My (home, typically 2 users) bandwidth seems to be higher than most I've seen here in hardware discussions so I thought I'd seek some advice. Currently at my Verizon router using Verizon's speed test page I see ~85Mbit/s down and ~75Mbit/s up. I have an existing TZ100 that I want to replace which even with all services off restricts me to ~60Mbit/s down and a brutal (relatively speaking) ~10Mbit/s up.
I've tossed around a couple of ideas (C2000, i3, i5, Xeon E3-1200) and I'm now torn between the Haswell i3 and the Xeon. From what I've read the C2000 and i5 won't provide additional benefit over the i3 as Sophos isn't really going to leverage all those cores. I'd like to future proof myself for 100-150Mbit/s u/d speeds as I plan to keep what I build for at least 3 years.
I'm looking at the (Haswell) Gigabyte GA-6LASL board (micro atx, and is dual LAN enough or should I look at the quad GE boards so I have an extra for OOB management?) which will handle either the i3 or the Xeon. The i3 I had tentatively selected was the i3-4150 as it seems to be a good price/performance balance, assuming it can handle the bandwidth.
Curious as to who has a good enclosure choice for this build as well. The plan is to put it on a shelf on a two post rack in the basement with the rest of the network gear. Preferably as few fans as possible as in the basement it's likely to pull in dust, so any comments on running these with little air movement would be appreciated.
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