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  1. mephisto

    My experience with ChangWang aka CWWK, a warning to all of you

    I purchased an AMD Ryzen R7-5800U box from the official CWWK store on AliExpress about 18 months ago. The device worked perfectly for the first 12 months, but then it gradually began to freeze and lock up. I’ve tried different operating systems, memory, SSDs, and other hardware to rule out any...
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    Two WiFi network cards + SSD on CWWK/Topton mini PCs. Is it possible?

    Hello, I'm new here and I hope to get some advice. I'm trying to build a mini firewall pfSense PC with unusal setup: two WiFi network cards in one box. Let's put aside the fact that pfSense is considered very poor for wireless networking due to limited support of wireless cards. That would be a...
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    CWWK N305 or Pentium 8505? Need advice

    Hi guys, New poster here, quite impressed with the info in this forum so looking forward to be more active. I'm currently thinking of upgrading my current NAS (i3-10100 with standard workstation parts and a QNAP JBOD) with a more power efficient solution. Server is running Debian on metal and...
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    [Solved] CWWK J6413 won't boot into bios

    Hello. I purchased a CWWK J6413 from amazon at this link. I have it hooked up to a power supply and I'm using the power switch from another computer. I installed two DDR4-3200 8GB sticks of ripjaws ram and I've got an HDMI cable plugged into the back. I can get the motherboard to turn on via the...
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    KingNovy/CWWK Mini PC Intel N305, running Debian (Proxmox) but very often reboots, suspecting a hardware/motherboard issue, how to investigate?

    Hi, After reading this forum for some time, back in June I bought myself something that very much looks like CWWK / King Novy mini pc 12th Gen Intel i3 Alder Lake N305 - 32 GB RAM. Unfortunately I was very busy for some months but I installed Proxmox and pfSense back around November and...
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    CWWK N305 4x2.5GBit - 4x M.2 Expansion Board vs Single PCIe x4 NVMe Drive

    Hello, I just received my CWWK N305 that came with the M.2 Expansion Board (CW-ADLN-4PCIE V0.6). I don't need the expansion board as I just want to use a single PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe drive (Predator GM7000). However, after removing the board and inserting the NVMe drive, it does not recognize it...
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    CWWK N305 4x2.5GBit - 4x M.2 Expansion Board vs Single PCIe x4 NVMe Drive

    Hello, I just received my CWWK N305 that came with the M.2 Expansion Board (CW-ADLN-4PCIE V0.6). I don't need the expansion board as I just want to use a single PCIe x4 NVMe drive. However, after removing the board and inserting the NVMe drive, it does not recognize it. If I reinstall the...
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    CWWK official site delivery issues

    Hello, I had recently placed an order for this item on CWWK.net official store website since AliExpress didn't have delivery to my country. It has still been 9 days since the order but the tracking number stopped showing any updates 6 days ago. I have tried to reach out to CWWK through their...
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    EXPIRED Amazon $321.66 CWWK Firewall Appliance, 13th Gen Intel i3-1315U (4.5GHz), 6 * Intel i226-V 2.5G 6 Core_10% Off Now

    u010424 Wow, a day later and they are BOTH back up again at 10%. i3-1315U 10% coupon is active. Here's the U300 with the 10% coupon. I don't understand why they only pull them for 1 day. ------ u010324 Both coupons expired again. I'll try to check back every two days or so, as these are...
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    CWWK N305 4x2.5GBit - 4x M.2 Expansion Board - How to enable PCIe bifurcation?

    Hello everybody, after seeing the review of the CWWK N305 (seems to be the CW-AL-4L-V2.0 N305 tall-fin Unit - with 6x USB2 and 2x USB3) I ordered one with the shown M.2 Expansion Board (CW-ADLN-4PCIE V0.6). I would like to install 5 M.2 Drives. So far I installed Proxmox on the first drive that...
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    PXE/iPXE booting the N100/N305 Topton and CWWK mini PCs?

    Hello, I recently picked up a few of the Topton N100 and CWWK N305 to play around with a Kubernetes cluster at home and I was hoping to network boot these. The Topton unit is advertised to support PXE and I confirmed with CWWK that the unit I bought is also supposed to support PXE. Looking in...