What video board are you using? - Stock Trading Forum | Forex Forum

Tankobu · #1 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 09:04 AM

I'm using a PNY 6800 series (PCI Express) video card that has Dual DVI outputs. This enables me to also use my on-board video VGA for a third monitor hookup.

dewbpy · #2 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 01:37 PM

Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce3 board

AmznTrader · #3 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 10:49 AM

I use 2 Nvidia GeoForce 8500GT PCI Express Dual Monitor
Graphic Cards 256 Mb there good, old system i used the 6800's.
Prices are little cheaper I would go with 512 MB now.

4 Monitors, 4 Gateway 22 inch Wide Screen Flat Panel Monitors

BFG 650 Watt Power Supply SLI Compatible
Note: Had 500 Watt system, it melted after two months, get at least a 600 or 650 Watts or 750 now they have as Graphics Cards use alot of power.

ASUS P5K3 Motherboard, Deluxe Intel P35 Socket 775
Intel Core Duo E6850 3.O Ghz CPU, 4MB Cache, 1333 FSB
250 GB Internal Sata Hard Drive
250 WD External USB Notebook Hard Drive (For Backups)
2 Gig of DDR3 Memory 1333 Mhz

Antec 900 Gaming Case –
Has 200mm Exhaust Fan Top, 2 120 mm Front Fans, and 1 120 mm rear Fan. So no need to worry of system overheating.

I recently built this new computer about 5 months ago, as I had the AMD 64 Chip and its really not compatable with esignal, and esingal would crash.. So went back to Intel CPU....use esignal 8.0 and it works fine....no more crashes on heavy volume.

Before with AMD chip, heavy volume or Fed Announcements would just crash the AMD and I missed alot of plays.

Happy Trading,

Tankobu · #4 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 02:38 PM

AMZNTrader, nice set up. My 92mm fan was making grinding noises...so replaced it with a Antec Tricool variable speed fan from FRY's Electronicsfor $7. It has a single bearing, and much better and quieter than the stock HP Pavilion fan. At the low speed setting, it has a 14.6 dBA. Very Quiet.

I'm not a Gamer, our desktops are strickly for trading only. We use our laptop for emails, and surfing the web. The 6800 board can easily handle 3 streaming platforms, and 10 streaming charts.

Bought a COOLMAX platform for my 5 year old laptop. It used to crash almost everyday....but now never crashes from overheating. Very nice $20 investment.