12 year old motherboard VIA Epia CL 1000
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;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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VIA EPIA EN12000E is my toy, it's a little younger but still going strong. I ran smoothwall at the start but once i found pfsense i haven't looked back.
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Boot time is awful, but she still manages to fill the two 100Mbit interfaces with ~90Mbps of traffic on a basic firewall/nat config.
it's pretty amazing how it can manage those speeds with only 10/100 interfaces (old fashioned)
I had an VIA EPIA MII that I retired almost 2 years ago, i didn't even try when i got my upgraded connection and NAS setup.
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If you already own it, it works fine and fills your needs, use it. Why not?
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trash it or ebay it, and get a celeron 1900j from gigabyte or such.
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Why would you do that if it's working fine for your needs?
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Me and a buddy with more money than brains were drinking one night when I saw him walking (as in stepping on) a pile of "junk" computer parts. I asked him whats he going to do with that "trash" he is walking on. He said its junk. Doesn't work… He is tossing it out...
I built a server with it the same night we were building him a new server with all new parts.
My "made from trash" server runs circles around the all-new server. He wasn't amused. haha.
Me, I say use it til it doesn't do what you need anymore.
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Ha. ;D
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i am all about using old parts, but if it is too old, makes little sense
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even epia cl 6000 is not too old, although it's older than the cl 10000. pulled mine out of the "junk box" a few days ago to build a replacement for my current router. :)
