i7-900s vs Xeon processors - identical?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by fosch, Apr 17, 2010.

  1. LeeD

    LeeD

  2. Watch the video for falcon trading systems at 3:35. These guys
    seems very unprofessional with how they handle the PC's. That
    guy's just holding the motherboard in his lap just snapping in
    parts. He's not grounded (http://www.wikihow.com/Ground-Yourself-to-Avoid-Destroying-a-Computer-with-Electrostatic-Discharge ), or wearing any gloves, so his oily ass hands are getting over everything. Then you have the old man listening to his ipod, or maybe its his hearing aid, I don't know, but I love how its just dangling over the PC waiting to get snagged on something.

    PASS!
     
    #22     Oct 12, 2010
  3. It seems that from a price-performance perspective, i7 is a bigger bang for your buck for retail traders using desktops. Similar or better performance at a lower price. Unless you want to run your trading software on a server class machine.
     
    #23     Oct 12, 2010
  4. Mr J

    Mr J

    4-6 monitors doesn't necessitate a powerful processor. If you needed something powerful, you likely wouldn't need to ask here. The guys here pushing i7s+ may very well be wasting your money.
     
    #24     Oct 13, 2010
  5. My first 4-monitor rig included a TV tuner... ran on a P III, with 4 MB RAM video cards... video requirements for nearly all of today's trading isn't any greater.
     
    #25     Oct 13, 2010
  6. I have 36gb in my T5500 with dual w5580 cpus... What do you care what we do with our RAM? Perhaps people do other things than just trade with their machines.
     
    #26     Oct 16, 2010
  7. If you don't mind my asking... (1) How much did 36GB of RAM cost when you bought it?, and (2) What is your peak RAM usage?
     
    #27     Oct 16, 2010
  8. The box was about $7,500 new and its ECC RAM so its pretty expensive.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148356

    So 36GB would cost you roughly $1k. You can get non-ecc RAM for much cheaper though.

    Peak depends on what its used for. Most of the time it only uses 1-3gb but when I run simulations overnight it can get up to 28-29gb when it loads all of the parameters into memory. So probably 12 hours a day its loaded up and 12 hours its idling at 1.5-3gb used.
     
    #28     Oct 17, 2010
  9. This is URGENT!!!






    How much RAM is required for High Frequency Porn Watching?
     
    #29     Oct 17, 2010
  10. pspr

    pspr

    Depends upon the size of your "ram rod"! :D
     
    #30     Oct 17, 2010