New pre-built system for trading financial markets, £2k, no monitors

Papillon · 30 Nov 2015 at 17:17

Hi,

I am looking for a new system to replace my current Dell Precision which was new in early 2009 (looking at the system specs it is Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz, 8gb RAM).

I want it to run multiple windows and power 4 x 24 inch screens (these I already have with the Dell). I want it to be as quiet as possible.

I will be using this machine to trade the financial markets so will have lots of chart windows open at one time. I might upgrade to 4k monitors in the future so it has to be capable of running those.

I have been looking at the Renda series by Overclockers - is this overkill for what I want to do?

Thank you :-)

Borealis · 30 Nov 2015 at 18:07

Which one are you looking at?

You don't really need an Nvidia Quadro, or AMD FirePro for trading but a cheap quadro may support more screens than a cheap consumer graphics card.

Papillon · 30 Nov 2015 at 18:39

PW-E7F with a W4100 graphics card.

Also, what is the advantage of having two hard drives?

Conor Royston · 1 Dec 2015 at 13:27

Do you have a budget, it'd help us out immensely.

Papillon · 1 Dec 2015 at 15:20

Sorry, I put it in the subject line. Around £2k excluding the monitors. Less if possible, but I would like to keep it under that. Thanks.

theaterix · 3 Dec 2015 at 16:51

If I could recommend something, which i think would be massively useful for you, Ultrawide monitors. Trust me.
Get a good GPU with plenty of Display connectors, grab 4-6 of these, Financial trading heaven!

Gaming4Life · 10 Dec 2015 at 23:39

You should get some really good memory (16gb ddr4) as my dad trades stocks at times and his computer can't handle it very well but his memory is only 4gb 1333mhz lol