CONTEST: Lowest pfsense box wattage!
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I am not sure if this is something that is around here already but I thought this would be fun and interesting. Post how much power your pfsense box is using in watts and see who wins! You will need a meter to participate and it would also be more fun if you posted the hardware that you are using! This might go a long way to answering newbie questions when it comes to hardware and low power since it is an issue with the rising costs of energy.
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It's going to be a tie between everyone using an Alix…
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or a blowout loss for everyone using x700's.
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Unless the older WRAP boards take less power…
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I figured I would get some responses at least.
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i´m far from lowest but i guess it goto start somwhere
P3 933mhz
~35w/f
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I have a couple boxes. I finally got a meter on one. My Nortel Network Contivity 100 with an overclocked K6-2+ (I replaced the Cyrix chip with a blazing fast K6-2+) uses about 50 watts to load and runs at about 31 watts.
My current firewall is a VIA board and I have to throw the meter on that.
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Biggest two problems with this contest are lack of energy meters(especially good ones) and annoyance of taking whole network down just to measure it. I'll try to get some before/after results from UPS management software when i get chance to upgrade this box. It'll be weeks or even months before that happens tho.
or a blowout loss for everyone using x700's.
X750 would be interesting. It has mobile Celeron-M 320 instead desktop P3 based Celeron 1.2
Won't propably have any chance againsts lightest boards as it has lots of extra hardware on board like Cavium NitroX lite etc. I think i'll take bunch of photos and start new topic abot this box when i finally manage to obtain reasonably priced Pentium-M 780.
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My ALIX box draws 5w according to a Kill-a-Watt. It varies up or down by a watt or two depending on how busy the CPU is.
