Right, that figures. I think I've heard Yanling's name before, too. Worth remembering.
Yup. You can see their logo on Protecli devices PCB. Its no secret. Protectli is basically Yanling for American market.
Oh i remember Soyo from back in the day. Very solid motherboards during 486 and Pentium era. And i saw some mini pcs from Soyo on ali express and i think that is the same brand, but if i recall corectly, Soyo went through some serious restructuring and its basically completely different company today. Only the branding has remained.
Do you remember which company it was ?
Yup. This WeiBu aint your typical Chinese crapware. I just checked their minipc line and i swear i saw BeeLink PCs that look exactly the same. These guys might be OEM for them along with AZW Technology. And just like Yanling, they are not on aliexpress. Thanks for this info.
Using a 12C/14T processor for a 8 port firewall mini PC is a bit excessive, IMO.
minipc-review.com
I was just checking their product line and its quite impressive. This is why i was asking you to tell me the brand name. Its because of OEM`s like this, you can get ultra quality unit for a reasonable price. Unfortunately, not many people know about this and they just go on aliexpress and search for minipc and buy whatever comes up first. Its usually Topton or Firebat. They are the cheapest and the worst. People think that these units are high quality because they have metal case, but they do not realize that there are different levels of metal quality. This is why when you buy a Topton or XCY you have to put additional cooling to stop it from overheating because metal they use has poor thermal properties. And even if you manage to cool it down, your motherboard will just randomly die. This is not a problem for big cats because you are covered with Waranty. Good luck doing RMA with XCY.
Only if someone has those systems and they can open it for you. Otherwise i would not gamble.
Unfortunately solid caps are not always indicator of good quality. Just like low quality metal, there are low quality caps. Or pretty much any other component.Hmm, I didn't spot that before, the ECS page says its 100% solid capacitor design. According to this page solid caps have a longer service life than standard electrolytics, the electrolyte doesn't evaporate.
So maybe I got lucky and got a good quality mobo.The advantages of solid capacitor
1.High stability Solid capacitor (Solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor) can continue to work stably in high temperature environments. Solid aluminum electrolytic capacitors can directly improve the performance of the motherboard. At the same time, it is suitable for power supply filtering due...www.xuanxcapacitors.com
If you have multiple VPN tunnels, epecially if they are not multithreaded like OpenVPN, you would be surprised how much CPU power is actually needed to avoid significant speed loss. Check this chart provided by Protectli. If you have 1Gbps internet speed, a single OpenVPN tunnel without DCO can peg your CPU at 100% and reduce your speed from 1Gbps to just 170Mbps. If you add traffic shaping and VLANS into that equation, your connection becomes unusable. There is a good reason why these units exist and cost so much.
These devices are not for average users. You buy them and you host whole bunch of services on it. I run ProxMox on mine and this single unit hosts.
The chips having AES extensions is what makes all the difference with OpenVPN + DCO.
They do, but in my case, it makes no difference. I host bunch of stuff and i have very complex network setup. Raptor Lake N series CPU cant cope with all that.
