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ImNotADJ

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#27996 13-Nov-2008 18:45

I have smoothwall on old PC buts its noisy and also I want something a bit smaller.

Something that has 2 rj45 connections or 2 free PCI slots and preferably really cheap.

Any ideas?

Also, anyone reccomend a quiet switch? I have a levelone 24port gigabit switch but its really loud.

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#177847 13-Nov-2008 18:57

The best solution is a Mini ITX board with dual NIC's - it just depends if you're willing to fork out the money for it.

As for a quiet switch anything that has a fan is going to be noisy and 60mm fans are the worst of all.

ImNotADJ

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#177877 13-Nov-2008 21:30

Had a quick look around

Intel D945GCLF Mini-ITX $137

Silverstone LC06 + 60W PSU $110

Kingston DDR2-667 1GB $42

I already have a extra PCI network card, CD/DVD & a HDD

So, $289.. Would that 60W PSU be enough?

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#177899 13-Nov-2008 22:45

I bought a 2nd hand HP D530 (p4 3GHz with 1GB RAM) on Trade Me for $300 and put my Smoothwall on that. I also shelled out for a couple of good quality Intel NIC's as I found that I couldn't achieve ADSL2+ speeds on my network using cheap Realtek cards. Better NIC's made a significant difference. It's pretty quiet too.

Smoothwall and IPCop work fine on older slow PC's but if you want ADSL2+ performance and or you run lots of services on your firewall, you'd do well to use a faster box with more RAM and good quality NIC's.

ImNotADJ

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#178537 18-Nov-2008 11:24

So.. I got the Motherboard and Case.

But the PSU that came in the case is ATX and the Motherboard is ATX2.0 .......

Can I just get an adaptor for it? Or replace the PSU? Or should I look for new case or Motherboard.

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#179103 20-Nov-2008 15:49

Have you tried running it with just the atx 1.3 plug? I know its missing 4 pins but honestly unless your system needs lots of power (and considering your using itx i doubt it) it should be fine.

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#179114 20-Nov-2008 16:57

http://store.compute-aid.com/spec/atxps24.html

ImNotADJ

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#179117 20-Nov-2008 17:36

Ah, I already got another case.

http://www.procase.co.nz/pc/noah.html

This case had all the plugs I needed, is smaller, and was very well built too.