New productivity PC

[dukeofangus]

My brother wants me to build him a PC, it wont be a gaming PC it will be for trading stocks. So productivity, he wants to be able to run up to 10 programs at once to monitor his stocks, he wants 2 monitors and he has a few different price budgets, $600, $900 and $1200.

 

[DrMacintosh]

3 minutes ago, dukeofangus said:

My brother wants me to build him a PC, it wont be a gaming PC it will be for trading stocks. So productivity, he wants to be able to run up to 10 programs at once to monitor his stocks, he wants 2 monitors and he has a few different price budgets, $600, $900 and $1200.

 

I have no idea how intense stock monitoring software is........

[dukeofangus]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

I have no idea how intense stock monitoring software is........

well this is one of them, i just need a pc with the best productivity for those price ranges

 

[19_blackie_73]

I don't know how intense it is to run too, but I think a 6700k with iGPU should be fine (because multitasking).

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

I don't know how intense it is to run too, but I think a 6700k with iGPU should be fine.

probably 16GB of RAM just to be safe? And a SSD should not be necissary. Would be a low power system too. 

[DrMacintosh]

something like this might do the job

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/DrMacintosh/saved/vH3V3C

 

I tried to get some good yet cheap parts in there. 

[brob]

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($51.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($52.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: OCZ TRION 150 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($62.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Monitor: Dell D2015H 19.5" 60Hz Monitor  ($81.99 @ Adorama) 
Monitor: Dell D2015H 19.5" 60Hz Monitor  ($81.99 @ Adorama) 
Total: $618.91
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-15 02:33 EDT-0400

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($215.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus B150M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($52.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: OCZ TRION 150 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($112.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Monitor: BenQ GW2455H 23.6" 60Hz Monitor  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Monitor: BenQ GW2455H 23.6" 60Hz Monitor  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $900.91
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-15 02:40 EDT-0400

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($297.99 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: Asus B150M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($52.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: OCZ TRION 150 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($112.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Monitor: LG 27UD68-W 27.0" 60Hz Monitor  ($494.98 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1237.91
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-15 02:43 EDT-0400

 

[Shahnewaz]

44 minutes ago, dukeofangus said:

My brother wants me to build him a PC, it wont be a gaming PC it will be for trading stocks. So productivity, he wants to be able to run up to 10 programs at once to monitor his stocks, he wants 2 monitors and he has a few different price budgets, $600, $900 and $1200.

If you have a computer (any kind) that you can spare, ask your brother to test the stock trading software on any PC and tell him to measure the CPU usage (Task Manager is enough) while he is using it.

While I can tell stock trading is not really any sort of CPU or GPU intensive task, it seems to like lots of threads.