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Some notes on the PC Engines apu2e4 router board (apu2e4 = 3 i210AT LAN / AMD GX-412TC CPU / 4 GB DRAM)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/27

Some links on the pfSense hardware I am planning to use.

Whereas apu1 was totally different, apu2, apu3, apu4 and apu6 are very similar. The letters after the first digit indicate evolution of the boards. The first and last digit set apart features. Together, they form a confusing matrix which is not really made clear at the PC Engines web-site as some intermediate categories are missing which makes it hard to get an overview.

Basically their shop site has the list of most current products and is easiest to get links to the actual product names. Like many Swiss companies, they accept multiple currencies, so there are three links to the shop:

Most products are not available in 2022, which has hopefully changed by now. Many causes: [Wayback/Archive] PC Engines apu lead times, just like all other electronics.

Some points to consider:

  • the *2 have 2 gibibyte of RAM
  • the *4 have 4 gibibyte of RAM
  • the 2*2, 3* and 4* have i211AT LAN
  • the 2*4 have i210AT LAN
  • the 4* have SIM support built in
  • the 2* do not have SIM support

Anyway: apu2e4 board (which is the evolution of the apu2d4) works for my use case, though I wish it had 4 network ports instead of 3.

Note all board have this CPU: AMD Embedded G series GX-412TC, 1 GHz quad Jaguar core with 64 bit and AES-NI support, 32K data + 32K instruction cache per core, shared 2MB L2 cache.

For a fully functional system you need:

Related blog posts:

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2023/10/27 at 12:00 and is filed under APU, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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