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Barebones PC from China for pfSense

Jackpot17

The link does not work. Can you please post the specs? Looking at the URL, those components look good for a pfSense build. Not sure about the risk factor, e.g if it works or legit because of the site. Not sure on the price either because I cannot get on the link :P

 

You can make your own for really cheap though with an ITX motherboard and an old AMD cheapo processor. Just remember to get a 2-port gigabit NIC.

CPU: i5 4670k @ 3.4GHz + Corsair H100i      GPU: Gigabyte GTX 680 SOC (+215 Core|+162 Mem)     SSD: Kingston V300 240GB (OS)      Headset: Logitech G930 

Case: Cosair Vengance C70 (white)                RAM: 16GB TeamGroup Elite Black DDR3 1600MHz       HDD: 1TB WD Blue                              Mouse: Logitech G602

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium                       PSUXFX Core Edition 750w                                                Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45               Keyboard: Logitech G510

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2 minutes ago, Bittenfleax said:

The link does not work. Can you please post the specs? Looking at the URL, those components look good for a pfSense build. Not sure about the risk factor, e.g if it works or legit because of the site. Not sure on the price either because I cannot get on the link :P

 

You can make your own for really cheap though with an ITX motherboard and an old AMD cheapo processor. Just remember to get a 2-port gigabit NIC.

Link working fine ... 

 

Try have good at taobao they have a good pretty solid custom support if ever the product you brought was not you expected. 

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Just now, MrUnknownEMC said:

Link working fine ... 

Oh right :/

 

That's not good. Oh well.

 

 

CPU: i5 4670k @ 3.4GHz + Corsair H100i      GPU: Gigabyte GTX 680 SOC (+215 Core|+162 Mem)     SSD: Kingston V300 240GB (OS)      Headset: Logitech G930 

Case: Cosair Vengance C70 (white)                RAM: 16GB TeamGroup Elite Black DDR3 1600MHz       HDD: 1TB WD Blue                              Mouse: Logitech G602

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium                       PSUXFX Core Edition 750w                                                Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45               Keyboard: Logitech G510

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i just wanna add two things here:

1: the price on that box seems a bit steep to my feelings.

2:  it's not worth getting a wifi enabled device for pfsense, their wifi support is a god awful disaster.

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23 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i just wanna add two things here:

1: the price on that box seems a bit steep to my feelings.

2:  it's not worth getting a wifi enabled device for pfsense, their wifi support is a god awful disaster.

Yeh I wasn't planning on buying one with wifi. They have different options below on the product page. I would go with 4gb ram 16gb ssd probably. Ram may be a little overkill but it's not that much more expensive. I would build one for a similar price but I'm worried about power consumption.

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1 hour ago, Bittenfleax said:

The link does not work. Can you please post the specs? Looking at the URL, those components look good for a pfSense build. Not sure about the risk factor, e.g if it works or legit because of the site. Not sure on the price either because I cannot get on the link :P

 

You can make your own for really cheap though with an ITX motherboard and an old AMD cheapo processor. Just remember to get a 2-port gigabit NIC.

 

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1 hour ago, manikyath said:

i just wanna add two things here:

1: the price on that box seems a bit steep to my feelings.

2:  it's not worth getting a wifi enabled device for pfsense, their wifi support is a god awful disaster.

What about this one? It's only around £55 + £10 shipping

 

https://world.taobao.com/item/534080192356.htm?spm=a312a.7700714.0.0.F7IiKb#detail

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Just now, manikyath said:

it has a $161 processor, something's odd there...

xD oh god, didn't realise. the thing is, if they work they should be really good value for money. Especially if it actually has that CPU.

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Just now, Jackpot17 said:

xD oh god, didn't realise. the thing is, if they work they should be really good value for money. Especially if it actually has that CPU.

the issue with the chinese stuff is that it very often is a "40 watt light bulb consuming 20 watts of electricity" if that draws the picture :P

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9 minutes ago, manikyath said:

the issue with the chinese stuff is that it very often is a "40 watt light bulb consuming 20 watts of electricity" if that draws the picture :P

Yeh :P It would extremely bad for them to falsely advertise a CPU model but then again it wouldn't surprise me xD 

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PCEngines APU boards are great for an appliance PFSense build, all said and done will be around $200 for the board, SSD, power adapter, and enclosure.

 

Much lower power consumption, smaller, and less heat.

 

http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm

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