Guy on ebay selling them for cheap: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141760352711 It is a good motherboard choice.

You are prob right - and usb prob likely where that might happen.  But when he says card, I don't think about usb adapters..

Works.  :)

@jimp: For a card that old, especially with an Intel chipset, I wouldn't expect it to have a problem. You might try a 2.4 snapshot in case it needs a newer driver. If the card works in another operating system, what is it detected as there? Hi problem solved by changing to a AOC-SGP-i2 card not a AOC-SG-i2 - the older card I think wasn't compatible with my machine. I've been up and running a few days now - trying to get my head around traffic shaping now https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=127444.msg703386#msg703386

@chpalmer: If it is really running that hot you will burn your finger if you were to touch the heatsink.. Might help to tell you if its an accurate reading or not. Check it with a meat thermometer. Only time mine got that hot was using offloading. A good rule of thumb (no pun intended) I learned when working on outboard motors is that 140F (~60C) should be hot enough to hold your finger on the powerhead block (or heatsink in this case) for a few seconds before it becomes uncomfortable.

@kobzar: yes, in the documentation on wiki you can found next: Write the image to a small CF card, 256MB or less. Larger cards will not boot. Up to 512Mb will work, because the original CF card thats installed in the X E-core series, is usally a Sandisk CF card with 256Mb or 512Mb. Grtz DeLorean

@ghostshell: I think I know what your issue is from what you posted since I custom make CF cards for people that want them ready to go, let me know if you still have this issue In the meanwhile i havn't experienced this behavior, since i don't use the standard Kingston CF cards anymore on the x550e of x750e boxes. With the High speed versions of different brands, there are no errors of this kind. I like to hear if you know the reason. Grtz DeLorean

Hi lansmurf, I purchased a DS67U3 4 days ago for one of my customers. The temperature thing interested me too. Config: DS67U3 (i3-6100U) 1x 8GB RAM module 1x 1TB 2.5 HDD aw-cb209nf wifi 2x intel nics -      BIOS: 1.03 I used Knoppix Live CD and ran a few commands to read the CPU temp while a few loops were pushing the CPU cores to the max. Testing environment: SOHO room, 25 degrees celcius, DS67U3 not under direct sunlight CPU temp while idle in BIOS: 39 to 41 degrees Celsius CPU under heavy load: 49 to 53 degrees Celsius stabilizing around 51 – 52 degrees Celsius after 2 minutes. Sadly I cannot give you temperatures while running pfSense with some OpenVPN site-to-site connections as the computer is running esxi 6.5 standalone and it’s unable to return sensors data. PROs: the perfect SOHO firewall appliance, vtx, vt-d, intel nics, powerful, silent, compact, cool. CONs: no IPMI, aw-cb209nf not recognized by pfSense

I have a pfSense build I made with a Lenovo H100s motherboard (j1800) that I bought off ebay for $15 and a Pro 1000 VT quad NIC, and a couple Intel SLC SSDs in a gmirror, running 2.3.3_1  bare metal. I can confirm that the bay trail processor works great with 2.3.3.  Iperf over 900mbs across local network, rarely goes above 30% CPU with OpenVPN tunnel running concurrently.

just swapping should be fine

I found this post https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=126463.0 If these guys are using the nanobsd firmware that is good enough for me. I tried one and got it upgraded to 2.3.3 release p1 so I'll upgrade them all and put them up for now.

ok.  Maybe my issue that pfsense support though was the MB of the pcengines was really the ssd? or maybe both for this system. db:0:kdb.enter.default>  bt Tracing pid 3499 tid 100150 td 0xfffff8006a6834b0 kdb_enter() at kdb_enter+0x3e/frame 0xfffffe012113f730 vpanic() at vpanic+0x146/frame 0xfffffe012113f770 panic() at panic+0x43/frame 0xfffffe012113f7d0 pmap_remove_pages() at pmap_remove_pages+0x736/frame 0xfffffe012113f8b0 vmspace_exit() at vmspace_exit+0x9c/frame 0xfffffe012113f8f0 exit1() at exit1+0x65f/frame 0xfffffe012113f980 sys_sys_exit() at sys_sys_exit+0xe/frame 0xfffffe012113f990 amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall+0x40f/frame 0xfffffe012113fab0 Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xfb/frame 0xfffffe012113fab0 –- syscall (1, FreeBSD ELF64, sys_sys_exit), rip = 0x8008fa14a, rsp = 0x7fffffffec48, rbp = 0x7fffffffec60 --- panic: bad pte va 8008a2000 pte 0 cpuid = 1 KDB: enter: panic

While I agree with you that integrated Intel NICs are not necessary, I can think of one reason you might consider integrated. You mention that you want to get full gigabit speeds. It might be worth it to get a supermicro board with integrated 2.5 or 10 GbE NICs to ensure absolutely no question about your routers ability to get full gigabit.

Ah, too bad! While you're in the market check out the Apollo Lake lineup. They are similar to your current board and CPU but will be an upgrade in every way for cheap. J3355B is probably best for you ~€73, J3455B gets you 4 cores but lower clocks for ~€12 more. https://www.amazon.de/Asrock-J3355B-ITX-Hauptplatine-schwarz-braun/dp/B01M9EXCYB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489164890&sr=8-1&keywords=j3355b https://www.amazon.de/Asrock-J3455B-ITX-Hauptplatine-schwarz-braun/dp/B01M7OUO62/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489164905&sr=8-1&keywords=j3455b

@Deveilhuray: I believe it is something that must be sure to go. Thanks for the response Deveilhuray, I discover that this dongle is incompatible with pfsense, it is a huawei e1550s-1, and the id product is the same as the huawei e1550s, in the compatible list: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Known_Working_3G-4G_Modems

@Fahrenhe1t: Hey, I found a thread which has updated DEVICEID's (http://www.pcengines.info/forums/?page=post&id=795B2ACC-F4B0-4181-9B4A-54EC757D4001&fid=DF5ACB70-99C4-4C61-AFA6-4C0E0DB05B2A).  The guy (Stephan) said he compiled the latest version and uploaded it here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=70328254396185987242 Maybe you can try that one? Thanks, this version of amdtemp.ko worked for me on 2.3.4-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)! Now I can see just how ridiculously hot my new fanless router is getting…  ;)

If I don't consider power saving, Jetway NF592-Q170 motherboard recommended by some threads of hardware board may be a very comfortable choice. Here is a bare-bone with i5-6500 cpu. http://mitxpc.com/proddetail.php?prod=RS-JNF592VI5-FIO By the way, I tried a vlan with much less hosts than previous and cut down a lot of signatures as what Steve suggested. Then got much less CPU/RAM usage in the old machine. Thank you, Steve.