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tinkon   05-11-2009 at 11:41:18 PM

Hello:

So the functionalities I am looking for are in order of importance: Virtual Machines, Photoshop, Video Editing, Gaming.

I play with a lot of systems sometimes and having the capability of hosting 3/4 VMs during my dev time is a must. Also I will be using it for photo video editing and possibly some gaming ( i like first person shooter kind of games).

Budget is around 1k. I do not need monitors and other accessories.
Thinking of Intel Quad cores (not sure what i7 has to offer in virtualization). And lots of RAM (8GB DDR3).

thanks
tinkon

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Wolfshadw   05-12-2009 at 12:31:14 AM
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I just finished a test build this weekend of a Server 2008 project. Components I used include:

Intel Core2Quad Q8400 processor
Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard
8GB (4x2GB) G-Skill DDR2-800 RAM

This system will allow me to run as many virtual machines as I have resources/licenses for (XP/Vista/Server 2003/linux). I should be able to have three or four client systems running concurrently or two client systems and one SQL server running concurrently without issue.

The intent was to build a development platform and use Server 2008's Hyper-V role to allow me to game on a XP or Vista virtual machine. This was not to be, however, as the virtual machines used an integrated service bus for graphic displays. That's just not going to cut it for gaming, so I'm looking at refining the build for a dual boot system; either XP, Vista or Windows 7 and Server 2008.

I'd probably recommend going that route if you're wanting to game and develop on one physical system.

-Wolf sends


Message edited by Wolfshadw on 05-12-2009 at 12:31:37 AM
------------------------------ System Specs:
Gigabyte EP43-UD3L Intel Core2Quad Q8400 8 Gig RAM
NVidia Geforce 8800GTS-640/Creative X-FI Extreme Music/Dual-Boot XP-64&Server2008
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the last resort   05-12-2009 at 02:17:24 AM
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if i do recall, AMD Opteron processors seemed to be the King of virtualization. I'm not sure how much better they are than Intel's offerings, but something you may want to check out. And being a server-based solution, it would be easy to have tons of RAM. However, not sure it would be easy to fit it into a budget of 1K.

------------------------------ I couldn't overclock my 6000+ so I undervolted it. Stable at 3.0 GHz and 1.05V
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