PfSense with Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V
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Is this just me having too high voltage on VCore in power saving mode on this board? On the first mobo, CPU at 1333 mhz received 0,828 volts (CPU VID 0,6V), then I returned it to the store and bought a new one from different batch which now outputs 0,860 volts (CPU VID 0,63V) at 1333 mhz. I have tried swapping 3 different PSUs (2 ordinary ATX ones and a PicoPSU one) but to no avail. The competitor motherboard from Asrock Q1900-ITX gives correct Vcore voltage at 1333 mhz - 0,696 Volts with same PSUs. As the result, Gigabyte's CPU is always hot at 52 C minimum and Asrock is almost cold at 1333 mhz. BIOS is the latest. Gigabyte's support suggests to replace PSU, but doesn't tell to which one.
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Swapping the PSU isn't going to help. The Vcore is determined by regulators on the board using a reference voltage either directly from the cpu or from bios data. Modern systems have under/over clocking and volting facilities from software which would imply a bios problem.
Steve
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the Celeron j is a pig without aes-ni
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/5334/24/amd-am1-vs-intel-bay-trail-d-review-cheap-desktop-platforms-benchmarks-truecrypt-71-aes-+-aes-ni
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PfSense doesn't, yet, support AES-NI. Also 267MB/s doesn't seem that bad. ;)
Steve
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Is this just me having too high voltage on VCore in power saving mode on this board? On the first mobo, CPU at 1333 mhz received 0,828 volts (CPU VID 0,6V), then I returned it to the store and bought a new one from different batch which now outputs 0,860 volts (CPU VID 0,63V) at 1333 mhz. I have tried swapping 3 different PSUs (2 ordinary ATX ones and a PicoPSU one) but to no avail. The competitor motherboard from Asrock Q1900-ITX gives correct Vcore voltage at 1333 mhz - 0,696 Volts with same PSUs. As the result, Gigabyte's CPU is always hot at 52 C minimum and Asrock is almost cold at 1333 mhz. BIOS is the latest. Gigabyte's support suggests to replace PSU, but doesn't tell to which one.
I don't believe the temp readings. Mine reads a constant 52C regardless of room temp, yours reads 52C and there was a user a few pages back who said 52C.
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the Celeron j is a pig without aes-ni
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/5334/24/amd-am1-vs-intel-bay-trail-d-review-cheap-desktop-platforms-benchmarks-truecrypt-71-aes-+-aes-ni
Until I have an internet connection which can handle 268MB/s I'll be ok with this box ;)
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@FarmerB3rd:
I suspect the sensor is not being read correctly by FreeBSD.
Unfortunately (for the board), I have verified the temperature under Windows and it's showing same 52 C.
I have also faced twice that the motherboard reports "BIOS Checksum Error" and reverts the BIOS to the old version, resetting all settings. This happens when the mobo is being powered on.
This motherboard is a no go for me with such hassles. Gonna sell it. Gigabyte spoiled great mobo with awful BIOS.
Btw, their support replied me on their support site that they cannot reproduce the voltage issue, so this means that this issue is non-existent, despite that even in reviews on the internets overvoltage can be clearly seen in CPU-Z screenshots! -
Hey everybody,
I would like to ask the owners of the board to give a little feedback about the performance in daily use.
Specially i would like to know about following topics:-
Performance when useing OpenVPN with 1 to 5 Clients at the same time / multiple instances of OpenVPN
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LAN - LAN Routing performance with the Realtec NICs
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Performance with Proxmox / XEN and different Host-Systems ontop ( likely pfsense )
Thanks in advance
the Celeron j is a pig without aes-ni
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/5334/24/amd-am1-vs-intel-bay-trail-d-review-cheap-desktop-platforms-benchmarks-truecrypt-71-aes-+-aes-ni
Took a quick look at the article. Nice feature but when taking a look at compatible Mainboards, you will start crying… ;)
So far I only found 11 Mainboards whitch are compatible. All with just 1 NIC, and DDR3 normal size (imho s0-DIMM is the new Standard)So give me one Board with Dual NIC / S0-DIMM for nearly the same price as the Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V and i'm willing to buy and test.
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So I'm a few months in now with this board and cannot complain.
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It sips electricity
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It handles my BB connection (160/12) without breaking out a sweat.
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It does far more than I could ever do with DD-WRT (Apples and Oranges)
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It runs very cool (M350, no fan, hovers around 51-52c)
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The CPU ticks along, never going above 10% when doing speed test over open VPN, 160Mb/s down with compression turned on
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You need to run the latest Alpha code (totally stable for me, I don't upgrade automatically though, no point)
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The realtec NICS - I think I might have found their problem side
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So the first impressions with pfsense on this board:
BIOS Version F3
WLAN Card Archos 9280 Chipset
Pfsense 2.2 Beta Snapshot from 05.10.14-Installation from USB worked well.
-When configuring the WAN interface, I faced some Problems
Receiving DHCP lease from my cable network
–> problem solved by switching from Realtec NIC to an additional Intel NIC
(Not sure if this Problem is driver related)
-I hardly tried to setup dualband Wlan. Wasn't capable cause settings were over written by the different clones of the wireless interface. Seems that there are still some bugs.
Had to reinstall pfsense all the time to get rid of old configurations.
