Ultimate Poker Tracker Machine

[PokerCrucible]

Hello,

I am in the market for a new pc and am wondering what the ultimate Poker Tracker machine would look like? I am mostly thinking RAM, Drive access times and processor. I am a mac guy so this is a hard decision for me. I am interested in opinions. I have looked at the AMD chip and am wondering specifically if anyone thinks that is less of a chip then Intel. Thanks for your input.

[WhiteRider]

I can't really comment on any specific hardware, especially for Mac, but as long as you have a decent processor your priority should be to get a big, fast hard disk (at least 7200 rpm, but we've had some good reports of 10k HDDs and especially SSDs) and plenty of RAM (4 or 8GB). If you can afford to get a second disk drive specifically for your PokerTracker data then that will really speed things up.

Of course, you only really need a super-powerful system if you're going to be importing many millions of hands – any decent new system will work well for small to medium-sized databases.

[PokerCrucible]

Sorry for not clarifying, I am looking at a windows based machine. My db has over 9million hands in it, so I am not sure if it is large or not, but I know at times on my imac, it takes forever to query the statistics so I am hoping that by moving to a PC, I can speed things up a bit. If I click on the tournaments tab, it can take upwards of 5 or 6 minutes for the filtered data to show. I run the update cache every night on exit. Thanks for the help/thoughts

[kraada]

Specifications on the hardware matter a lot more than what operating system you're using. One other thing though - you should also be vacuuming and analyzing your database regularly and if you haven't done that in a long time, it's definitely something that you'll want to be doing.

[PokerCrucible]

Yes, I do, do that, but it takes over 24 hours sometimes to finish it, which means my itch to play online is rather severe. I am thinking of just heading over to Fry's Electronics and building my own machine as I can't find a machine with 10k drives in it that is not a server. Thanks for all your input.

[kraada]

RAM and hard drive speeds are going to be most of your bottleneck if your frustration is with cache update times.

[zubs1aa]

1) SSD and it's not even close.
2) Ram
3) Processor does matter. I had maxed ram and added SSD on an older machine. Went from a plain old P4 to a new quadcore and woosh like a rocket now.

[PokerCrucible]

So here is what I have now:

My Machine - Beastie
MB - Asus P8P67 LE
Chip - i7 - 2260 3.20ghz
RAM - 16gig - DDR3 1600mhz
HD - 2 120gig SSD Corsair
Vid - Asus HD 5770 1gig
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate

I went over to Fry's and built it myself. It freak'n smokes.

[zubs1aa]

So here is what I have now:

My Machine - Beastie
MB - Asus P8P67 LE
Chip - i7 - 2260 3.20ghz
RAM - 16gig - DDR3 1600mhz
HD - 2 120gig SSD Corsair
Vid - Asus HD 5770 1gig
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate

I went over to Fry's and built it myself. It freak'n smokes.

If PT doesn't run right on that setup, there is something seriously wrong :)

[tarix]

RAM - 16gig - DDR3 1600mhz

:o Jealous!

Make sure you also upgrade to a 64-bit version of Postgres 9.0. It helped a ton for me.