mini-ITX recommendation

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Kimi

I've read several posts where you recommend to forget on Thin clients and look at mini-ITX. Because of that, I decided to consult with you about the election of mini-ITX.
Could you please help me in choosing mini-ITX?

I really love FreeBSD and want to make small home server (dns, squid, mail, web, etc) on mini-ITX infrastructure.

The problem is that I'm limited to this mini-ITX boards:

INTEL iNM10 Express + iAtom D2500
MSI C847IS-P33 + Intel Celeron DualCore 847
GA-C1007UN + Intel Celeron DualCore 1007U
GA-C807N + Intel Single-core Celeron 807
GA-E350N-USB3 + AMD E-350 Dual-Core

Another problem is which of these boards functions without problems on FreeBSD?
What do you recommend from this list?

Thanks in advance!
 
The first board has an intel chipset for networking. I won't go so far as to say avoid realtek, but intel is far better for networking hands down.
 
Morte said:
The first board has an intel chipset for networking. I won't go so far as to say avoid realtek, but intel is far better for networking hands down.
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Thank @Morte, I'll take your advice into consideration. Based on these discussions choose Intel D2500 does not promise that it will operate properly.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31270
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=49635.60

@vermaden here proposed MSI C847IS-P33: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36797.

Any advice is welcome!
 
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If you are strictly going to run it as a server then the Intel Cedartrail graphics won't be a major issue.

I tend to like passive cooling - less to go wrong. If you are in the US you can get some older mini-itx boards at AscendTech. Be careful, some are pulls or OEM and come without heat shields.
 
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