Highlights
Quality
Right now pfsense is on bare metal and yea it barely moves the needle.
I've got vlans on all the ethernet ports and am running snort and pfblocker and this thing barely notices the workload even whe... Read More
The case gets quite warm which is a good thing, that means the heat is transferring from the cpu to the case so that it can dissipate.
A user on serve the home forums made a modded bios that exposes those settings, so disabled speedstep and enabled speedshift us... Read More
Competitiveness
While the brand is 'hunsn' it says cwwk on the boot screen and appears to be the same as their 6 nic model.
This is as well, but it provides me the choice to add virtualization with proxmox or esxi.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 4 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 23 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had originally set my sights on the i5 variant because my old qotom box was a 7th gen i5 but quickly realized that this isnt yesteryears cpu in here its a current alder lake for a bare bones pfsense in a home environment i5s too much
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Without using too much energy or needing an internal fan
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Right now pfsense is on bare metal and yea it barely moves the needle
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive got vlans on all the ethernet ports and am running snort and pfblocker and this thing barely notices the workload even when i run several speed tests at once online
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The case gets quite warm which is a good thing that means the heat is transferring from the cpu to the case so that it can dissipate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Update learned about using intel speedshift instead of the older speedstep i discovered that this bios didnt have the speedshift settings enabled or visible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A user on serve the home forums made a modded bios that exposes those settings so disabled speedstep and enabled speedshift using tunables in pfsense
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The cpu ramps up as needed and down to between 300400mhz and the temps are now in the 28c30c at idle and dont go beyond the 40s under load