What performance can I expect from a Dell R420?

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My ISP is going to roll out 10gb in our area sometime in this year and I am thinking about upgrading my current i7 3770 pfsense router to a Dell R420 with a Xeon E5-2430 V2 and 8 Gb of ram. Is this server enough for 10Gb/s routing, basic firewall setup and about 2-3Gb/s of Wireguard VPN trafic?

Link for the product: Refurbished Dell PowerEdge R420 Intel Xeon 6Core E5-2430v2 2
If you can recommend something better in around the same price point I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for you answer.

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In need be, you can get up to 10 cores in three different models of 2400 series processor, plus I’m sure there are available slots for the ECC RAM. I haven’t done anything with 10GB internet so I’m not certain, but my little Atom C2758 does 1gb just fine. I would definitely make sure the 10gb card has the ability to offload as much as possible.

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