Thanasis posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:30:20 +0200 as excerpted: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130759 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113364
Thank you very /very/ much! That's very close to perfect for the router... and googling I see others already using it for such. =:^) I haven't worked with mini-ITX before and thus didn't realize how close it is to what I was looking for. And with what's included... Embedded graphics, not really necessary on the router but it'll make working with it far easier, and embedded audio, should let me play media on the router and shut the main machine off. And there's the single 16x PCIE slot @ 4x speed, perfect for the quad-port Ethernet card. The quad-core, 2+ GHz CPU @ 25W power dissipation should be plenty of power, even for playing media (one review said 80% usage of all four cores for 1080p, however, which it'll handle, but realistically not 4k, when I eventually even have a display that'll do 4k), and it should de- clock and power-down for routing-only. And that dissipation, quite fans shouldn't be a big issue. And the suggested bundles, while not exactly what I want, hint that $200-300 for the system, plus the $80 ethernet card, is a very reasonable budget. I'm looking at cases and power-supplies now, since I have some idea what I'm going to install with them. And now that the idea is beginning to come together, I can take a closer look at the available Ethernet cards, too, including checking drivers... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
