Question for IT/Security homelabs (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by notGaruda1@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For it/security related homelabs, do you often use many vms with little workloads or a few vms with heavy workloads. I'm currently trying to pick between a i5-8700 and i7-9700 cpu for a new homelab setup. Thank you.

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[-] Plane_Resolution7133@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I’d think many of us have large amounts of mostly idle cores. 🙂

If I were to start from scratch, I’d pick something power efficient first.

[-] da_frakkinpope@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Correct. I went for the most powerful processor I could find cuz I was gonna do all the things.

Now I think I'm using a total of 3 out of 32 cores.

[-] notGaruda1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

so more cores it'd imagine?

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