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That's a nice chip, I think you are in good shape for a couple years at least. It sounds like you may have a memory leak. I would keep tabs on memory consumption per program that is running and see if one of them keeps increasing memory without you doing anything to warrant it. Maybe one of your browsers needs an update. Never a bad idea to boot into safe mode and run virus and malware scans too.
My biggest RAM users are NT8, NT7 and Chrome :O and yes I have had Memory Leaks from NT 8 like crazy sometimes. Will try updating this weekend -- and see if they desappear.
In my humble opinion you are approaching this from the entirety wrong angle. What really matters (and consequently affects your trading as well as platform response) is how well your system is tuned overall and balanced for the components used. CPU, RAM and other elements of trading machine work only as good as the conditions they are placed in. You may have the fastest CPU on the market but it will do very little for you if the system BUS is not capable to channel that data fast enough and if your GPU is not catching up with your CPU. Also, the most important component of any CPU performance is the cooling system your machine is equipped with as well as power supply that needs to deliver stable juice (without spikes) for your overclocked processor. RAM speed and overall design of the system board (motherboard) is equally important.
What you need is WELL DESIGNED TRADING SYSTEM and not some Hot Rod with flashy parameters made by gaming company or anyone else who has NO idea what it means to build trading machine properly.
If you want to be serious about this then look at https://www.tradingcomputers.com/. This is a US based firm that specializes exclusively in building well balanced and properly overclocked machines designed for trading. For the record, I am not endorsing this company and I don’t work for them but I have been using their systems for trading for the past 10 years and never had anything better in my life.
To summarize, proper hardware is indeed important, but if you think this will make dramatic difference in your trading, then think again. You must know what you doing and have a plan. Best machine on the market will not make you profitable and consistent.
In my humble opinion NT8 programming is very inefficient. I made the mistake of buying NT8 and I totally regret it. If you use multiple chats with a few indicators on each chart, you can pretty much give up because what I found is that the plotting of price data on the chats would start lagging considerably. In other words, I would see price data plotted on my chats a few seconds "after" it actually took place. That is clearly unacceptable. Technical support a Ninja did not have a solution to this problem, and believe me, I was on the phone many times with them. Now, if you are going to use a single or couple of charts with one or two simple indicators, then that might work fine for trading. Otherwise, save your money.
And finally, it was not my computer the lagger... I have a high end desktop with a powerful video card, so, that was not the issue. So, do not think that spending more money on a computer will solve this problem with Ninja.
I completely agree. Ninja platform is one of the oldest ones on the market and clearly they have a very large user base. I have tested them years back as well as over the years and have found the platform response to be unacceptable for the same very reasons stated above.
This is why I have switched to Sierra Charts and never looked back. Problem is, that many people have invested too much money into tools for NT platform and they are reluctant to switch.
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While I view myself as competent I'm not an expert and when it comes to high end trading boxs I take advice from people that know more than me. Interesting that this is an AMD vs i7/i9 discussion with no mention Xeon. I understand Xeon chips are more expensive, so if your super focused on cost this isn't an option, but there's a reason servers run Xeon chips. ( ECC Memory I believe is a big factor). For what its worth my main trading desktop runs Xeon chips and I don't know that it's ever crashed for any reason (It does run super hot though and I had to add extra fans to have both Xeon chips and a high end graphics card.)
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Anyone of these PC will do. Except you don't need 2 GPU's but you wanna have 1. The Intel i7 with 8 cores is excellent for business application and if you are on a budget go with the i5 at 6 cores. The graphics card doesn't need to be more than 4 GB so the nvdia GTX 980 is good. My rig is 3 years old the specs are Intel i6 4 cores, GTX 980 TI, 32 GB RAM,.
Good Luck!
