March 6, 20179 yr So I have been slowly thinking about replacing my Lenovo TS140 32GB quad core Xeon server with something a little beefier. I was thinking along the lines of what Gridrunner has, a nice Engineering sample Xeon with say 14 cores and an X99 mono to take plenty of RAM. I might end up going with a tower though like the Phanteks Evolve or similar as it has a smaller area foot print. But I am still in two minds about the Xeon, it is hard getting a decent ES one where the clock speeds are not massively downgraded from stock. You also take a risk on whether they fully support VT and so on. With the appearance of Ryzens though it looks like I can have decent clock speeds *and* a higher number of cores. I know 8 isn't quite as many as 14 but it would probably be fine for the VM work I want to do. Anyone done anything similar or thinking about it (not sure if the Ryzens are widely available yetin the UK, looks like I can find 1700 ones) Would I hit any issues with running VMs with these, would it need KVM to be updated?
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