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    Objections against his hardware for 2.4?

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      Mr. Jingles
      last edited by

      Hello  ;D

      Given I now have a CPU without AES-NI, and 2.4 requires AES-NI, I am considering buying a pair of used machines like this:

      https://si.cdn.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell_OptiPlex_7010_spec_sheet.pdf
      https://data.technimax.cz/attach/artilky/optiplex_7010_technical_guidebook.pdf

      They have I5-3570 onboard, in my desktop I have the I5-3570K, which is still A BEAST (I do a lot of movie conversions: it runs at 100% CPU but it handles all other tasks like it is doing nothing else  :o )

      I didn't overclock it, and I understand it that is the only difference between (K) and non-K.

      So all I have to do is add some RAM, and add my Intel NIC's from my current machines.

      Would anybody have any objections against these, from a technical or power usage or other perspective?

      I have to pay 140 EUR / 168 USD for it, with 500 GB WD HDD and 4 GB RAM, 1GB external video card in addition to the internal Intel HD 2500, which in itself is not expensive, as CPU alone still goes for between 75-100 EUR on the second hand market.

      Thank you :)

      6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Hey.  :)

        Only way to know if that CPU is overkill is to know what it's doing so…..

        What's your WAN speed? What packages? VPNs?

        It probably is overkill though.  ;)

        I will point out that it's 2.5 that will require AES-NI, 2.4 does not. And we will be supporting 2.4 for some time after 2.5 is released (which will not be for a good while) so there is no real hurry here.
        By the time you actually need to upgrade there may be other better options available.

        Steve

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          Mr. Jingles
          last edited by

          Thank you Steve  ;D

          WAN = 200.

          SOHO.

          Packages Snort, OpenVPN Client and Server, Clients ~ 5 (to Pia and such, high traffic), Server ~ 15 (low traffic, surfing and email only).

          By the time you actually need to upgrade there may be other better options available.

          Good point: thank you Steve :-*

          6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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          • ?
            Guest
            last edited by

            That should work, but keep in mind that OpenVPN speed depends mostly on single thread performance.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Yes that's true. I would expect >300Mbps OpenVPN throughput with that CPU though.

              YMMV  ;)

              Steve

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