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Strategies & Market Trends : NetCurrents NTCS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rocklobster who wrote (6726)	4/1/2001 3:30:20 PM
From: Andriy Turhovach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8925

rocklobster -- I just took delivery on a brand new Dell a couple of weeks ago too. My only reason for not wanting anti-virus programs on my trading machine is that I want it to be as clean as possible. Anything that might add to the clutter is something I don't need. Anti-virus programs can and do cause some problems at times so I just as soon not have them on my trading computer. Same hold true for other utilities. If you have a machine as powerful as the one you describe, there's probably very little any add-on utility will add in the way of performance, but, OTOH, the likelihood of it screwing something up is greater (How's that for technical talk <GGG>) I'd just as soon not take the chance. The first thing I did when my Dell arrived was to format the hard drive and install only what I wanted on there. So now I have a lean, mean, trading machine... ;)

To: rocklobster who wrote (6726)	4/1/2001 4:05:04 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8925

This is very impt for me too. I thot to upgrade my computer yesterday but when we looked inside we found it wouldnt' be worth it for many reaowns. So we spent 10 hours cleaning it up, and shortly I will buy a new one and my friend will put it togehter for me. Now, I can buy a 1 gigaherz, 20 gig, 256k ram for under $500 and he puts it together. I would just put my old hard-drive in there, so as not to transfer all kinds of crap. The new hard drive could have the right specs--couldn't it hae window 2k while the old has windows 98? And just trading software or something? I dunno. Wnat to hear people's experiences so when I do it I do it right. WHat IS the best graphics card?