Video Card Recommendations?

[wsam29]

dual channel ram is like a 2 lane road where traffic may flow both directions, information processing is speed up, and it will process as fast as your CPU permits.

regular ram is like a 1 lane road, traffic needs to clear before the other way may move forward, so a system running on regular ram will be slower.

ram is your computers short term memory, all will be lost once the power is turned off.

Tradestation does not us the CPU once the program is running, just are start up, I think all the indicator crunching and what not is done through the ram.

btw, how are you running the 2 video card setup? in the past I tried to run an AGP and a PCI video card without success and have not even bothered trying that again. If you are doing that and working fine, I just might get the FireMV 2400 PCI and upgrade my ram to 2 GB.

[Soultrader]

So basically the lag with TS is not caused by the video card but by the ram?

Im having no issues using both an AGP and PCI card. I'm using some kind of converter for 2 monitors. (looks like a plug to attach the main cord of the monitor and then gets plugged into the graphics card) This was required. Im not sure what they are called since the tech guys did this stuff for me. But I believe they are like $3 a piece.

That FireMV 2400 PCI looks sweet. Is that for a PCI Express?

[wsam29]

FireMV comes in both bus formats, PCI and PCIe.

that adapter sounds to me like a digital to analog adpater.

all depends on your monitors and their input format and which output from your video card. they have ones are are analog to digital.

this is why it may be so intimidating shopping for a computer.

funny how a video card question has turned into a computer component topic. :p