has a laundry list of performance tips, most of which I'm using or that don't apply to my setup. I do have a few questions, however, so here we go:
* I do charts only.
* New box, W-2145 chip, 8 cores/16 threads, fast clock speed. 64G memory(way more than I need now). Bought the box for exactly these reasons, so I wouldn't be bogged down by charts and everything else I'm running.
* Could someone elaborate more on tip #8, which lists:
"Workspaces which have a single or fewer number of instruments are unable to take advantage of multi-core processors. For example, having 30 charts with the same instrument will not perform as well as 30 charts of different instruments on a multi-core processor. Reducing the number of windows with the same instrument can increase performance."
Are ALL charts on a single instrument(say, AAPL 1m, 2m, 3m charts) limited to being processed on a single cpu? This makes no sense, IF NT8 is truly multi-processing. I'll be running 5-12 diff instruments, with -many- charts for each of these instruments. I'd hope/expect that whatever chart needs juice would get it and not be in the queue, if some other charts of the -same- instrument are busy. For example, if AAPL is going bonkers one day, I don't want AAPL charts lagging behind, because they run single-threaded, and the rest of my box is idle, as the rest of the market is dead that day.
In regards to number/size of windows, now that 4k monitors are common, how much is this gonna hose up NT8? I have a mix of 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1600 and one 4k monitor(this monitor is running in portrait mode, so is 2160x3048). I'll eventually standardize on 6-7 4ks, all running in 2160x3048 portrait mode. There will be some NT8 charts on all monitors, along with other stuff.
Two Nvidia P620 video cards, total of 8 4k ports. Not a gaming card, but should be ok for static charts(lemme know if this is not the case). I may upgrade these later, if needed.
IF NT8 Development did NOT test a Windows desktop that is HUGE, they better load up a couple of 8 port 4k video cards, run out and buy 16 4k monitors and see if it all blows or goes, cuz someone out in NT-land is eventually gonna run a hi-res monitor wall, if they're not already doing so...
I'm going to experiment with turning off Hyperthreading(not for discussion here, tho), to make sure I don't run into wait time issues, which HT can cause. I'll still have 8 real cores, which I'm thinking is more than enough horsepower for everything on the box.
Essentially what I need to know is really how multi-processing is NT8 and is NT8 up-to-date enough to handle -today's- video, which can be a many hi-res monitors and a really large Windows desktop, compared with just a few years ago.
I do have the possibly of splitting the workload up among NT7/NT8/etc, to accommodate cpu/video workload, but of course would prefer to have it all wrapped up in one workspace on NT8.
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