thanks for the reply Locked in.
The set up is to be fixed in my spare room, and will use my laptop/ipad for mobile trading. your right, it is overkill for now, but I am preparing it for what I will ultimate (I hope) grow into. I will definately be swing trading commodities/indexes on the 30 min charts, so I guess it will come into use then. I had a good discussion with a PC technician and a shop today and he provided me some good examples of average graphics cards (it will only power charting on 3 monitors with no gaming intended).
Re. the software, thanks for the heads up on some of them. I'll check them out.
have a good weekend
sorry, forgot to add...you mention that there is another thread coverage software...do you have a link to that as I can't find it?
Thanks