Which of these 2 Is most efficient on a low end PC/VM.
Talking 2GB Ram, 1-2 CPU Cores
Regards
Which of these 2 Is most efficient on a low end PC/VM.
Talking 2GB Ram, 1-2 CPU Cores
Regards
Last edited by Marcvs; 18-04-2014 at 06:41 PM.
Windows 7.
Dual core is a necessity.
If x86 - 2 GB RAM minimum.
If x64 - 4 GB RAM minimum.
Regards. . .
jcgriff2
MS MVP
Home Premium or Pro
Premium should have less resource draw.
This seems to be the most relevant link I could find in less than a minute lol.
They basically cant agree.
As for 1vs 2 cores., All it runs is a Plex Media server and it never transcodes - was runnign prox64 on it with 512mb ram and it was pretty happy - just the updating library was a tad slow. I tried ubuntu server - but due to SMB it was using far more resources than windows.
In theory, if you spend time configuring Windows there will be no difference between Home Premium and Pro.
Disable any non-essential core services and any others you dont need, uninstall the handful of unnecessary Windows features and both are pretty much identical if used in a home environment.
Im aware HP cant support joining a domain(which i run at home) - so i guess I will have to see how it holds up wiith SMB shares.
Correct, cant join a domain, but you can access domain resources just fine.
If your HP username and password are the same as the domain one, I think it just authenticates and gives you access.
If not, you can always map the shares using different credentials.
I ended up going with Pro after testing - Home Premium didn't like transferring through the 10GBps virtual switch, was capping out at ~900Mbps, compared to premium that was going at ~4GBps [with iPerf testing] (I think its due to Hyper-V issues).
Bit late but I would've thought Win 8.1 would be more efficient due to MS optimising it to run on phones and tablets (which are inherently lower specced), although I don't have any comparisons to point to.
Win 8.1 also supports UASP, which allows much faster USB3 speeds (eg. SSD connected via USB might get transfer rate of 430MB/s read/write on Win 8.1 x64, while only 320MB/s on Win 7 x64)
It only basically has to send XML files out to clients pointing them to media
&Yes I have 24GB ram in my main PC and always want more.
As to win8 I tested that and with 4Gb ram and 2vCPUs (3GHz), it was chewing up far more than win7
Also everything is connected via sata.
Last edited by Marcvs; 21-04-2014 at 09:10 AM.
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