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Ive got a pretty nice desktop computer with a quite fast processor. Why should I buy new expensive hardware for firewall?

April 26, 2017buy Computer desktop fast GOT Pretty processor quite

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Ive got a pretty nice desktop computer with a quite fast processor. Why should I buy new expensive hardware for firewall?

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Reason: system performance, quality, servicing. Server hardware gives you more then a “fast processor”. It is more stable, more sufficient, especially on network interfaces (checksum offload), bus (interrupts) etc.