Need Help Finding A Specific Motherboard

[Verpz]

Hi, I'm looking for a mini-itx motherboard to use in my pfSense build.

 

I'm having a lot of trouble finding a cheap motherboard that has duel gigabit lan ports on it.

 

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. My budget is around $100 - $120 Australian dollars ($90 USD).

[zMeul]

ASRock H170M-ITX/ac: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H170M-ITXac/

• Dual LAN : Intel® I219V + Realtek RTL8111H
• 1 Dual Band 802.11ac WiFi + BT v4.0 Module, 2 ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antennas

slighly under 100USD

[NelizMastr]

There is also a thing called low profile NICs, which are available on PCI-E as well. There aren't any other use cases for the PCI-E slot in a PFSense box anyway

 

That way, you could get a single port Intel NIC onboard and one additional one in the PCI-E slot, possibly even a 10gig one if you'd ever want to go there.

 

Just a suggestion  maybe even dual port low profile NICs exist, haven't checked lately, but that's also an option.

[Verpz]

9 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

There is also a thing called low profile NICs, which are available on PCI-E as well. There aren't any other use cases for the PCI-E slot in a PFSense box anyway

 

That way, you could get a single port Intel NIC onboard and one additional one in the PCI-E slot, possibly even a 10gig one if you'd ever want to go there.

 

Just a suggestion  maybe even dual port low profile NICs exist, haven't checked lately, but that's also an option.

Apparently you have to buy expensive NICs otherwise the cpu will under a lot more load. So i thought it would be best to have it onboard since I would have a cheap cpu. Please correct me if I am wrong.