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Anyone gotten their hands on one of these boards, I'm particularly interested in the power consumption, and what C-States they hit. They look interesting for a little AIO NAS / Media Server, maybe even a little AI Box.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0wZXj8 Anyone seen this board, or know anything more about i?

So I think there are a few different contexts here that probably justify different approaches. For 'insecure users' who won't have anything critical on their system (running or stored), then I'd say if it ain't broke don't fix it is fine. For power users, who want the latest features etc ...

So I randomly stumbled upon this little guy, an 11th Gen Laptop CPU powered NAS board. Highlights include 2x M.2 (@ full 3.0x4 speeds), up to 64Gb of DDR4-3200, 4x 2.5g networking, 2+4 SATA3, AND a PCIe x4 slot. The 1165x looks to just edge out the N305 for all core work, but the whole range...

If they are listing. Please, can I haz an N100/N300 board with just a PCI-e x8 slot (or 2x x4. Alternatively, an x4 slot and an M.2. I don't really care for much beyond 2x USB2 ports, maybe USB3 or USB-C. Stop using crappy SATA adaptors. I think the ASM1166 is probably the best cheapest low...

They both have the PCIe slot, and the 2x M.2, that's what I'm looking for.

Wondering, what if any real differences there are between the two mini PC's? Looks like the P330 is more readily available in my region. About (AU)$600 for a P330 with an i7 16gb & GPU. Also wondering people think of this vs like an N305 with 16GB system?

Not much point using the U300 over the likes of the i3-13100, to give a lot more performance much better GPU and an off the shelf motherboard.

If you're planning to do this, you might be better off getting one of the router board configurations, since they'll have more usable PCIe lanes for your purposes.

No experience with these devices. But if you've got a direct EEPROM BIOS Writer, you could probably rewrite the BIOS, it could be the password is stored on another chip, if that's the case, you could maybe rewrite that chip.

I'd guess not, but the pinout looks pretty standard. Should come up when you search for "4-pin PCIe to SATA".

Not sure if you have seen this yet, but some of you might be interested in a DC version, looks like the board can even power the drives via internal 4 pin out.

Rules of thumb Hard Drive 5 w - steady state 10w - spin up (more like 7) 1 w - idle SSD 5 w - constant Guessing these boards use about 30w max (Def less than 40). 150w would be PLENTY.

I wouldn't be shocked to see some insane hacky method to gain access to the ECC information. But frankly, ECC isn't just necessarily these days. Not sure if RAMs just gotten more resilient or something else, but unless you're running mission critical enterprise workloads and petabites of RAM...

Honestly, the N100 is very capable. The N300 has a similar performance to the Tenth Gen Embedded I7 (10510U). The N100 is about a 5-10% bump over the 6005 while nearly cutting power consumption in half (30-40%, 10W to 6W). For most uses the N100 is going to be heaps, and the N300 is a 30%...

Yep. Go for cheap (or low power) M.2 since they'll be limited to Pcie3.0 x1 speeds. For SATA SSD I'd suggest using one for cache and making sure it's the native SATA port (once is native, the other 5 are via an ASMedia type mutipler). But ultimately you'll not likely be maxing out SATA3...

Not sure if people have seen this looks like it's more or less the same board.

Hi Patrick, This is maybe an odd use case, but would love to see you guys add Jellyfin/Plex Transcode / FFMpeg to your standard tests.

I'd say / guess it'll either work perfectly without issue, or it'll need a bios hack / update.

So I'm looking at an Intel 12/13/14 Gen Server, obviously waiting for 14th Gen to drop before making a decision. But wondering thoughts of DDR4 vs DDR5.