I7-13700 Thermal Sensors widget

[Unoptanio]

@stephenw10

For my configuration which of these two settings is best to use?
I've always had this doubt

I still don't understand why pfsense detects 24 CPUs? Could it be a widget error?
Actually it should be 16 CPUs

[fireodo]

@Unoptanio said in I7-13700 Thermal Sensors widget:

For my configuration which of these two settings is best to use?
I've always had this doubt

The first one (AES-NI CPU-based Acceleration)
(the second one in your highlight needs a extra electronic component that handles Crypto)

I still don't understand why pfsense detects 24 CPUs? Could it be a widget error?

Do you have Hyperthreading enabled in BIOS?

[Unoptanio]

@fireodo

hyperthreading should be active, I don't remember having it disabled, I'll check

[fireodo]

@Unoptanio said in I7-13700 Thermal Sensors widget:

hyperthreading should be active, I don't remember having it disabled, I'll check

You should disable it (its quiet useless on a firewall). Then it should be only 16 CPUs.

[stephenw10]

Half of the cores (the performance cores preseumbly) support hyperthreading so it appears as 8+8 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. 24 cores total.

[Unoptanio]

@fireodo

Okay. I confirm.
As you said, by deactivating hyperthreading in the BIOS, the cores detected by the widget are now 16

What do you recommend?
Do I leave hyperthreading on or off?

[stephenw10]

With a CPU that powerful I doubt you'll see any difference!

[fireodo]

@Unoptanio said in I7-13700 Thermal Sensors widget:

What do you recommend?
Do I leave hyperthreading on or off?

The general consensus is to leave it off - a Firewall takes no profit from Hyperthreading.
And as Steven said, the CPU is in your system for sure not the bottleneck ;-)

[Unoptanio]

@fireodo

OK

The CPU temperature detected inside the BIOS (32°C) is a little higher than that detected by the pfsense widget

[fireodo]

@Unoptanio

Its a big Machine