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dan99t wrote:Hi,
I am using a Dell T-7500 Workstation for day trading stocks, futures & forex..
My current workstation which is 7 years old has processor Xeon E 5645 @ 2.4 GHz, 12 GB RAM, 3 ATI 2460 low profile Cards driving 12 monitors.
I am configuring new workstation with 16 GB RAM, 3 NVIDIA P600 2 GB Cards each driving 4 Monitors for a total of 12, 1920p Monitors, Win-7 (Ultimate).
Can you please tell me which of the following 2 processors will be better ?
And what matters most, speed, no of cores & HT ?
(1) Intel Xeon W-2123 3.6GHz, 3.9GHz Turbo, 4C, 8.25M Cache, HT, (120W) DDR4-2666
(2) Intel Xeon Silver 4110 2.1GHz, 3.0GHz Turbo, 8C, 9.6GT/s 2UPI, 11M Cache, HT (85W) DDR4-2400
Also can you please suggest which CPU meter software will give me an idea of measuring current processor that I have ?
Thank You
dan99t wrote:Hi,
I am using a Dell T-7500 Workstation for day trading stocks, futures & forex..
My current workstation which is 7 years old has processor Xeon E 5645 @ 2.4 GHz, 12 GB RAM, 3 ATI 2460 low profile Cards driving 12 monitors.
Yan wrote:The program's vendor has several products, and for the most expensive, it says:
System Requirements -- Power User
Windows 8, Windows 7 (64-bit)
Intel® Core™ i7 (3.2 GHz or faster)
8 GB RAM
250 MB available hard disk space
DSL or cable modem (8 Mbps or faster)
So the user's proposed system is gross overkill, unless the vendor doesn't know what he's talking about.
dan99t wrote:
Also can you please suggest which CPU meter software will give me an idea of measuring current processor that I have ?
K-L-Waster wrote:As a quick & dirty option, use Windows Task Manager > Performance. Use Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager, turn on "more details" if necessary, then go to the Performance tab. You can see how active your system is in real time using this -- it's by no means the most advanced system monitoring tool, but it has the advantage of already being on your system and free to use.
just brew it! wrote:Between the two you listed, it is really going to depend on whether the software is good at utilizing all cores on the CPU. What is the CPU usage on your current system, and how is it distributed across the cores? I.e., is the load pretty evenly spread out, or do some cores seem busier than others? And if the software isn't stressing the current CPU, then the choice of CPU probably doesn't matter much.
dan99t wrote:I open anywhere from 12 to 20 charts & each has 40 to 50 indicators ( Also called studies & Oscillators etc ) which demands lots of system resources when data comes in real time on 200 or more stocks every millisecond.
dan99t wrote:eSignal application specs mentioned are just to get started with no data or charts. All the data loads from their servers as you open charts
dan99t wrote:Doing the testing but something seems odd.
CPU seems maxed with or without the software.
Only thing else open are some webpages.
dan99t wrote:First the main reason for a workstation is that it offers the 3 PCIe slots I need to run 3 cards & 12 Monitors. Then all Dell workstations offer only Xeon.
Currently I am using outdated & out of warranty Dell T-7500 workstation which is ok but now is a headache because part after part are failing. Used it for 5 years with no problem but now out of warranty & beginning of unreliability.
eSignal application specs mentioned are just to get started with no data or charts. All the data loads from their servers as you open charts. I open anywhere from 12 to 20 charts & each has 40 to 50 indicators ( Also called studies & Oscillators etc ) which demands lots of system resources when data comes in real time on 200 or more stocks every millisecond.
Hope that gives you an idea as to what I am looking for.