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I can second this. Measured a chassis temp of 60C (140F) using an IR thermometer after hours of stress testing where the unit was situated in an area with no active airflow. The heat transfer to the chassis is far better on this model than any other unit I have tested (N5105, N6005, and...

I have the chassis from Link 1, albeit mine came directly from cwwk rather than Topton. My cooling numbers are as follows (12 hour idle temps for each orientation): Horizontal: root@proxmox:~# sensors coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +26.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit =...

The menus are vast and deep. Serial port console redirection is in the unlocked BIOS. I don't believe it was in the stock BIOS. Yet another item that should have been exposed that wasn't. The decision between latency and power just makes me hit my head against a wall. I game a lot and so I...

The unlocked BIOS that @fta provided will blow your mind with all the options available. I consider myself pretty decent with PC hardware but there's stuff in there I've never heard of before. The unlock provides a lot of options that were not meant to be exposed to end users (and a lot of...

I think the additional latency comes from the hypervisor scheduling, state of cache and TLBs, kernel locks, and various other factors - there's more to waking up from C10 than just the raw processor time of 230µs (1µs = 0.001ms, 230µs == 230ms). I'm roughly ~0.15ms off from bare metal at less...

How did you disable C1E? I'm trying to strike the right balance between idle power usage and latency. So far, here is what I see: Stock BIOS, C-states enabled: 12.8W idle average Average ping (100 samples): 1.133ms Stock BIOS, C-states disabled: 16W idle average Average ping (100 samples)...

@fta Any idea where the C-states BIOS option is hidden in your HWP BIOS? I can't seem to find it. Using the HWP-enabled BIOS draws about 4.5W more than using the stock BIOS with C-states enabled.

I'm not putting too much stock in that single threaded score because, on these big+little architectures, that score will change depending what core that particular test gets pinned to. Running the CPU test repeatedly, my single-threaded scores were: 2034 3652 2026 3616 2031 3651 3596 3615 3594...

Using the HWP-enabled BIOS above, following all the tuning recommendations doesn't make a significant performance difference for my 8505 unit. With all of the BIOS tunes (including the TCC Offset options) and the second bash script settings applied, I went from 9831 to 10213 - a 4% performance...

Ive been down with the flu for the past few days so I haven't had a chance to play with this but here are the stock scores for the 8505 before BIOS update: Intel Pentium Gold 8505 (x86_64) 6 cores @ 2501 MHz | 62.6 GiB RAM Number of Processes: 6 | Test Iterations: 1 | Test Duration...

What did you use to unlock the larger suite of options? The Intel Aptio Integrator Tool? Asking since it is very possible that additional BIOS releases will occur over the next couple months and it would be good to know the method so as not to lose functionality when updating.

My 8505 uses this same BIOS so I will give it a shot at some point over the next day or two. Hopefully I don't brick it. I'll need to get a new Windows drive set up so I can see my cpumark before/after scores. 22% is no joke. I'm already very pleased with the performance and behavior of this...

Just FYI, via the adapter, I'm getting a bit over 800MB/sec sequential to the PCIe 3.0 x1 slot so while it might not be the 3500MB/sec the drive itself is capable of, it far exceeds the needs of the device. A backup of a pfsense guest on Proxmox ran at about 310MB/sec with lz4 compression on...

No issues with either small or smallest fft size - let it run for about 2 hours. Unfortunately the OCZ-RD400 drive that I had an old copy of Windows 10 on with all of my tools appears to have bit the dust while I was running the test. Given the drive was from 2016, which makes it almost 7...

I got the 8505 unit from cwwk today which was the fastest delivery of the 4 units I now have (~10 days from order to door). BIOS is pretty sparse compared to the other 3 - I think it was dated 02/07/2023. Haven't had time to play with it yet other than to slap 64GB of RAM into it, a Crucial...

Thanks for this! In short, don't place the horizontally designed unit horizontal. :)

The drive temp is concerning since that's throttle territory for nvme. Can you run the same test with the unit on its side? Yes, it sounds stupid, but I saw a 5C drop in drive temps just by having the unit vertical rather than horizontal. I'm curious if that will be reflected in your unit and...

17track.net says my package was processed in WUHAN, CHINA on... March 28th, 2023. I know China is across the international date line. What I didn't know is just how many date lines there apparently are in the Pacific Ocean. So I will guess either I'm supposed to get it by March 28th or...

They have a power budget based around how much heat they can passively dissipate (and yes, to also be able to cheap out on a very common 60W power supply). Even if they don't allow the 8505 to run at full speed, based upon what appears to be an improved cooling design for the chassis and copper...

No idea when it will get here. I used the vendor's shipping method for the low low price of FREE. They gave me a tracking number that takes me to a Chinese site that even google translate doesn't know how to deal with, so if past behavior is any predictor, it'll be anywhere from 2 weeks to a...