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    • I
      iGamer
      last edited by

      I'll keep this simple. I need some suggestions for a new PFSense build that I will need built between now and Fall 2015

      budget = $400 or less
      Reliably support a gigabit Fiber connection. (Moving to Austin, TX next fall)
      Will be used for basic routing + firewall and possibly some webcaching.

      anywho I'm off to bed, but I wanted to get this posted before I went to sleep.

      AMD FX-835 || 16GB HyperX DDR3 || 240GB Kingston V300 SSD || 1TB Seagate Barracuda || Zotac Geforce GTX 980 Amp! Ed. ||  27" Samsung LCD.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Power consumption or noise any concern?
        You want new hardware?

        Steve

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          iGamer
          last edited by

          @stephenw10:

          Power consumption or noise any concern?
          You want new hardware?

          Steve

          hmmm power consumption isn't too big a priority and on the noise, It doesn't have to be silent, but it needs to be fairly quiet.

          basically all I need in terms of suggestions is mobo+cpu+ram+nics.

          and all I need is two nics one for wan, and one for LAN going to my gigabit switch.

          AMD FX-835 || 16GB HyperX DDR3 || 240GB Kingston V300 SSD || 1TB Seagate Barracuda || Zotac Geforce GTX 980 Amp! Ed. ||  27" Samsung LCD.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Plenty of older server hardware on Ebay would meet your specs if you don't need it to be new. You'd need to choose carefully get a relatively quiet one though.

            Steve

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              iGamer
              last edited by

              @stephenw10:

              Plenty of older server hardware on Ebay would meet your specs if you don't need it to be new. You'd need to choose carefully get a relatively quiet one though.

              Steve

              yea I thought about eBay I think I may go all new.

              I'll let you guys know what I come up with soon.

              AMD FX-835 || 16GB HyperX DDR3 || 240GB Kingston V300 SSD || 1TB Seagate Barracuda || Zotac Geforce GTX 980 Amp! Ed. ||  27" Samsung LCD.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                The processing requirement to get to 1Gbps throughput of firewall/NAT is not that large. There is an example Gigabit build here using a Celeron G530. You could easily build up something similar for <$400. You will need something more powerful than that if you want to run Squid/Squidguard as well. A faster harddrive and CPU but I don't really have any figures for how much faster.  :-\ You should be able to do it well within your budget though.

                Steve

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                • I
                  iGamer
                  last edited by

                  Cool, I think then the retired HTPC I have will do the job then.

                  I also got to thinking, that there really is no point in doing squid with those kinda speeds.

                  Anywho I will need to get a couple Intel PCIe Nics but here are the specs of my (kinda) old HTPC

                  3GHz AMD A4-4000
                  4GB PC1600 DDR3 SDRAM
                  500GB 7200rpm HDD (I believe its a Seagate, can't remember though)

                  AMD FX-835 || 16GB HyperX DDR3 || 240GB Kingston V300 SSD || 1TB Seagate Barracuda || Zotac Geforce GTX 980 Amp! Ed. ||  27" Samsung LCD.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    The a4-4000 is hard to compare, there aren't any direct benchmarks for it I could find. However it appears to be closely matched with a Core2duo E6400. That is the case it's ~50% slower than the G530 so it may or may not be sufficient.

                    Steve

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                    • A
                      abidkhanhk
                      last edited by

                      you could go with the Jetway NF9D-2550 , i am using it at home.

                      its solid, with a pci slot i have 2 more NIC for LAN.

                      handles alot of streaming / file backup traffic at the same time letting me maintain less than 180ms on Diablo 3.

                      rgds

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        An Atom D2550 will not get 1Gbps throughput, even without any packages.

                        Steve

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                          abidkhanhk
                          last edited by

                          for gigabit i would go for a dell power edge with xeon or an old HP server

                          I only have a 100M fiber, averaging out on 80-89M, this is sufficient foe me.

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