Bügeleisen,
I have followed this discussion and others regarding high cpu % when running eSignal and other apps with multimonitors. I have limited knowledge about the way data is handled internally by computers and greatly appreciate when someone like Steve Hare or Garth explain the details.
My personal experience seems to indicate that your bottleneck and mine are more I/O related than cpu or RAM bound. Over the years my systems have grown faster and more complex. Currently I run 6 monitors off 3 video cards. Adding the 3rd video card really slowed things down for me as did stretching an application across 3 video cards. I find it interesting and consider it a big clue that when eSignal is running but minimized to offscreen the winsig.exe cpu% drops noticeably. This is also the case although much less so when running Ensign across three video cards. Programs that are only run on 1 display or both outputs of the main (AGP) card don't seem to cause as high a cpu spike when changing symbols as they do when stretched multimonitor fashion.
For those of us who want to run 6,8 or 10 monitors what would a good solution be? Assuming we are willing to build new boxes from the ground up what is the best way to get all the monitors on the same/fastest bus? If I understand the new mobo's they only have 1 slot for the new pci-express slot for video. I've seen very few video cards that can support 4 dvi outputs at 1600x1200 resolution. I can find no information either way that running the high resolutions that I do increases the demands placed on a system but I believe it does. FWIW my current trading box is a 2.8Ghz/865 chipset 800FSB/ 1 GB 400DDR and ATI 9800/9200/7500 cards.
The idea of assigning an application to a dedicated cpu appeals to me so I'm thinking a dual AMD box will be in my future but I and I assume many others really need help with the multimonitor issue.
I have followed this discussion and others regarding high cpu % when running eSignal and other apps with multimonitors. I have limited knowledge about the way data is handled internally by computers and greatly appreciate when someone like Steve Hare or Garth explain the details.
My personal experience seems to indicate that your bottleneck and mine are more I/O related than cpu or RAM bound. Over the years my systems have grown faster and more complex. Currently I run 6 monitors off 3 video cards. Adding the 3rd video card really slowed things down for me as did stretching an application across 3 video cards. I find it interesting and consider it a big clue that when eSignal is running but minimized to offscreen the winsig.exe cpu% drops noticeably. This is also the case although much less so when running Ensign across three video cards. Programs that are only run on 1 display or both outputs of the main (AGP) card don't seem to cause as high a cpu spike when changing symbols as they do when stretched multimonitor fashion.
For those of us who want to run 6,8 or 10 monitors what would a good solution be? Assuming we are willing to build new boxes from the ground up what is the best way to get all the monitors on the same/fastest bus? If I understand the new mobo's they only have 1 slot for the new pci-express slot for video. I've seen very few video cards that can support 4 dvi outputs at 1600x1200 resolution. I can find no information either way that running the high resolutions that I do increases the demands placed on a system but I believe it does. FWIW my current trading box is a 2.8Ghz/865 chipset 800FSB/ 1 GB 400DDR and ATI 9800/9200/7500 cards.
The idea of assigning an application to a dedicated cpu appeals to me so I'm thinking a dual AMD box will be in my future but I and I assume many others really need help with the multimonitor issue.
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