Dingo --
Please read
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/22/03TC-windows-multicore_3.html
for some comparisons between Vista64 and XP64.
-- Keith
dingo wrote:
50% longer for AB to run - hardly believable.
d
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Keith McCombs <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
A few personal thoughts:
1. The 2.93GHz costs $470 more than 2.66. I doubt that very many
of us can tell the difference without a stopwatch.
2. I don't know about running AB, but in many published speed
tests, Vista64 takes about 50% longer than XP64.
-- Keith
ozzyapeman wrote:
Thanks. I was looking into i7 based-PCs. But aren't all i7's
quad-cores to begin with? And apparently the OS sees an i7 as
8-core due to the way it's designed.
Dell seems to have a good deal on i7 XPS desktops at 2.93 Ghz
--- In [email protected]
<mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, dingo <waledi...@...> wrote:
>
> Intel dual core i7 with fast clock - AB only uses 1 core. 3gig
mem. Intel
> SLC flash (if you've got the money otherwise WD Raptor). Medium
video card.
>
>
> d
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:57 AM, ozzyapeman <zoopf...@...> wrote:
>
> > I should add that I need to run exhaustive optimizations, as
opposed to
> > CMAE or using Fred's IO, as my variables are discontinuous -
not traditional
> > indicator-type variables.
> >
> > In my parallel dream life, I run AB Ultra Professional 7.0 on
8 state of
> > the art graphics cards, with thousands of processors, 500,000
times faster
> > than good old AB 5.24.
> >
> > But I digress. ;-)
> >
> > In the real world, what is the best I can do?
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected]
<mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, "ozzyapeman" <zoopfree@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now that I am just about trading full time, my main PC has
become a
> > dedicated trading computer. That only leaves me with a clunky
second PC
> > (6-years old) for doing offline optimizing. And it's waaay
too slow.
> > >
> > > So I am in the market for a new PC, and want to get
something powerful,
> > but don't want to overpay for stuff that won't be used. For
example, 8GB of
> > RAM sounds great, but if WinXP only uses 4GB (or 3?) then I
imagine the
> > other 4 GB just goes to waste?
> > >
> > > If I plan to use this PC mainly for offline optimizing and
backtesting,
> > what are the recommended specs? I want as much speed as I can
possibly get.
> > My optimizations tend to be humongous, taking days on a quad
core.
> > >
> > > Any hardware gurus please feel free to chime in:
> > >
> > > - RAM?
> > > - Quad-core vs Eight-core?
> > > - OS?
> > > - HD type (flash vs mechanical)?
> > > - any other hardware/software suggestions for increasing speed?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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