How to Run Multiple Monitors

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wayneL said:

Noice!

I'm thinking of going the big screen too.

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Yep its pretty good. I had to make my own screen stand to keep it all neat. Just be warned. I’m now the third largest contributor to global warming. I going to have to put an individual air-con in my office. This system is putting out some serious heat. Although that maybe an advantage in Cheltenham.

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trembling Hand said:

Yep its pretty good. I had to make my own screen stand to keep it all neat. Just be warned. I’m now the third largest contributor to global warming. I going to have to put an individual air-con in my office. This system is putting out some serious heat. Although that maybe an advantage in Cheltenham.

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Well that's clinched it then! Did not get above 0 all day here.

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Hi TH - looks good.

Either side of the big screen it appears you have a wide screen oriented so the width is actually height. I like this idea, was it difficult to do? How do you instruct the PC to send the picture to the screen on its side, if you know what I mean? Sorry if this is a really dumb question...

Oh, and how did you make your own screen stand, just a quick idea if you can?

P.S. I have 3 screens (soooo 2006) and to keep my carbon footprint just under that of China I switch off the screens if I am going to be away for more than a minute or so using MonOff freeware application.

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Timmy said:

Hi TH - looks good.

Either side of the big screen it appears you have a wide screen oriented so the width is actually height. I like this idea, was it difficult to do? How do you instruct the PC to send the picture to the screen on its side, if you know what I mean? Sorry if this is a really dumb question...

Oh, and how did you make your own screen stand, just a quick idea if you can?

P.S. I have 3 screens (soooo 2006) and to keep my carbon footprint just under that of China I switch off the screens if I am going to be away for more than a minute or so using MonOff freeware application.

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If you use a reasonably new graphics card it will have the option of setting up each monitor in landscape (normal) or portrait mode. I put the two outer screens like that because of two reasons
1. it matched the dell 30" height and
2. They would of been 1.8 meters from edge to edge. Just to wide to be of any use.

To make the stand I just ordered some pivoting monitor wall mounts. (PM me if you want the supplier) and welded and bolted them together. I'm pretty happy with the result but will not be going into an engineer’s career if I blow up trading.

Oh I'm supposedly connected to 100% "green" energy to make me feel better about consuming the equivalent of a small towns energy supply.

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Thanks for that TH, I like the "high" screen as opposed to the "wide" too because putting an indicator or whatever under the price chart is not going to squash the price chart up too much. And 1.8 m edge-to-edge - good practice for going to watch the tennis.

Thanks for the info.

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Timmy said:

Snakey...realise you probably have your hands full, what with Schoolies week on the Gold Coast etc... But when you get a moment could you fill us in on how you have set up the extra monitors etc. - a lot of info on this thread about desktops but not about laptops, be interesting.

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Laptops have a monitor plug on the back, just shut down the computer, plug in a monitor into the back, start up the computer, go to display in control panel, select "settings", right click on monitor 2 select "attached", then apply the settings. now you have two monitors just move mouse into the new screen and you can see it is now part of your desktop. Simple.

P.s. hibernate is not a shutdown.

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lucky i searched-

very very informative -


Thanks for everyones input

Nick--

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A ? for the computer guru's-would a gaming console be the best sytem to use if i have access to it-

it contains a decent video card-

here are some of the features it has-

1.Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz, 4MB x 2)

2.4GB DDR2 800MHz Dual Channel RAM (2 x 2GB Sticks)

3.1TeraByte /1000GB (2 x 500GB) SATA 32MB Cache Hard Disk Drive!

4.Gigabyte GeForce OR EVGA 9800GX2 PCI Express 2.0 DX 10Dual-Link DVI / HDMI 1GB GDDR3 2x256-bit memory

is the above good enough or overkill-

does anyone see a weakness in the above parts-

i have a clue by i am not a expert-

Thanks

Nick--

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njc.corp said:

A ? for the computer guru's-would a gaming console be the best sytem to use if i have access to it-

it contains a decent video card-

here are some of the features it has-

1.Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz, 4MB x 2)

2.4GB DDR2 800MHz Dual Channel RAM (2 x 2GB Sticks)

3.1TeraByte /1000GB (2 x 500GB) SATA 32MB Cache Hard Disk Drive!

