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Hello,
My SQ is not performing as fast as I would expect, at the moment my Builder is generating 7,721 strategies/hour and the time per accepted strat is 13 min. I’m not sure if the performance can be improved with better hardware of by changing the settings on the Builder and SQ. Below please find my system’s hardware info. Please let me know what SQ or Builder info I should provide as well.
Any guidance from the forum and/or SQ staff on how to improve performance will be immensely appreciated.
System info:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz, 2001 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
RAM: 32 GB
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro 2000
Disk: 500GB SSD
Thank you all!
I’ve recently bought a Ryzen 3900x system with 32GB of RAM for generating strategies. It’s a great setup and I get a lot done with it! 🙂
I did a lot of research and had some issues with setting it all up, so I thought I would share my experiences with those of you looking to build a similar setup for SQX.
Initially though, I had issues with high load temps and I wanted to share some information with those of you who are looking at using the latest gen Ryzen CPUs to build SQX strategies.
I did a lot of research before buying the rig and I had a particular focus on keeping my CPU temps low. I looked at a lot of case reviews and a lot of reviews for AIO watercooling.
In the end I stuck with my trusty old Silverstone Raven 2 case and decided to go with air cooling. Even though my Raven 2 is about 10 years old, in many reviews it was by far the coolest case still on the market because Silverstone are THE ONLY case makers on the market who orientate the motherboard 90 degrees. This means that your motherboard / graphics / sound card plugs are on top of the case instead of on the side like normal.
The case comes with 3 very large cooling fans at the bottom of the case and pushes the air out the top, using a chimney type effect and it works much better than most other case designs because it takes full advantage of the concept of thermodynamics and pushed all of the rising heat straight out of the top of the case, instead of having issues like the GPU head rising into the CPU cooling fan. Big win.
If I’d gone with a more modern case I would have had temps up to 10C hotter, which would have negated the maybe 5C to 10C gain I would have gotten from using an AIO and this was an unnecessary expense.
In the end I went with the Noctua NH-D15, which is a MASSIVE beast of an air cooler and has been the coolest air cooling solution on the market for some time. Not only does the CPU benefit nicely from this big cooler, but the VRMs and RAM also get some nice cool air on them too.
Even with all of this (or if I’d gone with the AIO), I still had cooling issues. When I first set everything up, my load temps were still sitting between 68C and 75C, which I was very uncomfortable with, even if this is supposedly within spec.
I did some research and found that, for some reason, because these CPUs and the X570 / B550 / X470 motherboards are still relatively new tech, and have a lot of maturing to do, the motherboard manufacturers commonly over-volt the CPU.
I did some further research and eventually came across these 2 videos, which helped me IMMENSELY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssuqhyqah2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wM3obN2pAE
I have now set my CPU to 3.9Ghz for all cores / threads and my CPU voltage to 1.125v using Ryzen Master and my load temps never go past 50C and I’m MUCH happier with this and I’m still generating strategies about 95% as fast as before, but with much safer settings! 🙂
Hi guys!
My CPU usage used to sit at 100% constant in SQ up to 126. Setting is use all cores but 1 for gpu.
With 127 it looks like this:
Is this working correctly?
THX
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