I wonder how many virtual machines this gaming computer can handle

glacier922 · #1 02-17-2016

What do you guys think? 6700k i7, 64 gb ram. I'm thinking you can minus the video cards since we don't care too much for pixels on ebay accts.

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Haidukken · #2 02-17-2016

probably, most likely 4

empirestate · #3 02-17-2016

If you run Windows XP for the VM, you can run 20 simultaneously.

feadup · #4 02-17-2016

If you tuning withdaws XP and VM ware plus 1TR hard drive you can run min 100 account

phaz0rz · #5 02-17-2016

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Originally Posted by empirestate

If you run Windows XP for the VM, you can run 20 simultaneously.

No way that processor could handle 20 XP VM's simultaneously. Probably more like 10. Sure there's enough RAM to potentially run 60 XP VM's at the same time, but the capabilities of the processor would be a bottleneck.

glacier922 · #6 02-17-2016

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Originally Posted by feadup

If you tuning withdaws XP and VM ware plus 1TR hard drive you can run min 100 account

You probably need a tb ssd drive for that, plugged into an 3.0 USB port

glacier922 · #7 02-17-2016

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No way that processor could handle 20 XP VM's simultaneously. Probably more like 10. Sure there's enough RAM to potentially run 60 XP VM's at the same time, but the capabilities of the processor would be a bottleneck.

Put a liquid nitrogen cooler on top of the processor

phaz0rz · #8 02-17-2016

Keeping it cool would keep the processor alive but would not increase the rate at which it can process data..

rsot · #9 02-17-2016

Cool machine.

Time to build it:

phaz0rz · #10 02-17-2016

Floppy drive. Hah.

MM78 · #11 02-17-2016

$5,000 and couldn't watercool the GPU's? pffffff.

glacier922 · #12 02-17-2016

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$5,000 and couldn't watercool the GPU's? pffffff.

Most of it is on the 3 video cards I think, but then we could put some liquid nitrogen on it hah!

empirestate · #13 02-17-2016

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Most of it is on the 3 video cards I think, but then we could put some liquid nitrogen on it hah!

No need for more than 1 video card unless you plan to game on it. 1 gpu is more than sufficient to run 20 instances of VMs.

muzzie · #14 02-17-2016

The main issue is RAM, as XP consumes very little CPU power. If you give 1 GB of ram to each XP VM, it will fly like a rocket. So, 64 gigs of ram = 64 happy Win XP VMs, and that is without dynamic ram allocation, and with it you will be able to run around 2x more machines. Ram nowadays is quite cheap, so getting some rig with 128 Gigs of ram is not so fantastic. For example, for my stealth stuff, I run a 2U server with dual E2630 CPUs, and 128 gigs of ram, and it goes very smoothly with around 50 VMs inside (mixed Win 7 / 8.1 / Linux machines). And yes, video card is not required at all to run all these machines, as it is emulated as well by the hypervisor, and thanks to the Intel VTx technology, visualization overhead is very tiny.

yotano211 · #15 02-17-2016

Give me a AMD server motherboard with socket g34 quad socket and those 16core CPUs and I'll run way more than 100 VMs.

glacier922 · #16 02-17-2016

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Give me a AMD server motherboard with socket g34 quad socket and those 16core CPUs and I'll run way more than 100 VMs.

Is that 16 core more than one chip or is it just one chip?

yotano211 · #17 02-18-2016

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Is that 16 core more than one chip or is it just one chip?

They are on just one chip, but they run at a slow clock speed, around 2.3. Get a quad cpu socket server motherboard and you have a nice folding@home farm.

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MM78 · #18 02-18-2016

Just so were clear, are we talking about how many VM's can be run ALL at the same time?

rsot · #19 02-18-2016

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Just so were clear, are we talking about how many VM's can be run ALL at the same time?

That's what I was figuring - for ease of account changing for sales...or maybe shilling

MM78 · #20 02-18-2016

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That's what I was figuring - for ease of account changing for sales...or maybe shilling

Well the way I was thinking is....no one really needs to run ALL the VM's at the same time. I only fire up the VM's I plan to use and I only fire them up when I actually plan to do something.

muzzie · #21 02-18-2016

Actually, with a proper setup, 100 of them may run at the same time...

glacier922 · #22 02-18-2016

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Originally Posted by MM78

Well the way I was thinking is....no one really needs to run ALL the VM's at the same time. I only fire up the VM's I plan to use and I only fire them up when I actually plan to do something.

Going to need some several verizon mifi as well running several vm, each vm switching user accts within each vm, trying to reduce the time printing labels vs switching user accts down to seconds rather than 3-4 minutes per user accts