need some help to chose the right components to vm

[well_duh]

Long story short: I want to move away from Windows

 

Long story: I dont want to totally abandon it just yet and have it running in a virtual machine with gpu passthrough (all the good qemu, kvm stuff). Im planning on letting a nvidia gpu handle some blender. 

 

Down the road there will be one 4k monitor for desktop stuff, and two 1080p for gaming and 2nd os. My gaming workload is lightweight enough for my current hd7850 to handle and will be taken as second gpu.

 

Obviously there have to be enough cores on either os, although Linux is not that demanding, so that there are at least 8 physical in total.

Now its just about the best price to performance and sure you can get the e5-2670 used for next to nothing, but I dont want to spend any money on a CPU that is a generation older than my ivy bridge i3 neither an outdated x79 mobo.

 

I configured myself the parts I need at ~1000€(Germany)

• r7-1700
• x370 mobo
• 32gb memory
• 2xTB WD Blue
• gtx1060 6gb

Now the question is, if itd make sense to buy into the 2011-3 platform instead, maybe even get a 5820k, because of better cpu performance distribution or single thread performance?(I have no idea)

Id not hesitate to get a used cpu as long as its not a ES and willing to possibly tinker w/ a server mobo if it has at least 2 pcie x16 slots.

 

Thanks in advance, like to hear your arguments.

[IPickle]

May I ask what hypervisor you intend on using? I don't think there are any AMD Ryzen motherboards which are on VMWare's compatibility matrix.

[Sauron]

I can't recommend nvidia for this purpose since they artificially block passthrough if the driver detects you're running a virtual machine.

 

The parts you configured seem adequate to me, I wouldn't touch x299 if you don't want way more headaches than it's worth on top of paying quite a bit more. X99 is less of a headache but still not worth the money compared to a ryzen 7 system (plus the 1700 outperforms the 5820k in all but single core tasks).

 

You may not need that much ram by the way unless you plan on rendering at the same time as you play games.

[well_duh]

@Sauron oh right, totally forgot about the nvidia driver issue ... then itll be my linux card, will deal with those issues later. gaming and rendering the same time is pretty much the purpose. X299 was not even close to my consideration for that reason

 

@IPickle the open source one on linux, if I recall correctly its kvm