how many vms can i run

[demonmanjon]

How many vms can i run?

And how many can i run while palying other games?

Intel i5-2550k 3.4GHZ
8.00gb DDR3

(need to get a new one) nvidia geforce gtx 460

running host and guest only 2 total. And my guest one is stable but i set it at 3gbram and 2core 2 processor is overkill?

and my pc is ok if restart d3 but if it's on for a day i start runing out of memory doing normal things.

 

[CodenameG]

how many VM's or sessions where you planning on running?

 

[mephuser1000]

How many vms can i run?

And how many can i run while palying other games?

Intel i5-2550k 3.4GHZ
8.00gb DDR3

(need to get a new one) nvidia geforce gtx 460

running host and guest only 2 total. And my guest one is stable but i set it at 3gbram and 2core 2 processor is overkill?

and my pc is ok if restart d3 but if it's on for a day i start runing out of memory doing normal things.

how many VM's or sessions where you planning on running?

To demonmanjon:
- You are correct with your current Hardware, you can only run 1 VM + 1 Host.
- Your nearest bottleneck is your 8GB RAM. Each VM should consume between 2.5GB to 5GB RAM (when it cache thrashes).
- Your PC Processor bottleneck is 4 VMs.
- If your GTX460 is 1GB VRAM version, your bottleneck is between 3 to 4 VMs.

 

[demonmanjon]

yea it's 1gb vram i believe. If i get a better graphics card will i be able to run more? I was just plannign to run 2 vm and 1 host.

Yea your right i allocated 2 still crashed d3 after like 30min. Doesn't the guide say 1.5 is enough per vM?

Should i be setting 1 processor 1 core or 1 processor 2 cores or what?

Or should i just get more ram like 16-32 and ill be good?

 

[IGG]

you need 32 gb ram, gtx460 card is good enough to handle up to 15 vms (with low grafics).

With good overclock of your 2500k you'll be able to run 4-5 vms + host, with good overclocked i7 you'll be able to run 10-12.

So, you need more ram, cooler for overclocking and probably a new i7 cpu if you want to start a lot of vms.

 

[demonnbuddy]

hd6850/gtx460 with 1g vram is enough for vm bot.i bot 6 in vm now and only 700mb vram of HD5850 is used.
with 8g ram, you can run 2 bots in vm, maybe 1 more in host. with 16g ram you can run 5 max.
CPU with HT helps a lot for more bots. like 1230v2 or I7.
and you need a SSD.

 

[mephuser1000]

gtx460 card is good enough to handle up to 15 vms (with low grafics).

This is false. Plenty of users are having problem with gtx460 running at even 3 VMs with black screen issues.

 

[dragonxdraco]

My older botting computer is at 3 vmware with a Sapphire 6850 1GB (same performance as a 460 GTX)

Before the ban, I was running 2 vmware and 3 host fine on a i5 760, non-SSD, 6850, 16GB ram


your priority right now is the RAM upgrade imo.

 

[IGG]

This is false. Plenty of users are having problem with gtx460 running at even 3 VMs with black screen issues.

Well, maybe it depends on card + driver + other settings. I have black screens sometimes. I had ton of problems with asus DC2 6970 2gb. gtx460 has 50-60% load under 9 vms right now.