AES-IN system for sub £100 that will support an OpenVPN 200mbps connection?
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That's not a bad board for £55 and I did put that on my short list. It requires DDR3L (1.35v) memory which I don't have so I would have needed to spend a little more to get some. It also lacks an Intel NIC onboard and I have plans to utilize the two I'll be getting on the Portwell board. So that's what swayed me in the end.
The inefficiency is yet to be seen, I think the difference between a Apollo lake celeron and a Arrandale i5 won't be too big a concern for me personally.
I may post back with the wattage numbers from the wall if anyone is interested?
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It can use DDR3L, but standard ddr3 SO-DIMM is also.supported , per the product specs and my j3355 HTPC with standard ddr3.
J3355b build would pull sub 20w, likely sub 15w. That i5 very likely in excess of 40W. J3355 also better at openvpn.
Realtek NICs work just fine for sub gigabit throughput (management nic, wireless AP NIC, fast ether NIC, etc.).Anyways, to each their own. It might somehow have made sense for you, but I wouldn't go around claiming that it's a great price/performance buy for others -it is decidedly not a good way to go for most people.
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That heper guy is correct if you ask me.
I like the newest latest greatest low power stuff but if you want something cheap with high performance, an old 3ghz to 4ghz 4 core desktop intel or amd that can be had for like $75 or $100 is just unbeatable. You will pay for it in the power bill but they are cheap and reliable and blazing fast.
Alternately, AMD processors like the 8150 just scream and support AES-NI at the same time. Not energy efficient but cheap and reliable. Probably 3 or 4 times faster than the top of the line energy efficient appliances.
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It can use DDR3L, but standard ddr3 SO-DIMM is also.supported , per the product specs and my j3355 HTPC with standard ddr3.
J3355b build would pull sub 20w, likely sub 15w. That i5 very likely in excess of 40W. J3355 also better at openvpn.
Realtek NICs work just fine for sub gigabit throughput (management nic, wireless AP NIC, fast ether NIC, etc.).Anyways, to each their own. It might somehow have made sense for you, but I wouldn't go around claiming that it's a great price/performance buy for others -it is decidedly not a good way to go for most people.
I will admit the J3355 will more than likely consume less power than the i5 520m, I will give you that one.
To dismiss the performance advantage of the "older" i5 over the J3355 is one thing I will not concede on. Every benchmark I looked at has the i5 520m in front of the J3355, not by a huge margin but its quicker, including AES, LZMA, SQLite, etc. That is just single core benchmarks, when multicore is factored in, the i5 further stretches its legs.
I haven't cherry picked any site or benchmark, feel free to look for yourself if you wish.
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It can use DDR3L, but standard ddr3 SO-DIMM is also.supported , per the product specs and my j3355 HTPC with standard ddr3.
J3355b build would pull sub 20w, likely sub 15w. That i5 very likely in excess of 40W. J3355 also better at openvpn.
Realtek NICs work just fine for sub gigabit throughput (management nic, wireless AP NIC, fast ether NIC, etc.).Anyways, to each their own. It might somehow have made sense for you, but I wouldn't go around claiming that it's a great price/performance buy for others -it is decidedly not a good way to go for most people.
I will admit the J3355 will more than likely consume less power than the i5 520m, I will give you that one.
To dismiss the performance advantage of the "older" i5 over the J3355 is one thing I will not concede on. Every benchmark I looked at has the i5 520m in front of the J3355, not by a huge margin but its quicker, including AES, LZMA, SQLite, etc. That is just single core benchmarks, when multicore is factored in, the i5 further stretches its legs.
I haven't cherry picked any site or benchmark, feel free to look for yourself if you wish.
i5 520m is new enough to PCLMULQDQ, so it has optimized AES-GCM but not the improved implementation of the newer generations of intel's high-power chips. In theory the goldmont has SHA acceleration, which would help for non-GCM openvpn, but I honestly haven't looked to see if OpenVPN would actually benefit from that. In the end I'd expect the two chips to be pretty similar performance-wise. The J3355 isn't a performance beast, it's just "good enough" for most home users at a compelling price point (and much faster at crypto than avoton, let alone the crippled non-aes bay trail chips like the J1900.)
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SHA acceleration effectively makes CBC encryption like GCM.
There are some benchmarks comparing them on the j3355 and the results are pretty much odentical.Yes, the i5 will edge out the Celeron, barely. Still probably not I'm OpenVPN. But that doesn't make it a good selection.