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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cormac who wrote (10621)	3/6/2000 2:28:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>this machine is strictly for daytrading and realtime screening<< I saw all the fancy hardware, so I thought you wanted to have "everything". The RW drives are good for operating system backups and very large data files. CDRW drives put about 650MB on a disk, while the new DVDRAM drives do about 5GB and have recently become very price-competitive per GB. You might or might not need this. The dual processors allow the computer to do more than one thing at once when one of those things is fully occupying the cpu. I know that real-time screening, if you are tracking thousands of stocks can easily eat up the capacity of one cpu, probably even one that goes at 850MHz. The second cpu allows you to do other things during times of heavy usage on the first. It's really not that much additional cost compared to the rest of the system, so I think it would be worth having. It's not available in an AMD system yet, though. I'd check out the new Tyan Trinity dual board, or possibly the old Tyan Dual Thunder, but I'm not sure if it handles the new high-MHz cpu's. wily