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      messerchmidt
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      hi all, decided to jump on the pfsense banwagon - coming from ddwrt on a netgear r7000 (dual core arm). I have a cable connection @ 60/10.

      I run a home office, so it has to work properly. otherwise, I stream movie, download torrents, connect to my router via openvpn when aborad, etc

      Basically me and my parents use the internet, with me being 80%+ of it. It just has to work.

      I was looking @ ASRock Q1900M (http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M/) with 8-16gb of ram and a dual port (or quad) intel nic card as a mini itx build for my router. Was going to use a set of 300gb sata drives i have here in raid 1 for the boot devices. I realize that this is OVERKILL, but tinkering here and there keeps me amused and sane..

      I will use the r7000 for wifi.

      will this setup work? otherwise I was going to get a dual core Celeron and a minix itx s1150 board.

      Suggestions?

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        kejianshi
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        For a home build with not super extreme fast internet, this is a good board.

        I've been saying that I don't think its the right board for 200Mb/s internet, but for simple home use, without alot of excessive packages seems like it should be fine.

        I like it better that the board you showed because its got 2 onboard NIC ports.

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          Wolf666
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          I am on the same ship. I will go to built my unit based on supermicro board based on C2558 atom. It is overkill but I need something for future bandwidth improvements.

          Modem Draytek Vigor 130
          pfSense 2.4 Supermicro A1SRi-2558 - 8GB ECC RAM - Intel S3500 SSD 80GB - M350 Case
          Switch Cisco SG350-10
          AP Netgear R7000 (Stock FW)
          HTPC Intel NUC5i3RYH
          NAS Synology DS1515+
          NAS Synology DS213+

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            Escorpiom
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            The Asrock Q1900M has a single LAN port and it is Realtek.
            If you plan to use a dual or quad port LAN card, you may want to consider that the PCI-e x16 slot runs at x1 mode.

            1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot (PCIE2 @ x1 mode)

            But as already said, you will probably be fine at that speed.

            Cheers.

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              FarmerB3d
              last edited by

              Have a look at the J19000 - more than capable :)
              https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=73518.60

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                messerchmidt
                last edited by

                the limited pcie @ 1x on the integrated Celeron boards is what is tuning me away

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  It's PCI-e 2.0 so even a 1x slot can shift ~4Gbps. There's probably some other bottle neck that will stop you first. What are you wanting to put in there?  ;)

                  Steve

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                    messerchmidt
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                    several vpns at once.

                    Going with the dual core Pentium haswell @ 3ghz that I got for free. The ASUS H87I-PLUS looks like a good idea given its intel i217 lan. either 8 or 16gb of ram. An ebay Intel PRO/1000 PCI-e Gigabit Dual-Port Lan Card.

                    basic cheapy itx case and a seasonic psu I have here.

                    not sure what type of CF card/ssd to use, or just go with an old set of HDs

                    EDIT: just found this for 175$ basically what the board and network card will cost me. -> http://www.ncix.com/detail/supermicro-motherboard-mbd-x10sba-l-o-celeron-j1900-75-101469.htm

                    may go for this instead

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