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winsten

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I have a problem with my cpu maxing out(according to the task manager) and causing significant slowdowns. I run Win 2k on an amd 1.0 ghz athlon with 512 megs pc133 sdram on an Abit kt-7 Raid motherboard. My video card is a Matrox g200 quad card. I run 4 sony 21" 500 ps monitors. My internet connection is a 512/256 cable modem. I run a realtime stock quote and chart program called e-signal on all 4 monitors (16 bit color at 85hz) plus internet browsers and a charting database software program. Most of the time this all runs fine. But when market activity is really heavy- Usually at the open my cpu gets maxed out to 100% and I can't hardly do anything. When I look at the processes tab in my task manager the culprit is always winsig.exe (my real-time quote software using 90+ of cpu). If I change my layout to only cover 2 monitors then I am fine. But I have 4 other monitors that I want to run also for a total of 8 by adding another 4 port card. So finally we get to my question. What is the bottleneck and how do I fix it? Should I build a dual mp system or is the pci bus causing me these problems? I make my living trading so I don't have a problem investing in new equipment but don't want to waste money on a solution that doesn't help.
 
Welcome to the Anandtech forums, Winsten.

This is the highly technical forum and is reserved for questions relating to the technology behind computers (and other scientific questions), not how to fix specific hardware/software issues.

For your question, I would recommend reposting in the "general hardware" forum.
 
just reall quick answer YES, build dual MP. It seems that really your cpu is under a lot of stress and it can't handle all the data it should.
 
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