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Hardware Selection with Core i3 4370

Hi All,

I'd like to setup Sophos UTM 9 in my home environment to experiment with. I have a spare Core i3 4370 processor laying around that I would like to use in the build. Would someone be able to help me select the rest of the parts? I tried putting something together but I kept finding incompatibilities or potential issues with UTM 9. I'd like the form factor to be mini itx or as small as possible if not mini itx.

Thanks!

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0 apijnappels over 8 years ago

There are dozens of working parts that work fine for UTM 9. One important thing is to have at least 2 NIC's preferably with Intel chips. Also you will want to choose a standard VGA videocard, since HDMI is not supported during installation (which makes installation pretty hard to do without screen output).

Most people nowadays choose an SSD for storage; 60GB would be enough, bigger will allow your logfiles to be kept for longer times.

Did you already look in this thread: https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/hardware-installation-up2date-licensing/27167/unofficial-hardware-compatibility-list-hcl ?

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0 zaphod over 8 years ago

zotac ci 323 / 8 GB RAM / 120 GB SSD ... cheap no noise low power...

first update BIOS

then install UTM9 with USB or external cd-rom...

search for zotac in this forum and you will find detailed installl-instructions

greets

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0 Niral Parikh over 8 years ago in reply to apijnappels

That sounds good!

I found this motherboard, and I'm pretty sure it should be compatible. Would you mind taking a look?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157614
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0 zaphod over 8 years ago in reply to Niral Parikh

this mb is not supported yet... it has intel i210 chipset which is not supported by the UTM9 installer... at the moment...

greets

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0 Niral Parikh over 8 years ago in reply to zaphod

Oh I see. What do you think about this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153259
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0 zaphod over 8 years ago in reply to Niral Parikh

hm dont know if it will work...

check this https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/hardware-installation-up2date-licensing/27167/unofficial-hardware-compatibility-list-hcl

greets

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