You can help me decide which PC to buy to use as a pfSense router:
- HP S01 (Support 10th generation Intel processors)
- HP 290 (Support 8th / 9th generation Intel processors)
I want to change the processor of the PC to something like this:
- HP S01 + Intel Core i7-10700T⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (Cores: 8 Threads: 16)
- HP S01 + Intel Core i5-10400T / i5-10500T⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀(Cores: 6 Threads: 12)
- HP 290 + Intel Core i5-9400T / i5-9500T / i5-9600T⠀(Cores: 6 Threads: 6)
And the reason why I did not decide to buy the HP S01 is that it supports Hyper-Threading and I do not know if Hyper-Threading negatively affects performance in pfSense or any other firewall such as OPNsense or OpenWrt.
At the moment I plan to buy Intel i350-T4 and in the future I will buy a 10GbE NIC.
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