All, anyone please kindly help me with this.
I am trying to build a PC that allows me to connect to at least 4 monitors. Currently I have 2 x Dell S2316H monitors, and I plan to add 2 x Dell U2414H monitors to make it 4 monitors in total for the time being. Then In one year time, I plan to add two more monitors, but 6 is the maximum, I don't see myself using more than that.
For now, with 4 monitors, the total resolution will be 3820x2160 (2 x 2 monitor configuration).
And in the future, if I add two more monitors, the total resolution will be 5760 x 2160 (2 x 3 monitor configuration).
Now, I am a trader, not a gamer, so there will not be a lot of fast graphic movement. But I do need my monitors to display a lot charts. Data feed are received real-time, and these charts are displayed using two programs -
google chrome browser and Metatrader 4 platform. At the same time, I do video conferencing using ZOOM - which tends to eat up a lot my CPU resources.
The application I runs the most (simultaneously) are:
1) Google Chrome - can have many tabs at the same times which eats up a lot of CPU and memory resources
2) Zoom - this is CPU intensive too
3) Metatrader 4 trading platform
I am current using a laptop Dell XPS 13 9343, Intel Core i5-5200 @2.20GHZ, 8 GB RAM, Windows 10 Pro. And I used Dell 3100 docking station to connect to 2 x Dell S2316H monitors, to my surprise, the displaylink software takes up quite a bit of CPU resources. So my laptop will run very slow, especially when I have video conferencing on.
I certainly think that I will need at least 16GB of RAM. 250GB of SSD should be enough (I am only using 137 GB at the moment). But I am not sure about the need for super high-end graphic card. My impression is that 2x passive graphic cards is just as capable of doing my job vs an expensive GTX 1060 type. But I am really not up-to-date with the latest graphic card hardware, and also I have no clue about compatibility with currently available motherboards.
Budget wise, I hope not to exceed RM4000
Thank you for kind assistance.
Ali
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