Jim Dean Sage   Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | Another issue to think about is how much L2 or L3 CACHE is available ... multicore processors have a lot more. I just bought a new quadcore Xenon machine with 12M of L3 cache - I expect it to significantly surpass the OT performance of my existing quadcore Xenon machine with 4M of L2 cache. All of Dell's "serious" machines (Precision) use multicore Xenon ... the "consumer" machines use the "i" series. That ought to tell ya something ... And please, take the advice of someone who has spent hundreds of hours of testing and configuring and fiddling with speed issues ... make sure your Hard Drive is fast, if you intend to do much backtesting or portfolio simulation with OT! [Edited by Jim Dean on 8/23/2010 7:17 AM] | |
