<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 7, 2017, at 1:39 AM, Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:dave@taht.net" class="">dave@taht.net</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">I was away from keyboard for much of this thread, I wanted to point out<br class="">that I find the pcengines apu2 series very useful as routers and<br class="">testbeds. They are way easier to open up than the nucs, have 3 intel<br class="">ethernet ports, AND 2-3 mini-pcie ports, and can be had, with memory for<br class="">under 200 bucks.<br class=""><br class="">That said, the nucs are often convienent because they have video chips.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Well _that’s_ interesting, I actually already have 2x APU (not APU2) from FreeNet (my ISP) for testing. FreeNet uses these as routers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But, the APUs I have are V1 and have a dual core with Realtek 8111E, where the APU2 has a quad core with Intel i210/211AT. The APU2 looks far preferable for testing, and I hadn’t noticed its existence. It’s dramatically cheaper than anything else I was looking at, and since I don’t need video, if the CPUs are fast enough, they look very interesting as a way to save a lot of money.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I added those as a build:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MVxGsreiGKNXhfkMIheNFrH_GVllFfiH9RU5ws5l_aY/edit#gid=199471438" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MVxGsreiGKNXhfkMIheNFrH_GVllFfiH9RU5ws5l_aY/edit#gid=199471438</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Basically I could get two of those for one of most anything I was looking at. Thanks for that idea!</div></body></html>