# Hardware requirements

### Minimum XNT requirements[​](https://docs.solanalabs.com/operations/requirements#minimum-sol-requirements) <a href="#minimum-sol-requirements" id="minimum-sol-requirements"></a>

There is no strict minimum amount of XNT required to run a validator on X1.

### Hardware Recommendations <a href="#hardware-recommendations" id="hardware-recommendations"></a>

The hardware recommendations below are provided as a guide. Operators are encouraged to do their own performance testing.

* CPU
  * 12 cores / 24 threads, or more
  * 3GHz base clock speed, or faster
* RAM
  * 192GB or more
* DISK
  * 4TB NVME

Server needs to be bare metal dedicated, not VPS.&#x20;

Example: <https://www.interserver.net/dedicated/amd-ryzen-7900x>

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