HP EliteDesk 800 i-5 SFF Chassis with Motherboard 737728-001 & Power supply | eBay
This would make a great base for a pfSense machine if one had a spare LGA 1150 processor and some DDR3 hanging around.
These boards support LGA1150 v3 Xeon chips (tested with an E3-1225 V3) and Haswell refresh CPUs with BIOS >= 2.30.
I already picked up one of these systems, it arrived with BIOS v2.30 (Haswell refresh supported right out of the box.) Updating the BIOS over the network is a snap too: all you need is a DHCP server and an internet connection.
ECC memory isn't officially supported but reportedly unbuffered ECC works fine.
This would make a great base for a pfSense machine if one had a spare LGA 1150 processor and some DDR3 hanging around.
These boards support LGA1150 v3 Xeon chips (tested with an E3-1225 V3) and Haswell refresh CPUs with BIOS >= 2.30.
I already picked up one of these systems, it arrived with BIOS v2.30 (Haswell refresh supported right out of the box.) Updating the BIOS over the network is a snap too: all you need is a DHCP server and an internet connection.
ECC memory isn't officially supported but reportedly unbuffered ECC works fine.
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