14:17

hi doomedspeed,

what do you think about these screens?

Doomedspeed · 26 Feb 2013 at 14:35

Remove the link mate. Not allowed to link to competitor websites, as OCUK sell monitors.

This is something similar from ocuk.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-052-AS&groupid=17&catid=276&subcat=

or you can splash out extra on 1080p monitors.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-065-BQ&groupid=17&catid=949&subcat=

jeffrey12 · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:16

sorry for bumping this up. i'm ordering this setup later on today and just wanted some reassurance that it was the best possible setup for the price for my planned usage. any information would be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

Incrauze · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:24

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
Total : £388.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).

jeffrey12 · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:29

Incrauze said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
Total : £388.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).

does that motherboard allow me to connect up 3 monitors using the amd apu?

Incrauze · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:31

jeffrey12 said:
does that motherboard allow me to connect up 3 monitors using the amd apu?

Yes, the motherboard has VGA, DVI and HDMI which allows you to connect 3 monitors

jeffrey12 · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:36

one last question. i plan on slightly overclocking the ram and cpu. from what i've read the samsung is meant to be very good at allowing this?

Armageus · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:40

jeffrey12 said:
one last question. i plan on slightly overclocking the ram and cpu. from what i've read the samsung is meant to be very good at allowing this?

Assuming trading is trading as in stocks/shares - I would assume you would want the PC to be bulletproof - last thing you would want would be a random crash/lockup due to an overclock?

Incrauze · 6 Mar 2013 at 14:41

jeffrey12 said:
one last question. i plan on slightly overclocking the ram and cpu. from what i've read the samsung is meant to be very good at allowing this?

Since you're using it for trading and internet browsing, overclocking isn't needed but if you want to then invest in a aftermarket cooler and the motherboard only supports up to 1866MHz so go for 1866MHz RAM instead of overclocking,

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C11 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1866C11D3P1K2/8G) £55.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £32.99
Total : £436.44 (includes shipping : £10.50).