This thread reads like those laudations by hifi nuts of about 10-20 years back.
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AMD 64 X2 3800 for multitask trading
- Thread starter Bernard111
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i just bought a SR1630NX compaq presario. with AMD 3500+ venice core 512kb/L2, 512MB PC3200, 200gig IDE... blah blah... google for the rest...
to replace my old: AMD XP 2000+ w/1GIG PC133
my old CPU utilization used to be around 20-25% on average. now my average CPU util is around 5-10%. i just recently purchased another strip of 1gig memory.
this computer was really cool & quiet until i plugged in my Geforce 5200 PCI & noisy Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT, plus 160gig of seagate IDE drive.
after playing a bit of 3D games(doom 3), the heatsink on this Venice core was still at around or below my skin temperature. the heatsink is usually the coldest part of the computer.
AMD 64 has the cool & quiet technology acts (to me) exactly like the intel speed step on my Pentium M laptop. this 3500 CPU steps from a max of 2.2gig to min of 1gig frequency. it saves power(machine comes with a 300Watt Power supply), reduces heat.... and from what i can tell, the cpu runs cooler than my PentiumM 1.6 inspiron 600m laptop
i am not using 64bits portion of the CPU, which makes me a bit uneasy. it probably will not run anything 64bits until its replaced to act as a linux server of some kind.
to replace my old: AMD XP 2000+ w/1GIG PC133
my old CPU utilization used to be around 20-25% on average. now my average CPU util is around 5-10%. i just recently purchased another strip of 1gig memory.
this computer was really cool & quiet until i plugged in my Geforce 5200 PCI & noisy Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT, plus 160gig of seagate IDE drive.
after playing a bit of 3D games(doom 3), the heatsink on this Venice core was still at around or below my skin temperature. the heatsink is usually the coldest part of the computer.
AMD 64 has the cool & quiet technology acts (to me) exactly like the intel speed step on my Pentium M laptop. this 3500 CPU steps from a max of 2.2gig to min of 1gig frequency. it saves power(machine comes with a 300Watt Power supply), reduces heat.... and from what i can tell, the cpu runs cooler than my PentiumM 1.6 inspiron 600m laptop
i am not using 64bits portion of the CPU, which makes me a bit uneasy. it probably will not run anything 64bits until its replaced to act as a linux server of some kind.
Quote from Runningbear:
Guys,
Well after recently upgrading to the Athlon 64 3500 Venice core chip, I have had a chance to test it thoroughly and it's very fast.
For those thinking about upgrading, I also went with the Gigabit K8NS Ultra MB, a gig of DDR400 Dual Channel RAM and the WD 10,000 ARPM Rapter HD.
This combo smokes. I was previously running the P4 2.8 chip with 512 meg of ram and this thing is literally 10 times faster.
To give you some idea of the performance difference, my esignal set-up used to peak about 70% of CPU usage. The same set-up is now using 18%.
I have an EFS script that processes every trade and used to spike my CPU usage up to 100% while loading. The Athlon loads the script with CPU usage never exceeding 5%.
Running EFS scripts in tick replay that used to run at nearly 100% now run at about 30% - 40%.
So even though it's not dual core, this chip delivers everything I was hoping it would in terms of real world performance for my trading machine. In some respects it's actually faster than I thought it would be.
Runningbear
>>this 3500 CPU steps from a max of 2.2gig to min of 1gig frequency.>>
A nice utility is RM, RightMark CPU Clock Utility.
http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml
A nice utility is RM, RightMark CPU Clock Utility.
http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml