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I'm looking to assemble a workstation that needs to do the following.
I'm currently on a Core i3 530 (4 year old) based All in One HP desktop with 4GB RAM, that I guess has lived its life. I use Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit). One option is to increase the memory and milk it for a year or may be 2.
It needs to run (a) Matlab 2014, (b) Trading workstation of Interactive Brokers, (c) a couple of other trading tool of brokers and may be Bloomberg application as well. I plan to use a CUDA parallel processing [currently getting initiated into this] for Matlab, so looking at a decent GPU, that can support 2 displays to start with and eventually to 3 or 4 displays. The intention is to use this as a workstation to run algorithmic trading (not High Frequency, but something that could be termed as Medium Frequency - say 15 min timeframe). Basically the workstation would need to handle financial market data and price derivatives and generate/ place algo orders.
Will be running on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
This is my first build and whatever I'm doing is based on a week's research online
Here is what I considered:
Processor : Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3 (3.4 GHz) or Intel i7-4690k (3.9 GHz)
Motherboard : Asus H97 Mobo or Z97-A Mobo [I'm unlikely to overclock as reliability and repeatability is key]
RAM : 16 GB RAM (2 x 8 GB 1600 Mhz)
SSD : Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB
HDD : 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm (x 2 for 2TB eventually)
GPU : GeForce GTX 760 or GeForce GTX 750 Ti (Asus or EVGA) - 2GB
PSU : 600W (This build is in India and hence would pick what is available locally)
Cooling : Confused
Xeon is preferred as I'm planning to run the workstation over 14-16 hrs a day with some day end activity with remote access from home.
I prefer GTX 750Ti over GTX 760 as the CUDA compute capability as informed on NVidia website is higher for 750Ti at 5.0 vs 760 at 3.0 (as also the cost is lower by $100). But my confusion is CUDA cores for 750Ti is 640 vs 1152 for 760. Source : https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
After a bit of research - I decided on Corsair H80i Hydro Cooling - Still confused between Air cooled and Liquid cooling systems.
Hence my final build looks like this:
Processor : Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3
Motherboard : Asus Z97-A (as the cost difference between H97 and G97 was marginal - thought this helps if I move to Broadwell later)
RAM : 16 GB RAM (2 x 8 GB 1600 Mhz)
SSD : Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB
HDD : 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm
GPU : EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Cooling : Corsair H80i Hydro Cooling
PSU : 600W - Will pick this in India.
PC Partspicker is suggesting power at 253W for the above.
This costs around $975 (+ cost for PSU + Cabinet, say around $80), so around $1055.
My Budget was around $1250 for the base workstation, but I thought the above configuration is quite good and would satisfy my current requirement.
[If I choose, i7-4690k and GeForce GTX 760, the cost would be $ 1170 (+ cost for PSU + Cabinet, say around $80), for a total cost of around $1250.]
How does this build look like. Is this something that would be considered mid-tier over the next 2-3 years or so. Please suggest if I need to upgrade any of my choices.
Should I increase my budget and go for a LGA 2011 based processor and board [Additional Cost would be $220 for a i7-5820K processor on a Asus P9X79 and a 16GB DDR4 RAM, taking my total base w/s build cost to around $1470]
Also - I need to set up a storage for backup - can I add 2 more HDD to this machine and use that as a backup or should I get a separate unit with 2TB storage and RAID controller. I'm planning a daily backup.
Thanks for all the help.
I'm currently on a Core i3 530 (4 year old) based All in One HP desktop with 4GB RAM, that I guess has lived its life. I use Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit). One option is to increase the memory and milk it for a year or may be 2.
It needs to run (a) Matlab 2014, (b) Trading workstation of Interactive Brokers, (c) a couple of other trading tool of brokers and may be Bloomberg application as well. I plan to use a CUDA parallel processing [currently getting initiated into this] for Matlab, so looking at a decent GPU, that can support 2 displays to start with and eventually to 3 or 4 displays. The intention is to use this as a workstation to run algorithmic trading (not High Frequency, but something that could be termed as Medium Frequency - say 15 min timeframe). Basically the workstation would need to handle financial market data and price derivatives and generate/ place algo orders.
Will be running on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
This is my first build and whatever I'm doing is based on a week's research online
Here is what I considered:
Processor : Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3 (3.4 GHz) or Intel i7-4690k (3.9 GHz)
Motherboard : Asus H97 Mobo or Z97-A Mobo [I'm unlikely to overclock as reliability and repeatability is key]
RAM : 16 GB RAM (2 x 8 GB 1600 Mhz)
SSD : Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB
HDD : 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm (x 2 for 2TB eventually)
GPU : GeForce GTX 760 or GeForce GTX 750 Ti (Asus or EVGA) - 2GB
PSU : 600W (This build is in India and hence would pick what is available locally)
Cooling : Confused
Xeon is preferred as I'm planning to run the workstation over 14-16 hrs a day with some day end activity with remote access from home.
I prefer GTX 750Ti over GTX 760 as the CUDA compute capability as informed on NVidia website is higher for 750Ti at 5.0 vs 760 at 3.0 (as also the cost is lower by $100). But my confusion is CUDA cores for 750Ti is 640 vs 1152 for 760. Source : https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
After a bit of research - I decided on Corsair H80i Hydro Cooling - Still confused between Air cooled and Liquid cooling systems.
Hence my final build looks like this:
Processor : Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3
Motherboard : Asus Z97-A (as the cost difference between H97 and G97 was marginal - thought this helps if I move to Broadwell later)
RAM : 16 GB RAM (2 x 8 GB 1600 Mhz)
SSD : Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB
HDD : 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm
GPU : EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Cooling : Corsair H80i Hydro Cooling
PSU : 600W - Will pick this in India.
PC Partspicker is suggesting power at 253W for the above.
This costs around $975 (+ cost for PSU + Cabinet, say around $80), so around $1055.
My Budget was around $1250 for the base workstation, but I thought the above configuration is quite good and would satisfy my current requirement.
[If I choose, i7-4690k and GeForce GTX 760, the cost would be $ 1170 (+ cost for PSU + Cabinet, say around $80), for a total cost of around $1250.]
How does this build look like. Is this something that would be considered mid-tier over the next 2-3 years or so. Please suggest if I need to upgrade any of my choices.
Should I increase my budget and go for a LGA 2011 based processor and board [Additional Cost would be $220 for a i7-5820K processor on a Asus P9X79 and a 16GB DDR4 RAM, taking my total base w/s build cost to around $1470]
Also - I need to set up a storage for backup - can I add 2 more HDD to this machine and use that as a backup or should I get a separate unit with 2TB storage and RAID controller. I'm planning a daily backup.
Thanks for all the help.
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