Probably that ^ Is any of it x86? Steve

Sorry, I got the model number wrong, it's SYS-E200-9A. SuperMicro page The total price was under $750 with 16GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD, shipping, and California tax.

@stephenw10 said in Atom E3950 Performance Question: The i210 I believe it limited to 2 queues anyway, I'm insure about i211. Steve My understanding is i210 has up to 4 queues and the i211 has up to 2. Which is why the MBT-4220 (4-Core) uses the i210 and the MBT-2220 (2-Core) uses i211. See table 1-6 on page 11... https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/i211-ethernet-controller-datasheet.pdf

Oh, beginner mistakes: D pfsense runs already fine ;) thank you!

Moved to hardware. This is very definitely not official hardware! Most socket 775 CPUs will work. The best source is to check the XTM5 thread. However why do you need to upgrade? That CPU is already close to the fastest you can get for that. No CPUs that will work there have AES-NI. Steve

That's why I try to ask those who have same hardware face the same issue or not. Well, gonna swap it this weekend to find it out. Thanks anyway, will update again after testing.

Thank you for your swift reply :) Honestly i haven't tested to much, but your reply gave me a bit more confidence that the problem is not with the hardware, but poor networking elsewhere. I will do some more testing and report back my findings.

@slimaxpower said in Looking for Low Power Budget Build Suggestions (BC, Canada): @rnatalli until they fail. I have just replaced my current system (n54l) with an i7 4770 with multiple intel pcie nics 80+ PSU so its low power with way more grunt than I will ever need. My current system CPU is always above 60% and 8gb out of 16gb ram usage. that's without snort or vpn active. edit. around 300aud Hi @SLIMaxPower would it be possible to get some more details of your build please? I'm also in Australia, finding it hard to put together something low-power for around the $300 level that would suit. Thanks!

There are already several open threads about this, and notes have been added to the upgrade guide. Here's one of the other threads https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135852/console-no-longer-working-after-upgrade-to-2-4-4/ Edit- beaten to the post by Derelict...

@stephenw10 Yeah, I've given up on trying to find a compatible USB wifi adapter only to still have limited range and flakiness anyways. Easier to go the route of a USB ethernet adapter, which has better support and then I'll use an external AP.

@grimson The problem is the SG-1000 only has one LAN (inuse) and WAN port. However, I believe this is close to an answer. I had a USB to Ethernet adapter laying around. Plugged it in and it's an E1000 chipset and worked the first time. So now I have a 2nd lan port that I will put an external AP on and forget about trying to save space or simplicity for the customer. The wifi on our pfSenses (about 10+) have always been flaky and I've migrated a couple of locations to an external AP and no more issues.

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In the supermicro superserver's c3000 series barebones. It uses A2SDi-8C-HLN4F as its motherboard. But it has 8 cores other than c3558 which has only 4 cores. Someone gets 1gbps on netgate xg-7100 which has 4-core c3558 and Marvell switch chip(link to reddit). He also used suricata.

Currently, I certainly don't need much more than the 2008 ALIX I have. Because 20/2 VDSL. But hopefully, it will last for another decade or more and FFTH might actually arrive here by then (or I move). I think I'm mostly limited by the lack of RAM today, so I'd like to get something with 4 GB. Unfortunately, Netgate products are much, much more expensive here (.ch) than PC-Engines - but I haven't fully made up my mind, yet. Only one local Netgate partner shows the hardware on their homepage/shop - and the Minnow-Boards are not there, so I don't even know what they cost.

You should ask pc-engines directly about your concerns with the temperature. They are usually very swift in replying.

Hmm, does sounds broken then unfortunately. Steve

I know this topic is quite old, but I'd like to add my own & successful try to build a low-cost pfSense router. In detail it was just projected to be an upgrade to an old D-Link 524 in a mechatronics lab envoirment, wit just a few features - like static IP assignment of clients via their MAC adress & MAC-Whitelisting as well as blocking access to the internet from or to the lab equipment [including several Siemens Siematic PLCs, a Kubota robot arm, Several printers and a professional 3D Printer], but not the PCs. The D-Link was used as an AP instead, this saving the cost of buying a wifi card that isn't faster anyway... [I hope 802.11ac support and drivers for the Intel 7260ac will soon come!]. I used an ASRock J1900M Mainboard [€ 40], an LC-Power 1400 Case w/ 250W PSU [€ 40], 3 Realtek 811x NICs with PCIe x1 [€ 5 each] as well as a Corsair ValueRAM 2x 2GB DDR3-1333 Kit [€ 30] and a Transcend 32GB 2,5" SSD [€ 20] Which totaled around € 145 in parts and € 150 with shipping. Since it neither needed VPN or any crypto handling besides it's HTTPS web interface, performance is sufficient. On the WAN side, this unit just goes straight into a Cable CPE with roughly 150M/10M, and it can fully saturate that [before the D-Link capped it with it's 100M ports... This setup was easy to deploy and fully satisfied the customer's needs, as it was just the needed and reasonable priced upgrade to a customer/SoHo router and while being cheaper than the famous Fritz!Box routers, it had significantly more features and didn't have arbitrary and artificial limitations [like MAC-Whitelisting only on the Wireless interface and limited to 25 devices like the D-Link]. Sadly, with some of those cheap ASRock boards being in low supply, espechally the QC5000M [same board, but with an AMD A4-5000, thus having AES-Ni], the few offers on Amazon ramp up prices to 300% or more - at least in Germany. But I'm pretty shure some Celeron J4xxx or J5xxx as well as potentially upcoming, low-end Ryzen-based SoCs will fill the gap without getting too pricy.