Hi my build consists of

intel g4560

8gb ddr4 2400mhz

6x 4tb seagate nas drives 

2x mx300 275gb cache drives raid 0 

LSI SAS 9201-8i (9211-8i) IT mode

 

in Fractal design node 804

 

I mainly just use as a plex server and NAS but im starting to play with VM's, i have successfully installed w10 pro and works fine ( except sound but working on that) but feels really sluggish, ive check cpu when running VM and its always quite high so was planning on changing to a I5 6500 or 7500.

 

So my question is do you think this will help the VM's and when i change will my server just boot as normal as long as the bios see the new chip ?

 

Any help or advice would be grateful thanks again 

Just time for a quick comment but I run VMs on much older hardware - dual 3ghz quad core xeons from 2008ish - and experience little lag.

I doubt the hardware is the issue. When I first started my Win 10 Pro VM it was awful - even when doing nothing it would pin all assigned cpu's at 90+% - hours of fiddling later - it runs very nicely.

There's a few posts on the forum about really bad Win10 vm performance that I found helpful.

Ok thanks for reply will have a look for them, apart from VM's system is great even manages to trans code h265 using onbaord igpu in plex. Thanks again. Ive allocated 4gb ram to VM you think thats enough ??