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Hi Guys,
I am armed with putting a spec together of a very high end machine.
The user wishes to have either 2 or 3 screens attached to it as well. The reason is he is using it for gambling on the stock markets etc.
3 monitors looks to be hard to do? Am i right? Dual will be easy as most cards as dual head now?
He also wants a fairly small box as well, im not sure this will be possible, so i was wandering if anyone can help:
I suggested this but could do with a little help on what products might be best and whether or not im on song or not:
Operating System - Windows XP or Vista....well frankly there is no point looking at XP now at all. It's just too old, Vista is fine for most people. You won't be able to buy a machine with XP on now anyway! Also XP only really reads 3gb MAX. You ideally want to look at 4gb with Vista (32bit) or maybe going 64bit. Be careful though, i don't know what software you are running, if it's old or bespoke, make sure it is Vista compatible!! £150 for Vista 64bit??
CPU wise : your right again, Intel Core 2 Quad Core 2.4ghz or above, I would again depending on budget get up to 3ghz if you can just for as much future proofing as possible. But Chip will cost you sadly! Quad core 3ghz chip would set you back £434! The new Nehalm CPU as far as i can see isn't released yet, but will be VERY pricey. But is worth getting the i7 if possible.
Motherboard : You haven't mentioned this and a suitable case, but expect to budget about £200 upwards
Hard Drive : 1tb? 800gig? Price : £80
Monitors – I would go bigger but it's what you feel comfortable with, have to be DVI of course which most are these days of course! – Dell Ultrasharp 22" - £200 Approx but we could go lower and remember you will need 2 or 3 of these! Total price £400. LG 19" is approx £135 each.
RAM – 4gig minimum of DDR3 with capacity to go higher, but at present Vista 32bit only supports 4gig! DDR3 PC3 – 14400 – 4gb = £350 We can come down in speed of the memory to get 4gig for about £250.
Graphics Card - You haven't mentioned this but you will need a PCI Express Dual head one to support 2 monitors. These are common now, and we can get one with 1gig of memory and pretty good for £50! They have come down in price a lot, but i would probably spend a little more on it just for safety sake on a decent make with decent Nvidia chipset on it. Approx £100
So peeps could someone advise some products and maybe some advice on a decent system?
Rich
I am armed with putting a spec together of a very high end machine.
The user wishes to have either 2 or 3 screens attached to it as well. The reason is he is using it for gambling on the stock markets etc.
3 monitors looks to be hard to do? Am i right? Dual will be easy as most cards as dual head now?
He also wants a fairly small box as well, im not sure this will be possible, so i was wandering if anyone can help:
I suggested this but could do with a little help on what products might be best and whether or not im on song or not:
Operating System - Windows XP or Vista....well frankly there is no point looking at XP now at all. It's just too old, Vista is fine for most people. You won't be able to buy a machine with XP on now anyway! Also XP only really reads 3gb MAX. You ideally want to look at 4gb with Vista (32bit) or maybe going 64bit. Be careful though, i don't know what software you are running, if it's old or bespoke, make sure it is Vista compatible!! £150 for Vista 64bit??
CPU wise : your right again, Intel Core 2 Quad Core 2.4ghz or above, I would again depending on budget get up to 3ghz if you can just for as much future proofing as possible. But Chip will cost you sadly! Quad core 3ghz chip would set you back £434! The new Nehalm CPU as far as i can see isn't released yet, but will be VERY pricey. But is worth getting the i7 if possible.
Motherboard : You haven't mentioned this and a suitable case, but expect to budget about £200 upwards
Hard Drive : 1tb? 800gig? Price : £80
Monitors – I would go bigger but it's what you feel comfortable with, have to be DVI of course which most are these days of course! – Dell Ultrasharp 22" - £200 Approx but we could go lower and remember you will need 2 or 3 of these! Total price £400. LG 19" is approx £135 each.
RAM – 4gig minimum of DDR3 with capacity to go higher, but at present Vista 32bit only supports 4gig! DDR3 PC3 – 14400 – 4gb = £350 We can come down in speed of the memory to get 4gig for about £250.
Graphics Card - You haven't mentioned this but you will need a PCI Express Dual head one to support 2 monitors. These are common now, and we can get one with 1gig of memory and pretty good for £50! They have come down in price a lot, but i would probably spend a little more on it just for safety sake on a decent make with decent Nvidia chipset on it. Approx £100
So peeps could someone advise some products and maybe some advice on a decent system?
Rich
