Experts Wanted: Building the Ultimate trading PC!

[VideCorTrader]

You should get the 14 core, these are six cores, and you can get one for $400, the 5820K

 

Oh snap.  Defintely not the cheapest from DS lol. 

 

I looked at the DS selection for more cores and I got these (top=cheapest, bottom=expensive)

 

1x (Intel Xeon 10-Core E5-2660 v2 2.2GHz (25MB Cache) (Ivy Bridge-EP)

1x (Intel Xeon 10-Core E5-2690 v2 3.0GHz (25MB Cache) (Ivy Bridge-EP)

2x Dual 16-Core Total (Intel Xeon 8-Core E5-2650 v2 2.6GHz (20MB Cache) (Ivy Bridge-EP)

1x (Intel Xeon 12-Core E5-2697 v2 2.7GHz (30MB Cache) (Ivy Bridge-EP)

 

There are more slections, but are also more costly which adversely effects my happiness .

[VideCorTrader]

I mean having CPU power and lots of RAM is definitely essential, but if you don't have a great connection, the difference may not be as great as you'd imagine. Again, I'm assuming those applications need to have updated data from the internet, which i think is a safe assumption. But if they don't, a more powerful PC will definitely help in a lot more ways.

 

Yeah, I think that the older PC just has dated tech that might hamper the connection speed.  But whether its the newer Slade or the older Hailstorm, the charts take almost as long to load on each system.  But the Slade is just a tad bit quicker which fuels my suspicion that a high-powered PC could hopefully make a difference.

 

[SIGSEGV]

Thats an interesting aspect of memory that I never considered.  I did a little research on that and it seems like Standard, ECC, and REG ECC (give or take depending on the benchmark) are pretty much the same performance wise.   This info was just from a fast-read through of this article though, but defitnely worth more research.  Thanks for the tip!

Yeah, I just thought mistakes could cause big problems with something like stocks

[arnavvr]

I think you should go with the build I suggested, a 770 will be plenty, and you can add more RAM down the line.