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Post From: CPU: More Cores or Stronger Cores

[2018-10-29 22:42:24]
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drywater0 - Posts: 85
Reply to Xfanman / Scott,

Thanks so much for the detailed response. Historically I have followed your "near the top" principle with regard to CPU but thought that "this time might be different".

In the interest of keeping the request as brief as possible for SC support, I didn't provide all the details of what I plan to run on this new computer. In addition to the described SC setup, I will also be running several desktops in TradeStation and IB TWS for my data feed. During lulls in the market, I spend time analyzing mortgages so also have a number of other programs running (2 * Excel, 2 * web-browsers, documents in Adobe Reader & Word, OneNote, Outlook) at the same time.

Historically I have split this workload between my desktop and laptop but it constrains me to using a specific group of screens for a given task. With the advent of desktops within Windows 10, I would like to run everything on a single box and be able to switch desktops views as market conditions and other workload demand. Sometimes I need all the charts placed prominently in front of me while other times they can be safely moved to a monitor that is more above eye level.

While I realize that using a single box for all my tasks presents a business risk, I do backup to NAS on a weekly basis. I'm also planning to run a second copy of TradeStation on my laptop as a contingency in the event of a need to trade through a hardware failure with the new desktop.

I had a typo and misunderstanding with 4 * 4K. I'm actually running 6 * 30" displays that are 2560 * 1600, which is more than 1080P but less than 4K resolution. I really like your idea of just using a couple 42" displays as it keeps things simple. Unfortunately, I have too much invested in my six monitors to consider a swap at this moment.

Having read more details of what I plan to do, would you agree I'm better off with 14 cores (i9-7940x) that are individually 12% slower than the 6 faster cores (i7-8700K)? Appreciate your thoughts.