PfSense Build: KINO 945GSE
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I thought I'd start a thread for this because I couldn't find an existing one. Apologies for the poor image!
I picked this up from eBay for ~£35 including postage for a home firewall. It included 1 GB SoDIMM and a 90 watt PicoPSU (minus power brick).
There's a few more available on eBay at the moment so it might prove to be a good option for those who like me, are on a tight budget.The 945GSE chipset is intended for use in laptops so it should be quite economical in terms of power consumption. It also features dual Realtek NICs.
More details here:
http://www.ieiworld.com/product_groups/industrial/content.aspx?gid=00001000010000000001&cid=09050652111816087425&id=08274601939847120321#.VBlRhstdWQsI've installed it (temporarily) in an mATX case with a 2GB CF card. It took a bit of fiddling to get it to boot - reseated the Pico PSU, memory and unplugged anything that wasn't needed. Last night I successfully installed pfSense 2.15 which has had no trouble identifying the hardware.
I'm waiting to get my house cabled with some Cat5e/Cat6 before I can install it. I might get around to doing some tests before then.
I'm now thinking about adding a PCI ADSL modem if I can find one that works with pfSense, mainly for neatness and perhaps for power efficiency.