bleeding from the anusDamn , I always thought that was the sign of a good workout <| sep |> There ' s another layer in there it ' s actually referencing Space Battleship Yamato , and the Wave Motion Gun . <| sep |> If you ' re upgrading and you have money to spare , I ' d recommend you get some socket 2011 or 2011 v 3 stuff instead , especially if you intend to use another video card in Linux as well . With consumergrade hardware , you will need to use an annoying kernel patch if you want to use one videocard in Linux and another in the Windows VM . This is because consumer hardware puts all video cards in the same socalled IOMMU group , and you can only pass an entire group through to a VM . The ACS kernel patch is a software workaround , but can be pretty annoying . Hardware with proper ACS support is recommended . See also processorswithacssupport . htmlConsumergrade hardware should work , as long as it has VTd support , but I do not recommend it . I ' ve had some trouble with Nvidia ' s Linux drivers and patched kernels . Nvidia doesn ' t really like patched kernels . Of course , if you intend to use only one card , you won ' t need fancy hardware or any kernel patches .