Intel or AMD?
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I have two bare-bones systems I'm considering turning in to a pfsense box for my house. I usually have 15-20 network devices running at one time and I have fibre running to the house with a gigabit connection and a 24 port gigabit switch hooked up to a surfboard SB8200. The one bottleneck is a 2 year old lynksis ac router that badly needs replacement (that's where pfsense comes in).
The first system is a custom build
AMD A6 5400K
8gb RAM
64gb ssd
1tb hdd 7200rpmThe second is a dell optiplex 7010
Intel i5 3470
8gb RAM
64gb SSD
1tb hdd 7200rpm.I think both systems are probably somewhat overkill but I'm not sure as I've never used pfsense.
Whichever doesn't get turned into a pfsense box will become a 2nd home server.Which one would be the best fit for pfsense?
Thank You!
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AMD A6 has 2 cores whereas the i5 has 4.
The pure performance seems quite equal http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-3470-vs-AMD-A6-5400KOnly if you want to run lots of packages that benefit from multiple cores then I would use the i5 for pfSense.
But a NAS usually is bored to death as well. -
What type of NICs are in those two? If only one has Intel NICs use it for pfSense. Avoid Realtek NICs on pfSense, especially if you want gigabit performance.