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[Anonymous No.9609316]

Sup guise
Let's talk about hardware you're using for your trading

Last 3 months I've been trading from my macbook, but now it just can't handle all pressure I want to put on it. So I would like to ask advices / your own experience in regards building PC for heavy trading.

What CPU are you using? i5 enough or should I look for i7? Or maybe look for AMD solutions?
GPU? In future want to upgrade to two 4k displays (currently have 26" 1080p + built-in 13" in my laptop). Do I really need top tier 1080gtx / vega56 or it could work fine with 250$ graphics card?
16GB RAM is okay or should I watch for 32?

Besides trading do want to occasionally play games when I go drunk, possibly video editing / 3D stuff

Shill your builds / discuss

[Anonymous No.9609376]

i have an i5 and if you keep open lots of tabs with exchanges the cpu usage goes ham but it never froze up to now

[Anonymous No.9609421]

>>9609316
My i7 yoga pro cant handle binance volume. Couldn't sell on the ZRX pump.

[Anonymous No.9609427]

>>9609421
>laptop

[Anonymous No.9609469]

>>9609421
This is why I'm looking for desktop build. Mobile CPU's have TDP somewhere 10-18 watts, while desktops can be up to 70w, which means at amount of load which will toast laptop desktop could handle 3x more and keep this load for days straight with proper cooling

[Anonymous No.9609470]

i7, 32gb ram, free slots to upgrade to 64gb, if you want to edit video you can't have too much ram

[Anonymous No.9609530]

i7-4770
12gb ram
gtx 1060 6gb
22" monitor

It's just perfect for my needs. At the moment it's mainly vidya with lots of browsing (stopped trading in January). From what you wrote and what I've read, you'd be safer with a 1070, just for the 3d stuff. I'm not sure about the ram. But since it wouldn't be its main purpose you might be able to get away with something like my build.

[Anonymous No.9609547]

>>9609316
>MacBook
>>>/back/

[Anonymous No.9609557]

>>9609530
Oh and yeah, i7 is better for video editing

[Anonymous No.9609656]

>>9609530
Sounds good. Can your i7 handle 5 chrome windows each with 30-50 heavy tabs?
RAM is extendable, so it's not a big deal. My main concerns are CPU/GPU since it's more expensive if you fail with your initial choice

>>9609547
2015 MBP are best laptops ever made. Not applefag btw

[Anonymous No.9609674]

>>9609656
Kill yourself now, you flaming mincer

[Anonymous No.9609704]

>i7 4790k
>GTX970
>16GB RAM
>5 different HDDs so I have everything backed up
>2x 1080p monitors

I also use an older Samsung Laptop as airgapped machine.

[Anonymous No.9609715]

>>9609674
ladies first

[Anonymous No.9609799]

>>9609316

[Anonymous No.9609967]

>>9609799
is this a cake?

[Anonymous No.9609978]

new i7 macbook air
samsung s9+, 6gig ram baby

[Anonymous No.9610424]

[Anonymous No.9610438]

>>9609967
no anon it's not

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[Anonymous No.9610499]

[Anonymous No.9610522]

>>9610424
>>9610440
>>9610499
Autism.

[Anonymous No.9610534]

>>9610522
5 gpu

regular pc case

kys

[Anonymous No.9610601]

Thinking about getting this from my local Costco for trading and my other projects. Not a big gaymer desu.
>16gb ram
>AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Processor at 3.0GHz
>4GB AMD Radeon RX 550 Graphics
>1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive

[Anonymous No.9610685]

>>9609656
I haven't tried, I've found Chrome to be too slow for me recently. But in task manager it always seems to take a bigger chunk of the RAM than the CPU, so I'd be inclined to go with the former.

[Anonymous No.9610717]

>>9610499
>all those charts
wow u must be making so much money O:

[Anonymous No.9610795]

>>9610601
if your projects involve moving files around like software dev or image/video stuff get an ssd

[Anonymous No.9610864]

>>9610499
nice
cpu?

[Anonymous No.9611007]

>>9609967
>is this a cake?
does it look like a fucking cake?
that's my Bloomberg terminal.