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I've been looking at this board. Does anyone have any experience using it with gigabit WAN? I believe I saw 250 with some CPU headroom but I wanted to be sure.
Edit: there appears to be a revision 2.0 hardware on gigabytes website. Anyone tried it?
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First a great big thanks to w00t!
With w00ts bios settings the install was a breeze, no kernel panic, no nothing. I used "pfSense-memstick-2.1.5-RELEASE-arch.img.gz".
I would recommend this write up on bios update: http://www.gigabytenordic.com/wordpress/flash-update-bios-gigabyte-bay-trail-motherboards-j1800-j1900/
I've been looking at this board. Does anyone have any experience using it with gigabit WAN? I believe I saw 250 with some CPU headroom but I wanted to be sure.
Edit: there appears to be a revision 2.0 hardware on gigabytes website. Anyone tried it?
I'm using the onboard NICs and they seem to work just fine, but I've only got a 100 Mbit so I don't know how they behave at higher speeds.
I bought my motherboard last month and it shipped with F2; I couldn't find any version markings on it, I looked for it though.
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Hi all
I have a GA-J1900N-D3V on the way and noticed it has a mini Pci-e slot, and was wondering if anyone has tried a mini-pcie ssd.
for example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1K62383992&cm_re=mini_pcie_ssd--20-609-436--Product
I've seen conflicting information on the net (imagine that) some to the effect that it depends on the kind of link to the architecture (USB or SATA or something else) while other places say mini-pcie is universal and should work.
The case I'm getting should have enough room to accept a card that is a little larger (here's the case): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811815042
Your thoughts appreciated….
nz
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I received my board today and I wanted to report back. I'm fortunate to have municipal broadband here, and it is 1gbps. I went through the install process and got it to boot from the USB stick. I ran a speed test and was only seeing about 550mbps. I typically see 850+ consistently. I'd like to try checking "disable hardware checksum offload" under System > Advanced > Networking, but it doesn't save on rebooting. I'm getting >80% load on core0 and 30% on core1, while the rest remain idle. System load doesn't really move, but there are a ton of interrupts.
I'm having problems booting from the SSD I have installed. I've saved everything to the SSD and used the quick default settings. When I reboot, I see the "F6 PXE Boot: F1" lines and essentially enter a reboot loop. It does not report any errors. Any thoughts? I've tried all kinds of different BIOS settings without any success.
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I received my board today and I wanted to report back. I'm fortunate to have municipal broadband here, and it is 1gbps. I went through the install process and got it to boot from the USB stick. I ran a speed test and was only seeing about 550mbps. I typically see 850+ consistently. I'd like to try checking "disable hardware checksum offload" under System > Advanced > Networking, but it doesn't save on rebooting. I'm getting >80% load on core0 and 30% on core1, while the rest remain idle. System load doesn't really move, but there are a ton of interrupts.
I'm having problems booting from the SSD I have installed. I've saved everything to the SSD and used the quick default settings. When I reboot, I see the "F6 PXE Boot: F1" lines and essentially enter a reboot loop. It does not report any errors. Any thoughts? I've tried all kinds of different BIOS settings without any success.
godsfshrmn, which bios version are you running on the motherboard?
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man, this board is a big headache :(
i received it 3 days ago, and after hours of suffering, i got it running.
…and i don´t even know how i made it work lol
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I received my board today and I wanted to report back. I'm fortunate to have municipal broadband here, and it is 1gbps. I went through the install process and got it to boot from the USB stick. I ran a speed test and was only seeing about 550mbps. I typically see 850+ consistently. I'd like to try checking "disable hardware checksum offload" under System > Advanced > Networking, but it doesn't save on rebooting. I'm getting >80% load on core0 and 30% on core1, while the rest remain idle. System load doesn't really move, but there are a ton of interrupts.
I'm having problems booting from the SSD I have installed. I've saved everything to the SSD and used the quick default settings. When I reboot, I see the "F6 PXE Boot: F1" lines and essentially enter a reboot loop. It does not report any errors. Any thoughts? I've tried all kinds of different BIOS settings without any success.
godsfshrmn, which bios version are you running on the motherboard?
I'm running F3. I decided to try and snatch one of those Lenovo TS130's that have been frequently on sale recently and put an intel nic in it. I don't think the realtek nic is up to handling as much bandwidth.
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if anybody needs extra nics…this one works fine with 2.2 and giga
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Matters-SuperSpeed-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B00C50FSPU/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&qid=1417637549&sr=8-24&keywords=Cable+Matters
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Just got my board and one of the Beta 2.2 seems to recognize everything including this Intel dual NIC: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006HX1V/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s08?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Last time i ran PFSense was back in 2007, so it will take me a bit to figure everything out and see if things are working fine but so far so good.
One thing I will mention is that it's finicky on the ram, has to be 1.35v and can't be faster ram than specified.
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Hi guys,
got my board yesterday and tried to get it working many times. BIOS is on F3, I've read the post about the correct settings here, after getting the described problems every boot. Installation from USB @ HDD stucks at 38%, multi-core support can't be disabled in BIOS, so I installed pfS on another system an put the HDD back on the Gigabyte board. pfS is booting, LAN and webinterface works so far.My WAN get's no IP und don't switch to 1000 MBit. Link goes up und down multiple times und stuck at 10 MBit :-\I'm not amused :P
