Jim Dean![]() Sage ![]() ![]() Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA ![]() | Steve is an expert on this. ๐ One more thot for this thread - if your intent is to do heavy numeric calc testing of OT as he described- for example several simultaneously-running Strategy Wizard studies, then I *highly* recommend machines with single or dual Xeon chips rather than i7โs or comparable. Xeons are tried and true server CPUโs - they will not have overheating problems that i7โs likely could run in to for calcs like this. Xeon chips for typical user machines are usually dual or quad core. Check out Dell Precision desktops. They even sell Laptops now with these configurations! If you have a single four core Xeon chip (8 virtual cores), you can easily run four simultaneous balls to the wall SW tasks (or other combo of OT related things) with 16G ram total (2 vote cores and 4G ram apiece). If you want to reserve one for general use and might have a few computational or memory intensive task in that instance at once, then dedicate 4 virt cores and 8G to the main instance and 2vc+4G apiece to two other instances. (You probably could get away with just 3G per OT-instance btw) Xeon chips for typical user machines are usually dual or quad core. Check out Dell Precision towers. They even sell Laptops now with these configurations! And if you have dual Xeons each with four cores - with 32G Ram - you are ready for anything. But itโs not an inexpensive machine. ๐ [Edited by Jim Dean on 5/15/2018 9:59 AM] |