CWWK Intel Alder Lake N100(4C/4T Up to 3.4GHz)/N305(8C/8T Up to 3.8GHz) Dual SFP+10GbE Mini PC|4xIntel I226-V 2.5GbE |DDR5 Memory|PCI-E x4|HDMI+DP+Type-C (10 Gigabit N100, No RAM No SSD)

Ordered this unit, 4 NICs + 2 SFP ports. When I received it, I noticed that the wrong expansion card was installed giving the unit a total of 8 NICs and no SFP ports. When I reached out to CWWK, I suggested, rather than returning the whole computer, if they could just send me the correct expansion card with the matching back plate, then we'd be square. A week later and the SFP card and back plate arrived. I admit, I haven't powered the unit on yet as I'm still waiting on my Intel Optane chip to arrive to load OPNSense onto it and migrate my existing router over to this new unit, but so far I'm very happy with CWWK's responsiveness. I'll update my review if anything else comes up. Otherwise, no news is good news.

I bought the N100 with four Ethernet ports and two SFP+ ports. No RAM or storage.The case is easy to open with eight screws. It was easy to install the memory and NVMe SSD.There is a lot packed onto the system board and I wish CWWK provided a user manual (or PDF from their website) with board diagram, specs, etc. I grabbed what I could from the product page on CWWK's site.Upon powering it up I was surprised at how loud the fan is. It's not the CPU fan - it's quiet and configurable in the BIOS.There is a fan on a heatsink of the PCI riser card for the SFP ports. It runs constantly and very loud. I unplugged it from the board and need to look for a quieter option...or just leave it unplugged and monitor the temperature. The fan must be a new addition as the images of the Mini PC don't show it - only the heatsink.The OPNsense install went smoothly and appears to have identified all the components but I just got started with it.Otherwise, so far so good but it's been a few days.

Extremely loud on the N100 version. When I boot the machine up, I thought it was just doing the power on self test and thought the fans would quiet down. That didn’t happen. Just seems like they’re at max speed. Looking around online, it looks like this isn’t a one off issue.

I have been enjoying this unit. I got the 32 GB RAM and 1TB. But tonight, I noticed a fan making a noise from not spinning, and I had heard it but thought it was from an old tower. Sadly, it’s the only fan in this unit, and it was super hot. Luckily, I have a cooling pad I can put on to tell I have time to look at it.Great other than a fault fan. I have never had newer fans on a PC or laptop fail so quickly after less then 45 days.I would have rated it five stars, but with a fan less than two months old, I have to rate it three stars.

We build routers, failover bonds, controllers, and more for tower sites. We usually have to make our own equipment from scratch. Since towers are DC powered, often on solar, we have limited options in the x86 space. With this box, we're able to replace a core router, a failover bond, a managed switch, and a monitoring system all with one very small box. This is an excellent machine for our purposes. Running the OS and mostly idling, it uses about 13w. During high CPU, LAN, and m.2 usage while also powering an external monitor from the USB port, the most we hit is 35w! Of course the power budget doesn't immediately include the SFP+ modules. Attempting to stress the CPU with the machine running headless, we still only peak at about 18w.I haven't opened it up to see if there's a little wizard inside running it or if parts are held together with chewing gum, but I'm so far very pleased with this machine and will be buying many more.I do wish it came with a printed datasheet, and unfortunately I can't seem to find model-specific information on the website. The information on the Amazon page is enough for me.

I use this for OPNSense.Two of the 2.5Gbit NICs connect to my internet (one is fiber but ethernet and the other one is cable-company style but from the modem [not a router] as ethernet).I have one of the other ports connected to my LAN.It does really nicely. I got this one because I was so pleased with their NAS-edition one.

I previously had a similar Atom based mini pc I used as an Opnsense router which unfortunately died randomly one day. I wanted to get a replacement and settled on this one since it had multiple 2.5g ports and 4 SFP+ slots.Setup was extremely easy and I had opnsense running in about 15 minutes. Even though the Atom in the previous was plenty powerful to handle whatever a router needed, I very much notice a bump in performance clicking around the web Interface with the newer N100 in this one. This thing also boots up extremely fast; if I need to reset the router it probably takes a max of 2 min to come back up (I had a previously Zyxel VPN router which could take upwards of 7-8 minutes if it needed rebooted so the quick startup is very nice).Given the limited scope of what I'm using this box for, I probably won't need to think about getting anything newer for 10 years.The only thing I don't like is this unit has a fan which is a bit noisy. It's not super noisy that it's a bother, but I wasn't able to find a similar unit that is passively cooled like my previous mini PC. This is a minor complaint though and overall I'm very happy.