• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

DIY linux router questions

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
I agree I just mean for the home server/media center you don't want to go the route of lots if slow cores you will start running into performance problems as soon as one core is running at 100%. That's why I went the route of consolidating my servers into one box.

For security concerns I would never put media and served data on my gateway. It doesn't belong there. There are some kinds of servers you should consolidate and those that you shouldn't. Your gateway is one of those that you shouldn't.
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
I thought about that but the network layout is exactly the same and the operanting systems are isolated in esxi and can only communicate via the network like they could of it was a standard ddwrt router instead of the x86 version in a vm unless something was not configured right in the routing but that would compromise any network vm's or not.
 

corehazard

New Member
Joined
Oct 10, 2012
Messages
21 (0.01/day)
Location
Charlotte,NC
System Name Primary Gaming PC
Processor Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard Asus Sabertooth X 58
Cooling CPU: Coolermast HN 520, 1x 200mm case fan, 4x 120mm case fan
Memory Wintec 8 GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s) ASUS Radeon EAH 6850
Storage 1 TB Games, 500 GB OS
Display(s) ASUS VH232H
Case Cooler Master HAF 912
Power Supply Cooler 850 Watt modular
You may to check out Zentyal. I used it once for a file server/ domain controller (not in any meaningful way) and it was a piece of cake to set up. It will handle router/firewall duties and can even run a proxy server. Since it is based off of Ubuntu you might be able to install media streaming software on it. It comes with a built in desktop environment and you don't need to use the command line very much.

http://www.zentyal.org/
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
that looks pretty cool im going to give it a go. any idea if it works with xbox 360's?
 

corehazard

New Member
Joined
Oct 10, 2012
Messages
21 (0.01/day)
Location
Charlotte,NC
System Name Primary Gaming PC
Processor Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard Asus Sabertooth X 58
Cooling CPU: Coolermast HN 520, 1x 200mm case fan, 4x 120mm case fan
Memory Wintec 8 GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s) ASUS Radeon EAH 6850
Storage 1 TB Games, 500 GB OS
Display(s) ASUS VH232H
Case Cooler Master HAF 912
Power Supply Cooler 850 Watt modular
If you want both a media server and gateway I'd recommend using VMware ESXi, one VM for the gateway the other one running FreeNAS. As for Zentyal running a media server, it doesn't have one on its website.

Another possible solution maybe GeeXboX, which supports Ubuntu and it might run on Zentyal.

http://ushare.geexbox.org/
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
I had the problem of trying to get everythig on one os route and ran into problems that's why I use esxi
 

Wrigleyvillain

PTFO or GTFO
Joined
Oct 13, 2007
Messages
7,702 (1.28/day)
Location
Chicago
System Name DarkStar
Processor i5 3570K 4.4Ghz
Motherboard Asrock Z77 Extreme 3
Cooling Apogee HD White/XSPC Razer blocks
Memory 8GB Samsung Green 1600
Video Card(s) 2 x GTX 670 4GB
Storage 2 x 120GB Samsung 830
Display(s) 27" QNIX
Case Enthoo Pro
Power Supply Seasonic Platinum 760
Mouse Steelseries Sensei
Keyboard Ducky Pro MX Black
Software Windows 8.1 x64
You may to check out Zentyal. I used it once for a file server/ domain controller (not in any meaningful way) and it was a piece of cake to set up. It will handle router/firewall duties and can even run a proxy server. Since it is based off of Ubuntu you might be able to install media streaming software on it. It comes with a built in desktop environment and you don't need to use the command line very much.

http://www.zentyal.org/

Interesting, thanks.
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
i bought this to use as a firewall
http://www.boser.com.tw/detail_product.asp?Model=HS-2613

1ghz VIA eden should be enough for a firewall and vpn and i can run it from 12v dc without using a pico psu not bad for £20!

im going to put Zentyal on it and run it as a dedicated router os but if that is too slow i will just put DDWRT X86 onto it. i like the idea of putting the motherboard onto the back of a 7" lcd monitor so i can monitor the network in realtime.
 
