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Hardware and Performance / Re: Ways around i225/i226 NICs?
« on: June 04, 2024, 09:11:38 pm »Can you go up in power and find a used HP T740? Then you can install the card of your choice.That sounds very tempting, but I only can find those new over here and to be honest: I do not want anything with a fan that runs 24/7. That stuff will sit right on my desk where I also work everyday. I already regret that I bought a (really very silent, but still there´s a fan) Lenovo Ideacentre Mini 5 as my Server and not paid a little bit extra for something fanless. It is not an issue when I use my regular PC for gaming, watching Videos etc, but when I am at work on my Surface (which is dead silent) and concentrating on some difficult tasks, I really appreciate when it is dead quiet here. That barely noticable fan of the Ideacentre is sometimes already too annoying, now that I know what silence is :-)
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Thank you to all of you. This is very reassuring and makes it much easier for me to find the right hardware.
I am looking at the new Odroid H4+ by the way, if just the cases were not that ugly ;-) They announced another case for May/June, so I might take a look at that or pick one of the N100 multi-NIC boxes that I see everywhere.
Regarding the ASPM related issues, that was one of the reasons I get so nervous. Looking at the specs and power usage measurements over at Odroid for their H4 (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/) pretty far at the bottom there, I have seen that ASPM on / off makes quite a difference in total power usage. With off they claim it uses twice the power than with ASPM on. Sure, in total that is not that much power since the whole unit is very low on power usage anyway, but why give away money you can save ;-) But I am yet to find out if the ASPM + i226-V issue is a general one or only for certain manufacturers / BIOS / UEFI implementations.
When you 3 say you do not have issues with your i226-V NICs, do you know if ASPM is on or off for you?