Hypothetical spec me and other questions re virtual machine build.

[Lartyconshayo]

So. I want to run a bunch of guest VM's using Win 10 OS (host also win 10) ideally want to be as smooth as possible.

I have just started using VMware workstation pro after using virtual box (where I used lubuntu) and am assigning 2 cores per VM with one virtual core per physical core ( I have no idea if these are optimal settings) Win 10 runs pretty well here but at that core assignment will it run into problems the more VMs I run concurrently? I can run three at moment and host and that seems to be fine.

I currently run a 4790k non-OC with 32GB ram. I assign 4GB per VM. I saw these articles and it got me thinking whether I would be better changing my set up:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.techspot.com/amp/review/1218-affordable-40-thread-xeon-monster-pc/

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.techspot.com/amp/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/

Any thoughts on the two builds ? Or alternate suggestions ?

 

[CinderzFTW]

I run a 6700 on my work system and run 1 server with 4gb ram, 1 core 2 threads and 2 window 10 machines with a shared 1 core 2 threads and share 4gb memory. works nicely.

id opt for the affordable 40 thread monster if you are going to be running vms most of the time or for very long periods...