Hi,

I can't comment on the AMD APU although it should be reasonable.

A 2nd gen intel core i5 does about 15W standby, and there are mini itx boards 
available. If you skip the i5 and use a core i3 that should shave you 2 cores 
of idle power and the higher clock should help throughput. The asus board I 
looked at had a pci-e x16 slot that could take a Intel Quad port PT. 

I am using Dell R310 servers with a Core i3 3.2Ghz at work. A quick test did 
600mbit over iscsi. Should be able to push gigabit.

Regards,

Seth


Op 19 sep 2011, om 20:14 heeft Steven Sherwood het volgende geschreven:

> Hello list,
>  
> I’m considering a few different platforms for low powered but Gigabit capable 
> firewall/routers, and have been looking at Mini-ITX systems based on Atom 
> processors.
>  
> In my searching, I have found that AMD has entered the mix with their new 
> “APU” processors – I’m seeing a few Mini-ITX boards with the 1.6 GHz AMD 
> eOntario T56N APU integrated.
>  
> Does anybody on the list have any experiencing with this kind of processor?  
> Looking at specs, it should outperform Atom quite a bit.  I’m wondering if 
> this is still true when considering networking, specifically pushing out Gbit 
> network speed across multiple interfaces.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> -- Steven Sherwood
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