Parallels 8 with Windows 7 Ultimate how Memory?

Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to setup a Windows 7 environment using Parallels 8 for Visual Studio Development.
My Hardware: Mac Pro 2 x 2.26GHz (Quad-Core Dual CPU) with 96GB of RAM (6 x 16GB) and Four 1 Terrabyte Western Digital VelociRaptor 10K RPM Hard Drives.
My system runs flawlessly for all my OS X apps. I'm a UI Designer & Front-End Developer and I'm looking to start doing some C# development with Visual Studio 2012.
I'm trying to avoid buying a new PC just for development. How much memory should I dediacate to Parallels 8 for my Windows 7 envierment, also should I dedicate both CPU's? Parallels by default only uses 1 CPU.
Thanks!

8-cores so give it half. Too bad they are the slower processors, MHz still matter, and a 6-core 3.33GHz offers as much or better performance.
OS X has had trouble with more than 80GB in some versions of OS X at one point.
Parallels support forum? their thinking about average user with i5 or i7's that can't and don't need or have the opton to assign 4 or 6-cores.
A good strategy is to install Windows natively first, then link it to Parallels, giving you the choice to run natively and dual boot when a VM isn't as fast or you want  to run off hardware directly.

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