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My box is headless, so I cannot check right away. I will search for a monitor and try to find the resp. options in the next days.

Stability is overall fine for me. I had one or two crashes of the OPNsense VM after that but since i upgraded RAM and assigned more memory to the OPNsense VM it really runs smooth.
Did not benchmark, but the performance is great.

Hi chengair,

I checked the BIOS settings on my box and realized that in CPU options the Power Limit 2 was set to 27W by default, which is way too high. I manually limited the PL2 at 12,5W (should be the maximum for the N6005) and also disabled the Turbo Boost (don't know the exact setting anymore, but you can select 3 options and I chose the "middle" one).
The OPNsense VM is so far running stable, uptime is over 2 days now - which is a record for my Topton box.
I hope that the problem is solved now. I'll update in a few days.
Maybe that also helps you.

Thanks for the answer, I was afraid you'd reply that :-\

I also replaced the thermal grease of the Topton-Box with a good quality thermal pad to bridge the gap, but that of course did not solve the error.
I ordered the Topton box on aliexpress, I was rated quite well there. Did you by chance test OPNsese on the bare metal?

Hi chenganir,

did you find a solution in the meantime? I migrated from to a similar setup, I have OPNsense 22.7 installed in a Proxmox QEMU VM, also running on a Pentium N6005 in a Topton Mini PC) and have the same issues you described.
I copied the OPNsese VM from my old Proxmox box (Qotom with a Celeron CPU), the config itself was not changed, so I'm pretty sure this is not be a configuration issue in OPNsense.
I also have some LXC running in Proxmox they are not affected.