![]() I'm not sure anyone can tell you exactly what specs you need. Monitor your GPU usage at peak demand times to get a sense of the GPU load, to approximate the cheapest GPU that will get the job done. Maybe the onboard graphics isn't enough (quite likely), but you don't want to buy more 1080s unless you have to. ![]() Maybe you need 16GB RAM? You won't know until you monitor the RAM usage and (ideally) test it. How many instances can you run if you remove the GPU, run off the onboard graphics, and strip yourself back to 8GB RAM? Systems with those specs would be less than half the price of another 32GB + GTX 1080 rig). You have a GTX 1080 and 32GB RAM in your current rig. What I'm trying to say is that unless a few hours or a day of your time is worth more to you than the thousands of dollars you're about to spend, it might be worth doing a bit of testing before just throwing more cash at the problem. Your requirements will also depend entirely on the sorts of apps you're trying to run on the instances. I haven't used the software myself (and I don't believe anyone else here has yet either), so you might be in uncharted territory here. I did a bit more Googling for you and I'm struggling to find good advice on running that many instances. That could well be the cheapest way to do it, depending on how much RAM and how potent a GPU each build requires. Thank you all for all the help you've given me I think I'm just gonna buy another pc or 2 lol and just use them to run like 5 each There's no excuse for not including these hard limits in the version comparison lists. IMHO it's not an unreasonable restriction in the scheme of things, and if you're already looking at a dual socket system the price of a Pro license is pretty insignificant (unless you're going second hand), but MS should absolutely make this completely clear. The only confirmation I can find regarding this is from forum posts from people who got caught like this one: There are then limits on core counts between 32 & 64 bit versions (with up to 256 virtual cores supported on the latter), but again, no mention of "Home" vs "Pro" limits. ![]() All the top Google hits spout out a standard blurb from the Microsoft forums about which state that "Windows 10" (doesn't mention the version) supports up to 2 physical CPUs. Yes, I think you're right, however I have to say shame on MS for not making this clearer. Would have to be Windows 10 Pro or higher to make use of 2 sockets, or Windows Server A pair of those would start to get you in the right territory. Newegg has dual socket motherboards starting around $300, and there's a 12 Core 2.2Ghz CPU for ~$1200. To actually get 3-4 times your CPU speed you'd need to look at a dual CPU system, you're talking $3K + probably. Something like a Xeon E5-2697 v4 more than $3K for CPU alone) gives you 18 cores at 2.3Ghz, ~41Ghz, or 2.5 times your current CPU. but the rough maths does work out).Ī 6900X which is ~$1K and requires an X99 motherboard gives you 8 cores at 3.2Ghz, so let's say ~26Ghz, or less than double your current CPU. So you quad core 4Ghz is giving you *sort of* 16Ghz (it doesn't work like that. If you are, this is one of those very rare cases where you can roughly multiply frequency by cores (it doesn't quite work that way, but it's close enough for these purposes). you're in serious $$ territory.īefore spending money you need to be 100% sure that you are in fact CPU bound. Yep, if you really are CPU bound AND you really need at least 3 times the performance of a 6700K.
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