This is what we have running now for our home virtual environment.

That’s a Ryzen 7 1700 processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, all running in a tiny little case and staying quite cool. Home-built system. This Ryzen chip blows Intel chips out of the water, especially with Meltdown and Spectre taken into account. Sixty-five watts TDP. The next-closest Intel chip uses well over 100W for worse performance. Have Hyper-V on it now, running about a dozen VMs.

More details later.