Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2012-10-04 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/05/2012 03:58 AM, serraios wrote: *2. My Software Setup.* I am using Windows 7 x64, but the database -and my poker playing- is installed in a Virtualbox VM running Windows XP x64. I have assigned 1 processor (out of 16) and 12 GB of RAM in that machine. Well there's your first problem. G

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2012-10-04 Thread serraios
Hi, this is my first post so forgive me if I ve done something wrong, because this is my first experience with a forum post which works through a mailing list. I am bumping this topic because as a long time pokertracker user who's tried to maximize the performance of his system for years, this to

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-21 Thread Craig Ringer
On 21/07/11 23:03, mdxxd wrote: > I'm still not sure what should I get. If i understand correctly Greg > message, despite my workload, i7 won't have much benefit for me and I should > get i5(i7=4 cores with HT=8, i5=4 cores)? Probably, yeah. To be sure, you should *measure* your current workload.

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-21 Thread mdxxd
Thanks for all of the info guys. Sadly, i'm still a little confused :) What i'm looking for is building a fast and reliable PC for my purposes while getting the best bang for buck. I don't mind paying 500$, 1000$ or 2000$ if its WORTH it(i.e i'm looking for the point where paying extra won't effect

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-20 Thread Greg Smith
On 07/20/2011 02:14 AM, Stuart Cooper wrote: Nice to see some poker being discussed on this list. Much more reputable than Stock Trading. If the casinos did something like what traders call "front-running", they'd all be put in jail the next day for cheating their customers. Just a day i

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-19 Thread Stuart Cooper
Nice to see some poker being discussed on this list. Much more reputable than Stock Trading. I was once on the LuckyBum side of this in a Casino Limit game. Opponent: AT Stuart the LuckyBum: 88 Flop: ATT Myself and opponent checked that flop, I bet the turn 8 and was raised, the river 8 saw the

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-19 Thread Greg Smith
Bruce Momjian wrote: Greg, tell me you didn't get involved with Postgres because of Poker Tracker. :-O :-) Nah, both came out of my working on stock trading systems. I just wrote a bit more about this whole subject at http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2011/07/pushing-allin-with-postgresql.

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, did I just read Poker Tracker and SSDs in the same email --- my head is going to explode! Greg, tell me you didn't get involved with Postgres because of Poker Tracker. :-O :-) --- Greg Smith wrote: > On 07/17/2011 09:

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-19 Thread Greg Smith
On 07/17/2011 09:37 PM, mdxxd wrote: My DB is big, around 5M hands(big is relative of course), I use complex HUD(if you know what it is), run complex reports and play 12+ tables. Complex is relatively complex to other PT users, I don't know how it compared to other tasks. That is pretty cra

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:37 PM, mdxxd wrote: > I'm about to buy a new desktop home computer and my main concern is best > Poker Tracker performance. > Poker Tracker uses PostgreSQL so I thought this will be the best place to > ask. > > My DB is big, around 5M hands(big is relative of course), I u

Re: [GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On 18/07/2011 9:37 AM, mdxxd wrote: CPU: *Will PostgreSQL benefit from using hyperthreading in i7 2600k CPU? Or will there be no noticeable performance change if I use i5 2500K CPU(i.e no HT, just 4 cores)? On a typical desktop system, hard disk I/O is the limiting factor rather than CPU, so I i

[GENERAL] Building an home computer for best Poker Tracker performance

2011-07-17 Thread mdxxd
I'm about to buy a new desktop home computer and my main concern is best Poker Tracker performance. Poker Tracker uses PostgreSQL so I thought this will be the best place to ask. My DB is big, around 5M hands(big is relative of course), I use complex HUD(if you know what it is), run complex report