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by kalleboo 504 days ago
> at that speed, the router CPU can actually become the bottleneck

I was pretty worried about that, but the machine I got for my OpenWrt router is a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny with a Core i3-8100T CPU ($80 used with SSD/RAM etc included), and it's seems like it's way overkill, even at full bore the CPU usage appears to be negligible. Power usage is the same as the ISP router at about 17W idle, 24W routing 10 gbit, and that's with a 10 Gbase-T SFP+.

It helps that with a 10 Gbps pipe you don't need to run any kind of fancy QoS algorithms or anything...