If you look at overall cpu usage it seems low... But verification is a single thread process. So one of the 8 or 12 logical CPU's will be maxed out. Buying the fastest single thread CPU would be upgrade that would make the most difference.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
GPU's are good for parallel processing not really good at single thread performance. That's why they're never used in Bitcoin nodes.
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npub1ta…nar0x
2026-01-13 03:29:45 UTC
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