Hi everyone, I'm building a home lab virtualization whitebox and was hoping for some advise on the CPU and RAM.
Trying to decide between the i5 2500 or the i7 2600 (both non-K). I will be running ESXi 5 as the hypervisor with 2+ virtual domain controllers to start( server 2008 r2), couple of client OS (7, xp), and definitely XenDesktop 5 on top of the vSphere. I'm getting the 16gb Corsair Vengence (1333 or 1600?), a couple of tb of caviar black, dual-nic msi z68 mobo, etc. I guess the safe bet is to get the i7 but of course I do want to keep the overall build under 900$ which I can manage with the i5. Any advise would be much appreciated!
Trying to decide between the i5 2500 or the i7 2600 (both non-K). I will be running ESXi 5 as the hypervisor with 2+ virtual domain controllers to start( server 2008 r2), couple of client OS (7, xp), and definitely XenDesktop 5 on top of the vSphere. I'm getting the 16gb Corsair Vengence (1333 or 1600?), a couple of tb of caviar black, dual-nic msi z68 mobo, etc. I guess the safe bet is to get the i7 but of course I do want to keep the overall build under 900$ which I can manage with the i5. Any advise would be much appreciated!