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Agreed! The N5105/6005 have been remarkable, and maybe they’ll replicate that with the Alder Lake N chips. Chinese ODMs seem to have already started making min

by vamega 4y ago

Agreed! The N5105/6005 have been remarkable, and maybe they’ll replicate that with the Alder Lake N chips. Chinese ODMs seem to have already started making mini-pcs with the new chips, and I imagine routers will follow quickly. Until AMD’s media engine improves, the Intel chips will still be valued by the Plex/Emby crowd.

nottorp 4y ago
> I imagine routers will follow quickly. I'd love a new router board with a 6 W CPU and some storage ports. But all I can find is media player boards with at most one ethernet. Dream board atm would have said 6 W CPU, DC power, two ethernets, one 2.5 Gbps, and some M.2 and SATA slots. For a combined routing/storage box.
- vamega 4y ago
  Have you seen this? It’s a 10W CPU but mostly seems to hit everything you’re looking for. I imagine an Alder lake N version of this will appear sooner or later, and the N100/N200 should give you the 6W part you’re looking for. https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804762512339.html?gatewayAdapt=Pc2Msite https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804762512339.html?gatewayAd...
  - nottorp 4y ago
    Oh that's nice-ish, thanks! Bookmarked. Not as nice as my old Atom router because of the active cooling on the CPU and the ATX power connector. The latter I can fix with a PicoPSU but the former... I'd rather have a passive radiator on the CPU and add some airflow via a huge case fan - which is what i'm doing now for my router box. That way it's a lot more silent.
    - vamega 4y ago
      This forum post has some real world stories of it's use. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/topton-nas-motherboard.37979/ https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/topton-nas... It seems like the CPU fan stays off almost all the time, and is apparently very quiet even when on. > Oh, and I forgot to mention, I have set the fan to come on at 36 degrees and go off at 34 degrees. It's off most of the time (pseudo-passive) ;-) > s I'll use the stock one first becase the heatsink fan is dead silent as @Camprr23 has mentioned.

by vamega 4y ago

nottorp 4y ago

> I imagine routers will follow quickly. I'd love a new router board with a 6 W CPU and some storage ports. But all I can find is media player boards with at most one ethernet. Dream board atm would have said 6 W CPU, DC power, two ethernets, one 2.5 Gbps, and some M.2 and SATA slots. For a combined routing/storage box.

vamega 4y ago
Have you seen this? It’s a 10W CPU but mostly seems to hit everything you’re looking for. I imagine an Alder lake N version of this will appear sooner or later, and the N100/N200 should give you the 6W part you’re looking for. https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804762512339.html?gatewayAdapt=Pc2Msite https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804762512339.html?gatewayAd...
- nottorp 4y ago
  Oh that's nice-ish, thanks! Bookmarked. Not as nice as my old Atom router because of the active cooling on the CPU and the ATX power connector. The latter I can fix with a PicoPSU but the former... I'd rather have a passive radiator on the CPU and add some airflow via a huge case fan - which is what i'm doing now for my router box. That way it's a lot more silent.
  - vamega 4y ago
    This forum post has some real world stories of it's use. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/topton-nas-motherboard.37979/ https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/topton-nas... It seems like the CPU fan stays off almost all the time, and is apparently very quiet even when on. > Oh, and I forgot to mention, I have set the fan to come on at 36 degrees and go off at 34 degrees. It's off most of the time (pseudo-passive) ;-) > s I'll use the stock one first becase the heatsink fan is dead silent as @Camprr23 has mentioned.