Hello, I think the Soekris net6501 has two great advantages : * power consumption : their atom E6XX is between 3,3w and 7w TDP, which is much lower than the 35w of the Pentium G620T. The complete board is said to use "under 10w". * the user programmable FPGA, which might be used (I guess) as a crypto acceleration device... if someone knows how to program it, and get it supported by openBSD.
-- Cordialement, Pierre BARDOU -----Message d'origine----- De : Joe S [mailto:js.li...@gmail.com] Envoyi : samedi 1 octobre 2011 17:19 @ : Joakim Aronius Cc : Johan Linner; Paul Suh; misc@openbsd.org Misc Objet : Re: Quad-Gigabit 1U mini-itx board recommendations? On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Joakim Aronius <joa...@aronius.se> wrote: > I have used Soekris for a few years and are very happy with them. They > have a new board that will start shipping soon: > http://soekris.com/net6501.htm > Curious if anyone has tried these boards out. I'm looking for something similar (low power, small size, em nics). These boards seem really expensive for having an Atom processor. I guess the 4 NICs drives up the cost. Since I don't actually need 4 NICs, I'm looking at the new Intel S1200KP (mini-itx 1155 board with dual intel nics). I can put a g620t and get the same power consumption rates as an atom d525, for the same prices as the Soekris. Plus I can always upgrade my processor down the line.
