I've finished my preliminary analysis of the performance differences between V667 and V8. Bottom line is that it's only slightly more demanding and if you have a good server from the last 3-4 years. You should be okay, but I would recommend switching to SSD-based storage. Cloud Users may experience delays as your host may need to dedicate more resources to each instance running a newer version. Clock speed is more important that number of cores with SQL express. A 4.0 GHz Quad Core i7 will outperform a 10 core Xeon at 2.4 GHz. The new version appears to require additional processing power and disk IO. This may come at an additional cost.

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The purpose of this post is to explore the technical differences between Amazing Charts V6.6.7 and Amazing Charts V8.2.2. This post will not cover differences in usability or new features. We will be analyzing performance differences and new processes and services added with the new version...

 

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We setup two Virtual Machines both using identical copies of a custom Windows 8.1 Pro x64 Install Disc on one of our Solo+ Servers. Virtual machines were setup on a Workstation with the following specifications Intel Xeon E3 Processor, 32GB DDR3 RAM, and dedicated 256GB Drive for the Virtual Hard Disks. Each Virtual machine was assigned 6 Processing Cores and 5GB of RAM with 40GB of solid state storage. They have identical software except the first Virtual Machine with Amazing Charts V6.6.7 (hereafter referred to as VM-A) and the other virtual machine has Amazing Charts V8.2.2 (hereafter referred to as VM-B).

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