Whats better dual or overclocked?

[Lazerous]

But how can you blame a guy for wanting "the fastest" he can get? Don't we all strive for that in one way or another? LOL.

Of course there is no 100% correct answer but given the nature of the software one can take an educated guess. The only real way to tell is set up a benchmark specific to that app and test it on all those platforms mentioned.

Hey guy? feel like buying 3 rigs and letting us know the outcome?

<font color=green>AMD 64 3700+
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
CORSAIR XMS (1gb) PC-3200
Gigabyte GF 6800gt 256mb
Audigy 2 ZS
2_36.7gb Raptors/Raid 0
Tt 480 watt PSU</font color=green>

 

[Lazerous]

<A HREF="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/athlon64-fx51.html" target="_new">Hmmmmmm.....</A> It sure looks like the Pentiums win in these benchies. Maybe they are scewed?



<font color=green>AMD 64 3700+
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
CORSAIR XMS (1gb) PC-3200
Gigabyte GF 6800gt 256mb
Audigy 2 ZS
2_36.7gb Raptors/Raid 0
Tt 480 watt PSU</font color=green>

 

[endyen]

Okay, if a billionth of a second is worth it, I'll give him 2, and even save him a little money.
The fastest would be a dual opteron setup. Hand s down,no questions asked, it would beat a P4EE or dual xeon pairing by a full 2 billionths of a second. Not only that, but the HTT would speed the signal to the nic by as much as another bilionth. There you go guy, take your 3 bilionths of a second, and all for under 5 grand.

 

[endyen]

Yup, old tests, but the FX clearly wins in Business whinstone, Now if he was doing multimedia, different story.. Look yourself. Who wins Business Whinstone?

 

[P4Man]

So true. Furthermore, if "generating hundreds of buys/sells a minute" is in any way CPU bound on anything above a 486, I'd say there is a 1000% to 100000% potential speed gain in the software, and maybe 5% between highend cpu's. Especially if its done in VB.

But why waste our time ? Does anyone seriously believe any company would even consider an overclocked PC to run financial transaction software ? If so, I have some additional idea's to speed up his app:
1) to minimize connection delays, disable all firewalls, hard- and software
2) if you are using VPN, disable it by all means
3) disable any ecryption or authentication. Those things take time
4) use a lightweight OS. XP sucks up cpu cycles and resources. I highly recommend Windows 3.0 for this sort of applications.
5) Store data on floppy disks.

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