ASrock iBOX-R1000

It seems that ASrock have introduced a NUC featuring AMD Ryzen R1000 Series

• Supports Dual Channel DDR4 SO DIMM 2400MHz, up to 32GB
• 2 x Displayport, 1 x HDMI
• - 3 x USB 3.1, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x COM
• 1 x M.2 KEY M, 1 x M.2 KEY E
• 2 x Realtek LAN

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Pieter3dnow said:

It seems that ASrock have introduced a NUC featuring AMD Ryzen R1000 Series

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That would likely make a fantastic little pfSense box, if they only put real NIC's in it. Realtek is utter garbage

The sad part is, the R1000 apparently has some sort of 10gig AMD ethernet in the SOC. Why wouldn't they use that?

Zarathustra[H] said:

Why wouldn't they use that?

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Most likely hardware licensing costs.
I'm starting to see a lot of SoCs have additional hardware that is disabled by the manufacturer, or producers, and sold at a lesser cost, despite it being the same hardware - this is due to licensing said features.

Zarathustra[H] said:

That would likely make a fantastic little pfSense box, if they only put real NIC's in it. Realtek is utter garbage

The sad part is, the R1000 apparently has some sort of 10gig AMD ethernet in the SOC. Why wouldn't they use that?

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UBNT USG for less monies and less headache

alxlwson said:

UBNT USG for less monies and less headache

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I Love UBNT's Unifi Wireless AP's, but I tried one of their edge routers once (ERPoe-5), and I really wasn't impressed. Limited options and very weak CPU barely able to handle QoS, and not able to do OpenVPN.

I wound up returning it and building a custom pfSense box instead.

My erlite3 is slow but it is reliable so far, it plugs into a switch that does level 2 for some things and poe for access points and things. I think they got tired of people whining about slow cpus so they went overboard with the edgerouter infiniti, it's expensive but it has a real cpu and 16GB of ram.

Zarathustra[H] do you like your RBH items? I have their sides, rears, front l r and c i forget the model no.'s but i have been pleased for a few years now. rythmik e15hp instead of dual 13's though.

Wade88 said:

My erlite3 is slow but it is reliable so far, it plugs into a switch that does level 2 for some things and poe for access points and things. I think they got tired of people whining about slow cpus so they went overboard with the edgerouter infiniti, it's expensive but it has a real cpu and 16GB of ram.

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Interesting. I havent kept up with them since I tried and didn't like the ErPOE-5 for that reason. I built a pfSense router with an Asrock Mini-ITX board that has dual Intel Gigabit NIC's and an i3-7100. That i3 with it's 3.9Ghz Haswell cores and AES-NI crushes it CPU wise. I run my entire network through a VPN, and I wind up being limited by what PIA can handle on the other end to about 600MBit/s. When at full load, I've never seen the CPU on that pfSense build exceed 20% load. Most of the time when I load test it sits between 12-15%.

I guess what I am trying to say is, I gave up on pre-packaged solutions and built my own overkill solution, so I havent had a reason to keep up with what they ahve been doing on th eedge router side recently.

Wade88 said:

Zarathustra[H] do you like your RBH items? I have their sides, rears, front l r and c i forget the model no.'s but i have been pleased for a few years now. rythmik e15hp instead of dual 13's though.

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I've been very happy with my RBH gear. I researched their old R5Bi's which was their cheaper consumer model (previously branded as EMPTEK) and liked what I was hearing. They had - however - discontinued their matching center speaker for those. On a whim I emailed them inquiring if by any chance they had any left over anywhere. The answer to that was no, BUT they had a ton of previously discontinued much higher end stuff left over that he was willing to sell off to me at a heavy discount. So that's how I wound up with a set of the sx6300 towers, a 441-se center speaker and two sets of 41-se bookshelves for a fraction of their original price.

I have been very happy with them. My weakest link is my room. Its very poorly configured for a good sound setup, but that's only a temporary problem, as I am going to have to move in the next year.

I went with SVS's PC-13 Ultras because I wanted a lot of boom, but I didn't have the space for huge square box. The tube-shabed subs are able to be discretely squeezed into the corners of the room, so that really works for me.

Anyway, enough taking the thread off topic. I'd be happy to continue the conversation in the audio subforum though. I have a thread on my HT setup here, but it is a little outdated. I have a new amp since then.

Best of luck with your move.