Balanced Build for VM Workstation?

Sitnoff

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I finally chose my components for my build which will have to handle virtual machines, I would like to rate this build or advise something that I can change in this build, because before I have only built "gaming pcs", not "serverlike". So, there is my build:

CPU: 5820K 3.3Ghz
Mobo: Asus X99-WS or Sabertooth X99 (I dont know which is better for 24/7 VMing)
Ram: 64GB DDR4 Kingston Fury
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
Cooling: Corsair H100i GTX
PSU: Corsair HX750i
Case: Something from corsair or nzxt.

Express your thoughts about this build and may be should I change something in this build? (VMs for league of legends, 1 VM = 5 LoL, will run like 20-30 LoLs the most important here is CPU+RAM)
Should I still ignore 5930K ? It is 200Eur more than 5820K but has only 0.2Ghz+
 
My main concerns:

1) You plan to run this 24/7 yet all your parts are consumer grade (ie. not designed to run 24/7). If reliability and uptime are important you may want to look into using server grade hardware instead - or just buying a pre-built server and upping the RAM/HDD yourself.

On the same point - server grade hardware usually has a much lower power usage.


2) Is 250GB going to be enough storage for several VM's?


3) Why the water cooling? Are you planning to overclock? If so, this leads back to the first point on reliability. Overclocking and stability don't exactly go hand in hand.
 


Well, i have h100i on my gaming pc and i just like this a lot, but I still can go with airflow cooling, no I will not overclock this serverlike pc, can u advise the servergrade parts for the build ? mobo, cpu ? I am not that good in servergrade hardware, for a budget ~1200Eur what build can I do ? Yeap, I think I will add an another 250GB SSD to this build
 


Lolbots, thats why I use VM
 


As a league player, im not going to help you with ruining games with worthless bots, which is banable by Riot.
 


First think a bit, then talk. they are playing vs BOTS with BOTS. Thanks for an attention