Changing TF is way too slow... buy workstation?

My charts have full of indicators and they are getting unacceptably slow...

My PC specification: (Windows 10 64 bit)


Normally, I open 4 charts + 1 offline chart (2H or 12H). When I do this, my system already reaches full resource usage:


When I kill one offline chart, I can save some resource but it's still high.


Even if I open only one online chart, changing TF is still way too slow. I reduced max bars in history/chart to 10000/5000. (reducing further may affect the accuracy of the indicators.) Higher TFs are relatively OK, but for TFs below 1H, it takes really long time or even not responding as if MT4 crashed, although system resource usage is not that high.


I am considering buying Dell Precision Tower 5000 series workstation with Xeon E5 CPU + 32BG ram. My question is will this resolve my performance issue? I started thinking it could be MT4's performance issue rather than my PC's hardware performance... Even if I buy powerful workstation, will my charts still be slow?

Thanks,

Try to remove a few or several indicators and see if it helps. I am curious, how many indicators do you have on one chart?

You can also try MT4 with all charts and indicators on an other computer and see if your computer is the problem or not. What is your CPU speed?
Maybe close other unnecessary running applications.

You'll see a performance bump for sure, but it won't be ground breaking. Offline charts and custom indicators are performance killers. Do you have anything that paints candles/bars? That's a performance killer. If you have access to the code limit the bars being painted or bars where the squiggly lines are being drawn since those get drawn every tick.

My new screamer top of the line Dell Precision mobile workstation with a quadcore i7,16gb ram, and SSD doesn't handle mt4 that much better than my piece of crap old as crap ASUS transformer with 4 gigs ram and an intel mobile centron processor. Certainly not in magnitude compared to the prices of those 2 machines. Where I see the difference is I can have quite a few other apps running on the workstation and everything runs just fine whereas the older/slower machine starts choking if more than mt4 and maybe one browser window is open.