Great for gaming, bad for hosting
As I mentioned above, my desktop won’t quite cut it. It’s got some great specs for gaming (16GB RAM, an 8-core Intel i7-2600K at 3.7GHz, a 980ti GPU, ~5TB total storage), but these resources don’t align well with hosting multiple virtual machines with a lot of up time. Keeping this monster (glancing nervously to my right at the full-ATX-sized computer case on my desk) takes up a lot of power for what it would offer in longer-term VM hosting and storage. If I wanted to play a game while hosting the VMs I’m planning to run, I’d run in to some trouble in the RAM department. If I ran this 24/7, then the bedroom we use as a shared office would stay pretty toasty. Plus, running a hypervisor (software used to create and manage virtual machines) from a consumer operating system like Windows 10 Pro would cause all sorts of headaches when restart-required updates come around.