Hello

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I am currently running pfSense on a Dell 3020 Micro with an i3-4160 and 8GB of RAM. This was absolutely fine with a 100/10 connection, however now I am on 400/40, and after saturating it for 2 minutes the CPU in the box hit 70C and pfSense hard crashed to the point where I needed to reboot the machine.

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I do have an Intel NUC D54250WYK (i5-4250U) and a Gigabyte BRIX GB-BXi5-4200 (i5-4200U), both with 16GB of RAM, and I think these may be more than enough to run that connection maxed out without running into CPU issues, however I want your verdict on this. And yes I know this hardware is very overkill for pfSense, its just what I have on hand, if I go for one of these I’ll likely salvage the RAM from the current box (8GB) and swap it out because pfSense with 16GB of RAM is just silly.

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Would you say either of those will be fine to run that connection without too much overheating, or should I invest in another box for pfSense (power efficiency is my primary objective here, so I aint about to build a 1U just for this, hence the mini PCs).

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Cheers