Intel i7 960 vs AMD II X6 for VMworkstation

[machete]

Originally Posted by MaRcHeW

Machete, with the 960 only being a 4 core, that will still limit me in that regards to assigning cpu's to vms compared to the 6 core amd.... is the 960 that much better that this is covered off?

When virtualising, 99% of the time you will hit RAM limitations before CPU limitations. Also while you can assign cores to VMs you're better off letting VMware workstation allocate the workload around your cores and yes the 960 will still do better than the x6.

I recall seeing some VMmark scores around the place and these surprised me too... Let me see if I can find them.

[bobbth]

Have you thought about going dual cpu?

What about a c32 based setup (two 6 core Opterons)

you might want to take a look at this thread over in the AMD pen:
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...d.php?t=987042

could be a cheap way to get a metric crap-ton of cores and ram

[machete]

Ram will be dog slow because it's ECC, cores will be wasted in VMware workstation.