Smallest ITX case with PCIE riser for network card

[FTLN]

Hello All,

Building a new home router based on pfsense and using : https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/QC5000-ITXPH/

I need the smallest ITX case possible with a riser for 2/4 port pcie ethernet.

Any ideas ?

 

[Dawelio]

What do you mean by "riser" exactly?...

 

[FTLN]

So the network card can lye horizontaly instead of being upright, a 90 degree one. Most 1U server chassis have them.

This would be ideal but can't find one https://www.google.fr/amp/s/m.newegg.com/amp/products/N82E16811128087#ampf=undefined

 

[NickOmega]

antec 300 ? : link

Also look here to see if there are any other options

 

[FTLN]

antec 300 ? : link

Also look here to see if there are any other options

Thats pretty much what I'm looking for, design looks a bit old was looking for something a bit more smaller also, but thans for linking

Any others ?

 

[sheroo]

You won't regret it, I built one a couple of years ago, based on an ASRock J3710M, in a 1u rack case. Disabled the on board lan, and bought a dual intel nic from ebay. It has worked flawlessly.

To compliment it I bought a ubiquiti wap. The combination beats the snot out of most wifi routers.

 

[looz]

antec 300 ? : link

Woah, thought you meant Antec Three Hundred at first.

 

[FTLN]

Cheers guys, just ordered the Antec ISK 300-150 (Black) and a quad port Intel I350 , now I just need a LCD screen that fits the 5.25 drive bay

 

[FTLN]

Case, SSD & Network Card Just arrived

Put it all together, cannot hear a thing from it , and only pulls 35 watts from the wall.

Will post back with some throughput results.

 

[FTLN]

Bandwidth looking good, about 200mb/s more on the upload & download the same as the ISP box :

 

[NeverBackDown]

So this is basically a big switch then? It has no wireless capability judging by the Intel card right?

 

[FTLN]

No, its a router/firewall.
I have threw the ISP router in a cupboard and this has replaced it completely.

Best thing about this is that I can do adblocking / spam blocking / antivirus / deep packet inspection before the the packets even get to my computer's on my LAN at home.

For Wifi I use a Nighthawk X4S AC2600 in access point mode.

For 30$ a year I have subscribed to https://www.snort.org/products new threat algorithms are pushed to the firewall every 6 hours.

All in all this build has cost me less than 200 euros and is capable of doing what a 30 grand firewall from Cisco or Checkpoint can do and more

 

[g0ggles1994]

No, its a router/firewall.
I have threw the ISP router in a cupboard and this has replaced it completely.

Best thing about this is that I can do adblocking / spam blocking / antivirus / deep packet inspection before the the packets even get to my computer's on my LAN at home.

For Wifi I use a Nighthawk X4S AC2600 in access point mode.

For 30$ a year I have subscribed to https://www.snort.org/products new threat algorithms are pushed to the firewall every 6 hours.

All in all this build has cost me less than 200 euros and is capable of doing what a 30 grand firewall from Cisco or Checkpoint can do and more

What OS are you using for this? I've been looking into something similar but all the info I can find requires the ISP router acting as a modem. I'd love to be able to throw my ISP router away since it's a piece of dog... yeah.

 

[FTLN]

What OS are you using for this? I've been looking into something similar but all the info I can find requires the ISP router acting as a modem. I'd love to be able to throw my ISP router away since it's a piece of dog... yeah.

Im using pFsence, I just had to spoof the mac address of my isp box on the wan side so they give me a IP and IPv6 prefix.