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Quad core ?
- Thread starter Mr-White
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Yes a quad core CPU would help for running VMs. I quite often run a few VMs at a time and noticed a difference moving from my Core 2 Duo to my Core 2 Quad. I'm now on an i7 but haven't had much of a chance to fire up the VMs on it yet.
I think it's Virtual machine!
Soldato
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- 12 Jun 2008
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yeah virtual machine, only prob is i'm limited to 4GB of memory
MW
mobo limited or OS limited? if its the OS your key shall work with a 64-bit disk, so you could source one from torrent or borrow from a friend
Interested in this thread since I went from a e8400 to a q9550 for virtual machines.
What program are you using? I prefer virtual box, which is not presently doing a very good job of multi-threading for all that it claims to do so. The problem is that virtualbox itself will use however many cores you have, but it tends to only let each guest access one of them. The move to quad core did mean I can now run 3 virtual machines very smoothly, and four if the host os isn't doing much. I like this.
What program are you using? I prefer virtual box, which is not presently doing a very good job of multi-threading for all that it claims to do so. The problem is that virtualbox itself will use however many cores you have, but it tends to only let each guest access one of them. The move to quad core did mean I can now run 3 virtual machines very smoothly, and four if the host os isn't doing much. I like this.