I'm not sure if you understood my question. I bought a computer with two dual core processing chips. (like in the old days where if you wanted two processors you need a motherboard with two processors, except I stuck two dual core processors in. My understanding is that the two chips should be equivalent to a quad core chip. Any idea on the preformance differences between the two setups.
Thanks StockzTrader, good tip. my CPU usage is fluctuating around 30-90's. with the middle around 65-70. I think I'm hitting it moderately hard already without heavy market action. which means the open may stress it at 100. my PF usage is at 2.18 gb, which I'm assuming is due to tradestation because I have a lot of indicators running. do you think more ram on the current dual core system will make it better? quad core CPU's are expensive
You're right, I misunderstood. Almost did that too, but then the quad core came along. Originally wanted to go with 2 quad cores for a total of 8 CPU's, but Digital Tigers only had 1.86GHz quad cores for the Stratosphere Elite hardware and I wanted to avoid what remiKane was talking about. Only the Stratospere Icon hardware had 2.66GHz quad core with the very latest motherboard. So, went for it Don't know about the question you ask regarding how the buss traffic is handled. Maybe a Google search will turn something up.
You may be on to something. Take a look at really active stocks also, such as QQQQ, etc. Look at the open tomorrow, as you suggest. remiKane suggested that more ram is good. It sure could not hurt
I'm just worried I may be trying to draw blood from stone I'm running a dell 9150 with dual core and 1gig ram. if I add ram to it, I may end up taxing the CPU - although they're designed to go 2gig iirc. I may end up building my own CPU for fun and hobby. that'll be when I throw in the quad, with SLI x 2 NVDA 8800 GTX's.
What about this one guys?! Intel Details 80-Core Teraflops Research Chip. Intelâs 80-Core Chip Takes Shape, But Will Never Turn âRealâ Category: CPU by Anton Shilov [ 02/12/2007 | 10:49 PM ] Intel Corp., has unveiled several new details about its so-called Teraflops research chip, which demonstrates Intelâs ability to pack 80 processing cores into a single piece of silicon and provides ability to analyze the bahaviour of certain new technologies required to make such processors. But while the chip has floating point performance that exceeds that of IBMâs Cell by more than four times, it will never be a commercial product. "Our researchers have achieved a wonderful and key milestone in terms of being able to drive multi-core and parallel computing performance forward. It points the way to the near future when Teraflop-capable designs will be commonplace and will reshape what we can all expect from our computers and the Internet at home and in the office,â said Justin R. Rattner, Intelâs chief technology officer. The 80-core Teraflops research chip built using 65nm process technology contains 80 cores, which Intel calls tiles due to the fact that they are very simplistic and hardly resembles modern central processing unitsâ cores, organized into 10x8 2D mesh network and operating at 4GHz clock-speed. Each tile consists of a processing engine (PE) connected to a 5-port router with mesochronous interfaces, which forwards packets between tiles. The 80-tile on-chip network enables a bisection bandwidth of 256GB/s. The PE contains two independent fully-pipelined single-precision floating-point multiply-accumulator (FPMAC) units, 3KB single-cycle instruction memory (IMEM), and 2KB data memory (DMEM). A 96-bit VLIW encodes up to eight operations per cycle. With a 10-port (6-read, 4-write) register file, the architecture allows scheduling to both FPMACs, simultaneous DMEM load and stores, packet send/receive from mesh network, program control, and dynamic sleep instructions. A router interface block (RIB) handles packet encapsulation between the PE and router. The fully symmetric architecture allows any PE to send (receive) instruction and data packets to (from) any other tile, which resembles AMDâs multi-processor architecture. Intel said that a 3.16GHz Teraflops research chip can deliver 1.01Teraflops performance with 62W thermal design power (TDP) and 0.95V voltage. At the same time, 5.1GHz and 5.7GHz processors would drive performance to 1.63Teraflops and 1.81Teraflops with 175W and 265W TDP, respectively. Achieving 1.01Teraflops performance is a respectable achievement, as IBM declares 205Gigaflops per Cell processor (currently the Gigaflops champ) in its QS20 blade-servers. Further Tera-scale research will focus on the addition of 3D stacked memory to the chip as well as developing more sophisticated research prototypes with many general-purpose Intel Architecture-based cores. Today, the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program has over 100 projects underway that explore other architectural, software and system design challenges. http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=80+core :eek:
I ordered 2 gb of memory from Newegg today. hopefully that will allow me to run all apps at full speed. I also ordered DSL as a backup to the cable modem. today it went down. Good thing I didn't have any trades on. I guess even if I did I'd call it into IB to close out the position and pay my $30. I'll probably buy a Hotbrick dual wan router to accept both DSL and Cable. anyone trade on a 1.5mb DSL connection? is it just as fast as cable? how much data does Tradestation and IB put out anyways? it can't be more than 1.5mb.
I have dual core, and the task manager spikes to 50% and stays there, as if only one chip can operate at a time. Do you have applications written in multi-thread?
just open your task manager and look at the commit charge. To avoid disk swapping, (i.e. to make your computer running at higher efficiency), your Total commit charge MUST be less than the total Physical Memory.