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Re: the ideal computer for tradestation



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Whatever computer you get, make sure it has Windows 2000 instead of Windows 
98 or ME.

Jim

>I am going to upgrade my system but I was curious as to what i should
>upgrade.
>I guess it is important to state that I mostly use the charts and
>radarscreen to find real time trading candidates and currently my scans are
>slowing me down bigtime and my charts FLASH and it is driving me up the
>wall.
>I have a pentium3 500 mhz machine with 256 megs of ram. I have 3 choices
>to upgrade.
>
>1. upgrade RAM to 512 mb
>2. upgrade the motherboard to a RAID capable motherboard and buy two RAID
>drives which would dramatically increase the speed of data retreival from
>the hard drive.
>3. upgrade the motherboard and chip to 1.2 GHZ.
>
>
>What would give me the most bang for my buck?
>Also, has anyone used a dual processor setup, and is tradestation able to
>take full advantage of that setup?
>Thanks in advance...
>Deano