Cores VS Clock Speed
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Hello what would you suggest would be more benifitial for a fully loaded pfsense server with vpn and firewall
Dual Hex Core @2.93 GHZ
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Dual Quad Core @3.46 GHZ -
For OpenVPN 3.46 GHz.
-Rico
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ok thanks
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What sort of bandwidth do you have available?
But yeah hard to imagine a situation where 8 cores is insufficient and some things, like OpenVPN, are single threaded where speed counts.
Steve
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@stephenw10 I have gigabit symetrical
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Ah, well you won't fill that with a single OpenVPN connection using either but that does mean you will see the benefit of the faster clock speed. I would choose the faster Quad Core setup between those.
If OpenVPN is your primary driver though there are probably better choices. Single thread performance is all. Or run multiple tunnels.Steve
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@stephenw10 what do you think 8 cores will be good up to e.g if I upgrade to a faster speed until when will it be not enough
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Not sure I understand the question... 8 cores will likely be sufficient, in terms of number of cores, for whatever you might do.
Either of those will be more than enough for firewall/NAT at 1Gbps. OpenVPN will be by far your largest user of CPU cycles if you're using that.
Steve
