Hello,
Considering price-to-performance i7-980x is overkill. I would suggest i7-920 or
i7-930 and overclock it slightly.
Both overclock perfectly if only cooling system is appropriate. You would not
see practical difference between 980 and 920
in typical usage.
Also for real time trading you would get better benefit from decreasing "number
of bars" in the database settings
than from buying new machine.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
On 2010-07-22 11:38, Rob wrote:
> Hi TJ,
>
> I am considering building myself a new computer system. Basically I am
> running AB on a Mac Pro right now. 8GB Ram (ram is not one my constraints). I
> am running 2 x quad core Intel Xeon X5365 2.99 Ghz processors.
>
> I use AB for real time day trading... (not backtesting)... but I am pushing
> the core I run AB on to the max pretty much (My performance indicator in AB
> runs pretty consistently between 200 - 260%... I also have another 4 charts
> running on another instance of AB to utilise another core.
>
> Question is, in building a new system, what should I be looking for maximise
> AB performance....? Obviously I am looking at the i7 range of processors.
> However, given that I can only utilise one core per instance of AB (and I
> want to run as few instances of AB as possible), should I less concerned with
> going for more cores and more concerned with perhaps overclocking the cores I
> do have...?
>
> I could go the whole hog and overclock a Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition
> to 4Ghz... I don't know if that would be overkill given there would be a lot
> of processing power I couldn't access....? (although having 12Mb of onboard
> cache looks attractive since I could run larger DB's in AB more quickly).
>
> Any other critical issues I should be thinking of in terms of speed running
> AB...?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
>
>
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