GIGABYTE GA-C1037UN PfSense box?

[Rand]

Thinking about building a new pfsense box, or possibly a NAS

GIGABYTE GA-C1037UN
link to info page

is about 90$ and has dual nics.

Also has decent performance at 1700+ cpumarks
seems to be supported by pfsense 2.1
any suggestions in general

or specifically for
power supply
Case

If I decide to make a nas box it will probably get WHS 2011 or FreeNas

 

[dparm]

Is this offered for embedded-type systems and ultra-SFF? It's a neat little machine that looks fairly beefy.

 

[Ramblejam]

What about a Netgate unit?

 

[Rand]

Originally Posted By: Ramblejam
What about a Netgate unit?


link?

 

[Rand]

Originally Posted By: dparm
Is this offered for embedded-type systems and ultra-SFF? It's a neat little machine that looks fairly beefy.


its mini-itx

 

[Colt45ws]

Im running a PC as a router. http://colt45.ws/pics/networkhead.jpg
Im using a Antec ISK110 case. It has a 90W 19V Delta power brick and a internal 80W DC-DC converter board.
They dont make it any more, but if you look around on ebay and such you can probably find one. I found this one on google shopping through some place.
I have a older setup;
MSI Fuzzy RS690T MiniITX (improved MOSFET & chipset cooling)
AMD Athlon X2 4450B 2.3GHz (Brisbane)
2x hynix 2GB DDR2-667 SO-DIMM
Fujitsu MHW2120BH 120GB 2.5"

The CPU is a 45W TDP. At idle, scaled back to 800MHz the whole setup draws about 35 watts at the wall. Full load, about 70W.
Something like that should be even better. I would be surprised to see it idle with more than 15W.

 

[Ramblejam]

Originally Posted By: Rand
link?


http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-6F2-Black-P1051.aspx
http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D2-Black-P220.aspx
http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D13-Black-P216.aspx

 

[Rand]

Originally Posted By: Ramblejam
Originally Posted By: Rand
link?


http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-6F2-Black-P1051.aspx
http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D2-Black-P220.aspx
http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D13-Black-P216.aspx


While interesting those are alix based? and cost more than the option I was considering
while returning a fraction of performance.
(and it runs pfsense also)

I'm looking at 120$+ case+psu
somewhere in the range of 5-10x the performance
and memory
I've also seen a few speciality "network device with dual integrated intel nic.. but they start at 300$

the 220$ 500mhz geode based one isnt much better.

Previously I ran pfsense on an atom based micro atx build but its now landfill-filler.

While interesting the price should be more like 100$, the software is free once its above 200$ its not competitive imo.

 

[Ramblejam]

Ugh, you're missing the point -- they're 500 MHz, ALIX-based for a reason.

If you feel entirely compelled to utilize a 1.8 GHz dual-core setup as the basis for pfSense, I wish you well.

 

[Rand]

they also top out well below my line speed if used with a vpn.

I would have to purchase the vpn accellerator

which would push me near 300$

for a box thats extremely anemic.

I realize that IS the point, however having a much more useful appliance with 16x ram, and 10x+ the processing power..
is very nice.

Also my org post stated I may re-purpose it into a NAS at a future time.

So I hope you don't take my comments the wrong way ramblejam. While I find your suggestion interesting, Its not for me, at that price.

If I was going to serious consider one of those

I'd probably go for this instead.
http://store.netgate.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMAX-EdgeRouter-Lite-P1817.aspx
at 100$

 

[Quattro Pete]

These mini-atx boards are really neat. Very respectable performance for a NAS or an HTPC duty. I'm going to have to look into them myself. My current HTPC/NAS runs 24x7 and chews up 120 Watts of power.

 

[Quattro Pete]

BTW, I was looking at the Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V board specifically, but I can't find a single place that sells it. Has it not been released yet?

 

[Rand]

Q4'13 is what I'm showing

Thats even better quad core 10w tdp?


Aimed at POS and kiosk

http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/35548/

the j1800 dual core model is on amazon.

Probably the GA-J1900N-D3V is just becoming available now.

Only site I found selling it is UK based

linky

This appears to be the new "atom" Bay Trail CPU based celeron?

since the dual core is about 1000cpumark and the quad is 2000,

where as the ivybridge celeron 1037u is 1700~ cpumark?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Yup.

BTW, the main reason I was looking at the GA-J1900N-D3V board specifically is because it has USB 3.0 ports. I've got a bunch of external USB 3.0 drives sitting around that I could hook up to it and use as NAS.

 

[Rand]

Found a few j1900 based boards...

The cheapest was 172$!!!!!

the j1800 are around 75-80$

and the previous gen celeron is around 85$
but nearly 70% faster than the bay trail dual core.

 

[Rand]

newegg has the GA-J1900N-D3V in stock now

their site index says out of stock. but if you goto the product page it lets you add to cart and buy

92$+7ship
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128698

 

[Rand]

This is somewhat irritating. I wanted a board I could repurpose in the future.

Between a NAS or a pfsense box.

none of the dual gigabit boards have a pci-e slot
the newer j1900 isnt supported by pfsense yet.. blah.

Also if you want usb3 the choices are very limited.

Also the single threaded performance of the j1900 is about 60% of the Celeron 1037U

bah humbug.

Wish list:
Fanless
Gigabit ethernet x2 prefer intel or anything that currently works with pfsense
usb3-at least 2


Things that are flexible
Processor - celeron j1800,j1900, 1037u
memory form factor- would prefer desktop, but laptop would be "ok"
PCI-E slot

nothing out there meets this currently.
maybe just wait on pfsense 2.2


Other options haul out my newly back from rma amd 960T+asus board + buy a dual intel gigabit nic

 

[Quattro Pete]

On a somewhat related noted, I've also been looking at these mini PCs lately. This one has a mini PCI-e slot (if you take out the wifi/bt card), but no dual-NIC:
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Compact-i5-4200U-Processor-GB-BXi5-4200/dp/B00FNPCL36

It's also kind of pricy for what you get, but it does include a fairly decent CPU. Maybe over time the prices will come down some.

I recently installed Plex Server on my old HTPC box, only to find out it struggles to re-encode video in real time for streaming.