Re: [amibroker] 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo or 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad?

["Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Memory access speed is what it counts when backtesting.
Even single core is faster than memory can deliver data.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt" <crcmcc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:41 AM
Subject: [amibroker] 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo or 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad?


> I'm getting a new system and it will either have an Intel E6850 CPU 
> (Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz) or an Intel Q6600 CPU (Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz). 
> 
> Does AMIBroker take advantage of the Quad cores? 
> 
> For AMIBroker alone, am I better off having the higher CPU frequency? 
> 
> Does the Quad cores help if running several applications at the same 
> time or does it only help if the applications are written to take 
> advantage of Quad cores?
> 
> I was also wondering if keeping the AMIBroker database on a solid 
> state drive would speedup backtesting?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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