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Question for IT/Security homelabs (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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?