Infomation and updates about our free forum over at 4Xlounge.com. We provide the follow free trading tools:
- Free daily market analysis & Trade Set-ups (3 times each day)
- Free X Trend trading system and our free Market barometers
- Our Free Trade Messenger with real-time trading system and forex news alerts (news from feeds like Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, MSNmoney, FXstreet.com and more)
- Our forum RSS also includes the news feeds, if you don't want to use our Trade Messenger program, you can subscribe to our RSS feed
- Our Free Forex JumpStart Training course (a free series of 9 'and counting' instructional movies, all professionally producted)
- and much much more...
Trading Monitor Setups (2 to 8 monitors)
Hello all,
Once you get your trading groove on, you realize that 1 monitor just doesn't work (well at least now very well, lol...). There is a cheap way to set up several monitors and it works great! There are video cards and monitor arrays that can cost $1000's. However, you can get 4 to 6 monitors setup for less than 2k (including the pc). Yes really!
Golden Rule: The most important rule is to keep everything the same (same brand, same model, etc...). You can get away with different monitors, but Video cards MUST be the exact same brand and model.
1. Dual display video cards - You want cards with dual display ability and at least 256 Ram on board. The standard PCI slots handle multipule cards better (not sure why, but I know it's true). The ATI cards have worked the best for me. The NVIDIA cards are the worst for multi setups. There are a ton of cards that will work, but here is one that I have used on 2 systems (and it's cheap! about $79)
ATI Radeon™ X1550 Series - Overview
2. Use LCD monitors - (No plasma and No HD displays) Keep the video processing simple. You are just viewing charts. It doesn't have to be fancy. You can get cheap LCD monitors for $130 or less these days. If you have $$, ViewSonic monitors last longer. I have replaced 14 monitors over the past 6 years, but my ViewSonics are still running.
3. Ram it up! - As much as your system can handle. Usually at least 4 gigs (that's all you can do with XP). Ram is also cheap these days. Get matching sets if your motherboard supports it. OCZ is excellent Ram and usually priced well. Just google it and you should find some great prices on 4gig sets (usually $70-90). I use Tigerdirect.com for my parts. They have a good CS department and they are usually the lowest price.
4. XP vs Vista or Windows 8 - XP will provide the most stable solution for multi monitor setups, but any windows OS XP or higher will work. Mac users are out-of-luck. You can do it, but everything has to be "MAC". Very $$$$.
To avoid problems, remember: same, same, same... Everything the same if possible. Any cpu/processor will work, but your motherboard must have enough slots for the number of video cards needed (2 monitor per video card).
Warning! once you have multi monitor setups, you can never go back! 1 monitor just won't do it anymore, lol...
Once you get your trading groove on, you realize that 1 monitor just doesn't work (well at least now very well, lol...). There is a cheap way to set up several monitors and it works great! There are video cards and monitor arrays that can cost $1000's. However, you can get 4 to 6 monitors setup for less than 2k (including the pc). Yes really!
Golden Rule: The most important rule is to keep everything the same (same brand, same model, etc...). You can get away with different monitors, but Video cards MUST be the exact same brand and model.
1. Dual display video cards - You want cards with dual display ability and at least 256 Ram on board. The standard PCI slots handle multipule cards better (not sure why, but I know it's true). The ATI cards have worked the best for me. The NVIDIA cards are the worst for multi setups. There are a ton of cards that will work, but here is one that I have used on 2 systems (and it's cheap! about $79)
ATI Radeon™ X1550 Series - Overview
2. Use LCD monitors - (No plasma and No HD displays) Keep the video processing simple. You are just viewing charts. It doesn't have to be fancy. You can get cheap LCD monitors for $130 or less these days. If you have $$, ViewSonic monitors last longer. I have replaced 14 monitors over the past 6 years, but my ViewSonics are still running.
3. Ram it up! - As much as your system can handle. Usually at least 4 gigs (that's all you can do with XP). Ram is also cheap these days. Get matching sets if your motherboard supports it. OCZ is excellent Ram and usually priced well. Just google it and you should find some great prices on 4gig sets (usually $70-90). I use Tigerdirect.com for my parts. They have a good CS department and they are usually the lowest price.
4. XP vs Vista or Windows 8 - XP will provide the most stable solution for multi monitor setups, but any windows OS XP or higher will work. Mac users are out-of-luck. You can do it, but everything has to be "MAC". Very $$$$.
To avoid problems, remember: same, same, same... Everything the same if possible. Any cpu/processor will work, but your motherboard must have enough slots for the number of video cards needed (2 monitor per video card).
Warning! once you have multi monitor setups, you can never go back! 1 monitor just won't do it anymore, lol...
Total Comments 4
Comments
|
Hi,
I have old ATI VGA card, RageII+PCI. It is working withn W98 but I have problem with XP SP2. I can not install driver and monitor. Any suggestions. Thanks |
 
|
|
|
Hi Bongo,
Hmm, ATI didn't release a new driver with SP2 support? Unless the card is very old, they should have a new driver on their site. ATI usually supports their products with updates. Check the site for new drivers, that should fix it. If not, your card is probably bad. Video cards usually last about 2 years with regular use. |
|
|
|
Hi,
Thanks. I have 3 computers, 6 monitors, each computer has a different windows: XP, 2000 and 98. ATI Card is working, if I switch in Bios from AGP to PCI but computer is not showing these 2 cards together. Must be conflict. Only with W 98 cards working perfectly. No conflict. B. |
|
|
|
|
wow! that's quite a setup, lol... fyi, you could probably run all 6 monitors from 1 pc and make life easier...
 |
|
|
Recent Blog Entries by riffster
- Trading Monitor Setups (2 to 8 monitors) (10-01-2009)
- USDJPY Downside Bias (09-30-2009)
- Currency Forecast/Outlook (09-21-2009)
- New! 4Xlounge Launch Pad (09-07-2009)
- Favorite TSD Threads (2) (07-30-2009)
