trading computer selection/purchase/upgrade advice

[David 1]

Hi friends,

I've been using an IMac running bootcamp for the education phase of my trading career, but it's becoming clear that this will not be sufficient for me.  I'd love to hear everyone's input regarding a new trading desktop purchase.  What are you using?  What would you change about your current computer?  What would be your dream computer?  Please mention GPU, CPU, display ports, etc.

 

thanks!

[BBT Member 001 27]

I just purchased a Lenovo P330 tiny that supports up to 6 monitors on 4k. The  cost is about $1k. Make sure you select quadro p1000 graphics.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series-tiny-/ThinkStation-P330-Tiny/p/33TS3TP330X

[Paul aka Aurbano 82]

Hi David,

I custom built my workstation on August 2018, focusing on performance and bottlenecks. Take into consideration that I do trading, code Apps in several langs (Java, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript), do a lot a photo and video editing and last but not least : I needed it to be 100% Mac OS X compatible to boot natively Mac OS X High Sierra, Win 10 and Ubuntu Linux 18 ... Here is my shopping list :

• 3x Dell UltraSharp U2415 screens
• 2x WD Blue 2TB (5400 rpm, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB caché)
• 1x WD Black M2 PCIe Hard Drive 512GB (PCI Express 3.0, M.2, FCC, UL, TUV, KC, BSMI, VCCI)
• MotherBoard : Gigabyte Z370 HD3P LGA 1151 (Socket H4) ATX (DDR4-SDRAM, DIMM, 2133,4000 MHz, Dual, 64 GB, Intel)
• CPU : 8th Gen Intel® 12 Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 12MB Smart Cache (up to 4.60 GHz)  Socket LGA 1151
• CPU Water Cooling : Corsair Hydro Series H55 Extreme Performance
• GPU : XFX AMD Radeon RX RX-580P8DFWR 8GB Black Edition (3x DisplayPort + 1x HDMI)
• Memmory : 1x GSkill F4 - 3000 C15S - 16gvr Ripjaws V DDR4-RAM - 16 GB (upgradable to 64GB)
• WiFi : TP-Link Archer T9E (AC1900 Mbps, Banda Dual, PCI Express, 1300 Mbps @ 5GHz, 600 Mbps @ 2.4 GHz)
• Corsair CP-9020098-EU Series VS650 watts Power Unit
• Corsair Carbide Series 100R PC Box

You can use standard 24-27" monitors with no color gamut color calibration and they will be much cheaper.
Total Budget around $2,000 (Computer $1250 - 3 monitores $750) ...

Total Screens available 5 .... Motherboard have another HDMI output that totally works on Ubuntu and Windows10

Boot : Clover + GRUB + Windows Boot Manager on the M2 PCIe 512GB disk .... another M2 disk can be added for RAID and ultra perfance, but no needs for trading

PS : I was using a 9 years old iMac 27" 2.4Ghz with 1x HDD + 1x SSD and the improvement has been huge .... GPU is amazing and now it is cheaper bc RX590 just got out a couple of months ago.

 

Edited May 15, 2019 by aurbano