I guess that's more for the fun of it than the savings. From quick study I did, it appears that the avings are close to nothing. Any opinions on the last Intel P4, 3.46 extreme, 2mb cache, 1066FSB, worth its money $1500+ (with 526 Ram), for daytrading? Thx
3 months ago I got a Amd 64 3400+ cpu and a MS NEO MB + 2 gigs of matched memory and a raptor 10000rpm drive. It is unbelievably fast. The cpu and MB can be had for $500 bucks or less. I paid $500 3 months ago I bet it has come down. This is the fastest machine I have ever played with. John
John, The Athlon 64, 2.4HHz, 2GB PC3200 RAm is no at $1068. This is a 800MHz FSB. I found a Seagate 7200/200GB/8MB cache for $150. Do I need AGP super fast graphics card for daytrading and 2-3LCDs or a simple PCI w64MB Ram will do the job? Thx for helping,
Certainly. I have a running daytrading system, 2.8G P4. Typically it runs at 3% of maximum CPU load with peaks of about 10% a few times a minute. I am doing some rather fancy stuff though. Conclusion, daytrading doesn't require these kind of machines at all. It's nice to have them though. Success in daytrading only depends for 0.1% on your computer hardware and on 99.9% on the computer between your ears. nononsense
Lol Nonsense,.... so true ... fully agree with you, but its like many other thinks in life, "little treats to yourself dont harm from time to time". Thax for the wise words,
I recently added this server to my stable for persisting the realtime data to a database (for now MySQL): http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=pe2850&s=bsd The dual Xeon capability, the 800Mgz FSB, the PCI-E and DDRII 400 Mhz memory and the PERC SCSI RAID controller were the reason I chose it for database applications. The Quad Opteron is considerably faster in 64-bit mode [computationally] than the DELL, but the DELL has six hot-swap SCSI bays and a very fast SCSI RAID controller making it faster for persistence than the Quad Opteron. Plus the DELL is alot cheaper I have installed 64-bit Linux and 64-bit MySQL on the DELL machine. I took me no less than ten tries to get installation of the OS and MySQL server and client correct - try that sometimes with four 650 MB .iso's However, the last two days of almost continous rummaging for FAQs have paid off and I now have the MySQL server running nicely. I can connect programmatically to MySQL using both C#.Net from a Windows machine and from the localhost using native 64-bit libraries from C++ If this works well, I will migrate the Quad Opteron to 64-bit Linux. The Quad Opteron and the Dell are connected via 1Gb Ethernet. Tests done on MySQL have shown that running the application locally on the DB server is about seven times faster than running it over Ethernet. Unfortunately, I have to segregate my application so that the Quad Opteron is doing it's thing and when it needs to get (persistent) data it will have to request it over the wire from the DELL. Ces't la vie. nitro
Hi nitro, Good luck with your Linux/MySQL setup. May you never leave it anymore. About your setup experience, 2 days to do all that sounds rather good if you never got an MySQL going on it. You also tested out connecting to it from windoz. Pretty good. I'm curious, what distro did you pick? How do you compare installation (woes?) to other distro's you tried? Be good, nononsense PS, nothing against the C# stuff but that's only for commoners. You know what's smarter.
The only single problem I've had with my linux 64 bits setup was Flash from Macromedia. They haven't been able to release a 64 bits version of their plugin yet...just pathetic... c'est la merde... Using SuSE 9.2