After reading through most of this thread I gotta ask, what about the noise? Wouldn't most all of these used servers from Ebay be way louder than what could be built?
I'm researching for replacing my Synology DS415+ and Supermicro c2758 systems with one box. Power efficiency is something I get...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SRM-2758F.cfm
Ended up finding a deal on this c2758 board. Way more horsepower than I need, efficient, and known to be used as a pfsense platform.
Thanks for the guidance, guys/gals.
I appreciate the help, folks.
I'm thinking I may bite the bullet and go in the direction of a Rangeley system.
http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemNumber=N82E16813182855
From what I can gather, this set up is designed for doing excetly this kind of thing. It's extremely powerful considering...
Yes. I was just looking at that one. I'm trying to figure out how I could have dual Intel nic on it.
I don't know how I missed it at first....[emoji15] But I'm getting better at finding these boards.
-I'm really disappointed to hear that those skylake u parts won't be available to regular folks.
-I'm glad it seems people think a N3150 will/does handle this task well. It and the j1900 are the most easily available mini itx board products I can find.
-N3700?! I would like to use that chip as...
I want to put together a pfsense system for my home router. However, I plan to run PIA VPN which places more demand on the cpu.
Because of the encryption demands that the VPN will place on it, I really want to go with something that has AES capability. That rules out easy choices like j1900...
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