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First of all decide how much your budget is and how many screens you plan to run. This will greatly affect your component choice.
First of all decide how much your budget is and how many screens you plan to run. This will greatly affect your component choice.
CPU: Personally biased towards AMD CPUs atm since they are absolutely crushing intel on many fronts.
Ideally you'd want to look for something w/the highest single thread speeds. Look over benchmarking websites to get a feel, but I'll give my recommendations below
Ideally you'd want to look for something w/the highest single thread speeds. Look over benchmarking websites to get a feel, but I'll give my recommendations below
Balling: Ryzen 5900x/5950x (w/AIO cooler)
Ideal: Ryzen 5600x (w/Air or AIO cooler)
Budget: Ryzen 3600/3600x/3600xt (w/Air or AIO Cooler)
All the above are pretty much optimized already, plug and play, no OC needed.
Ideal: Ryzen 5600x (w/Air or AIO cooler)
Budget: Ryzen 3600/3600x/3600xt (w/Air or AIO Cooler)
All the above are pretty much optimized already, plug and play, no OC needed.
Ram: This is pretty important. 16gb min IMO for traders and 32gb optimal. Which gives you enough to open many tabs on different exchanges.
Balling: 3800mhz
Ideal: 3600mhz
Budget: 3200mhz
3200mhz minimum for optimal performance w/Zen 2+ architecture. OC possible w/Dram Calc
Balling: 3800mhz
Ideal: 3600mhz
Budget: 3200mhz
3200mhz minimum for optimal performance w/Zen 2+ architecture. OC possible w/Dram Calc
Motherboard: Not super important but you'd want to choose a reliable one.
Optimal: X570 (MSI Tomahawk or Asus x570-e)
Budget: B450 (only w/Zen 2+, wont work w/Zen 3)
B550 not worth imo at current prices.
Optimal: X570 (MSI Tomahawk or Asus x570-e)
Budget: B450 (only w/Zen 2+, wont work w/Zen 3)
B550 not worth imo at current prices.
Graphics: Generally not that important for just casual trading and tabs. No point going for TOTL unless you game with it or require like 6 screens. Get something reliable.
Balling: Nvidia 3080
Ideal: Nvidia 2070s
Budget: Nvidia 2060 or a 2nd hand Nvidia 1080ti
Balling: Nvidia 3080
Ideal: Nvidia 2070s
Budget: Nvidia 2060 or a 2nd hand Nvidia 1080ti
Storage: Nothing much to say here, get SSDs. Prices have dropped significantly from like 2-4 years ago.
M.2 SSDs are the best followed by SSDs and then HDD.
I would ignore HDDs unless you are on a tight budget/require 10TB+
Even so i would recommend installing OS on SSD.
M.2 SSDs are the best followed by SSDs and then HDD.
I would ignore HDDs unless you are on a tight budget/require 10TB+
Even so i would recommend installing OS on SSD.
PSU: Depends on graphic card power draw. Use online calculator then add maybe 100w.
Would wholeheartedly recommend Seasonic brand for reliability
https://www.bequiet.com/en/psucalculator
Would wholeheartedly recommend Seasonic brand for reliability
https://www.bequiet.com/en/psucalculator
Screens: Not the most important, 60hz would suffice but 144hz is butter smooth so if you have budget go for it. I find 24-27' a sweet spot. Curved or not is your choice.
Ideal: 144hz screens for butter smooth experience
Budget: Any 60hz screen. Even your junk one would work
Ideal: 144hz screens for butter smooth experience
Budget: Any 60hz screen. Even your junk one would work
If you made it this far, thanks for reading.
My current setup:
Ryzen 3600x w/AIO
X570 MSI Tomahawk
GTX 1080ti
32gb 3800mhz CL16 Micron E-Die (OC'ed)
Seasonic Focus GX-750w
My current setup:
Ryzen 3600x w/AIO
X570 MSI Tomahawk
GTX 1080ti
32gb 3800mhz CL16 Micron E-Die (OC'ed)
Seasonic Focus GX-750w
