Processor and Mother board supporting to work in VMware

[rockers]

Hi All,

I am looking for Processor and Mother board supporting to work with VMware and in Windows 8. My requirement I will be installing VMware software and work some applications in it. I will be watching HD & Blue ray movies with 5.1 home theater , I am looking for a configuration which support both for VMware Application and movies. My Budget is 35K. I saw a configuration core i5 3550 it support graphics and Z77 ,H77, Z68,Q77 chipset support in built graphics. In some post I saw that it is no need of graphics card because inbuilt graphics is high in the above mentioned chipset.

MY configuration

Processor -- AMD ot INTEL (My prefer in INTEL core i5 3550)

Motherboard -- Asus or INTEL

Hard disk --- 1TB seagate (6 GB/s)

RAM --- 8GB (1600) Corasir

DVD --- Sony

CAbinet --- Zebroincs or Cooler Master need price for cabinet

Graphics card --- 1Gb NVIDIA - GeForce

Waiting for reply ..........

 

[whitestar_999]

for you it does not matter.VMWare will support any processor/mobo.this question arises only for highly experienced individuals requiring hardware level access support for specific virtual environment needs.

 

[rockers]

I am planning to work some high end applications in Vmare. I am planning to use as client and server for some applications. I searched in net they have mentioned that both Processor and Motherboard must support vmware then only we can work in it.
Pls mention the Processor and motherboard..............which support Vmware

 

[Naxal]

Pls mention the Processor and motherboard..............which support Vmware

Processor -> Intel or AMD Virtualization technologies are need to be present in your processor along with more core is better

Motherboard -> Ability to support as much RAM is possible.

I guess these are the basic need for VMWare or any other Virtialization Apps.

The Core i5 3550 ARK | Intel® Core seems to be having them all, now select a motherboard for your self which should support 32 GB or such.

If you are not an overclocker then look into Intel DH77EB, having support for 4 x 8GB RAM support. Giving you the ability to install 32GB of RAM.

Intel® Desktop Board DH77EB

Secondly

I saw a configuration core i5 3550 it support graphics and Z77 ,H77, Z68,Q77 chipset support in built graphics. In some post I saw that it is no need of graphics card because inbuilt graphics is high in the above mentioned chipset.

If you are not a gamer, the Build in graphics processor of Core i5 3550 would be more than enough for rest of the needs.

Config

Intel Core i5 3550 @ Rs. 13k
Intel DH77EB @ 7k
G.Skill or Corsair (2 x 8GB) 16 GB 1600 MHz RAM @ 6k (keep two slots free, upgrade more RAM if needed later)
W.D. 1 TB HDD @ 5k
Cabinet with Generic PSU @ 2.5k
UPS (generic local) @ Rs. 1.4k
DVD RW @ 1.2k

Total -> 36K

 

[Cilus]

AFAIK, AMD FX series has better VM WARE support and correct me if I am wrong, FX 8150 does have slightly better performance in multi-threaded apps than i5 3450, which is very essential for VMware.

 

[vkl]

If you are more into Virtualisation,run multiple VMs simultaneously or run intensive applications inside VM which requires more cores then fx8150's 8 cores would be better.
Take intel 2nd /3rd gen i5 only if you don't require that many core utilization at a time.For you I think fx8150 would be good.8 physical cores do give flexibility in core assignment to VMs.

Intel's VT-x = AMD V and VT-d=AMD IOMMU
Both fx8150/8120 have AMD V and IOMMU.I5 24/25xx and some of i5 3xxx have both VT-x and VT-d.The k-series intel 2nd/3rd gen processors(like i5 2500k) have VT-x but no VT-d.
So as far vitualisation support is concerned I think they are pretty even if you consider fx 81xx or i5 3xxx/2xxx.

IOMMU depends upon the chipset.Motherboards built around 970,990X,990fx chipsets have IOMMU implemented on it.These motherboards don't have on-board graphics.
So you have to get a graphic card for display if you go with the above mentioned chipset based motherboards.
880G chipset has on-board graphics but doesn't support IOMMU.


For fx based config
Processor:fx8150-11.4k
Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - 6k
Hard disk - WD Caviar blue 1TB -4.8k
RAM:G.Skill RipjawsX(1600MHz) DDR3 4GB*2 - 3k
Optical drive:Asus DRW-24B5ST - 1k
Cabinet: NZXT source 210 elite -2.6k or CM elite 311 plus -2.7k
Graphics card :Gigabyte Radeon HD 7750 -6.3k

If you have a good(80+) PSU from corsair/seasonic/antec or any other good brand of capacity 400Watts or more then you are good to go or else consider purchasing corsair cx430v2 or cx500v2.

 

[Cilus]

^^ Nicely explained. Also the suggested config is very good.

 

[rockers]

Processor:fx8150-11.4k
Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - 6k
Hard disk - WD Caviar blue 1TB -4.8k
RAM:G.Skill RipjawsX(1600MHz) DDR3 4GB*2 - 3k
Optical drive:Asus DRW-24B5ST - 1k
Cabinet: NZXT source 210 elite -2.6k or CM elite 311 plus -2.7k
Graphics card :Gigabyte Radeon HD 7750 -6.3k


for the above config any MOtherboard in Asus ..????