Help me to choose CPU for home server for openvpn reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Substantial-Scene-85 · 2023-11-21 10:47 I have: I7-2600 I3-4150 I3-3220 How much hdd do i Need ? How much SSD do i Need? How DDR3 1600mhz RAM do i Need ? I use the server only tò use moonlight app that stream videogame tona specific client I stream simultanely up tò 8 people ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Puzzled-Wind9286 · 2023-11-21 11:49 The i3 4150 will be fine, you should be fine with 4GB of RAM, any HDD really, you don’t really need an SSD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adesfire · 2023-11-21 11:55 I was trying to install OpenVPN yesterday night and discovered wireguard in the process. Nice challenger if you want to give it a try, I think I'll stick with it instead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- StillAffectionate991 · 2023-11-21 12:06 Use Wireguard instead, it's lighter and faster and still secure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ElevenNotes · 2023-11-21 12:35 Use Wireguard, no CPU problems anymore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ElevenNotes · 2023-11-21 12:35 and is multi threaded unlike our single threaded OpenVPN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- revoltnb · 2023-11-21 12:39 The chip choice depends on what you want to do with it. Streaming may need a better graphics capability (may, or may not depending on how you generate the stream). The choice is between th ei7 2nd gen, or the i3 4th gen. * The i3 is lower power consumption: 54W vs 95W. A big difference. * They are about the same single thread performance, so no real difference. * The i7 has much better multithreading capabilities, so this may come in handy for the multiple streams. It has 4 cores, 8 threads vs the i3 2 cores, 4 threads. A big difference. * Both use DDR3, and the i3 can take slightly faster memory, but not a big diffrence. So, I'd be going for the i3 if power consumption is an issue. Otherwise the i7 may give you better CPU capacity if you run more than one thing at a time. Either way, you're going to love the journey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chaplin2 · 2023-11-21 13:23 Wireguard is what you want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RoundTableMaker · 2023-11-21 14:45 It really needs to have intel quicksync as that's the part that decodes the video smoothly. And I just checked and they all have it so any of them should be fine. The 4th gen clearly outputs 4k. The others are less clear on that ability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kmisterk · 2023-11-22 06:33 ## Post Removed Hey, Substantial-Scene-85! Thanks for your submission on selfhosted. Your post has been removed due to a violation of the purpose of the subreddit: **Self Hosting** ## Not Self-Hosted When it comes to posts regarding applications in this subreddit, they must feature a self-hosted tool, or a tool that *can be* self-hosted, or some kind of related information, help request, or otherwise related to a tool that is something that one can self-host. If you believe this post *is in fact* relevant to /r/selfhosted, feel free to [message the mods](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to= /r/selfhosted&subject=Removed For Not Being Self- Hosted&message=[Removed Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/180e8xe/-/\)) with your concerns.