Mini itx motherboard for pfsense
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What's your uplink bandwidth? Do you expect to be running any plugins? Do you need VPN support? Any other considerations? Gotta give some idea of how you plan to use the box if you want viable recommendations.
It will be for a dual WAN setup with max uplink speed of 100mbps (atleast for now). I intend to run openvpn and snort on it. I was considering Supermicro C2558/C2758 boards but they dont have active cooling and not sure whether hardware bug is still present on the boards being sold on Amazon. The mini-itx i have is fairly ventilated and i have fans mounted on hard-disk trays like so.
I'm running the C2758 (without the bug) on a 1GB connection, VPN, snort, pfBlockerNG, and a few other plugins @ 44C and 2% CPU with no active heat sink. The CPU will spike at a max of 11% when downloading 850MB/s over VPN and the temp only varies by a degree or so.
If money is no object, check something like this out. I'm using two for 2 ends of my Site to Site VPN (both C2758s) and they are AWESOME. They are silent (0bviously, being fanless) and keep my CPU at 30C and 22C (cold basement). I have gigabit internet between both nodes and push 400-500Mbps across the VPN daily.
I actually want active cooling in the router and dont care so much about noise. I thing Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F would do the job for me.