Opinions about possibly overkill setup (Qotom i5 + 8GB + 500GB ssd)
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I use a Dell R210 II Xeon Quad with HT, 24 GB ram, 480 GB SSD
all used items I had laying around, can't even hear the R210 run in the rack
And I'm currently using a Broadcom NET EXTREME II 10GB SFP Network Card
WITH 1 GB fibre, ( WAN ) to a 24 Port 10GB SFP SWITCH ( LAN ) , House is wired with 10 Gb fiber
With my ISP I typically get anywhere from 980 - 1230 and it doesn't even break a sweat :-)Used Servers are always a great way to go… cheap and fast :-)
And if you're using your PF sense router with your ISP modem your ISP modem should be in bridge mode, as a reminder.
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Power outage resilience can best be improved by installing to zfs. UFS has more issues with power outages.
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I built a couple of boxes with the following configuration, that have been outstanding so far…
Intel DQ77KB board + I5 Processor + 8 GB RAM -- $150 (refurbished, ebay)
Silverstone Tek case + Silverstone low-profile fan + 90W PSU -- $82
I had some old SSDs rattling around -- $0Total: $232, for a very capable pfSense box, that can also be a decent general purpose computer.
There are some old threads on the DQ77KB board on this forum as well.
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yeah EIST has minimal affect on temps and power consumption, c-states is where the real gains are.
If you have a cpu that has turbo mode tho, then you need to enable powerd (and eist) to utilise the higher clocks, I personally run my unit with powerd set to the stock clocks as the min speed, so basically I get turbo mode alongside no throttling.