Reddit reviews Intel D2500CCE Atom D2500 Dual LAN & Dual COM Mini-ITX Motherboard, BLKD2500CCE

I run pfSense. My CS:GO ping is always 5ms (FiOS helps with that too). I also am able to VPN into my home to access files remotely.

I run one of these, but you might need to find something else like this.

Have you considered an Intel Atom board? They usually consume less than 30W at full load. Something like this: http://amzn.com/B006ICQ3FK/?tag=boxe0b-20

Not that cheap I guess when you still need memory, power, storage, and a case, but the performance per watt is great.

• Intel D2500CCE Atom D2500 w/ Dual Gigabit LAN
  
• 2 GB RAM (spare part from some laptop)
  
• Antec ISK 300-150 Black Mini-ITX Case
  
• 120 GB 2.5" disk (also a spare part)
  
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  Probably not the most efficient or cheapest build, but it runs like a tank :). Internal power supply isn't terribly efficient, but it's been working fine so far. It's wired into a Cyberpower CP1000AVRLCD UPS.
  
  
  

It is always good to aim for redundancy. Adding an extra NIC to your ESXi host is cheap and easy.

I've got pfsense running on this at the moment and it works brilliantly.
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-D2500CCE-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-BLKD2500CCE/dp/B006ICQ3FK

I'm very new to pfsense so I can't comment too much on the performance(my main firewall/router is still a sonicwall TZ105). It also depends what type of scenarios you're after. If it's just intervlan routing and a few firewall rules you won't need crazy hardware requirements. If you're planning on using a lot of VPNs and SSL offloading for WAN facing services then you might need to up the cost

Just my 2 cents..

Yeah, I wasn't planning to use a junk PC, if only for space concerns. But power is a factor as well. Alix boards are an option. I was kind of hoping Intel would make a dual-NIC NUC at some point, but that seems unlikely.

My plan has been to build my own using a board like this. But I might go with an embedded solution instead. My needs are small, just one user, but I'd like high throughput and the ability to run an OpenVPN server on it.

I have gigabit internet. I was thinking about using something like this

This is my pfsense board. I think it idles around 12w. Peak at boot is something like 20w. Handles my 100mbps down easily.

Intel D2500CCE Atom D2500 Dual LAN & Dual COM Mini-ITX Motherboard, BLKD2500CCE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ICQ3FK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kOCiybBSPWW79

My server is a supermicro 8 core Avoton with quad gigabit NICs. There is a 4 core version as well.

Supermicro Atom C2758 64GB DDR3 PCIE SATA USB Mini ITX DDR3 1333 NA Motherboards MBD-A1SRI-2758F-O https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FM4M7TQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_gTCiyb913EVZA

Both have been absolutely solid performers and low power consumers.

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-D2500CCE-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-BLKD2500CCE/dp/B006ICQ3FK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1451171912&sr=8-2&keywords=atom+processor

Ended up going with this:

BLKD2500CCE Intel Desktop Board D2500CC Innovation Series BLKD2500CCE

M350 Universal Mini-ITX PC enclosure PicoPSU compatible;

Mini Box PicoPSU-150-XT 12V DC-DC ATX power supply

192w AC-DC Power Adapter, 12v 16A


Edit: and grabbed this... cause ya know... maybe 8gb will work, maybe i'll use it for my sophos build after this. aw yeah.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231294

Edit:

I should def go x64 2.2 right?

mini itx boards with dual nics are great for pfsense.

http://www.amazon.com/Jetway-NC9NDL-2550-D2550-Mini-ITX-DC-DC/dp/B00A4NQRYG/

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-D2500CCE-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-BLKD2500CCE/dp/B006ICQ3FK/

> dual lan intel atom board

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-D2500CCE-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-BLKD2500CCE/dp/B006ICQ3FK

?? something like that

This is cheaper.

Intel Desktop Board D2500CC