I might be able to snag that same model with an i5-6500 for around 60€. Could you tell me more about your experience with it? In particular, how are the thermals and the power consumption, can it handle 1Gb/s on both ethernet ports, and have you encountered any compatibility issues with OPNsense?
oha@lemmy.pobierz.net 1 week ago
Thermals are pretty much ok as long as you dont have the cpu at 100% 24/7. I’ve never had it go over ~50°C in normal use in my basement. Not sure if it can handle gbit on 2 ports but Iperf between two vlans on the same NIC works flawlessly with lots of cpu to spare
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Mine sits at around ~11W during normal usage (~40mbps into a wireguard tunnel)
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