I still think clock speed matters more. If trying to budget I would focus on ram and i/o speed which would make a bigger difference in Qubes then how many cores. faster ram and lots of it and a big ssd should be more a priority.
Also you want to make sure that the board supports iommu/vt-d in the bios. As far as if the linux kernel utilizing more cores more efficiently in general for the os, I really don't know if you would notice a difference. I don't when going from my dual core to quad core. But I do notice a huge diff when using 2 cores vs 4 cores on my system assigned to a vm, but thats with 2.8ghz clock speed. On the 3.7ghz quadcore system. 2 cores assigned to a vm is perfectly fine and runs way faster. If you plan on maxing out your cpu all the time, that probably still only means two vms running simultaneously maxing out 4 cores. Because as the guy at the store said, assigning 8 cores to a vm you prolly won't notice any diff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/9191a97c-4296-45e3-bfcf-fe76eddaf47c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
