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Two years ago I bought a server with the following characteristics:

  • Platform: Supermicro X9SRi-F Motherboard
  • RAM: 8*8GB ECC 2133 DDR4 Reg (64GB)
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz 10 cores
  • SSD: SSD 100GB SATA III Intel DC S3700 MLC- HET 2,5"" Enterprise series (Read/Write Command Rate (KIOPS) Peak, 4KB 75/19) Mainstream Endurance
  • NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-3 2 port 10GE

The price for such server was about 6k USD. Now I would like to buy a new one with better specs and I have about 10k USD to spend. I use this server for HFT (high frequency trading), so network perfomance is crucial.

Considering two years passed, what are my options on component replacing/upgading: top shelf NICs, fastest RAM, CPU and platforms?

Michael Hampton
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I would start monitoring the server load on various domains and find the bottleneck first, before start spending.

Farhad Farahi
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