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Considering building a MicroITX

I'm considering building a MicroITX box to load Sophos on.
Are the Intel Atom, or AMD E-240 good enough?

The two boards I'm considering are:

AMD:
ASRock E35LM1 Motherboard/CPU Combo Motherboard/CPU Set - Newegg.com

Intel:
Foxconn D250S Motherboard/CPU Combo Motherboard/CPU Set - Newegg.com

Both are close to $50 for MB / CPU. I like that the Intel uses SO-DIMMs, but don't like the PCI slot. I'd prefer PCI-E, for future uses. I do have 2x2 GB laying around for laptop memory though, so I could save some money that way.

Performance wise, are these adequate for a 10-15 computer LAN? I do use almost every service.

Any suggestions?

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0 DaMaN841 over 12 years ago

Thank you for the advice Barry. I'll gladly look into that now that things have settled.

I've since upgraded to UTM9. I'm now at 8 GiB, SSD and an Intel Dual Gigabit PCIe NIC. I haven't moved any ports over yet, to determine if using the NIC will offload any CPU usage from the onboard Intel NICs, however, with all things the same, I'm still reaching the same throughput on this box as I did with UTM8. I am sure with a heavy feature like Antivirus enabled, I'd be singing a different tune.

I hope this helps.
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0 BarryG over 12 years ago

FWIW, the Intel 82574L NICs already have several offloading features, according to Intel.

Barry
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