4.Gigabyte GeForce OR EVGA 9800GX2 PCI Express 2.0 DX 10Dual-Link DVI / HDMI 1GB GDDR3 2x256-bit memory

is the above good enough or overkill-

does anyone see a weakness in the above parts-

i have a clue by i am not a expert-

Thanks

Nick--

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I'm far from a computer geek myself, but from the discussions I've had with official geeks in the past, a graphics card that a gamer would put in their system would be overkill for a trader. Personally I'd go for 2 cheaper cards so I could run more monitors, compared with splashing out on 1 really nice one. Trading apps generally won't need a top of the range card.

1TB hard drive is most definitely overkill if it's going to be a trading only computer.

Techbuy have a stock/share trading computer you can buy on their website, and is customisable too -

http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/79513/SYSTEMS_SMALL__HOME_OFFICE/Techbuy/TBOS79513.asp

That might give you an idea of roughly what kind of specs they think a trading rig should have.

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If you are looking to get absolute performance out of your system to things like scanning downloaded stock market data etc, this requires performance from the hard disks. CPU controls running programs. RAM is where running data gets stored, but this data has to be collected up from the physical storage first.

My next system will have good CPU and RAM capacities, but I shall be taking a leaf out of a tech-head-at-Uni's book. He has 5 x 200GB SATA harddrives and an awesome RAID controller. His operating system is on a RAID0 section across two drives, so is blindingly fast. His data is stored in a RAID5 configuration across all the drives, which for him is very secure. (The slack space is striped for gaming)

For my system, where I am looking for HD performance as higher priority than security (I have external data storage to keep backups on) I am considering 3 x 500GB drives, two drives in RAID0, one for other data to supplement external storage. You can get RAID controllers with 'triplers' that allow configure for RAID0 across three drives.

Of course, the better disks you buy, the better the performance. 15K RPM disks are a bit overpriced for me...

If you aren't sure what RAID is check out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks
(yes, I know. It's wiki and we should be careful of info there... but its a good intro to RAID concepts)

You really need to consider exactly what you want to use the computer for.

...anyway, something to consider.



wabbit

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Nice thread, some very handy info here.


At my work at the moment I'm actually running 2 PC's (one laptop and one desktop) with a total of 3 Monitors (2 on the laptop and 1 on the desktop). I connect them all together with an open source application called Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. The application lets you 'share' one computers keyboard and mouse with another computer over a network connection: one great aspect being that you can run any OS on any PC and still have them all connected together. One of my colleagues is currently running Synergy across a PC and MAC and is loving it.

Overall it's handy as I get the benefit of 2 independent computers so if one is under load the other is still quite responsive for other tasks. Having said this, in a trading environment, multiple monitors on the same PC is still probably a better way to go, but if you do have another PC lying around it could be put to some use with synergy.

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professor_frink said:

I'm far from a computer geek myself, but from the discussions I've had with official geeks in the past, a graphics card that a gamer would put in their system would be overkill for a trader. Personally I'd go for 2 cheaper cards so I could run more monitors, compared with splashing out on 1 really nice one. Trading apps generally won't need a top of the range card.

1TB hard drive is most definitely overkill if it's going to be a trading only computer.

Techbuy have a stock/share trading computer you can buy on their website, and is customisable too -

http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/79513/SYSTEMS_SMALL__HOME_OFFICE/Techbuy/TBOS79513.asp

That might give you an idea of roughly what kind of specs they think a trading rig should have.

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Prof-thanks for the info and thanks for the link-

will look into a bit more once i get home-

Thanks

Nick--