ASUS Prime Z390-A VMs?

[TheLawyerMan]

Would I be able to run VMs on an ASUS Prime Z390-A?

Thanks in advance.

[minibois]

Your motherboard is not really relevant for VM's, it's more about CPU and RAM:

- Having enough threads / capacity respectively

- Your CPU should have virtualization

 

That boards will be good for i7 and i5 CPU's, but consider a different board to run i9 CPU's comfortably.

P.S.: you could definitely consider an AMD Ryzen CPU for more threads for the same prices.

[TheLawyerMan]

2 minutes ago, minibois said:

Your motherboard is not really relevant for VM's, it's more about CPU and RAM:

- Having enough threads / capacity respectively

- Your CPU should have virtualization

 

That boards will be good for i7 and i5 CPU's, but consider a different board to run i9 CPU's comfortably.

P.S.: you could definitely consider an AMD Ryzen CPU for more threads for the same prices.

Yes, but I was under the impression that the motherboard must support something (I forget the name) for virtualization.

[minibois]

4 minutes ago, ALLSTAR1JAC2899 said:

Yes, but I was under the impression that the motherboard must support something (I forget the name) for virtualization.

That is included in all Z390 boards and I kinda assumed you would go Z390 on Intel's side regardless of what manufacturer, so that wouldn't have been an issue

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/chipsets/desktop-chipsets/z390.html

 

On the AMD side, all CPU's you can get nowadays will have AMD-V support. Just double check the mobo has Virtualization support too, occasionally called 'SVM'.

[TheLawyerMan]

1 minute ago, minibois said:

That is included in all Z390 boards and I kinda assumed you would go Z390 on Intel's side regardless of what manufacturer, so that wouldn't have been an issue

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/chipsets/desktop-chipsets/z390.html

 

On the AMD side, all CPU's you can get nowadays will have AMD-V support. Just double check the mobo has Virtualization support too, occasionally called 'SVM'.

Oh. Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

26 minutes ago, ALLSTAR1JAC2899 said:

Oh. Thanks!

For reference, basically everysystem made in the last 10 years will run vms fine. its mostly about the performance needed for the vms.