The need/want to do a variety of testing and learning led me to build a PC that would enable this. Below is a list of the hardware used. This is based on a kit sold by PBtech in New Zealand. I am running Windows 10 on it with Hyper-V installed. This lets me run virtual machines with which to do my testing. I find this kit runs 4 or 5 VMs at the same time very nicely. I spread the running VMs across two of the Solid State Drives with the host operating system running on the third SSD. The 1 TB drive is for storage of ISO files and other data.
- Cooler Master Silencio 352 Mini Tower mATX Case
- Cooler Master MWE BRONZE 450 80Plus Bronze PSU
- Intel Kaby Lake Core i7 7700 Quad Core 3.6Ghz
- ASRock B250M Pro4 mATX Form
- 2 X Crucial 16GB DESKTOP DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200)
- 3 X Samsung 850 Pro MZ-7KE256BW 256GB 2.5″ SSD
- 1 TB SATA drive