Hope this is the right forum. So I ordered my new SFF build:
i5 4670k
GTX 770 2 GB
16 GB RAM
What, what?! That was exactly my thought process as I woke up this morning. I held back on the GTX 780 as its substantially more than the 770 and on the screen sizes I'm playing on, getting the potential out of the 770 will be difficult, let alone the 780. Yet when I came to the checkout, I added another 8 GB RAM as £70 seemed like relatively little compared to the extra £170 for the better card. After pondering what I'm going to do with more RAM than I will probably ever use, I stumbled upon the idea of a VM. I have a Linux machine running Ubuntu which I enjoy a lot but duel booting isn't desirable for me. I was thinking with a VM I could use a Linux environment for more general tasks, ideally as a more secure web browsing environment and use the windows 8 machine for gaming + work. I would be running across a duel monitor set up so the idea would be to stick the VM on one monitor and use the other for Windows 8.
I was therefore looking for some opinions on the best VM software. Also, regarding system demand, am I correct to assume RAM is the key component here. I'm aware processing speed comes in but ideally I would want to kick back and enjoy some BF3 and Bioshock with the option to switch over and use the VM Ubuntu when I wish. I'm not sure how much of my processor the VM would demand however.
i5 4670k
GTX 770 2 GB
16 GB RAM
What, what?! That was exactly my thought process as I woke up this morning. I held back on the GTX 780 as its substantially more than the 770 and on the screen sizes I'm playing on, getting the potential out of the 770 will be difficult, let alone the 780. Yet when I came to the checkout, I added another 8 GB RAM as £70 seemed like relatively little compared to the extra £170 for the better card. After pondering what I'm going to do with more RAM than I will probably ever use, I stumbled upon the idea of a VM. I have a Linux machine running Ubuntu which I enjoy a lot but duel booting isn't desirable for me. I was thinking with a VM I could use a Linux environment for more general tasks, ideally as a more secure web browsing environment and use the windows 8 machine for gaming + work. I would be running across a duel monitor set up so the idea would be to stick the VM on one monitor and use the other for Windows 8.
I was therefore looking for some opinions on the best VM software. Also, regarding system demand, am I correct to assume RAM is the key component here. I'm aware processing speed comes in but ideally I would want to kick back and enjoy some BF3 and Bioshock with the option to switch over and use the VM Ubuntu when I wish. I'm not sure how much of my processor the VM would demand however.