> amd ryzen 2700 EFW will work with any CPU that has x86 support, there is no specific kernel requirement for ryzen as its support x86 architecture
if your running multiple systems, it depends on what virtualization tech you will be using. i would recommend you buy a used dual core system with 4GB RAM and a SSD for the firewall and run it. there is no real benefit of putting overkill hardware. On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:46:32 -0500 List Archive <li...@jasonblanks.com> wrote: > Hello, > > New to the group as I am researching building out my first EFW home box. > Wanted to get thoughts around support for amd ryzen 2700 (over kill I know, > but want to use this as a workhorse KVM machine hosting NAS, EFW, and > docker). Was looking at this based on price and amount core/threads as > well as it having good TDP benchmarks. I see EFW is running on 4.4 kernel > in 3.3, does it solely depend on if the kernel supports Ryzen 2700 for this > build out? Are there any other considerations I should be thinking about > before purchasing hardware? Thanks ahead. _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
