I’m looking at some CWWK, topton, and oaknode boards online for an upcoming build. I’m throwing proxmox and OPNsense on this. There’s a ryzen 8845HS board I’m curious about but there’s also some intel boards I could drop an i5-14600T used CPU into that could work well too. Either way I would have an intel ARC GPU in the PCI slot for media decode/encode and a coral TPU in the E-key M2 slot for frigate object recognition.
But I get conflicting info online about these boards being a waste of time and money. I see things about them burning out, or having weird BIOS bugs that never get fixed. On the other hand, NAScompares seems to like these boards. Are these something I should avoid?
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IPMI and ECC are not on your wishlist, correct?
A cheap N100 or N305 mitx with more ethernet and sata ports already attached is one thing, but I wouldn’t wanna risk warranty hell with more money on the line.
Considering you are gonna add a dgpu I would look at a low tdp desktop cpu such as ryzen 7600/9600 from a trusted store instead.
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/topton-warranty-practices.40421/I want zenarmor and suricata. Intel N series chips cannot handle that. The dGPU is just needed for handling media decode and encode, not actual rendering.
The quicksync built-in to the n100 PR n305 is more than adequate to encode/decode media. If that’s all you’re using it for, you don’t need an Intel arc.
I never recommended the Intel N chips though. :)
I don’t know that anyone has collected any sort of data on reliability. I have a CWWK board that’s been working well for about a year now.
How long is the warranty? If the warranty is through the company, how long is the company going to be around?
To be fair, how much longer is Intel going to be around?
A couple decades at least, if things go extremely poorly for them and keep on doing that.
