Should i use Quad Core or i7 for virtualization ?
Hi.
I want to do some virtualization using either Sun’s Virtualbox or Vmware. I will use Ubuntu as host operating system and I want to run about 8 installs of XP concurrently as guests. All of these XP guests will simultaneously do stuff on the web.
I need to buy a monster machine to handle this. My money can either buy me an i7 cpu with a little DDR3 ram (4-8gb) or a Quad Core (q9400) with about 16 gb of DDR2 ram.
It seems like the cpu is powerful enough in both cases, but I believe the extra 8gb or ram will come in real handy when it comes to virtualization. I believe the bottlenecks in virtualization would be located elsewhere, such as I/O. Please tell me what you feel would be my best choice.
4 answers in about 10 minutes… wow ! Are you guys on standby waiting for these questions ? Anyways, thanks for the good answers so far. I will wait a while until I award the winner to see if some more geeks respond. Please keep ‘em coming people.
I respect the opinion that the i7 is the fastest cpu and is good with virtualization, but I think i will go with quad core, cause I believe I need as much extra ram as my budget will buy. Honorary prices to all that suggested that Quad Core is the way to go, Quad Core is what I will choose. I will vote for user "Divot" as the winner though, because of his valued opinions about cache and DDR3. Thank you all that responded.
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Use the most L1.& L2 cache you can, I will buy the Q 9550 (12mb).
Put on a mobo with 45 or 48 chippset.
DDR3 is a dead horse, 8-12GB of DDR2 will suffice.
Well I prefer the i7 since its the latest CPU that came out and has 8 cores which is prefect for multitasking which i do a lot, but you said "but I believe the extra 8gb or ram will come in real handy when it comes to virtualization." then get the Quad core, since it might come in handy later on, but, if you get the i7 you can still add on more ram.
well if i where you i wouldget the quad core thats what is much better and it has 16gb so thats good.
I would go with the "Quad Core (q9400) with about 16 gb of DDR2 ram" simply because your gonna need a fair amount of ram to run 8 copy’s of XP all at once while doing other web browsing and stuff on each one.
Hope this helps! =D
go for i7 its very good for virtualization as it is very powerful and speedy to do such things…..
the processor is really very strong and the latest one to do such works properly …..
i7