I want to assemble a system that will let me do the fastest

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I want to assemble a system that will let me do the fastest

by ralph1010 May 31, 2011 11:23AM PDT

If consideration were given to cpu speed, memory size, operating system, etc., which of these would offer the greatest contribution to internet access speed? Which would be the second?

I have a collection of mainboards, ethernet cards, and most of the windows operating systems and I want to assemble a system that will let me do the fastest online stock trading. I will be using a broadband cable connection.

Thank you for any advice.

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(NT) Thank u.

by ralph1010 Jun 1, 2011 5:49AM PDT

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Cost of Assembled cabinet

by savanajhones Jun 1, 2011 5:39PM PDT

I would like to know how an assembled system will going to cost in comparison to new cabinet ?

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I don't really know the answer, but

by ralph1010 Jun 3, 2011 9:22AM PDT

I don't really know the answer, but it almost seems
to be a better deal to purchase a new computer system.
They are so much cheaper now and besides,
you don't have to deal with accumulating the parts
and trying to make them all work together.

In my case, I like doing that and since I already have
all the parts I need, I was simply wanting to assemble
the parts in the best combination.

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(NT) Thank u, that was the advice I was looking for.

by ralph1010 Jun 6, 2011 10:07AM PDT

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There is no one right answer to the OP's Q.

by WaCableTech Jun 4, 2011 11:37PM PDT

This is not what he is asking, and I have seen computers that slow the internet down they are generalyl bogged down with crap ware, but in some cases it has all been legit usage. Few people JUST browse on line, most are doing other things while they do playing I tunes, having an IM conversation with a friend, back ground has some game maybe majong, or whatever, word's over in there somewhere with a half written document, etc.. In these cases, it depends on the specific values you are taking about for CPU and memory, usually memory wins out, because it reduces hard drive writing which is the slowest process on any computer, but that is not always teh case.

There is no one answer. It depends on you, if you run 18 browsers doing 15 different things other than web [page reading, then, you may be pegging your CPU and memory, if you browse one page at a time, using one browser with nothing else going on with your computer [no IM/skype/itunes/etc..] then memory, as the larger of a buffer you have to fill the more data you can download at once before being forced to commit to to the ever slow hard drive. Even using a temporary ram drive used to speed up browsing for you a lot because temp files were written to RAM instead of ATA.

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(NT) Thank u.

by ralph1010 Jun 15, 2011 6:57AM PDT

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bill012 · Answer 1 · May 31, 2011 11:04PM PDT

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network bottleneck

by bill012 May 31, 2011 11:04PM PDT

Even a old piece of junk will be faster than the any internet connection. Even if you use all equipment limited to 100m you are still well beyond any internet speed you can buy. You might get 50m on a good system in bursts.
One of the few internet application that do need high power machines are games, most everything else is limited by the network connection before the PC has any effect.

If you are talking about real computer based trading where fractions of a second make a difference you cannot use internet you must be on the trading network.... cost lots of money.

squidie · Answer 2 · Jun 11, 2011 9:44AM PDT

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It's all down to your internet down and up streams

by squidie Jun 11, 2011 9:44AM PDT

Also you don't need a decent spec of a machine to just use the internet.

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