(Opinion) Should Windows 10 VM's be switched to Q35 by Default?
This is just an opinion question, that may eventually be moved to a feature request... I personally have an Intel/nVidia GPU passthrough gaming VM... When I purchased UnRaid originally, on my first VM attempt I used the i440FX machine type since UnRaid recommended it for all Windows machines... A few months ago, when I was having other issues with my system, I decided to reinstall the VM and do some experiments on performance for my system... The bottom line of that testing was the Q35 Machi
My results are showing that i440fx-3.0 is a little bit faster right now.
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75820K
CPU COOLER: Corsair Hydro Series H150i
MBD: ASRock X99 Extreme4 LGA 2011-v3
POWER: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 PS 220-PS-1000-V1 80+ PLATINUM 1000W Power Supply
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM 3000 (PC4 24000) (CMK32GX4M2B3000C15)
GRAPHICS: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC Gaming (06G-P4-6163-KR)
CASE: Ros