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I noticed the new mutithreaded mode. What advantage does ithave? Does it run faster or find more errors?

Sorry dude, but I agree, the H61 is the lowest rung on the Sandy Bridge gen chipsets. Get yourself an 1155 Z77 or Z68 mobo and sell the H61. Those mobos will give you what you want.

If you have an adequate videocard, the E3300 should be ok. I have an E3400 in my WHS box and it's a champ. If you are going to buy, I would recommend an Ivy Bridge or Haswell i3 with HD 4xxx graphics. That way you can get a quiet, low power machine that can handle any playback, whether it be...

+1 for MemTest86+ I also use IntelBurnTest with the max setting after I get a couple passes with MemTest86+

As a PC guy who cut his teeth on a Radio Shack Tandy, I will always be a PC guy. The Mac OS is limiting and fussy to me. However, on mobile devices, iOS and Apple hardware integration and experience is superior to Android and Windows. My only beef with iOS is I wish it went to the next level of...

Even better to know. I'll stop messing with it then. Thanks for the tip.

I upgraded a Mavericks installation in VMware Workstation. You are right though, the video is slow and not so good like in Mavericks.

My Z68 mobo supports memory OC, so the RAM is 1866 and running at those speeds. Memtest86+ and CPU-Z both confirm, so I am set there :) I'd need to get a new board for the 2500K if I were to boost the RAM speed there. But then again, I'm not fast switching those VMs, and once they're up, the...

I thought VT-d was needed for ESXi. Hmm. Well my "lab" use case is just an ASUS z68 with an i3-3245 with 16GB of RAM (1866) and a 1TB HDD. This has 6 VMs that don't necessarily need to be all on at the same time. My server is an H61 board with a 2500K, 16GB RAM (1333) and 1TB HDD. All are...

Thanks. I have looked at ESXi, but my CPUs don't have VT-d. I'm watching the used market for non-K 1155 cpus with VT-d. The next concern with ESXi is how to backup the bare metal. I use WHS to back up my machines, which means the entire host gets backed up. I've pulled VM backups from WHS on...

One use case is development testing-- alt+tabbing between multiple running instances. The other is a server use case where Workstation is configured to run like the old VMware Server (where they autostart) with multiple VMs serving different purposes needing 24/7 availability.

In my research, most of the talk is about 2 sticks vs 4 sticks, more ram over less. Of course more is better, and faster is better, but how much. The question comes in is it worth boosting the memory subsystem since multiple VMs vying for resources can impact performance. I say yes, if it's cost...

Thanks. My situation is multiple VMs running concurrently in VMware workstation. I've added more RAM AND upgraded to 1866 while I was at it for nominal cost. Subjectively I can "feel" things are a bit more fluid when I keep the original workload that was running on 8GB of 1333. I know disk I/O...

Same here. G.Skill's pretty good. FWIW, Crucial's is pretty good too, but I've RMA'd too many Ballistix over the years...

Does anyone have info on memory bandwidth and guest OS performance in VMware? For example, would 16GB of DDR3 1866 have better performance than the same amount at 1333? I know in theory yes, but I am interested in practical experience or evidence.

I installed Yosemite via update tool in a Mavericks VM, and the video is slow and choppy. Installing VMsvga2 will not fix it and will brick your shell. Make a snapshot first if you want to mess with it. I am currently pulling a backup of the VM from my WHS.

i3-2105 in the HTPC and a 2500K in the server. Both are still going strong. I am selling off a Pentium G620 which worked great for a long time. SB gen FTW!

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111221PD215.html

IB will push down SB prices by 10-15%. You can probably pick up a good deal on a used 2400 or 2500 if you want a quad now or soon. If you don't need a quad, consider picking yourself up a sub $100 SB Pentium and a mobo and waiting to see how IB does.

The mobo will auto detect the RAM and set what it needs to set accordingly. Since you're not/can't overclock you shouldn't have any issues.

I've run four VMs on a i7 970 @ stock and had no issues once all the VMs were loaded into 12GB of RAM. The biggest bottleneck by far was I/O on the single hard drive. I've since downgraded and have two of those VMs running on a Q9450 w/ 8GB of RAM on the same HDD, and still the I/O is the...