I am doing this wrong? Firewall hardware choice

[mobycl1ck]

Hello STH!
Had a failure on my HP T620 Plus who ran pFsense. Ran, until a power brownout bricked the M-Sata SSd and the system refused to recover.
To cut the story short, went ahead and installed Opnsense on a Lenovo M720q on which installed the Intel i340 T4 from the HP T620 Plus.
Now, the system runs very well, sipping only 9 watts from the wall and handles the homelab traffic without skipping a beat.
However, I am concerned about heat and ventilation.
M720q is a small 1L computer and exhausts the air from the CPU, and the Intel NIC could overheat.
Maybe I did an error without even knowing, or I am over concerned about temperatures?
Your honest opinion?

 

[BlueFox]

You have nothing to worry about.

 

[mobycl1ck]

Touched the NIC's heatsink, it's warm, but not hot. I am wondering if i could monitor its temperature from Opnsense wep panel, a script or something like Zabbix.
Any suggestion?

 

[BlueFox]

You honestly don't need to. Even if it's too hot to touch, it's still nowhere near the maximum temperature.

 

[Sealside]

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkcentre-thinkstation-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-reference-thread.34925/post-393146