New embedded celeron C1007u ITX motherboard by Giada featuring dual Intel NIC
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http://www.legitreviews.com/news/15394/
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/29627/giada-s-n70e-dr-motherboard-is-perfect-for-the-nas-builder-in-your-life/index.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Giada-NAS-N70E-DR-motherboard,21955.html
http://technologyx.com/pc-hardware/giada-technology-introduces-n70e-dr-mini-itx-nas-motherboard/the quick and dirty:
GIADA N70E-DR
MSRP $169
M-ITX
Intel Celeron C1007U
dual Intel 82583V
single DDR3 SODIMM
single PCI-E x16 expansion slotseems like the perfect little basis of a home or small business router.
once its out for purchase I know I am going to get one ASAP.
what do the rest of you think? -
;D Like the dual Intel Nics
:'( Dislike the only (1) DDR3 DIMM slot
??? Celeron C1007U is likely a poor performerLike the Atom platform … price versus performance is rather bad. There are much better alternatives when you consider you have the PowerD option in Pfsense!
As for the single DDR3 DIMM slot this is bad .... Celeron C1007U has dual memory channels, and Giada is limiting memory access to one channel.
Remember .... PowerD is a game changer when it comes to power consumption! I have not performed any testing on various platforms but I feel confident saying PowerD has kicked these over priced low powered CPU's in the crotch.
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I saw this too, but processor looks a little gimped to me.
Absolute price looks good, but as Clear-Pixel said, price/performance is meh but should (I'd think) much better than the Atoms, so at least there's some progress there.
If they stuck a better processor and an extra dimm slot, it might've been a serious competitor to those running low end i3s on matx (like me!).
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Single channel memory is limiting I agree. However if you look at the single thread performance of this CPU it's not that bad. Almost three time the speed of of an Atom D525 for example. It would be very interesting to get some benchmarks on this board.
Steve
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The only con is the lack of dual channel. I think that with the right i/o shield and riser I could fit an low profile PCIe.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/PARALLEL-PROCESSING,1705-11.html
yes . . . its a test done almost 5 years ago on a different architecture but it is still relevant. most other tests that I have seen on it since concur.
The benefit of dual channel memory is incredibly marginal, at best being a 6% performance increase.
As for the CPU performance, pfsense has been known to be driven primarily by single threaded CPU performance.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
Just as a small reference point:
Celeron G1610 2.6ghz scores 1396
Celeron C1007u 1.5ghz scores 815
Atom D2700 2.13ghz scores 343.
As ayah and stephenw10 pointed out, it seems a great bridging point between the m-atx lga1155 based solutions and an embedded atom. -
Checking out the passmarks for the Celeron C1007U it looks good. My HP EliteBook 2530p Laptop which is 4 years old, and I expect another 4+ years of service out of it, scores 846 on the Single Thread Performance. But its very unfortunate GIADA limited there board to a single memory channel.
As for FreeBSD and single threaded performance, it may very well be true today, but if I purchase a new PC platform I think of the present and Future.
As for the Atom platform, From a performance stand point I think its a waste of natural resources :(
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