michaewlewis
December 26th 06, 11:56 PM
If I was trying to build a workstation that needed lots of horsepower and 4+
monitors I would buy a single computer for every two or three monitors and
tie them together with synergy <http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/>
Synergy lets you use one keyboard/mouse across as many computers as you want
over a network. And it's very light weight and not power hungry.
I don't know why a stock trading computer would need so much horse-power
though, but if it does, I'd go with an intel board with
3ghz
2gb ram
500gb SATA hard drive in raid1 or raid5 array
256mb dual head video card (ati or matrox)
a gigabit nic and switch/router
APC SmartUPS 1000XL
What programs are you planning on running on your super computer?
If you're just going to have websites open and stock trends open, you would
do fine with a 2ghz, 1gb ram, 120gb hard drive.
monitors I would buy a single computer for every two or three monitors and
tie them together with synergy <http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/>
Synergy lets you use one keyboard/mouse across as many computers as you want
over a network. And it's very light weight and not power hungry.
I don't know why a stock trading computer would need so much horse-power
though, but if it does, I'd go with an intel board with
3ghz
2gb ram
500gb SATA hard drive in raid1 or raid5 array
256mb dual head video card (ati or matrox)
a gigabit nic and switch/router
APC SmartUPS 1000XL
What programs are you planning on running on your super computer?
If you're just going to have websites open and stock trends open, you would
do fine with a 2ghz, 1gb ram, 120gb hard drive.