New Build Advice

[iAndrew]

£500 to spend on a motherboard, 32GB RAM and chip.

What do people suggest.

Reason for silly RAM is because the PC will be used for VMware testing.

 

[V_R]

i5 bundle of some kind maybe?

 

[EvanDavis]

I don't think you are going to have much luck with £500. Why not look on e-bay for an oldish server with dual Xeon's and spend a few quid on RAM if its only for VM testing ?

 

[EvanDavis]

Motherboard bundle

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-014-OP&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2085

RAM @16 gig

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS


if you arelooking for anything higher end than that, best start saving a few more pennies. How many virtual machines will you be running, and what exactly will these virtual machines be doing ? 12 gig RAM is more than enough for 15 virtual machines to use

 

[EvanDavis]

Another idea to run your Virtual machine would be to run some form of Linux. Linux has a much better processing power than Windows, thus bringing down the amount of RAM you would need

 

[floppybootstomp]

32Gb RAM is crippling the £500 budget.

You can get a Sandybridge CPU, decent socket 1155 motherboard and 16Gb memory for a monkey but up the memory to 32Gb and that's not enough money for anything decent.

I honestly don't think any current day software requirements in a domestic enviroment would benefit from 32Gb RAM.

 

[iAndrew]

As long as the board will take 32GB RAM i'm happy to go with 12GB for now.

I could buy a server but you are limited hardware wise what you can and cannot do in terms of upgrading.