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Hello everyone, after some research, I have compiled a short list of components that could be part of the new PC that I'm going to build.
However, being a complete beginner on the subject, I need some advice from experts about the best PRICE / QUALITY '/ PERFORMANCE solution about the following components 4 a 6 screens PC, trading (so 2/3 trading platforms at the same times, charts, internet, excel etc etc etc), on average 8/ 10 work hours per day

COOLERMASTER ELITE 342 or ATX MIDI TOWER COOLERMASTER RC-610-SKN1 CENTURION 6
ATX 700W SUPER SILENT or CORSAIR 750W CX750M
ASUS M5A-97 or ASUS B85M-G or ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Socket / Slot Type AMD Socket AM3+Form Factor ATX AMD 970
AMD X8 FX-8350 8 CORE X 4GHZ or AMD X6 FX-6300 3.5/4.1G 24.6GHZ or INTEL CORE i3-4150 2 CORE 2 CORE X 3,5GHZ or INTEL CORE i5-4460 4 CORE X 3,2GHZ
2X ASUS R9270 CROSSFIRE or 2X AMD RADEON R7 240 2 X 4GB CROSSFIRE or 2X NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX960 2GB DDR5
8GB 1600 MHZ corsair or DDR3 1600MHZ 16 GB CORSAIR
SATA 3 1TB + SSD 240GB kingstone or 240GB CORSAIR CSSD-F240GBGS-B
WIRELESS INTEGRATED
DVD SATA LG DUAL LAYER 24X


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For trading, the cpu requirements really are not at all demanding.
I might suggest one of the cheaper I5 intel cpus.
The nice thing is that their motherboards will be able to handle three attached monitors.

Graphics is also not that demanding. Nor would crossfire or sli be appropriate.
That function is to deliver more graphics performance to a single monitor.
A simple graphics card like a GTX750 would be sufficient if you want more than 3 1080P monitors.

I might also suggest you look into a single large 40" or larger 4k monitor.
That way you can size charts and arrange them as you wish without borders. It will have the display capacity of 4 normal 1080P monitors.


 
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yep, I need all parts. I'm from Italy and i was thinking about a 1000€ ish (or less) pc + monitors and peripherals

 
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Both the psu choices are bad, the generic ATX 700w is a danger to the system and possibly your house and the Cx uses poor quality components with a higher failure rate. For what you are doing you don't need or want SLI or crossfire. Just get a couple of cheap cards like a gt 720 will run upto 6 monitors(3 each).
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 740 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (€72.18 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (€54.11 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€48.02 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€82.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€48.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 250 1GB Eyefinity Edition Video Card (€95.51 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1500 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (€55.42 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€51.41 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0 DVD/CD Writer (€14.39 @ Amazon Italia)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (€99.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: AOC U2868PQU 60Hz 28.0" Monitor (€419.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €1042.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-11 22:19 CEST+0200

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 740 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (€72.18 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (€54.11 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€48.02 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€82.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€48.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GT 720 1GB Video Card (€50.30 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1500 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (€55.42 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€51.41 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0 DVD/CD Writer (€14.39 @ Amazon Italia)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (€99.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Samsung S22C200B 21.5" Monitor (€94.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Samsung S22C200B 21.5" Monitor (€94.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Samsung S22C200B 21.5" Monitor (€94.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Samsung S22C200B 21.5" Monitor (€94.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Other: Gt720 (€50.30)
Total: €1007.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-11 22:21 CEST+0200
 
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Yeah, I just noticed it too.

Though, I guess he could do with just 2 monitors. 1 may not be enough for all the multitasking and 4 might be a bit overkill.
3 is neutral.

It would definitely be helpful for him to have 16Gb RAM. Those charts etc. can eat up a lot RAM quick.
 
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thanks @Sapphire @Grandmaster. I like both the solutions. Can I ask why the AMD Athlon instead of the i5? Do you think they are equivalent?
Do you think I need only one Video card or better 2 Video Cards to run 6 monitors?
Power supply is not too "tight"? (sorry i don't know how to say it better)
 
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my bad, i do not need monitors so 1000€ only for PC (better less than 1000€)

 
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The Athlon x4 is no where near the performance of the i5, but for what you are doing and the budget the x4 will work just fine. A single card that supports 6 monitors will cost more than 2 lower end cards. 450w is more than enough that system, it will likely never go above 200w. cpu is 65w and the gpus can use 20w each.
 
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That changes things.

And are you SURE you need to hook up so many monitors? Sounds a bit overkill for what you are doing.
You should be fine with just 3 at most.
 
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Then you could easily get away spending under 1000.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€287.36 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€64.41 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€82.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€48.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GT 720 1GB Video Card (€50.30 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1500 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (€55.42 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€51.41 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0 DVD/CD Writer (€14.39 @ Amazon Italia)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (€99.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Other: Gt720 (€50.30)
Total: €805.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-11 23:11 CEST+0200

 
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yep, usually I use 4 monitors but between spreadsheets, music, trading platforms, graphics and everything else .....
maybe I will not use them always together, but I consider a + having the pc ready
 
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Hmm...you could definitely do with just maximum 4 monitors then. Especially with Windows 10.
The multiple Desktop + Snap really are helpful things in it.
 
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I really like this one. Do you think I can lower the price? maybe the i5 instead of the Xeon? Or lowering the storage memory to 500GB?
What do you think of Win10? Is it much better than Win7?
Am I missing something else?

 
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An i5 would lower the price a little and still work well, but the Xeon does give you 8 threads over the i5s 4.. Win 10 is about the same win 7 and much better than win 8 imho.
 
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Win10 is pretty much Win7 with designs taken from Win8.1 and given useful, small extra features.
And with amazing backwards compatibility.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (€203.71 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€64.41 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€82.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€48.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GT 610 2GB Video Card (€48.29 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1500 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (€55.42 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€51.41 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0 DVD/CD Writer (€14.39 @ Amazon Italia)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (€99.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN3800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (€27.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Other: Zotac GT610 2GB (€48.29)
Total: €745.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-12 00:06 CEST+0200
 
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Ok. Last thing: does the solution have integrated wireless? If not can you tell me wich one can I pick up?
 
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It doesn't so you have to pickup a usb wireless adapter.
http://it.pcpartpicker.com/part/trendnet-wireless-network-card-tew805ub
 
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