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RE: [amibroker] Off Topic: Optimizing a PC for Amibroker Backtesting - What's most important?

Subject: RE: [amibroker] Off Topic: Optimizing a PC for Amibroker Backtesting - What's most important?

From: "Herman van den Bergen" <psytek@xxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:24:18 -0500

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From a practical viewpoint polishing up your code, i.e. optimizing the way it is written, gives a much greater improvement in performance than spending twice the money on faster hardware (granted that is may be less fun). I would rather buy two normal computers than one that costs twice as much but is 5* faster. Redundant hardware has many advantages: you'll never be stuck and you always have a ready backup (use a LAN). btw, while DebugView has its limits it is great to identify your code's bottle neck.

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herman

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Clarkson [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 11:10 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Off Topic: Optimizing a PC for Amibroker Backtesting - What's most important?

I am looking at getting a PC dedicated to running Amibroker backtests and was wondering if anyone had any input on what the most important performance attributes would be.

I am thinking of an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition or Athlon 64 FX-55. It seems the difference is that the Intel has a bigger cache which seems like that could make a difference. Also TJ once indicated that hard drive performance is important so one might think that a RAID 0 with 2 WD 10,000 RPM drives might be the way to go if that is true. Lastly, it’s not clear if memory beyond say 1GB would make much difference.

Has anyone tried to come up with the fastest backtesting PC or have any opinions on what attributes of the PC would be most important. I suppose one could optimize everywhere but that could be overkill.

Thanks for any insights.

Tom

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