New pc needed

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There is no need for Graphics card unless you want to play games. Cpu has them built in these days. ( btw gpu memory is not its main performance feature, 1gb 2gb are all marketing gimmicks)

Processor - Most important. Get intel only. Single thread amd is very far behind. Prefer 4th gen Intel (Haswell - iX-4xxx) . There is not much diff with previous generations.
Options - i3-4130 (Rs 7250 Flipkart ), Pentium G2030 (Rs 3370). I think even pentium may be enough if you are regular desktop user. But can consider i3 for more power.

Motherboard - Compatible with Haswell - LGA 1150. Depends on what you want. If you dont need too many connection options ( hard disk slots, ram slots, pci slots etc ), then go for H81 chipsets ( ~3.5k) else B85 should be enough (~5.5k). Best you check features youself before deciding

RAM - Depends on how you use. Even 4gb will be enough i think if you dont load too much data. You can check you existing usage and then decide. 8 GB should be more than enough. Get any cheap ddr3 ram 1333 (or more) . Get atleast two sticks but make sure they are same ( have to be compatible). Ram speed should not matter much for cpu performance. May have some impact on igpu performance for games.

Powersupply - Dont skimp on power supply. Dont get those that come with cheap cases. Seasonic is best - they use good parts. Seasonic ECO 400 / Seasonic SS400BT PSU should be enough ( 2.4k )
While this might be a six year old thread, I'm trying to understand how trading software like NSE NOW is affected by hardware configuration. Is the memory speed (1600/2400/3200 MHz) is severe constraint in data refresh times or is it the amount of CPU cores (and as an extension processing threads) available that affects data refresh rates? Or data refresh of scrips is entirely dependent on network latency and hardware configuration has not much impact on it whatsoever?

Any insights would be highly appreciated!
 

TracerBullet

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While this might be a six year old thread, I'm trying to understand how trading software like NSE NOW is affected by hardware configuration. Is the memory speed (1600/2400/3200 MHz) is severe constraint in data refresh times or is it the amount of CPU cores (and as an extension processing threads) available that affects data refresh rates? Or data refresh of scrips is entirely dependent on network latency and hardware configuration has not much impact on it whatsoever?

Any insights would be highly appreciated!
We can speculate, but can only confirm by testing different configurations.
Now is retired btw. It was single threaded so sometimes you can have bottleneck there - i saw that if i had too many scrips in market watch. I do not think ram speed will matter. Network turnaround and their servers and how good is the network code obviously will matter too.

Anyway, these things dont matter as much unless you have a very short timeframe for trading. Live stream + regular backfill works well for intraday for me.
 

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