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Hey all, I wasn´t sure in which forum that belongs, but do anyone know how to find out when the cpu pillow from the ltt store roughly becomes available? :) Greetings Pascal

Hey all, I need some help from you guys A friend asked me if I can help him by choosing the right parts for his build. He told me that his goal is to work 95% of the time with vm´s that should run all kinds of database and networking stuff (db2, oracle, elo etc.). He uses this software setup at work (IT support) but he has no experience on the hardware side. What we figured out is that he want to run around 4-6 VM´s at a time with medium workload and needs min 6gb Ram per VM (6*6 = 32GB so we ended up with 64gb of RAM total for his system. I thought that in this scenario a xeon processor is the better choice cause of the higher corecount so that he can assign more cores to a vm and cause he don´t need a high clockspeed per core. I´m no beginner in building computers but I never get in touch with Xeon processors and ECC ram. I know what the difference are but I don´t no which Xeon makes sense and I have no overview over the available models as well as the related motherboards. The rig that is consider until now looks like this: 64gb Ram 4x 250gb SSD 1-2x 1TB HDD for long time storage (maybe WD Red´s cause his pc is running nearly 24/7) 1x used GTX 560 ti (a already have one from an old rig and he don´t need a good GPU and if he decide that he needs more later on a gpu is easy to upgrade) Putting money into a cpu make more sense then in a GPU that he woun´t use. 200-250 for case and PSU Processor ? (high core count needed ) The budget for that whole PC is around 2000-2500 Euro (2150-2650 us dollar) Can you recommend a good CPU on the xeon side or 6-10core i7 side? Thanks in advance Greeting Pascal

Then I have to stick to dual boot Thanks guys I hope it´s available in the future, cause that would be awesome

Hey all, the context for my question is that I´m currently trying to develop a game in the Unreal Engine 4 and I aim for windows as my main platform but I also bare in mind that a linux port should be possible without to great time needed cause UE4 can also natively compile for that platform. My own PC is currently running Windows 10 and I have no chance to change that in the future cause a lot of important programms are windows only but I need a machine to try if and how good a linux version would run so I thought maybe there is a virtual machine that is capable enough to run games (linux in VM on win machine). I only have some very basic experience with virtual box but that gave me not the results I wanted. I read some articles in the internet and everyone was talking about the peripharels passthrough as being the greates threat to good performance in a VM when gaming. Do someone has experience with gaming in a VM? Greetings Pascal PC specs: i7-3930k at stock speed Rampage 4 extreme 32gb ddr3 ram MSI GTX 1060 6gb 2x 250gb SSD crucial mx