Joined
Jun 27, 2011
Messages
6,680 (1.43/day)
Processor 7800x3d
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Auros Elite AX
Cooling Custom Water
Memory GSKILL 2x16gb 6000mhz Cas 30 with custom timings
Video Card(s) MSI RX 6750 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
Storage Adata SX8200 1tb with Windows, Samsung 990 Pro 2tb with games
Display(s) HP Omen 27q QHD 165hz
Case ThermalTake P3
Power Supply SuperFlower Leadex Titanium
Software Windows 11 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores CB23: 1811 / 19424 CB24: 1136 / 7687
i bought this to use as a firewall
http://www.boser.com.tw/detail_product.asp?Model=HS-2613

1ghz VIA eden should be enough for a firewall and vpn and i can run it from 12v dc without using a pico psu not bad for £20!

im going to put Zentyal on it and run it as a dedicated router os but if that is too slow i will just put DDWRT X86 onto it. i like the idea of putting the motherboard onto the back of a 7" lcd monitor so i can monitor the network in realtime.

So you would take that and maybe connect it to a Ethernet switch or wireless router for more connections?
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
So you would take that and maybe connect it to a Ethernet switch or wireless router for more connections?

Yes I have a gigabit switch and I would just put my netgear dual band router into ap mode and plug it in for wireless access for now at least until I can figure out how to get a pair of USB wifi adapters to work as access points.
 
Last edited:

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
Yes I have a gigabit switch and I would just put my netgear dual band router into ap mode and plug it in for wireless access for now at least until I can figure out how to get a pair of USB wifi adapters to work as access points.

This is the affordable option and is what most people and small businesses do. Just make sure if you're using a wireless AP, make sure to set the router to bridge/ap mode before hand. You will also want to either...

A: Set a static IP address on the AP so you have a usable address to make changes to the AP.
B: Set a static IP in the DHCP config on your server so the AP will always get the same IP address.

You might also want to give Webmin a try if you're not confident managing a linux gateway from the CLI. It's gotten a lot better over the years.

I actually just decided to build a gateway for my network the other day. I sold my 940 + AM2+ board and managed to find someone who was selling a non-unlockable 960t which he was unhappy with and gave to me for a killer deal, so now it's my gateway. :p

Nothing like a stable connection. :)

I'm supposed to be getting 12 down and 2 up. This is what they're giving me, bandwidth slightly went up when I switched to the new gateway but it's really the ping jitter that practically disappeared. The biggest thing you're going to notice from running a gateway is running a local DNS server. That way requests get cached so it doesn't have to do more than hop to your gateway to get a response (versus google, your ISP, or a free open DNS service.) Just make sure to find out which DNS servers are fastest and put them in order from fastest to slowest when you setup forwarding servers.

77307343.png

2516495960.png
 
Last edited:
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
This is the affordable option and is what most people and small businesses do. Just make sure if you're using a wireless AP, make sure to set the router to bridge/ap mode before hand. You will also want to either...

A: Set a static IP address on the AP so you have a usable address to make changes to the AP.
B: Set a static IP in the DHCP config on your server so the AP will always get the same IP address.

You might also want to give Webmin a try if you're not confident managing a linux gateway from the CLI. It's gotten a lot better over the years.

I would just disable everything on he wireless router dhcp upnp and set the ip to a static one so the computer router would manage everything.

I have done it before with ddwrt in esxi and it worked fine I just don't want the net to go down everytime i reboot the server so that's why I'm going with an independent dedicated router.
 

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
I have done it before with ddwrt in esxi and it worked fine I just don't want the net to go down everytime i reboot the server so that's why I'm going with an independent dedicated router.

I went this route so I had more control over the firewall (man do I love iptables... usually...) and so I could use something that could respond quickly. DNS was a pretty big factor because I was getting tired of remember IP addresses and I didn't want to put my internal DNS externally.

So now I have a 3ghz quad-core running my network with my E4200 just serving up some 1Gbps ports and the wi-fi.

I would just disable everything on he wireless router dhcp upnp and set the ip to a static one so the computer router would manage everything.

If he as an AP or Bridge mode, that will all automatically disable routing and dhcp.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Jun 27, 2011
Messages
6,680 (1.43/day)
Processor 7800x3d
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Auros Elite AX
Cooling Custom Water
Memory GSKILL 2x16gb 6000mhz Cas 30 with custom timings
Video Card(s) MSI RX 6750 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
Storage Adata SX8200 1tb with Windows, Samsung 990 Pro 2tb with games
Display(s) HP Omen 27q QHD 165hz
Case ThermalTake P3
Power Supply SuperFlower Leadex Titanium
Software Windows 11 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores CB23: 1811 / 19424 CB24: 1136 / 7687
I went this route so I had more control over the firewall (man do I love iptables... usually...) and so I could use something that could respond quickly. DNS was a pretty big factor because I was getting tired of remember IP addresses and I didn't want to put my internal DNS externally.

