Gulftown or Sandy? :?

[x88x]

Another thing to note about memory. If you are using a hypervisor the memory overhead for the 'OS' is extremely small. IIRC, on the ESXi box I set up, ESXi I don't think ever used more than maybe 64MB of RAM. Other than that, I would say plan at least 256MB/VM if they're running headless *nix, 512MB/VM if they're running GUI'd *nix or Windows XP/2003 or earlier, and 1GB/VM if they're running Vista/2008 or later. So, if you want to run 5 VMs, I would throw on at least 6GB; might as well do at least 8GB with the prices of 4GB DIMMs where they are now.

[Ichbin]

Alright, so from what I'm gathering, I'm trying to do to much with one machine, and that for the money, it would be best if I built 2 machines, one being my servermonkey and one being teh ubermachine.

Interesting. I'll have to do price comparisons building two machines.

My whole idea would be ease of access, and if that means I need 2 machines to do this effectively then so be it

As for the hyperthreaded cores, I realize that they aren't "real" cores, but they still help out tremendously.

As for what this is used for, security stuff mainly but also certification training as well. So it's going to have all sorts of operating systems running. I think being a budding sysadmin, it's in my best interest to have a sandbox


As for the gaming machine, I'm still figuring out what kind of card I'm going to put into it. Haven't done the cost analysis yet on that.

Plus I have to save up for a ring

And don't give me sh*t about that! lol

[Fuganater]

Plus I have to save up for a ring

3 months salary

[Ichbin]

I'll probably build my uberrig and just "Deal" and fiddle with small amounts of virtualization, then actually invest into a server machine once I save up for that.

Cause really looking at what I'm going to be doing at first, I don't think I need a dedicated Vserver quite yet.

Probably best for my budget. Time to estimate a rig using sandybridge

[dr.walrus]

just get a 2600k and go from there then

[RogueOpportunist]

Plus I have to save up for a ring

And don't give me sh*t about that! lol

That could be your gaming rig if you made a little change... Yanno... Just sayin.

[Ichbin]

lol, I just asked if I added a small setting on top of the case, would it count.

needless to say.

This was her face.

[dr.walrus]

lady looks like a dude

[Ichbin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0oXY4nDxE

[Ichbin]

Okey doke. Bought all the stuff.

Don't want to say it's future proof, but it was a goal to make sure it lasted.

Now granted, I still wanted to do some VMing, albeit not alot. I'm taking your guys' advice and will build a server machine later down the road.

Don't knock the RAM specs. I know the Cas Latency is a little to be desired.

i7 2600k
ABS Majesty 1100w PSU
OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB Sata III
G.Skill Ripjaws X + Turbulence II Series 16gb
Western Digital 1tb Sata III
Noctua NH C14 (Honestly, the review TBCS did on that made me want to research it more, and well... I bought it. Nuff said)
Gigabyte GA-Z68-UD7-B3

I also got a GTX590. Now before all you haters start hating, I bought it for 650 bucks and local, with his original receipt so if it does fail, I still have warranty service. On top of that it's confirmed working. His mom wouldn't fund the rest of his project for him so he decided to liquidate. Jumped on that quickly (Especially since both the 590 and 6990 are sold out errywhere).

Buncha other stuff, but they're pretty self explanatory (Card reader, dvd drive, case fans...etc)

Total Costs : Roughly 2500 (Including monitor)

I think I did pretty good

I'll take pics of everything once it's all in.

Yay for investments!