Looking at a potential CPU change to a T series skylake CPU. The unit currently has an i5-6500 in it. If I recall pfsense and OpenVPN DCO and such are single threaded applications, so clock speed over cores?
I’m looking at the T series due to a lower TDP, whilst not compromising performance etc. I’ve got plus license allocated as I moved it from the XG135 Rev3 unit to the XG330 Rev2. I’ve lost QAT, but Netgate said the IIMB should be quicker with the Skylake CPU.
Higher clocks speed will give generally you more speed for OpenVPN even with DCO but I would defer to Netgate for which configuration is the fastest since they have done a lot of testing with different configurations.
why are you upgrading? what issues are you trying to solve? I run a N100 cpu for pfsense, and honestly its quite responsive and more that adequate. I run 6 VLANs, about 100 devices, dual WAN, Tailscale, pfblockerNG and a Crowdsec firewall bouncer (the engine runs in a separate VM)
Primary reason initially was a T series CPU with the lower TDP. Beyond that it works fine.
Doesn’t get hot and there is a decent fan in the unit. It’s a 1U rackmount unit. XG330 Rev2
Came with 12GB RAM and 240GB SSD, which I’ve since dropped down to 8GB and 120GB SSD following install of pfsense plus
