Best modern mini ITX (LGA1155) board for running pfSense
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What is generally the best mini itx board for running pfsense. Besides the NICs, what should be my primary focus on capability? Chipset maybe?
Honestly, I'm looking into making my own Mars III 1U box.
Thanks
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perhaps Shuttle DS61
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I need something that has one expansion slot. I need more than two NICs
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
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These 3 boards all look pretty good.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128585
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121622
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182261All are DualNIC, and have an expansion slot.
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Yes, as extide's 2nd link, the Intel DQ77KB always gets a good write up from users here. I've not tried it myself.
Steve
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The Supermicro X9SPV-M4 series boards are worth looking at. Integrated IVB, 4 gigabit ports and an x16 slot.
Price is probably going to be a bitch though.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/QM77/X9SPV-M4.cfm
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The Supermicro X9SPV-M4 series boards are worth looking at. Integrated IVB, 4 gigabit ports and an x16 slot.
Price is probably going to be a bitch though.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/QM77/X9SPV-M4.cfm
They're about $700.
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The Supermicro X9SPV-M4 series boards are worth looking at. Integrated IVB, 4 gigabit ports and an x16 slot.
Price is probably going to be a bitch though.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/QM77/X9SPV-M4.cfm
Hi,
I'm currently considering to buy this board.
Exactly this one: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/qm77/x9spv-f-3217ue.cfm
It would be really great if someone could confirm whether 2.1 would run on this.
I've only found a thread where someone claimed that QM77 was okay on 2.1 while it panicked on 2.0.1.
Do you think this board would cause any troubles?Thank you very much!
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I'm not too sure how well these features will be supported, but other than that, looks fine.
4x USB 3.0 ports (via header)
2x SATA3 6Gb/s w/ RAID 0, 1
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@vbman213:
What is generally the best mini itx board for running pfsense. Besides the NICs, what should be my primary focus on capability? Chipset maybe?
Honestly, I'm looking into making my own Mars III 1U box.
Thanks
DQ77KB works fine with 2.0.3, I have two systems using it.
+Both nics detected and run with em driver
+No video problems using intel gpu, and the vPro KVM does not cause problems. (security check: don't put the red port on WAN or "bad" networks) I bring a long hdmi cable for nearby tvs to check console locally.
+USB3 ports on back work for console, they autodetect as 2.0 I think?
+AHCI mode works, I use the msata slot for an ssd
+Did not have to do anything weird in bios like disabling features or hardware to installBeware though, the firmware on the board is quirky about expansion cards, intel sucks at writing bios for their own boards…
Current status with the bios from July 2013:
+Anything 82571 based should work, tested pro 1000 PT duals and quads myself
-82576 pro 1000 VT quad hangs system during bios load, card works fine on other boards
-i350 quad works, but disables the second memory slot (yeah, wtf?)
+82574L aka the cheap desktop CT nics should work as one is onboard (don't buy these, single port 82571 are $10 on fleabay and have ECC buffers and other server style features)No idea about:
i340?
82572 aka pro 1000 fiber nics, but I think these are nearly same as 82571?
Any 10GbE?PS, this board is really hard to find right now, it was very common and around $150 earlier this year
Intel claims it is not discontinued but I'm not sure I believe them
