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Posted by Daal on 04-04-12 05:50 PM:

Which Processor offers the best speed and durability to price ratio?

Any studies on this?

Posted by GTS on 04-04-12 05:54 PM:

durability ?

Posted by Bolimomo on 04-04-12 08:01 PM:

Quote from GTS:

durability ?

Durability: [def] The ability of the processor to stand the sudden and forceful but repetitive pounding and slapping from frustrated traders during losing trades.

Posted by WinstonTJ on 04-04-12 08:40 PM:

there are tons of blogs and benchmarks out there.

what are you looking for - porsche or tractor?

Posted by promagma on 04-04-12 09:37 PM:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Intel Core i7-3820 and AMD FX-8150 are looking good right now.

Posted by Daal on 04-04-12 09:39 PM:

Quote from promagma:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Are AMD processors less durable?Because they consistently beat Intel on the bang for the buck criteria yet AFAIK they have much less R&D then Intel

Posted by promagma on 04-04-12 09:48 PM:

All processors are durable... they rarely die short of being zapped by lightening. Given the same Ghz, Intel is faster than AMD. The web page I posted gives the bottom-line comparison.

Posted by GTS on 04-04-12 11:44 PM:

I've never had a processor fail on me.

Unless you are planning on testing the thermal limits of a processor by overclocking it big time I don't really understand this durability aspect you are referring to.

Posted by easymon1 on 04-05-12 04:33 AM:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ compares the price performance of CPUs

Posted by Xspurt on 04-05-12 05:49 AM:

I remember reading research on this from years back but I'm sure it holds good for today.

It said a CPU has a safe life expectancy of 10 yrs but overclocking can reduce this to 7 years. We can forget about keeping a CPU for 7 years so the question about durability is not an issue, unless you use extreme loads and don't cool the CPU properly or drop test your system box from a great height after a bad trade.

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Posted by WinstonTJ on 04-09-12 05:23 PM:

Quote from GTS:

I've never had a processor fail on me.

Unless you are planning on testing the thermal limits of a processor by overclocking it big time I don't really understand this durability aspect you are referring to.

I've had one fail - one in hundreds that I've used or sold or put into service. It died instantly and it was an Intel Engineering Sample (not for the retail or regular public).

i5's and i7's are pretty decent CPUs. OP - do you know if you need cores or clock speed?

Posted by Landis82 on 04-09-12 05:30 PM:

I like the i7-2600 for the bang for the buck.

You can get it on the Dell XPS 8300 from their Outlet Site for as low as $739 which includes 12 Gigs of DDR SDRAM and a decent hard-drive, 16X DVD +/- RW Drive, and Windows 7 Home Premium. You can also find a unit with as much as 16 Gigs of RAM, and Windows Professional or Ultimate as well.

You can also compare processors using the link at Passmark in terms of CPU Mark to Purchase Price:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html

Notice that the i7-2600 is at the TOP of the list, based on a $294 retail purchase price.

Posted by Daal on 04-09-12 05:41 PM:

Quote from WinstonTJ:

I've had one fail - one in hundreds that I've used or sold or put into service. It died instantly and it was an Intel Engineering Sample (not for the retail or regular public).

i5's and i7's are pretty decent CPUs. OP - do you know if you need cores or clock speed?

Multitasking will be rampant I assume this means the more cores the better right?I'm on the verge of buying AMD Six Core Fx-6100 3.3 Ghz on the ASUS M5a78l-m Lx motherboard

Posted by Bolimomo on 04-09-12 06:32 PM:

Quote from Daal:

Multitasking will be rampant I assume this means the more cores the better right?

In general more core the better. However, the application must support it in order to use multiple cores. It is not a given. For example, TradeStation up to 9.0 does not support multi-core. When the overall CPU usage reaches 13%, charts start to freeze. Basically the "orchart.exe" process only works on 1 core, works it to death while the other 3 cores remain in idle. You should check with your trading software vendor.

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