Topton Jasper Lake Quad i225V Mini PC Report
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I'll put some Black filament on my Xmas list for you!
Beautiful job on that bit of work. It looks like the same case as the one I bought. What do you think of printing an outside edge rim to space the whole plate away from the case edge to allow more room inside?
I've got some 15mm 2.5" drives I'd like to mount in there.
Spacing it away with a thicker internal edge wouldn't wreck the appeal of the form factor because the footprint would stay the same.
Thoughts?
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Got my unit in 'slim' body couple of days ago (MB from Techvision, i guess this is revision 2). My observations:
1. Out of the box the unit was running about 90ºC. There was visible gap between CPU and thermo pad and not enough thermal paste to even touch CPU. After I added additional pad and replaced paste, it was running between 60-70ºC. Adding external 12 inch cooler reduced temperature to 35-40ºC. So, this issue is annoying, but can be resolved easily. I didn't change default BIOS settings.
2. I run pfsense barebones. Interfaces randomly go up and down. Not sure what is the reason. But this pretty much makes the unit useless as a router.
1. Out of the box the unit was running about 90ºC. There was visible gap between CPU and thermo pad and not enough thermal paste to even touch CPU. After I added additional pad and replaced paste, it was running between 60-70ºC. Adding external 12 inch cooler reduced temperature to 35-40ºC. So, this issue is annoying, but can be resolved easily. I didn't change default BIOS settings.
2. I run pfsense barebones. Interfaces randomly go up and down. Not sure what is the reason. But this pretty much makes the unit useless as a router.
What is the output of
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pciconf -lv|grep -A1 -B3 networkIs it just your WAN interface that goes down or does LAN go down as well? What kind of switch are you connected to? I do recall having an issue with older 1gig switches where the interface would periodically drop. I've had no issues with multi-gig switches like the MS510TX but had some issues with older Trendnet and TP-Link switches.
igc0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00008086 chip=0x15f38086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
igc1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00008086 chip=0x15f38086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
igc2@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00008086 chip=0x15f38086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
igc3@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00008086 chip=0x15f38086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-V'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
I run 2.6.0-RELEASE. Funny fact about 22.05 - on the same config file it utilizes about 30% of CPU on my box. At the same time, 2.6.0 uses only 2%. So I downgraded to community edition. freeBSD is not exactly my cup of tea, so not sure how to pinpoint what process misbehaves.
Most of the time only LAN goes down. And this is not very noticeable for the network users as it goes back up in no time. But, sometimes both WAN and LAN go down at the same time and in this case it takes 3-5 seconds to recover (in logs it looks like as going up and down several time). I use Unifi Flex XG on the other end - haven't had any problems with other uplinks. Though I will try to limit interface to 1GB connection and see if it will help.
without turbo mode and this fan (+ lapped copper block and kryonaut paste) it behaves almost decent, 70° under prime95 and 47° in idle,
are you in italy/europe?
well consider the material and the cost on printing it is really small, dunno probably 5-6€ not more, the problem could be the shipping
are you in italy/europe?I am on the US east coast, so that sounds cost-prohibitivewithout turbo mode and this fan (+ lapped copper block and kryonaut paste) it behaves almost decent, 70° under prime95 and 47° in idle,
well consider the material and the cost on printing it is really small, dunno probably 5-6€ not more, the problem could be the shipping
Alright, more freezes, so this did not bring the solution, at least in my case. Now it has moved from random reboots to random freezes and CPU utilization is shown as 100% in proxmox
Get a few mates to split the postage and bring 10 printed plates across in one box.I am on the US east coast, so that sounds cost-prohibitive
can surely be done, it's easy enough, if you need i can share the step so you can modify it as needed if you know 3d modelling just a bitI'll put some Black filament on my Xmas list for you!
Beautiful job on that bit of work. It looks like the same case as the one I bought. What do you think of printing an outside edge rim to space the whole plate away from the case edge to allow more room inside?
I've got some 15mm 2.5" drives I'd like to mount in there.
Spacing it away with a thicker internal edge wouldn't wreck the appeal of the form factor because the footprint would stay the same.
Thoughts?
oh well, you should check an online hub to get a quote from someone local then, there are sites what can help you for that, i used i think 3dhubs way back then to 3dprint something for meI am on the US east coast, so that sounds cost-prohibitive
I'm running proxmox 7 and a VM with Openwrt 22.03-RC5 in N5105 with this:
- no turbo ( all disabled )
- no power level tweaks ( pl1 pl2 ) . I'm considering to put 10w/10w to test ...
- C states enabled
- scaling governor as powersave
The clocks operates in range of 800MHz to 2GHz. The temps goes in 43ºC average and 53ºC top.
Far from the maximum performance but stable and fanless ( yet ). Runs fine for the purposes of small VMs, routing, vpn etc.
If absolutely necessary I will put a 120mm fan over the heatsink fins.
I just set up a new VM with BIOS instead of UEFI and restored the config from the UEFI VM. Let's see whether this makes any difference. Can you share where those settings are in the BIOS? My problem is that I need to power down the whole box, connect it to a monitor and keyboard in another room to change BIOS settings
In snapshots the bios configuration.I just set up a new VM with BIOS instead of UEFI and restored the config from the UEFI VM. Let's see whether this makes any difference. Can you share where those settings are in the BIOS? My problem is that I need to power down the whole box, connect it to a monitor and keyboard in another room to change BIOS settings
In /etc/rc.local
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#!/bin/sh -e
echo "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
echo "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor
echo "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy2/scaling_governor
echo "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy3/scaling_governor
exit 0Attachments
Great work! This looks amazing. The loss of the VESA mount probably won’t make a big difference, though it’s nice to mount these types of appliances vertically (not on a monitor) depending on network closet configuration.