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That picture looks completely unlike the one from amazon, but it does clearly show what looks like a PCI-e switch chip right next to the edge connector.
That picture looks completely unlike the one from amazon, but it does clearly show what looks like a PCI-e switch chip right next to the edge connector.
Maybe I have stuff confused a little bit, but what I do know for sure is that the PCI-e root controller can only talk to a limited number of devices (for whatever reason).Well, PCIe bifurcation can be used to separate up PCIe lanes, so I'm going to spitball here and suggest that yes you could jam four PCIe X4 onto an X16. I can definitely give you the part number of a card to split X16 into two X8 for the Supermicro C2750 board....
Silicom themselves seem to reckon it should look like the servethehome one, not much like the amazon.com one.That picture looks completely unlike the one from amazon, but it does clearly show what looks like a PCI-e switch chip right next to the edge connector.
If it makes you feel better, I was also on my phone. :pOk, well, judging from
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silicom-PEG...abit-PCI-E-server-Adapter-YK537-/171619226479
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it does appear to be a PLX PEX8517 PCIe 16-lane 5-port switch. See, this is why I hate carrying on discussions on tapatalk. So much easier to do this stuff on a PC. So next time have the damn decency to wait until I'm on a laptop, eh! :)
You'd have to void the warranty on an Avoton board, but the cool thing right now are chassis doubling as CPU heatsinks.Well, get a board, a case, put it together, and run it for a few hours at full load, monitoring temps at various points with an infrared temperature gun. I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but half of it is using common sense to reject obviously-going-to-fail scenarios and the other half is putting together a potentially viable system and seeing if it actually IS viable. Then repeat tests assuming a fan stalls or fails. The ideal chassis for what you're describing would probably be a chunk of aluminum capable of passively dissipating lots of heat. The silent PC / HTPC guys have some of that sort of stuff going on, so you might be wise to look around at what's worked for them.
No, the rear I/O panel is too tall. I imagine the heatsink is too but I wouldn't know without checking the actual specs.Will a mini-ITX board (SuperMicro A1SRi-2758F) fit inside of a thin mini-ITX chassis
That is a pricey board for a router/firewall for home use. What are you finding the cost is with this thing?Will a mini-ITX board (SuperMicro A1SRi-2758F) fit inside of a thin mini-ITX chassis (is it even wise to do so)?
But necessary if you are on a very fast connection and want full line speed, especially if you run any other goodies on top of it such as IDS/IPS software. Basically (very basically) the faster your connection the more hardware you need to pass all those packets.That is a pricey board for a router/firewall for home use.
So what is the maximum throughput this board can support while having IDS/IPS turned on? I think it's important to rate components like this on throughput and longevity. If you know that information I would certainly be interested in it, and I'm not bashing your comment, I am truly interested. Right now I'm looking at an i3-4160 CPU and ITX MB with a RealTek NIC but a PCI-e 16 slot for my dual port NIC card. Also I can use my current DDR3 RAM (which I have a lot of). I understand that this CPU can handle 400Mbps throughput however I'm not sure how accurate that is. I do understand that it handles 110Mbps while running a .6% CPU load. I may be able to select a lesser CPU but should I is the question.But necessary if you are on a very fast connection and want full line speed, especially if you run any other goodies on top of it such as IDS/IPS software. Basically (very basically) the faster your connection the more hardware you need to pass all those packets.
Newegg sells the A1SRi-2878F for $330 (with a free 2 port USB3.1 A PCIe card)/SuperBiz $325, while the X10SBA is $166 ($10 off til 10/5) at SuperBiz (Newegg doesn't carry it directly).That is a pricey board for a router/firewall for home use. What are you finding the cost is with this thing?
Also, when it comes to case cooling, you need to decide on a MB and then choose a case. Your talking about this build has me so damn interested in building one myself but first I need to find out if there are any new hardware requirements expected for Sophos V10. I'm off to ask that now.
There's also the X10SLM+-LN4F. Regular LGA1150 X10 board, but with four i210s.I originally was going to go with the X10SBA, however I'd prefer to have 4 1gbit out ports, and since a quad LAN PCIe running Intel's i35x series controller is around $200, it made more sense to me to go with the A1SRi-2758F since it's a quad LAN board, includes an extra IPMI port, and runs Intel's i354 controller on everything but the IPMI port. The 2578 (octa core) is only $75 more than the 2558 (quad core), with only a 6 TDP difference at 20 TDP (2x that of the X10SBA however).
I didn't realize that =]There's also the X10SLM+-LN4F. Regular LGA1150 X10 board, but with four i210s.