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Hello Dan,
I'm a newbie since your last visits.
Taking the opportunity to personally thank your for your good posts
in the past. I have dwelt over a few when searching. Good to have you
around again.
Brian.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dan Clark" <dan_public@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hi. I haven't posted for a while because I've been busy with other
> projects. Now I'm coming back to the fold, but.
>
>
>
> My current workstation doesn't have enough horsepower for my scans.
> Currently they are running between three and four hours. Way too
long. So
> I'm going to buy a new 'puter.
>
>
>
> I need some help on this. The last time I looked at this issue,
the sense
> that I got was:
>
>
>
> 1) If you could use something like 8Gb of memory, that you
probably be
> big enough to load the AB DB into memory.
>
>
>
> 2) But the only way to use 8Gb of memory is to go to a 64Bit
OS. With
> 32Bit OS, you can only used 2Gb of memory.
>
>
>
> 3) There is minimal advantage in running AB in a 64 bit OS.
>
>
>
> 4) If you did go to a 64 bit OS, many drivers and utilities
would not
> run. This includes data providers like Quotes Plus (my current
provider).
>
>
>
> From doing a scan of posts in the AB forum, it looks like nothing
has
> changed in the 'puter/OS realm. Further, although Vista will run
64bit,
> reviews indicate that it's anywhere from 5% to 25% slower than
XP. So that
> leaves me with a quandary, what do I do?
>
>
>
> To maximize the speed of AB scans, what is the best current
strategy for
> buying a computer? Stick with 32Bit OS? Any way to use more than
2Gb of
> memory? Is Intel Core Duo the fastest box currently? 10K rpm
SATA drives
> the best alternative now? SCSI drives still faster? Any other
> suggestions?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Dan.
>
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