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Subject : RE: Windows 7 and i7 processor
Posted : 7/2/2018 3:37 PM
Post #44923 - In reply to #21539

Hi,

I've taken some screenshots of my Apple Macbook Pro running OT2018 in a virtual Win 10 machine.

You can see clearly the single thread (process) of OT and confirms that it uses only 1 of the available cores. It will never go above this single core. Other processes (in this case a data downloader among others will use the remaining resources but in this case it looks as if a single additional core will be by and large sufficient so I'd suggest a very fast gHZ (speed) dual core processor will be optimal in terms of price/performance.
Furthermore the memory usage is negligible as is the SSD i/o though the latter should be as fast as you can afford.
Bottom line is the higher the speed (gHZ) the better. The latest I7 processors can close off some cores and boost the core that needs the speed. I believe its called Turbo mode. This favouring of one core at the expense of the unused cores seems about the only way to speed up a single core process such as OT. I haven't looked but I suspect that the best AMD processors can do the same thing. No point in looking at the ARM processors just yet.

Happy to answer any questions.


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