On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:11:08AM +0200, Thinker Rix wrote: > Unfortunately the motherboards I plan to buy supports only the > above-mentioned CPUs.
Anyone running pfSense on a HP Microserver G8? http://b3n.org/installed-xeon-e3-1230v2-in-gen8-hp-microserver/ These are dual Broadcoms BCM5717 onboard, but you can stick a dual-port Intel NIC in there as well. > I have another thread going where I discuss motherboard compatiblity > with pfSense. Should someone report, that finally I could also use > the other of the two boards (the one with the 1150-socket and the > C222 chipset), I could use different CPUs: > - Pentium > - 4th generation core i3 > - Xeon E3-1200 v3 > > In this case I could go for the i3, since it supports AES-NI. > > But I do not expect that the C222 board will be compatible, so I > most likely will have to stick with the CPUs mentioned above. Which > one would you pick of those? > > >If you look around online, you will find almost universal > >agreement that AES-NI significantly improves VPN speed. This also > >means that even if you aren't maxing out the VPN's capacity, you > >will still be saving processor cycles for doing the other stuff > >that the machine needs to do. > > There is this one thing I want to learn: > AES NI helps lowering CPU load for encryption/decryption tasks, > sure. But what happens if the CPU is not under full load? Will there > still be an advantage then, i.e. because the CPU can perform the > de/encryption *faster* when having AES NI support, so that the VPN > latency might be reduced, so that e.g. VoIP-over-VPN would improve? > Or is it the case that there is no difference, as long as the CPU is > not under full load, because all that AES NI does, is allow the CPU > to computer with less resources? > > Thank you for your time! > > Thinker Rix > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
