My New Laptop System - Please Critique

[CPTrader]

Quote from Tums:

Your Peak is slightly over your Physical.
Memory size is not the major cause that slows down your machine.

You definitely need more brute force.

How do I get more brute force?

Thanks, Tums and thanks to everyone for the healthy feisty dialogue.

 

[Tums]

Quote from CPTrader:
So it seems the summary here is that mnx believes the new 2.6Ghz CTD processor will improove my performance
while gnome feels that the issue is primarily software and neither more RAM or a faster processor will improve my performance.
so what to do???!!

You have to observe:

Does your computer slows down on other operations?

or does it only performs slowly in backtesting?

if your computer is slow even while surfing the web, then you might have a software/OS related problem. e.g. virus or adware.

do an AV sweep is the next step.

 

[gnome]

Quote from CPTrader:

How do I get more brute force?

Thanks, Tums and thanks to everyone for the healthy feisty dialogue.

More powerful CPU.

 

[CPTrader]

Quote from Tums:

You have to observe:

Does your computer slows down on other operations?

or does it only performs slowly in backtesting?

if your computer is slow even while surfing the web, then you might have a software/OS related problem. e.g. virus or adware.

do an AV sweep is the next step.

Performs slowly mainly during backtesting and occassionally when I'm crazy enough to have 10 firefox/IE windows each with 8 or so tabs

 

[gnome]

You're going to get the new, more powerful system anyway. If it fixes the problem, great. If not, you'll still have to wrangle the software issue.

 

[gnome]

Quote from CPTrader:

Performs slowly mainly during backtesting and occassionally when I'm crazy enough to have 10 firefox/IE windows each with 8 or so tabs

Well, it's not all that great an idea to have "tons" of stuff open at once. Windows can handle quite a lot, but it still has limits.

 

[Tums]

Quote from CPTrader:
How do I get more brute force?
Thanks, Tums and thanks to everyone for the healthy feisty dialogue.

You can take a look at my experiement.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1849141&highlight=optim*#post1849141

 

[CPTrader]

Quote from gnome:

More powerful CPU.

OK, well hopefully the new T9500 2.6 CTD will be a mighty improvemnet over my old Intel Pentium 2.0GHZ . Or should I go for the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo X9000 (2.80GHz) 6M L2 Cache, 800MHz Dual Core instead of the T9500 2.6GHZ CTD?

 

[mnx]

Quote from CPTrader:

OK, well hopefully the new T9500 2.6 CTD will be a mighty improvemnet over my old Intel Pentium 2.0GHZ . Or should I go for the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo X9000 (2.80GHz) 6M L2 Cache, 800MHz Dual Core instead of the T9500 2.6GHZ CTD?

how much more for the extra 200MHz?

it's probably not worth it, because I'm willing to bet Dell will charge you an arm and a leg for the x9000...

 

[gnome]

Quote from mnx:

how much more for the extra 200MHz?

it's probably not worth it, because I'm willing to bet Dell will charge you an arm and a leg for the x9000...

Oh Yeah... top of the line upgrades are always waaaayyyy over priced.