# CPU  Dual Quad-Core 2.10 GHz is enough for Wowza 4 ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/cpu-dual-quad-core-2-10-ghz-is-enough-for-wowza-4/652>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 14, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cpu-dual-quad-core-2-10-ghz-is-enough-for-wowza-4/652 "2014-03-14T11:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cpu-dual-quad-core-2-10-ghz-is-enough-for-wowza-4/652/1 "2014-03-14T11:36:53Z")

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According the Specifications for Wowsa Strreaming Engine 4, minimum recommended production hardware is

CPU: Single Quad Core, **3.00 GHz or better**

What happen if I have a machine with just a CPU Dual Quad-Core **2.10 GHz**?

Shall I be able to use the Transcoder ?

Thanks

Paolo Mazza

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cpu-dual-quad-core-2-10-ghz-is-enough-for-wowza-4/652/2 "2014-03-14T14:43:12Z")

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Hi,

It’s not recommended. Please see our [Transcoder Benchmark](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-transcoder-performance-benchmark) article.

This should give you a good idea as to what performance you may get.

Jason

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cpu-dual-quad-core-2-10-ghz-is-enough-for-wowza-4/652/3 "2014-03-17T13:39:47Z")

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These are recommendations for production. You can run Wowza and the Transcoder on much less, an [EC2 m1.small](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) (single core, 1.7g ram) for example. Of course you will not achieve the same results indicated by the benchmarks

Richard

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**Author:** ![paolo\_mazza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@paolo\_mazza](https://community.wowza.com/u/paolo_mazza)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cpu-dual-quad-core-2-10-ghz-is-enough-for-wowza-4/652/4 "2014-03-17T11:13:38Z")

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Thanks Jason.

Then I have to inform you that in the specifications page

[https://www.wowza.com/products/streaming-engine/specifications](https://www.wowza.com/products/streaming-engine/specifications)

it says

Minimum recommended production hardware :

CPU: Single Quad Core, 3.00 GHz or better

Thanks

Paolo Mazza

> Hi,
> 
> It’s not recommended. Please see our [Transcoder Benchmark](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-transcoder-performance-benchmark) article.
> 
> This should give you a good idea as to what performance you may get.
> 
> Jason