So, got a hold of one of these little devices that people getting excited about and thought id replace my Edgerouter 4 with this thing.
spec:
intel n100 quad core cpu
8gb ddr5 sodimm
64gb nvme (forsee brand from a steamdeck.)
4 x 2.5gb intel i226v lan ports.
used an old liteon 12v power adapter i had lying around which may be better quality than the supplied one.
so far iv been doing some stability testing with memtest and prime95 and temp testing to see how its cooling is.
its got decent heft to it due to the aluminium heatsink the case is made of.
ram module got to 75c during memtest so may need to improvise something here.
cpu in cpuz bench got to 72c in under 5 minutes. i then took it apart and repasted it with mx4 and now peak temp in cpuz was 60c after 1 hour run, power pull in cpuz is around 18w.
prime95 sfft makes the unit pull 24.5w from the wall (using wall plug meter) and peak temp went to 64c, in the pic i place a small hand fan on the case top (which IR gun said was around 54c) and then cpu temp while prime was still running slowly dropped down to 50c and the heatsink after some time didnt feel much above room temp.
idle power consumption at windows desktop via rdp is around 8w. with no display connected and no rdp session active its around 7.7w.
iv done no bios tweaking yet so will have a gander in there at some point.
so first impressions, this thing can do with a fan on it if its doing heavy processing. so iv 3d printed some fan holding clips and mounted a fan on it which when running from 5v power adapter cant even be heard unless ear is right up against it.
so far iv had windows server 2022 on it and done a lot of testing overnight and running few apps and network stuff and its had no issues. also iv not had the fan turned on since iv got some usb to molex fan adapters on order (run out of wall sockets to run my modified power adapters that have molex connector to run fans from),
whats impressive is the power ratings in hwinfo seems to be very close the what the wall plug meter shows. surprising.
not sure what direction im gonna go with this yet but looking to probably go with opnsense but still researching into other alternatives.
as of now i really like this device, its form factor is good.
anyone else have experience with these?
spec:
intel n100 quad core cpu
8gb ddr5 sodimm
64gb nvme (forsee brand from a steamdeck.)
4 x 2.5gb intel i226v lan ports.
used an old liteon 12v power adapter i had lying around which may be better quality than the supplied one.
so far iv been doing some stability testing with memtest and prime95 and temp testing to see how its cooling is.
its got decent heft to it due to the aluminium heatsink the case is made of.
ram module got to 75c during memtest so may need to improvise something here.
cpu in cpuz bench got to 72c in under 5 minutes. i then took it apart and repasted it with mx4 and now peak temp in cpuz was 60c after 1 hour run, power pull in cpuz is around 18w.
prime95 sfft makes the unit pull 24.5w from the wall (using wall plug meter) and peak temp went to 64c, in the pic i place a small hand fan on the case top (which IR gun said was around 54c) and then cpu temp while prime was still running slowly dropped down to 50c and the heatsink after some time didnt feel much above room temp.
idle power consumption at windows desktop via rdp is around 8w. with no display connected and no rdp session active its around 7.7w.
iv done no bios tweaking yet so will have a gander in there at some point.
so first impressions, this thing can do with a fan on it if its doing heavy processing. so iv 3d printed some fan holding clips and mounted a fan on it which when running from 5v power adapter cant even be heard unless ear is right up against it.
so far iv had windows server 2022 on it and done a lot of testing overnight and running few apps and network stuff and its had no issues. also iv not had the fan turned on since iv got some usb to molex fan adapters on order (run out of wall sockets to run my modified power adapters that have molex connector to run fans from),
whats impressive is the power ratings in hwinfo seems to be very close the what the wall plug meter shows. surprising.
not sure what direction im gonna go with this yet but looking to probably go with opnsense but still researching into other alternatives.
as of now i really like this device, its form factor is good.
anyone else have experience with these?
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