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The above one in the quoted post was probably wrong and was erroneous due to the AC power meter I used which gave different results each time I measured. I used a different AC power meter and got these repeatable results below.

I tested the Dajing 12V 8A DC power supply for efficiency that came with my CWWK 6-port i3-1315U with 120VAC input. Peak efficiency was 75% at 24W and 36W output. X axis is Watt output and the Y axis is efficiency. It's not great... :confused: This is probably wrong. See the next post.

There wasn't one when I bought mine. I bought a blower version, and got the passive model. I asked for the blower case not realizing it was worse, and they shipped me the case. Subsequent testing showed the blower is pretty poor.

Which variant? One has passive cooling of the CPU with a 10mm thick 80mm fan in the bottom. Another has a terribly designed blower that doesn't work acceptably. If you load the CPU down with a heavy workload the fans will ramp up and be audible. The blower is worse.

They cared and spent the time to optimize their platform. My i3-1315U 6 port CWWK system uses ~6W when turned off (and it's doesn't seem to be due to the included 12V supply).

I got the blower fan enclosure today. It's quite underwhelming. It was a bit finicky to assemble. The fan is quite noisy and it doesn't perform very well. I was quite careful in my pasting of it with Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut. It thermal throttles even faster than the passive enclosure (with the...

I bought just about the cheapest 3200MHz DDR4 16 gig SODIMM kit (2x8gb) I could find at Newegg by G.skill. Works fine and passes all the Memtest86+ tests. I went with a 1TB Crucial T500 SSD because it's got Gen 4 performance (since there's 4x gen 4 PCIe lanes to the main M.2 slot), but the T500...

I don't think there is one anymore. The N305 only has 9 lanes and the design for these seem to have been a through a few revisions. They added USB 3 ports and made a few other changes, but also reduced the lanes to the M.2 slot.

You could try clearing the CMOS so it will retrain the memory and see if that helps. You can also try a fan as a diagnostic step, but it should pass without a fan. However, they probably included a low quality memory module. You won't know without trying another DDR5 SODIMM (if retraining...

I followed up with them today and they gave me a tracking number. It checks out as being for a ~1kg package being shipped to the correct city/zip code in the US for me and the package is moving in China. I'm not 100% sure where the blower fan will plug in, or if it plugs in instead of the 10mm...

You also have the mostly passive enclosure with the heatpipe that uses the case to cool the CPU?

There is some holiday going on right now in China for the next couple of days, so that might explain part of it.

So far they seem to be stalling. They haven't shipped it yet or provided a tracking number. I will involve AliExpress before I run out buyer protection, but I will give them a bit more time. Edit: They said it is a holiday in China and they will ship it in about 3 days.

While not 25gig, I used Connectx3 10gig SFP+ cards in Windows 10 through a Mikrotik 8 port SFP+ switch to another Windows 10 system with a Connectx3 SFP+ and could get the full 10gig with real world SMB transfers of >1GB/sec using Windows Explorer. Didn't do any tweaking or tuning.

The internal fan is not adequate to cool the system with the TDP set to 50W in the BIOS (as CWWK ships it) if you stress test it. Looping Cinebench r23 multicore as a stress test led to thermal throttling in 20-25 minutes when the P-cores hit 100C. The E-cores were only a few C behind them...