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I bought that tiger lake motherboard with the laptop i7 on an ITX motherboard and the bios sucks. They left a lot of debug settings, there are a lot of options. Like 4 pages of settings that only make sense for the engineers who developed this. It's not stable, sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep, sometimes it hangs.
From now on I will only buy motherboards from reputable OEMs and not unknown ones operating from a 15 square meters room in Shenzhen with no extensive testing or future support
It's not stable, sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep, sometimes it hangs.
That’s too bad. On paper, these boards seem to check all the boxes. It seems like the reality is that they lack quality-of-life features like general reliability. Probably not a great quality in router hardware…
I bought one of those passively cooled router boxes from AliExpress and have been running opnsense for over a year on it now. It’s way overkill for router + ad blocking, but it’s been working great.
Why buy a mobo when you could get this for cheaper, in a smaller footprint, and comes with a case and PSU? Do you really need the SATA ports?
Nah, I worked on router firmware, we rarely have time to finish the requirements, but I would worry if it was someone like tenda.
Put your own distro on it and be happy, intel has more root ware on that than anyone.