CPU cooler and CPU cabinet

Requirements on CPU cooler and CPU cabinet are primarily driven from the noise point of view. Although, hydrobased coolers provide the least noise, it is not worth the money and hassles associated with maintanance. More over for the softwares that run it would be just big over design. At the same time, it is important to have a good CPU cooler better than the default one. The choice of the CPU cabinet also must be driven from the noise point of view.

For my trading station, I chose Corsair 100R silent edition. This cabinet comes with 2 fans and also has noise reduction material in the inside part.

For CPU cooling, I chose Noctua (got it on the amazon global store https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15/specification)

For selecting CPU cooler, it is important to check the compatibility. It should not be affecting the RAM boards and it should fit in the cabinet.

RAM and Storage (Requirements and Selection)

RAM:

Size:
Just for OS, charting software and trading terminal, you would not require more than 8GB.  But, to ensure compatible memory cards, it would be better to purchase the cards as a set. So, 8GBx2 should be good enough.
Speed of RAM: As the system will not be RAM speed bound,a decent speed of 2400MHz should be good enough.


Storage:
As the system is only used for trading, no more than 512 GB is required. If this is the case, then a SSD of  512GB is more than enough. Infact, NVME storage would be slightly for speed. Why speed? In case, during market hours you need to power cycle the desktop, it should boot in few secs.  Newer systems it would be good to take a look at PCIE based storage device.


For my system, I have used 8GBx2 memory 2400MHz and 512GB SSD (Western Digital).