Core I7 Or Xeon

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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I am building a home server to run Hyper-v, but am not sure which processor to get.
The choice is either Intel Core i7 Ten Core Processor Extreme i7-6950x (3.0Ghz) 25MB Cache
or Intel Xeon 12 Core E5-26703V3 (2.3 GHz, 9.60 GT/s 30M L3 Cache).
There is not much difference in the price. I have no interest in graphics or overclocking.
The i7 is faster but the Xeon has more cores. I will just be running some VMs for testing.
Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

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Why so expensive? If there is no real need for at least 10 cores, you can save a lot.

From those choices, I’d go with i7.