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I've run TS2k on two machines over the past few years using PC Quote. One
is an older P400 with 192mb running W95. Nothing special in terms of video,
hard drive etc. and it ran flawlessly. A newer machine with PIII 800,
W2000, 7200 rpm drives, 256mb and again just a standard video card to drive
a digital LCD and it also runs flawlessly. I also run other applications
concurrently with TS2k including IE 5.5, OE 5.5, mIRC and order entry
software.
I spent 15 years in the computer industry prior to trading so I'm not
unfamiliar with technology. The amount of "horsepower" you need depends
upon your application. I'm not a "power TS user" as I only trade the
indexes and therefore don't have a large number of symbols in GS. I also
don't have a large number of workspaces (about 8) nor do I use any
indicators or systems, so this may account for my basically troublefree
operation since I evidently am not using the problem parts of TS2k.
It also helps to practice safe computing including virus scans, defrags,
scandisk (Norton or other similar programs) anti-static devices, UPS's etc.
I would also recommend keeping your trading PC just a trading PC - run the
programs you need and keep them updated, and nothing else. Consistently
installing and uninstalling various software programs is eventually going to
cause Windows and/or other application problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: <ribau@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: hardware for ts2k
> I'm running an Intel 1.5GHz P4, Asus P4T mobo, 512Mb quality ECC RDRAM,
and
> find it to be a minimum configuration for running TS2Ki reliably realtime
> on a DTN satellite feed. Also very important is your video card, I find
the
> Asus GeForce2 GTS AGP4 to be adequate. Think about the best game machine
to
> be created, don't worry about a hundred bucks here or there, go with the
> standards. Be sure to use Win2k. Run nothing else on the machine and TS2ki
> will even keep up with you when you type notes on a chart at the open.
This
> machine running TS2Ki and has never crashed, there are occasional bouts of
> double tool bars, but hey, if you have at least this much horse power, it
> at least won't interfere with your trading, must be some really fine
> programming in that Omega program.
>
>
> >>Hi everybody,
> >>
> >>I have joined to omega-list couple of weeks ago and
> >>this is my first posting.
> >>
> >>I am very pleased that I came across to this very
> >>proffesional group of people.
> >>
> >>I was reading email's about hardware for ts2k and
> >>everybody is talking about PIII's and AMD's.
> >>
> >>I was wondering why nobody is mentioning P4 system.
> >>
> >>Actually my question is:
> >>
> >>What is the best hardware platform for running ts2k
> >>with real time feed and with very heavy loads?
> >>(I know about quality memory and motherboard part.)
> >>
> >>I asked the above question to omega tech. support and
> >>the answer was "we don't recommend hardware".
> >>
> >>Money being no object(the most it can vary is few
> >>hundred dollars between different platforms) please
> >>describe( or suggest) the best available hardware
> >>platform (like P4 or dual PIII or AMD) for ts2k.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance
> >>Ed
> >>
>
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