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.
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.
Did you mean an i5-8400 instead? As there is no i5-8700 - that’s an i7, which would have the same number of cores as the 9700.
The i5-8400 would be fine for most IT homelabs; there are some specific applications that really need more power than that (especially any of the Cisco bits from what I’ve heard, but I have no first-hand experience with those).
What exactly are you planning on doing with the homelab?