New build advice please

[swaffs]

Hi chaps,
I'd love to draw from your guys experience again.

Whilst on holiday with my Bro-in-law he's taken a decision to build a new machine, ordering today, so I can build it next week for him.

Here's his requirements.

He's trying to do stock market trading from home, so wants to run 3 or 4 monitors (eventually) and won't be playing games.

Apps would just be OS (Windows), Office, and his trading apps, all fairly low CPU intesity, just lots of active charts on several monitors receiving feeds via internet.
System will run 24 hours a day sometimes, and needs to be quiet..

Not sure of the best cases/cooling (water?)

So I'm initially leaning towards;
Dual/Quad core CPU

Mobo with dual gfx slots
2 GVX Cards
4-8Gb Ram
Nce fast OS Drive SATA F1 120 Gb

And 1 or two 19" monitors

Don't need optical drive.

Ideally He would like to keep it under £500 (not including software)

Oh, and he wants to order today:evil:

Thanks.

[Will]

£500 isn't enough for two gpus, and two monitors and the rest :p £600 is enough :) I know its a fair bit more to stretch, but you get x2 22" monitors out of it ;)

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/2554/43835685.png

Just might aswell go through why I've picked the components :)

The 320GB samsung...more than enough space and is the fastest 7,200RPM drive on the market (for its price)...I have two :D

The 400W power supply, large 140mm fan unlike the higher watt PSUs OCZ do which have 120mm fans :) and 400W is more than enough power :) (I have one)

The case, is cheap...nice 120mm fan placements (silent) and comes with a rear (non LED) 120mm fan...with dust filters, the works :D (I have one)

The XFX 4650...doesn't require alot of power and are fanless (silence) they also have x2 DVI outputs each :) cheapest Aria do :)

The RAM...just good performance :D

The CPU...don't really need a powerful one, this 2.8GHz dual core will be more than enough :) low power consumption aswell :) (might look at Phenom II 550 if you can find one on the internet)

The motherboard supports Xfire :) and can unlock cores :D (might contemplate replacing the current CPU with a AMD Phenom II 550 to see if you can unlock all four cores, Aria don't sell them but have a look :))

The x2 22" monitors are cheap and brilliant :D I have two aswell ;) simply brilliant :D

Hope this helps :)

[mac124]

Reasonable spec and should be ample for your friends needs, just to add you could probably go for slightly cheaper graphics cards, as you aren't gaming and therefore not running crossfire or anything you can run 4 monitors of 2x cheapo cards as long as they have dual outputs (dvi+vga or dual dvi, though dual dvi would probably cost a bit more).

[Will]

Ohh I didn't know you could run monitors as a mixture of DVI and VGA :O

In that case, bang in a couple of these babies :)
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/ATI+Radeon+4000+Series/XFX+Radeon+HD4350+512MB+PCI-E+2.0%2C+VGA%2C+HDMI%2C+Dual-Link+DVI%2C+HDCP+?productId=36795

[busman3000]

Will's got a pretty good suggestion there, if you want to save more money you could always go for 800mhz ram.

[Will]

Good idea :p dunno why I went with 1066MHz ;)

[Will]

Team work lads :D - the amended specification

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/5461/95904181.png

C'mon boyss rep it up :D

[busman3000]

£500 is a tight budget for what you wants, and the suggestion we have provided is very good. If you really need to lower the price, you could skimp down abit on the motherboard :D Or maybe get some 19" monitors instead.

[Will]

The 19" monitors have a rubbish resolution and are nearly the same price :)

[busman3000]

O, Ok.

[Will]

:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: