There is No PSU in the parts build so…tack on 50-100$ to the $211 price tag = ~$275-300
$50-100 for a PSU for under 100 watts?
My NAS has a Corsair CX430 that I paid $18 for on sale…
Amazing to spend $100 on a PSU that won’t even hit 1/4th of its load in its life.
I have 2 A4-5000 servers in production right now running a $16 Apex SFX PSU. I also have a HTPC that has this same PSU… it ran for 4 years and then I upgraded the case. The PSU still works perfectly fine.
The PSU for that Elite 110 case is a standard ATX PSU. I tend to get quality PSUs if I want to fire it up and forget it. I usually get Fully Modular, Bronze/Gold/Plat/Titanium rated PSUs. Normally from Seasonic. I like having a 10 year warranty on the power supply.
Sure, I could get a PSU from the bottom of the barrel for pennies on the dollar…but that is what house fires are made of.
And, that Elite 110 is a TINY case which means I would be CRAMMING the extra power cables into the space and restricting airflow. Better to get full modular and improve airflow while using higher quality, higher efficiency components.
Remember, just because the PSU can support up to X Watts, does not mean it is going to pull any more power from the wall than it has to in order to power the system. So, if you have say a 550W PSU and a system that uses only 100W, the power supply is not going to pull 550W of power from the wall because the system only needs 100W. It will instead pull 100W worth of power from the wall and will be in a more efficient state.
Example: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438124&ignorebbr=1
There is also a 550W version for the same price that includes a $20 rebate that would knock the total price down to $39.99.
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How many AM1 CPUs support AES-NI? So far none that I can find.
Are they not? I thought they would.
Let me check.
All AMD CPUs since 2011 have supported AES-NI.
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Yeah, I just found it in an Anandtech article. Totally does.
Now I remember that that was the reason why I put my AM1 system up as a router in the first place.
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This AES-NI page seems to point to an issue. Seems to say that AMD Geode chips are AES-NI Driver mode. Not hardware but software.
The Athlon 5350 takes the majority of the integer based operations, such as Cinebench and FastStone, as well as the TrueCrypt benchmark due to its included AES-NI hardware acceleration.
Also over here:
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well then I would need to find a AM1 board/chip/box and DC power supply setup
I could see something like this working:
The thing I wonder about is bottlenecking with the Trunking and such.
Yes you will bottleneck, and you have gigabit internet (like me, high five gigabit bro!) so that would be a real bummer. And like I said upthread, while it does technically work, it would make me really nervous physically exposing my LAN to the internet, even if it’s logically segmented away.
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And I wouldnt bottleneck on an AM1?
Just don’t run a single NIC system as a router.
how would the AM1 compare to a more modern chip though? Especially when pushing VPN, Stateful packet filter, BufferBloat Mitigation etc?
Worse. That is how tech is. The new stuff is better. Duh.
well obviously. Im referring to build costs. I want to use Newegg as I have a store card and need to rebuild my credit score after having hits for looking at getting a home loan and refinancing my car. My score dropped like 20 points from those hard inquiries.
Well that’s new, isn’t it?
alright wiseass
The dual core Pentium is also half the cost of the i3 and supports aes ni and ecc but not on the h310 just FYI. It’s ht. I3 is 4 true quadcore tho. The wacky high clock speed works well in networking applications.