First of all, thanks to all the participants of this thread.
With this thread you made me want to buy a unit!
Oh so it was, after many months of following this thread and the nuc n100/n200/n305 threads I finally made my decision.
#Start of the adventure#
I contact CWWK and let him know if what is said in this post is true, then I ask for confirmation regarding the included fan, the double adapter for the m2 SSD and other details. Once I have decided, I proceed with the purchase, paying with PayPal, around 400 euros.
So at the same time I also order the on Amazon the Crucial RAM CT2K16G4SFRA32A 32Gb Kit (2x16Gb) DDR4 3200MHz CL22.
I already had an unused SSD at home, a 256GB Samsung Gen3 taken from a broken laptop.
Summing up: (For Info, I live in France, Europe)
- 11 October --> purchase and payment (it will ship tomorrow, it was already too late)
- 12 October --> cwwk provides me with tracking, from yuntrack, the package leaves from Mainland, China
- 15 October --> the package arrives in France and is disposed of
- 20 October --> I have the package at my house
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The power supply (DAJING unit, as many users here) may not be the highest quality but it weighs 400 grams, I don't think it's really poor.
Of course I would feel better with a DELTA, that's clear. I will buy a more efficient power supply in the future.
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The package arrives in excellent condition, perfectly packaged as indicated on
this post:
I proceed to update the BIOS kindly posted by fta with the config recommended in
this post ( 06-08 BIOS):
So with the configuration settings BIOS of
this post:
The score with the stock bios was just over about 15,000 points on passmark.
The score with the fta's bios and recommended settings was more than 19,000 points on passmark.
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Here are the temperatures at idle and full-load
-idle temps in the first screenshot (sensors)
-full-load temps in the second screenshot (s-tui)
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Very satisfied with the resulting.
Temperatures looking good, considering that now i only have the stock fan from cwwk.
#Future#
I'm thinking of adding some heatsinks to the hottest areas of the motherboard.
I will better evaluate which areas are the hottest using the heat gun.
I will definitely add heatsinks to the nvme ssd.
In the future I will reinstall proxmox on a raid1 ZFS, definitely get two different 500Gb minimum SSDs.
My files are too large to upload here, so I'll link to a
gdrive folder
##--UPDATE-1--##
15watt of power consumption in idle with opnsense and 2 eth port ON
##--UPDATE-2--##
What will I install on Proxmox?
For now these are the plans:
vm - Opnsense (always online)
vm - Win11-tiny (always online)
vm - kali Linux
vm - ubuntu
lxc - pihole (always online)
lxc - wireguard (always online)
lxc - home assistant (always online)