Processor for pfSense Build
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Solved by braneopbru,
Running Snort and Webfilters on traffic for 40 workstations and 5 servers is going to use a fair bit of horsepower. Running OpenVPN will also tax your CPU a fair bit, but that also depends if all five users are going to be connected at once and how much traffic they are actually pulling through the VPN. You also NEED to get a CPU that supports AES-NI so you can do hardware accelerated encryption of OpenVPN traffic.
I would recommend something along the lines of a Xeon e3 CPU. I'm running a Supermicro 1u server with a Xeon E31220 quad core that I scored on ebay for about $180 US. If you are not in a huge rush to get it running, I would suggest keeping an eye out on ebay.
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