So now I have a 3ghz quad-core running my network with my E4200 just serving up some 1Gbps ports and the wi-fi.



If he as an AP or Bridge mode, that will all automatically disable routing and dhcp.

3ghz quad core. Is that not a lot of overkill. Does it actually provide anything noticeably better than say his 1ghz via. Cpu to cpu.
 

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
3ghz quad core. Is that not a lot of overkill. Does it actually provide anything noticeably better than say his 1ghz via. Cpu to cpu.

I doubt it. We're talking about the CPU responding to something that takes very little CPU to begin with. I can't believe it would result in any more than half a millisecond to one millisecond tops if the network isn't loaded. It's not significant. I am planning on eventually under-volting and underclocking it since it's idling most of the time anyways. I'm just using this because it's the best hardware I have for a gateway. (Mobo has dual-lan and a lot of PCI-E.)
 
Joined
Jun 27, 2011
Messages
6,680 (1.43/day)
Processor 7800x3d
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Auros Elite AX
Cooling Custom Water
Memory GSKILL 2x16gb 6000mhz Cas 30 with custom timings
Video Card(s) MSI RX 6750 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
Storage Adata SX8200 1tb with Windows, Samsung 990 Pro 2tb with games
Display(s) HP Omen 27q QHD 165hz
Case ThermalTake P3
Power Supply SuperFlower Leadex Titanium
Software Windows 11 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores CB23: 1811 / 19424 CB24: 1136 / 7687
My original question has been answered. Thanks guys. If I make one of these it will be all about the learning experience. I just think it would be fun.

pair of USB wifi adapters to work as access points
Wouldn't the bandwidth of usb2.0 bottle neck the network speed? Edit: I guess not. For example I have 25mbit down which is about 1 megabyte down which usb2.0 is still faster than.
 
Last edited:

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
Wouldn't the bandwidth of usb2.0 bottle neck the network speed? Edit: I guess not. For example I have 25mbit down which is about 1 megabyte down which usb2.0 is still faster than.

Assuming you have a good USB controller, even 3x3 MIMO on 5Ghz at full speed shouldn't bottleneck it. 300Mbps < 420Mbps. You might get a slowdown if you have one of those bigger 450Mbit adapters but that is only if you have a full signal at full speed. A very rare case. Keep in mind that if you put more than one high-bandwidth device into a USB port, internally they might be on the same hub so bandwidth would be shared. USB and PCI tend to be okay for wireless, but if USB 3.0 or PCI-E is an option, go for it. Personally I would go for the PCI-E option if you can (if you have the port, room, and money to get the card(s).)

My original question has been answered. Thanks guys. If I make one of these it will be all about the learning experience. I just think it would be fun.

Glad to be of service. Let us know if you decide to, we'll be more than happy to try and answer any questions you may have.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Mar 26, 2006
Messages
517 (0.08/day)
Location
Stamford, UK
System Name The Money Sink
Processor Intel i7-5960X at 4.60Ghz
Motherboard MSI X99A Godlike
Cooling Custom watercooling loop, single D5 -> CPU, dual D5 -> GPU's
Memory 64GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s) 2 x 1080Ti @ Stock for the moment (40oC LOAD)
Storage 960GB Mushkin Scorpion Deluxe and 2 x 512GB M.2 SSD RAID0
Display(s) Dual Curved LG 34" Display
Power Supply EVGA 1600W G2
Software Windows 10
Benchmark Scores ALOT
I've actually just built a FreeBSD based router using pfsense as the main OS.

My setup consists of:

Intel Pentium G860 Dual Core 3Ghz
Intel B75 chipset with Atheros network (unsupported with latest version)
8GB RAM
250GB HDD
4 x Dual gigabit realtek network cards
1 x single gigabit intel network card.

I had to compile some drivers using a standalone copy of FreeBSD 8.1 but in the end works an absolute treat.

I haven't used any of the media functions but obviously I have the capacity should the need arise, my internet's pretty crappy and I'm also awaiting some extra lines from BT to use for bonding.

It's essentially a 9 port router/hub with an extremely fast CPU.

Most load I've seen in terms of load is around 1%, I'm hoping that when the technology comes to my area I can utilise 100MBps down and up on each port, and bond roughly half the available ports.

Setup cost around £400 in total, not much more than an enterprise class router so not even that expensive really...
 

