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buyandsell		#1 Posted : Sunday, March 21, 2010 11:00:14 PM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 10/12/2008(UTC) Posts: 12		1)L2 CACHE of CPU more and more(besides of CPU speed)? 2)RAM SPEED (which is enough?) 3)RAM SIZE (2GB is enough?) 4)HARD DISK is necessary to use SSD? 5)any more? THANKS!


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johnl		#2 Posted : Monday, March 22, 2010 7:08:51 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 11/7/2005(UTC) Posts: 602		My mother board just died a few weeks ago and I upgraded from 0.5 gigs of ram to 2 gigs of ram. on a new computer and the difference between the two is night and day. I am assuming that is what did it since the CPU and GHz were upgraded but by not much.


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buyandsell		#3 Posted : Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:02:51 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 10/12/2008(UTC) Posts: 12		BTW, any ppl are using ssd hard disk, is it more fast while back testing?


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wabbit		#4 Posted : Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:27:32 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers, Unverified Users Joined: 10/28/2004(UTC) Posts: 3,111 Location: Perth, Western Australia Was thanked: 16 time(s) in 16 post(s)		This topic has been raised before on the forum, and I guess the general advice would be the same, in order of importance? write good code sort out your data so that you only test against equities you would actually trade decent hardware Read, for example, one of the discussions : [/url]http://forum.equis.com/forums/thread/19767.aspx[/url] The question of speed efficient back testing usually comes from those who are curve-fitting (or over optimising) rather than optimising; the difference is a fine line, you must know the difference and the ramifications. wabbit [:D]


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