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> Try iperf3 and you'll be shocked that you're lucky if you can crack 5 Gbps in practice

Easy line rate if you crank the MTU all the way to 9000 :D

> modern CPU gains or loses more computer power from a 1° C temperature difference in the room's air

If you're using the boost algorithm rather than a static overclock, and when that boost is thermally limited rather than current limited. With a good cooler it's not too hard to always have thermal headroom.



> Easy line rate if you crank the MTU all the way to 9000 :D

In my experience jumbo frames provide at best an improvement of about 20% in rare cases, such as ping-pong UDP protocols such as TFTP or Citrix PVS streaming.




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