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
4 x Dual gigabit realtek network cards
1 x single gigabit intel network card.

All on PCI-E? That's a lot of switching power if you have a lot of internet network traffic. This setup is great if two machines are communicating with each other, saturating their connections a lot when you don't want that to impact the rest of the network. In the long term I'm planning on getting a dual band wi-fi card for mine as well as a 4-port Intel gigabit NIC so I can stop broadcasting wi-fi off the E4200 and turn it into a wireless network bridge instead. For now, just the gateway is fine. I really wanted it for response time not for bandwidth. My internal network traffic is usually pretty low at the moment, so even wi-fi is fine.

Also that earlier speedtest and pingtest were on a wireless connection.
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
at the moment the wndr3300 netgear router i use works fine most of the timeand can handle my 80/8mb connection but when more than 1 person starts running bit torrent the router just fails and the wifi tops out at 30mbit on the 5ghz N and 15mbit on the 54G so i am looking to replace its router and wireless functions with something a bit faster.

the little industrial boarrd i bought to use as a router has pc104+ which as far as i know is just a stackable version of pci so i might be able to get more ethernet ports or wireless via pci its just hard to find the parts as its an industrial spec no consumer hardware uses it.
 
Joined
Mar 26, 2006
Messages
517 (0.08/day)
Location
Stamford, UK
System Name The Money Sink
Processor Intel i7-5960X at 4.60Ghz
Motherboard MSI X99A Godlike
Cooling Custom watercooling loop, single D5 -> CPU, dual D5 -> GPU's
Memory 64GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s) 2 x 1080Ti @ Stock for the moment (40oC LOAD)
Storage 960GB Mushkin Scorpion Deluxe and 2 x 512GB M.2 SSD RAID0
Display(s) Dual Curved LG 34" Display
Power Supply EVGA 1600W G2
Software Windows 10
Benchmark Scores ALOT
All on PCI-E? That's a lot of switching power if you have a lot of internet network traffic. This setup is great if two machines are communicating with each other, saturating their connections a lot when you don't want that to impact the rest of the network. In the long term I'm planning on getting a dual band wi-fi card for mine as well as a 4-port Intel gigabit NIC so I can stop broadcasting wi-fi off the E4200 and turn it into a wireless network bridge instead. For now, just the gateway is fine. I really wanted it for response time not for bandwidth. My internal network traffic is usually pretty low at the moment, so even wi-fi is fine.

Also that earlier speedtest and pingtest were on a wireless connection.

All on PCI-E indeed!

It's an insane amount of power for my requirements, but my thinking is I'm only going to spend more and more on routers over the years in any case and the idea of having something like this that is easily upgradeable is a no-brainer.

I'm considering using it as a wireless router as well but need to find some drivers for the onboard network card beforehand.

I don't think I should have any issues with PCIE causing bandwidth limitations.
 

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
13,147 (2.96/day)
Location
Concord, NH, USA
System Name Apollo
Processor Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory 64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s) Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s) AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply 96w Power Adapter
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software MacOS 12.1
I don't think I should have any issues with PCIE causing bandwidth limitations.

No, not at all. The bus will be the last thing you have to worry about. The ethernet cable and card would most likely become overburdened before PCI-E does. :cool:
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10
i got Zentyal installed on my 3.5" via board not had a chance to play with it yet.





im just running from a battery until i get another power supply lol
 
Last edited:
Joined
Mar 12, 2009
Messages
1,075 (0.20/day)
Location
SCOTLAND!
System Name Machine XV
Processor Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling 120mm heatsink
Memory 64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s) RX 480 4Gb
Storage 1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s) 19" + 23" + 17"
Case ATX
Audio Device(s) XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply 800W
Software Windows 10


ddwrt running on it its booting from an 8gb Seagate CF microdrive
 
Last edited:
Joined
Jun 27, 2011
Messages
6,680 (1.43/day)
Processor 7800x3d
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Auros Elite AX
Cooling Custom Water
Memory GSKILL 2x16gb 6000mhz Cas 30 with custom timings
Video Card(s) MSI RX 6750 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
Storage Adata SX8200 1tb with Windows, Samsung 990 Pro 2tb with games
Display(s) HP Omen 27q QHD 165hz
Case ThermalTake P3
Power Supply SuperFlower Leadex Titanium
Software Windows 11 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores CB23: 1811 / 19424 CB24: 1136 / 7687
Why not run in off a usb drive? I assume it is because you are saving them for something else.
 
Top