NyxCharon
Active Member
Running VS is not the cause of a hot cpu.
Improper cooling is the cause of a hot cpu.
You need to make sure there is no dust build up and that the heatsink is correctly set and doing it's job.
I will say this again: The i3 is fine. I use multiple VM's at once on a day to day basis both at home and at work. At home I have anywhere from 2-4 VM's running at any give time, especially since I always have at least one up as a samaba server (even while playing games)
All of this is on a Core2Duo E8400.
I also have a laptop with an i5. I have had 5 vm's running at once up on this, inorder to setup a virtual network for penetration testing homework for a class. There were win7,win 2008 R2 sever, XP sp2, and two linux servers.
Ram was the only issue in this case, and I ended up upgrading to 8gb as a result. CPU wise I had plenty of headroom, and I would gladly post screenshots of this if I had this still setup. I've long since resintalled mutliple OS's on this so it's long gone.
My advice:
Buy the i3 then upgrade the ram. CPU power will not be a issue.