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HyperV upgrade or new?

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Limp Gawd
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I am studying for my mcsa 2012 and am setting up a lab for testing purposes. Right now I have a spare machine with the specs
i5 2400
8gb ram
2x 128gb sad's

I am looking for a quiet machine that can do around 6-8 servers and 2 win 8 clients. Right now I am know I am to short on memory and am thinking about ordering some ram asap 16gb to bump me to 24gb. What I started thinking is it time to upgrade to a new machine or bump what I have now? I have been eyeballing:

Intel Nuc. i3, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd.
Custom mini itx box i3/i5 not sure, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd
 
It depends on what you're going to do with the servers. If you're just doing basic stuff with Server 2012 you can get away with 512MB-1GB per server. If you're going to be running an Exchange server or SQL Server you're going to need more ram. Since it's just for studying I imagine performance doesn't matter much.

My home Domain Controller using dynamic memory is generally sitting around 800-1GB. My SQL server that's just hosting a VMM database is only using 1200MB. My Windows 8.1 VM that's not doing anything is using 632MB. My VMM Server is using 1.5GB.

So really it depends on the server role and the demand you're going to put on them. But you can get a good density out of Server 2012 and Win 8.1 VMs with Dynamic memory.
 
Do you need a new board to add an extra 8GB of RAM? That seems like by far the cheapest/sanest route to me.
 
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