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Is an Asus EEE-Box enough for trading with MT4?

  • #1
  • First Post: Apr 15, 2009 7:40am Apr 15, 2009 7:40am
Hi!

Who has experience with trading 24h with an Asus EEE-Box?!

Which system do you use? Windows XP, Linux or WineHQ?

Is the speed enough for running MT4 on an Intel Atom 270?

I appreciate any comments!!!

Manuel
  • #2
  • Apr 15, 2009 7:58am Apr 15, 2009 7:58am
That should be more than enough to run metatrader.

If you try to use a lot of indicators, run long backtests, or complicated optimizations, then the computer will be bogged down.

I personally use several Intel Little Valley motherboards, and they're fine.
  • #3
  • Apr 15, 2009 8:04am Apr 15, 2009 8:04am
I would like to use it for testing some EAs during night and during the day manual trading.

You suggest Windows XP or better a mix between Linux and Windows like WineHQ? WineHQ is slim and I heard it is faster than Windows XP!

Do I need more RAM? More than 1GB?
  • #4
  • Apr 15, 2009 8:59am Apr 15, 2009 8:59am
Quoting ms119
I would like to use it for testing some EAs during night and during the day manual trading.

You suggest Windows XP or better a mix between Linux and Windows like WineHQ? WineHQ is slim and I heard it is faster than Windows XP!

Do I need more RAM? More than 1GB?
If you want to do simple forward tests it should be more than enough.
I once played Battlefield 1942 on one of those little things. Worked fine.

I've had sever problems with Wine and emulating Metatrader. Had a few glitches. Not something you'd want when trading with real money. I'd stick with WinXP. I highly doubt Wine or some VMMachine on Linux is faster than a regular win xp.
  • #5
  • Apr 15, 2009 9:18am Apr 15, 2009 9:18am
Quoting Tjpld
If you want to do simple forward tests it should be more than enough.
I once played Battlefield 1942 on one of those little things. Worked fine.

I've had sever problems with Wine and emulating Metatrader. Had a few glitches. Not something you'd want when trading with real money. I'd stick with WinXP. I highly doubt Wine or some VMMachine on Linux is faster than a regular win xp.

Okay, good to know!!!

Because I found some information on WineHQ:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=2893

And people say that it was faster on Wine than on Windows XP!?

But thanks!!!
  • #6
  • Last Post: Apr 15, 2009 10:35am Apr 15, 2009 10:35am
The main reason why it's faster on wine is because windows has all sorts of other things running in the background.

I use a stripped down version of windows on my metatrader machines. I built each for ~$150 and they're humming along fine.
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