Advice on Buying New Trading PC

[eightbo]

I've never owned a desktop and do all my trading on a laptop but thinking of buying one of those renewed Dell Optiplex's off Amazon/EBay coz they're dirt cheap and there is plenty of choice.

Yeah can go a long way with just a laptop. I'm doing all kinds of activity on a 15.6" 1080p display.

It's a low-end gaming laptop with an SSD / avg. gfx card / 120hz display so it's nice and smoother visually than a lot of more expensive setups and physically no problems either. Most i've ever had to push it so far which ran perfectly fine is: 4x Virtual Desktops ; 6 bots running simultaneously; multiple API products open totalling 10+ markets ready for manual trading at any time; chunky excel document etc. ; 3 google chromes open one of which running HD youtube videos for bg music.

if anyone's out there and they don't know about windows virtual desktops; get to know. I was originally gonna get a setup like this but have found I don't even need them as VDs are fine.

VD Shortcuts:
Create new VD: Windows+Ctrl+D
Close current VD: Windows+Ctrl+F4 (open applications collapse into the previous VD)
Switch between VD's: Windows+Ctrl+Left / Windows+Ctrl+Right

Only improvement I want to make is plugging in a 2nd display via the HDMI 2.0 port turned vertically so I have more prices visually accessible to me but I see that more as an accessory and I don't believe it would tax the system much during desktop use.

Only bottleneck is can't play fav. games at enough fps. Good thing I've found a new game I suppose...

Look forward to building a new mini-itx setup at some pt in next year then laptop can become the backup, should be able to move about w both of those fairly easily if needed

[Dallas]

I've never owned a desktop and do all my trading on a laptop but thinking of buying one of those renewed Dell Optiplex's off Amazon/EBay coz they're dirt cheap and there is plenty of choice.

Yeah can go a long way with just a laptop. I'm doing all kinds of activity on a 15.6" 1080p display.

It's a low-end gaming laptop with an SSD / avg. gfx card / 120hz display so it's nice and smoother visually than a lot of more expensive setups and physically no problems either. Most i've ever had to push it so far which ran perfectly fine is: 4x Virtual Desktops ; 6 bots running simultaneously; multiple API products open totalling 10+ markets ready for manual trading at any time; chunky excel document etc. ; 3 google chromes open one of which running HD youtube videos for bg music.

if anyone's out there and they don't know about windows virtual desktops; get to know. I was originally gonna get a setup like this but have found I don't even need them as VDs are fine.

VD Shortcuts:
Create new VD: Windows+Ctrl+D
Close current VD: Windows+Ctrl+F4 (open applications collapse into the previous VD)
Switch between VD's: Windows+Ctrl+Left / Windows+Ctrl+Right

Only improvement I want to make is plugging in a 2nd display via the HDMI 2.0 port turned vertically so I have more prices visually accessible to me but I see that more as an accessory and I don't believe it would tax the system much during desktop use.

Only bottleneck is can't play fav. games at enough fps. Good thing I've found a new game I suppose...

Look forward to building a new mini-itx setup at some pt in next year then laptop can become the backup, should be able to move about w both of those fairly easily if needed

This is what you need
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/74 ... op-monitor

[Wingnut]

WOW!! I only use a 2017 MacBook Pro, 1 HDMI port for one screen and display port for the other screen. Run parallels to use BA and Excel. Nicked a spreadsheet off here that records all the data plus more and all my trades. I only trade horse racing pre-off (I say trade, still in the learning process). Guardian keeps up with my spreadsheet and refreshing fine. I even manage to play FS19 sometimes too as my sit back and chill when I've cocked something up that should of been easily avoidable.

[LeTiss]

I had my desktop made for me by www.multiplemonitors.co.uk with a quad screen set up

Superb service. I'd recommend them to anyone - they will build whatever you ask for

[Dallas]

I had my desktop made for me by www.multiplemonitors.co.uk with a quad screen set up

Superb service. I'd recommend them to anyone - they will build whatever you ask for

Thanks, that looks really good and handy

I'll bookmark them for my next upgrade

[The Silk Run]

According to palate you may also want to consider gaming hardware, suitably priced both ends of the spectrum.

[jamesedwards]

I put together a PC with decent gaming specs and I've never been able to push it to anything above 50% despite running multiple media, office and betting software simultaneously. Best thing I have ever done and £1500 well spent to have everything running smoothly with no errors, crashing or buffering anymore. I went with Ryzen 9 3900XT, TUF gaming motherboard, 32GB RAM, nVidia 2070 super, M.2 SSD for the OS.

[eightbo]

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You're normally spot on Dallas but I did link to them in my post (hyperlink), plus p. sure I was the first guy on here to mention the Trio's,
you even thanked me for posting them

and for reasons I stated... no, I don't need !!

I'll forgive you for skimming, this time...

[eightbo]

I put together a PC with decent gaming specs and I've never been able to push it to anything above 50% despite running multiple media, office and betting software simultaneously. Best thing I have ever done and £1500 well spent to have everything running smoothly with no errors, crashing or buffering anymore. I went with Ryzen 9 3900XT, TUF gaming motherboard, 32GB RAM, nVidia 2070 super, M.2 SSD for the OS.

nutty overkill. you'll be good for the next decade as a trader, could probs even place a few back and lays in virtual reality if you wanted

[The Silk Run]

I put together a PC with decent gaming specs and I've never been able to push it to anything above 50% despite running multiple media, office and betting software simultaneously. Best thing I have ever done and £1500 well spent to have everything running smoothly with no errors, crashing or buffering anymore. I went with Ryzen 9 3900XT, TUF gaming motherboard, 32GB RAM, nVidia 2070 super, M.2 SSD for the OS.

That sounds kool ...