ESXI Lab - AMD Kabini

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Any have any thoughts/opinions on using an AMD kabini based system specifically the Athlon 5350 as an ESXI host.

I'm comparing it to a Celeron N2807 Gigabyte Brix as they cost roughly the same with 8GB RAM

Plus points for Kabini.

Roughly double the CPU performance according to Geekbench (Similar single core but 4 cores vs 2)
PCI-E Slot (allows the option of either a 4 port gigabit NIC or Infiniband to maximise IO between host and ZFS NAS acting as the data store)
Expansion up to 32GB RAM vs 8GB

 

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Random thread to reply to given the age.

And FX6300 is overkill for what I wanted, no need for that much processing power or power consumption