New Motherboard/CPU combo, or did i mess a config?

sai_wtf · December 27, 2020, 9:58pm

Hi Guys and gals… i have been driving an amd 1700x on a b350 Asus prime . the ryzen 7 was chosen over the ryzen 5 for the additional cores since i do a lot of virtualisation on my desktop.

since day one the performance has been sub par at best… i just confirmed again before writing on a i7-4720hq in vmware workstation running on an sata 6gb/s ssd

the specs of my desktop are listed at the end (de.pcpartpicker[.]com/list/TF4ZWb)

in 2017 i was blaming the drivers and told myself that it will get better, but neither virtualbox nor qemu are really performant on my machine… a fresh ubuntu gnome minimal installation is far from fluid and feels clunky (it doesn’t on the 6 y.o. notebook)

i also tried using different (hardware, storage, performance,…) emulation settings and rotating through cpu cores, ram and allocated storage on sata/hdd, sata/ssd and nvme/m.2 in both VB and qemu with no avail

i am at the point where i consider a new platform but i wonder if level2 hypervisors are more mature on newer ryzen platforms or it was mature on gen 1 as well and i just got a motherboard with bad drivers…

if my post is in the wrong forum section or additional info is needed, please let me know

every reply is much appreciated
thanks

sanfordvdev · December 27, 2020, 10:10pm

You will see a major increase just going to a R3600 or R3700x. Put them on an B550 board and you will be very happy with your performance. Turn your 1700x system into a NAS or another hypervisor to run other services on or test platforms.

sai_wtf · December 28, 2020, 1:35pm

i know about the performance uplift in gaming and such… i am specifically interested in performance regarding virtualization with a type 2 hypervisor.
my home network already consists of a dedicated docker host, nas and some networking components

also is there a specific reason to recommend a b550 board instead of going with a b450 , especially since the b450 boards also support ryzen 5000 series ? i am not interessted in pcie4 at this moment since there are no upsides at the moment for my usecase

thanks for your reply though

sanfordvdev · December 28, 2020, 2:31pm

I would go B550 for better memory speeds/timings due to better board build quality and layouts.

system · September 28, 2021, 8:31am

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