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To: Esteban who wrote (44283)	3/29/2001 8:46:03 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

QCharts now runs on it, but QLink will not. I think that I recall it was a video problem at the time. I use a Matrox card and twin Philips Flat Panels on the Dell; a Matrox technician told me how to fix the problem. QLink I use for an Excel SS and now I run that on a Gateway under Win98. QLink is only used once a day to update DJIA data, and I've never tried to determine what the problem is. After I close QCharts for the day I run the QLink update. The database is on the Gateway anyway, so it makes little difference where Qlink operates from. The performance increase using the DP is huge at brief intervals. It becomes more obvious during periods such as Tradestation Maintenance, when the Task Manager shows CPU Usage at levels from the high 70% range to the low 90% range. Except for such periods it is not necessary. Further, instability in the platform has been isolated to DP problems and/or the Intel processors. I was close, I thought the issue may have been the Rambus memory. In any event, I've scuttled the Dell for most applications and bought machines each containing a single AMD processor. Those machines, also running W2K, are far more stable. So at the moment, I would say that the tradeoff is not worth it. My experience with the DP on the whole has not been very good. Perhaps it was the Pentium chips, perhaps it's just the way that W2K handles it. Either way, I don't recommend it.