A newly released hardware description and configuration has been added to the
AstLinux documentation:
Jetway JBC430U941 Quad Core Fanless Celeron N3160
https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:board_jetway_jbc430u941
I personally purchased a Jetway HBJC430U941-316B (Model: JBC430U941) (No RAM,
No SSD) via Amazon:
Jetway HBJC430U941-316B Celeron N3160 Quad Core Fanless Firewall IoT Mini PC,
4X GbE LAN ...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSJFBZ4/
https://mitxpc.com/products/hbjc430u941-316b (Direct for $269.95 + shipping)
$299.95 USD -- Jetway HBJC430U941-316B Celeron N3160
$ 21.99 USD -- Transcend 32GB SATA III 6GB/S M.2 Type 2242 SSD TS32GMTS400S
$ 19.99 USD -- Kingston Technology 4GB 1600MHz DDR3L PC3-12800 1.35V Non-ECC
CL11 SODIMM
$ 0.00 USD -- Shipping (Included)
The Jetway JBC430U941 offers:
-- Small fanless case, 5.1 x 4.3 inch (129 x 109 mm) footprint
-- Intel Celeron CPU N3160 @ 1.60GHz
-- 4x Intel i211 NIC's
-- Supports M.2 Type 2242 SSD
-- Supports Serial (RJ45) or Video (HDMI) Console
-- Piezo speaker
-- Power button
No surprise, line-speed 1Gbps network routing and near line-speed WireGuard VPN
endpoint.
This Jetway N3160 appliance makes a fine AstLinux box.
The Good:
* Has a 2 year limited warranty and Long-life Series, Planned Lifecycle Through
Q1'2031
* Includes plastic dust plugs for all the ports
* Ethernet MAC OUI's match the hardware manufacturer, imagine that :-)
* Jetway tech support was very responsive
The Bad:
* The CPU temp appears to run 10 C higher (but not excessive) than a similar
Qotom box, possibly the extra unused GPU/video SoC circuitry. I contacted
Jetway tech support and they did not indicate any BIOS setting that would help,
possibly the request planted a seed to investigate more. Possibly the Qotom
CPU's have failed but unneeded video circuitry disabled on the die, who knows.
* Price, at $270-$300 USD it currently does not offer a value solution compared
to other hardware
The Jetway N3160 appliance has run solidly for a few days, further updates as
needed.
Lonnie
Followup, performance comparisons:
I performed some multi-core WireGuard VPN performance tests while noting the
CPU temps for 4 similar hardware appliances.
In all cases, a 10 minute WireGuard iperf3 test to a common VM (AstLinux in
Proxmox), one at a time.
In all cases, all cores are running at 70-80% .
== Hardware: Jetway JBC430U941 N3160 NIC x4 ==
pbx2 ~ # sensors ; iperf3 -c 10.4.0.15 -P2 -R -t 600 ; sensors
coretemp-isa-
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +49.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
Core 1: +49.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
Core 2: +46.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
Core 3: +46.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
[SUM] 0.00-600.01 sec 48.5 GBytes 694 Mbits/sec 3255 sender
[SUM] 0.00-600.01 sec 48.5 GBytes 694 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
coretemp-isa-
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +54.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
Core 1: +54.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
Core 2: +48.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
Core 3: +50.0 C (high = +90.0 C, crit = +90.0 C)
== Hardware: Jetway NF9HG-2930 NIC x4 ==
pbx3 ~ # sensors ; iperf3 -c 10.4.0.15 -P2 -R -t 600 ; sensors
coretemp-isa-
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +47.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 1: +47.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 2: +51.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 3: +51.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
[SUM] 0.00-600.00 sec 51.9 GBytes 742 Mbits/sec 4703 sender
[SUM] 0.00-600.00 sec 51.9 GBytes 742 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
coretemp-isa-
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +53.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 1: +53.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 2: +56.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 3: +56.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
== Hardware: PC Engines APU2 NIC x3 ==
pbx4 ~ # sensors ; iperf3 -c 10.4.0.15 -P2 -R -t 600 ; sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
CPU Temp: +53.2 C (high = +70.0 C)
(crit = +105.0 C, hyst = +104.0 C)
[SUM] 0.00-600.01 sec 33.7 GBytes 483 Mbits/sec 2413 sender
[SUM] 0.00-600.00 sec 33.7 GBytes 483 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
CPU Temp: +56.2 C (high = +70.0 C)
(crit = +105.0 C, hyst = +104.0 C)
== Hardware: Qotom Q190G4N CPU J1900 NIC x4 ==
pbx0 ~ # sensors ; iperf3 -c 10.4.0.15 -P2 -R -t 600 ; sensors
coretemp-isa-
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +36.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 1: +39.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 2: +39.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 3: +39.0 C (high = +105.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
[SUM] 0.00-600.01 sec 52.4 GBytes 750 Mbits/sec 4094
