Jetway NF9HG-2930 + Silverstone PT13 Slim ITX
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I am sitting around waiting for my Jetway NF9HG-2930 motherboard to arrive. I am currently looking at my M350 case that arrived yesterday, the first 4GB or RAM (I decided to double it for some reason and the second stick arrives tomorrow) and my teeny, tiny 30GB mSATA drive. I'm excited to actually put this into something… it is smaller than the SO-DIMM memory module! I got the Kingston SMS200S3/30G module. I did not purchase any case fans for this, so my thought is it should be silent, which is great. I just hope I don't have any heat issues. Since the motherboard isn't here yet, I don't know if it will be possible but I'm thinking that I might be able to add a 120mm fan from the "ceiling" of the case if heat is an issue. I don't see any reason to put the piece that a hard drive and/or top 40mm fans would be mounted to and I don't think things will stand too tall on the motherboard, which is why I think the 120mm fan may work. Any thoughts? This is a fall-back thought/plan… only if it get too hot without fans.
This will be my first time playing with pfSense... I have been using Smoothwall on all my router/firewalls and ones I've set up for family members since 2003, so this is a major change for me.
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What kind of power consumption are you guys seeing with this board running pfSense? If someone has done some measurements with a kill-a-watt then please share. :)
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Given that it's a 7.5W TDP processor, I didn't even bother to measure. Electricity usage will be somewhere around $10/yr. I've seen reviews using this same board/chipset, and they show between 7-13 watts depending on load and what type drive you use. (mSATA SSD will obviously have the lowest power consumption)
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Thanks for the pictures and information! I'm going a nearly identical build and I was a bit worried about the fit. Looks like a simple tweak to make that PCI-E slot fit.
I did have two questions if you have time:
1. Is there room to fit a slim 40x40mm or 60x60mm fan on top of the heatsink?
2. What's the max power draw of the motherboard? I haven't been able to find any numbers anywhere. I have a 12v 3a ac-dc adapter I wanted to use and I'm not quite sure if it will cut it for full load.
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1. A slim fan would probably fit. (15mm thick)
2. The power consumption test report is listed on Jetway's website for the NF9HG motherboard, available for download. -
I see the SuperMicro case has dropped in cost and may have needed clearance for odd slot. Not quite as cramped but still petite.
Supermicro SuperChassis CSE-101I
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191675936807 -
1. A slim fan would probably fit. (15mm thick)
2. The power consumption test report is listed on Jetway's website for the NF9HG motherboard, available for download.Excellent. I saw the BIOS has good fan-control options, so I think a small fan would be nice to keep the temps and noise low.
I found that power report shortly after I posted this. Seems odd that they wouldn't have any specifics in any of their other documentation. I tested my own board and only saw about 24W total with a full load on the CPU.
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So my setup with this configuration was running around 50-52C with no fan. Not terrible, but not too great. I found a nice PWM controlled Silverstone 120mm slim fan for about $10 online. Now it sits around 32C and is nearly silent.
It's a tight fit, but there's clearance. I think I might simply zip tie the corners down to the lid to keep it from shifting around, but it seems pretty stable.
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Nice 8)
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Hi,
I'm interrested in this device.
Can you tell me what kind of performance should be expected from it?
Packet/s capacity (if you have tested it), or at least WAN2LAN & LAN2WAN throughtput ?
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Can you tell me what kind of performance should be expected from it?
Capable of 1 GBit/s WAN routing with ease.
Packet/s capacity (if you have tested it), or at least WAN2LAN & LAN2WAN throughput ?
Snort or Suricata, Squid & SquidGuard, ClamAV & VPN would be not problem, but please don´t forget,
all the things you install, like packets, and all services that would be activated, are narrowing down the
entire speed and also throughput.Together with a SSD and a WiFI card or only with a mSATA it would be a really rocking box together with pfSense.
Available in many different options like shown here in the thread or also only based on the same CPU but more
professional and more available in many more countries.
Jetway NF9HG-2930 Thin mini-ITX Board only
Ariic New Metal Ant All Aluminum Slim HTPC Mini ITX Media Center Case cool caseJetway NF9HG-2930 with 4 x Intel GB LAN Ports
Jetway Intel N2930 Network PC with 5 x Intel GB LAN PortsAxiomtek NA342 Desktop
Axiomtek NA342R 1U Rackmount with extra module bay in the middle of the front for;- VPN module (Intel QuickAssist based)
- 8 x RJ45 GB LAN module
- 8 x SFP GB LAN module
- 4 x PoE RJ45 GB LAN module
- 4 x SFP+ module
- 4 x 4 GB LAN Ports & 2 SFP Ports module
All modules and Ports are Intel based.
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For the Jetway NF9HG-2930
which port are you using as WAN
there are two ports tied together if you make that your LAN do you lose throughput? -
which port are you using as WAN
One of the both that are not tied together.
there are two ports tied together if you make that your LAN do you lose throughput?
No I don´t lose LAN speed then, but this could also be owed to the circumstance that I am using a
Layer3 switch that is delivering nearly wire speed in the entire LAN (VLAN) environment. -
All 4 LAN ports are the same on NF9HG-2930, there is a brother of this board named NF9HB-2930 which is almost the same, except the 2 LAN ports tied together which have a special feature called "LAN bypass", so free to take any port to use.
For the Jetway NF9HG-2930
which port are you using as WAN
there are two ports tied together if you make that your LAN do you lose throughput? -
For my build with NF9HG-2930, I give up the Silverstone case and used the M350 case (setup here), I never use any fan, and while my room temperature rises to 30-35 degree, the heat of router is still acceptable under loading.
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