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Hardware Requirement for Sophos XG Home: Celeron J1900

Bernard Kwok

Hi,

I am new to Sophos and my colleague keeps telling me that I need a Celeron J1900 in order to run Sophos XG Home on my Windows 10 machine.

I posted a question to Sophos and I was told that there is no specific hardware or specific processor as long as there is the following:

2 NIC

6Gb Ram

Can someone who is familiar with Sophos XG Home kindly advise and confirm?

Thanks.



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    You cannot run sophos XG on a windows 10 pc. XG needs to be the only application running unless it is on a vm.

    1. basically sophos XG for home should have a cpu 4 real cores if possible, 6gb of ram, 2 intel or Broadcom mics (not intel 219 series) and about 60gb of disk. 
      ian
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    0 FormerMember

    Hi Bernard

    Totally agree with here.

    Running XG Home on top of your windows (Assuming with any of the Type-2 Hypervisor) would be a bit dicey performance-wise. It's always recommended to run it bare-metal.

    I basically run my XG on a Dell Optiplex 7010 (i3 3rd Gen + 8 Gig RAM) and it has 3 extra PCI-e Realtek (r8168) NICs and a 120 GB SATA SSD.

    There are around 7 to 8 people using the internet through XG. CPU Idles at 20%-25% and RAM about 50% with IPS, ATP, Sandstorm, and Application filter applied :) 

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember in reply to Bernard Kwok

    With v18, You'll be fine as you're already planning to get 6 GB RAM and also the limit on the home version. Usually, v18 requires a minimum of 4GB RAM.