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| Thread ID: 144279 | 2017-09-05 23:24:00 | Looking for decent Gigabit PCI-E cards...? | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 1438798 | 2017-09-05 23:24:00 | I'm interested in buying a couple of Gigabit Ethernet PCI-E cards and I'm wondering if anyone here would have any they'd be interested in selling? I want something decent, eg: Intel\Broadcom chipset from Dell\HP etc, not some Realtek-based thing from Wun Hung Lo. But... I don't want to pay brand new prices and TradeMe seems to only have PCI-X or quad port cards for too much money. Am I dreaming? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1438799 | 2017-09-05 23:47:00 | Saw some on Ebay. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1438800 | 2017-09-05 23:49:00 | If you don't want anything from "Wun Hung Lo", then probably you don't want anything at all! :D Happy shopping, anyway! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1438801 | 2017-09-06 00:31:00 | www.aliexpress.com 065_10151_10068_5380020_10326_5470011_10084_10083_ 10080_10307_10082_10081_10110_10137_10175_10111_10 060_10112_10113_10155_10114_10154_10056_10055_1005 4_10312_10313_10059_10314_100031_10099_5460020_100 78_10079_10103_10073_10102_10052_10053_10142_10107 _10050_10051,searchweb201603_1,ppcSwitch_5&btsid=0cebfcaf-e4a4-4791-b7a3-e50d6ab4928a&algo_expid=1f09c662-5e63-4fa5-94fd-2ea77dcc5f08-21&algo_pvid=1f09c662-5e63-4fa5-94fd-2ea77dcc5f08&transAbTest=ae803_1 ark.intel.com Any good? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1438802 | 2017-09-06 05:22:00 | Following on from the link Wratterus gave to aliexpress-- you are spoilt for choice. Ranging from $14 - $340 and everything in between :) www.aliexpress.com Items from Aliexpress take on average 3-4 weeks to get here with normal postage. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1438803 | 2017-09-06 22:30:00 | " Looking for decent ... " " not some Realtek-based thing from Wun Hung Lo " " don't want to pay brand new prices " " too much money " " Am I dreaming? " short answer, yes. :-) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1438804 | 2017-09-06 22:37:00 | not sure i'd refer to Broadcom as decent... common, maybe. | autechre (266) | ||
| 1438805 | 2017-09-18 22:18:00 | Thanks everyone, it looks like some decent cards turned up second-hand on Trade Me so I've gone with that option. First one I purchased doubled the throughput from 55MB/s to 108MB/s, I'm much happier now! If you don't want anything from "Wun Hung Lo", then probably you don't want anything at all! :D I hesitate to buy a generic card from Aliexpress/eBay, as even though the chipset might be the same as the official Intel branded cards, the rest of the components would very likely be of a lower quality. There's also a possibility the chipset itself may be from an engineering sample batch or other dubious source. Last time I bought a gigabit card from eBay I got burned, the card worked on 100Mbit but hard locked the computer every time when set to 1000Mbit. In another example, a cheap USB3.0 card I purchased worked fine, but the bracket was incorrectly designed, and the card and would have bent my motherboard by 4mm when screwed in. I solved the problem with some washers on the screw between the bracket and the case, but that's the kind of rubbish I'm talking about with the "Wun Hung Lo" stuff. It's just not worth it. |
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