Windows AI / trading station PC builds

jimhow4545 said:

Unix and Linux are not for average users.
These days most average PC users get online for news and entertainment.

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No one said it is for average users. Average users can't use a computer without a GUI. If there wasn't the GUI, they wouldn't even know how to use a computer but since the topic is about Windows AI/trading station, it's better to have something that is rock solid and stable. Mac's ever since OSX are all Mach Kernel, FreeBSD for the OS and Aqua for the GUI for example. But ofcourse if one is sticking with Windows only, then one will have to live with the limitations of the resources issue since similar to ThinkorSwim trading software, it's more limited because of Windows as the OS.

I'm not aware of any modern-day resource issues in modern x64 windows platform ... you won't have 90% of the machine waiting around because some resource value in the remaining 10% "got exhausted". I can't remember the year (decades ago?) when this might have been a problem.

Folks can have "configuration problems" (where the OS wasn't setup for the intended task), on any platform, but these can be worked through ...

The windows x64 platform should be on par with any x64 linux system. Both can be made into great trading platforms, cad stations, ...

Maybe not for you but on my machine, even after booting up and just browsing, the system will lag badly until I add in the following registry changes and I have just tested this earlier today because every time I do a repair in-place upgrade install, it would reset things back to the defaults:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems\Windows
SharedSection=1024,20480,8192 from the default of 1024,20480,768

This is covered in Desktop heap limitation causes out of memory error - Windows Server

GDI and User Handles needs to be changed as well:
For GDI handles change the following Registry Keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\GDIProcessHandleQuota

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\GDIProcessHandleQuota

Decimal Value
Change it to 65536
Range: 256 - 65,536. Default value: 10000

For USER handles change the following Registry Keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\USERProcessHandleQuota

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\USERProcessHandleQuota

Decimal Value
Change it to 18000
Range: 200 - 18,000. Default value: 10000

So a lot depends on what you have running as it might run fine for a few days before rebooting and you are right it can be a configuration issue but there are some things that cannot be changed without a BSOD like using the SharedSection, there sè no reference on what the maximum numbers allowed are.

bobkn said:

I have no idea what you'd need for AI or playing the stock market.

If you wish to stay with an HEDT (high end desktop), and to not use server hardware, your choice is still AMD Threadripper. Intel has no comparable series at this time.

TRX50 or WRX90 chipset.

Budget? You can get a Threadripper 7980X (64 cores, 128 threads) for a mere $4.8k US. A 7970X (32 cores, 64 threads) for half that.

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I use AI for stock prediction

jluich said:

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I use AI for stock prediction

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I believe you, but I have no idea what sort of hardware is needed to do that. Like whether you need an NPU.