[olavgg]

I have still a Intel Westmere cpu running, which is the CPU iteration before Sandy Bridge. Honestly this platform is outdated, its inefficient and slow. It's not even cheap, considering you can get Broadwell/Epyc Rome cheap from Ebay today. I'm just running it, because I have not had time to migrate yet and it works. I could probably run it for another 10 years, as long I don't update anything.

However if Linux should require a new CPU generation, I would quickly migrate it to my Epyc Rome VM server. No questions asked. A 10 years old CPU is outdated, its single core performance may be ok. But this generation had 4-6 cores max and sucked 100watts at full load, like 25 watt per cor. My Epyc uses 2 watt per core and is also faster per core.