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I've said this before, either these boards are coming with Intel mobile chips that failed to work in low power states when being tested, so are no good for battery operated devices (like laptops or tablets) so are sold cheap into China for use with mains powered products, and have had C-States...

Have to absolutely agree with this. All these Chinese manufacturers are cutting corners and its impossible to find a motherboard or network appliance that is designed correctly and power efficient. There is no reason why any of these Intel based network appliances with 4 or 6 network ports...

Well I don't have any hard evidence, its just what we see. ASPM and other power management settings are usually hidden in the BIOS on these Direct from China appliances, if the BIOS is modified to show these, often it makes little difference. We know for a fact that all recent Intel SoCs can...

The point is processors sold as the same had completely different characteristics where power consumption was concerned, and shows that Intel are happy to sell processors that vary in this way. Imagine Intel testing all the N100s or similar SoCs coming off the production line, then finding...

All these direct from China devices/boards are flawed it seems. I suspect they are purchasing SoCs that failed testing for low power states (i.e. not stable) so no good for battery powered applications, and then Intel sell them off cheaply and they end up in the hands of a few Chinese...

Certainly on the mark, and perhaps there are a few layers to this and several issues. Still, before the package can enter lower power states, the CPU cores need to be able to switch to power saving states, and from what I could tell, I never achieved that with my N100 appliance. If a 9 year old...