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    TOPTON X4F aka Changwang CW56-58 CPU Fan issue

    Hello, I am new to the forum and have a question about the TOPTON X4F. I purchased it after reading the review no William Lam's page. Unfortunately 13 months after purchase both PSU and CPU fan gave up. So far, the support from the Ali Express store is almost non-existent, my questions aren't...
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    Intel 8505 with 4xSFP+ 10Gb on Opnsense

    When researching to build/buy a new router for my homelab, I found the H14 Topton router, with an Intel 8505, 4x2.5Gb NIC and 0 to 4 SFP+ 10Gb. I plan to use Opnsense bare metal on it, and am hesitating with the 2 SFP+ or 4SFP+ versions (I don't know if the box can handle 4x10Gb?). Since I use...
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    Topton/BKHD BK-1264NP-4L firewall | crashes, freezing OS, general issue thread

    This discussion was split from comments out of: BK-1264NP-4L BIOS and other mods Seeing there are a few people with continuous issues regarding system stability of Topton/BKHD BK-1264NP-4L based systems, resulting in random reboots or system freezes, we may as well continue in a separate thread...
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    Topton I5, 1335U, 4 x 2.5GbE, 2 x 10GbE SFP+

    Hi guys Anyone have these... (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006152083806.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.33.6ddb1802BOpbRj) (Topton X8 4xIntel i226-V 13th Gen Firewall Mini PC 2*10G SFP i5 1335U 2*DDR5 NVMe 2*SATA Soft Router Proxmox Server) configured with 32GbE RAM, 1TB...
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    Need help identifying this CPU fan connector

    Can anyone help identify what the CPU fan connector (highlighted on the image) is on this motherboard? It is a 4 pin PWM connector but I can't quite make out what type. Any help would be highly appreciated.
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    Topton 6 LAN mini pcie support of wifi modules

    Right now I'm considering Topton router. I already have DR7915 module from wallys tech that uses pci-e lines on mpci-e slot. My current minipc on n100 does not support pci-e lines, so i'm thinking about upgrading to these unit. Can't find any info about mpcie slot, maybe any current users can help?
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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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    NEW! Topton 10Gb 2xSFP+ 4x2.5Gb i5-1240P

    I had been looking for an unnecessarily fast router that could handle 5Gb or even 10Gb WAN with a ton of pfblocker and suricata rules enabled... and I think I've finally found it. This was delivered from China in less than 2 weeks. Truly, we live in a crazy time - this is so much more powerful...
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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...
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    TopTon Warranty Practices

    Hello Everyone. I've posted several times in this forum, mostly in the N5xxx mini PC Threads. Recently I have been in the unfortunate position having one of these boxes bought on aliexpress fail. My box was a Pentium 7505 one, bought on the "Topton official store". It crashed weirdly a couple...
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    n5105 units, cooling and chassis difference

    Hi, I want to purchase a n5105 + i226-V 4 port firewall unit from Topton. They offer the same hardware in 3 different cases. There's 1 unit cheaper in a smaller chassis, I was wondering if temperature wise, it would be a bad move to cheap out a bit and get this over the bigger units that seem...
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    Topton N5105 router won't boot with Teamgroup NVME

    Just wanted to share my experience to save the community some headache. This is the 7th Aliexpress router build, and 4th Topton device for me, but I have never encountered this problem previously. I purchased this Topton mini PC device for a router build for a friend...
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    Topton N5105 Quad i226V Dual M.2 Mini PC Photo Reference

    It appears these units change pretty fast so here are some pictures for reference. I've not test anything yet. Topton N5105 mini PC with quad i226V NICs: Config: N5105 barebones (no ram or storage) Model on listing: “ModelC Celeron N5105” Total Cost $169.88USD (Store Discount -US $6.54, Tax US...