Morning, I am currently running 5/6 virtual machines on a single i7-27k @ 4.5ghz. When all VM's are running I tend to get 95-100 cpu usage. Each virtual machine runs 2-5% CPU when idle but once running DirectX applications each changes too between 20-25% per VM (on the host). The machine is still useable for web browsing or streaming films but not much else. I have all the components apart from motherboard / CPU to move the VM's to another PC(s). I need the VM's for work however I'm a big gamer and would like to have dedicated machine(s) for the VM's. Each VM machine runs windows 8.1 has access to 4 cores 2GB of RAM and 35gb of HD space. The VM's are split between 2 SSD's.
I would prefer to have to have 2 machines and as AMD's seem quite cheap would I be able to run 3 VM's on a £100 AMD CPU (such as A10 7700k 3.8ghz) It's been 10 years since I have used an AMD and although I have looked at different benchmarks I don't think this would translate directly to running multiple VM machines. The host will be Windows 8.1 64bit as will the guests.
Regards
I would prefer to have to have 2 machines and as AMD's seem quite cheap would I be able to run 3 VM's on a £100 AMD CPU (such as A10 7700k 3.8ghz) It's been 10 years since I have used an AMD and although I have looked at different benchmarks I don't think this would translate directly to running multiple VM machines. The host will be Windows 8.1 64bit as will the guests.
Regards
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