Any idea on price ? i see one on Amazon for $99.

It's about time that we see a move in network speed. I just hope that the compatible router prices can come down for a change.

I agree, at the moment network switches for 10GB is just stupidly high, the adapter becoming affordable but kinda useless if routers/switches don't come down in price.

Any idea on price ? i see one on Amazon for $99.

I found it for $99.00 u.s. also at superbiiz. Excuse my ignorance on net speeds etc., but my internet speed is 150mbps. Would using this card in my pc help with say gaming and watching movies? Or do I need a higher bandwidth input to see any difference using this card?

I found it for $99.00 u.s. also at superbiiz. Excuse my ignorance on net speeds etc., but my internet speed is 150mbps. Would using this card in my pc help with say gaming and watching movies? Or do I need a higher bandwidth input to see any difference using this card?

There would be no difference. This is going to be more for local networking and file transfers. Limited use-cases for 10gbe right now, for a home, anyway.

$99 for 10G is way too cheap, unless I'm out of the times.

I found it for $99.00 u.s. also at superbiiz. Excuse my ignorance on net speeds etc., but my internet speed is 150mbps. Would using this card in my pc help with say gaming and watching movies? Or do I need a higher bandwidth input to see any difference using this card?

Speed will be the same, but latency gets noticeably worse. If you play games where ping time is important, stick with a gigabit adapter (or better yet, a 100 mbit one). There are two REALLY big things to note about 10 gig. 1.) That's an x8 slot on the adapter, and you need to plug it into a slot capable of actually serving out PCIe in Gen 3 x8 mode. That means on Z170/Z270 you MUST put it in the second graphics card slot, and on X99/X299 you need to make sure the slot you put it in runs in x8 or x16 mode with the CPU you have slotted. 2.) There's literally no single disk or SSD that can fully take advantage of 10GbE. That's why most motherboard manufacturers are settling for the cheaper 5GbE adapters; the fastest NVMe drives out there can't saturate 5GbE. You would need x99 or x299 boards with Samsung 960 Pro drives in RAID0 on both ends of the transfer before you needed 10GbE on consumer level gear.

Something like this would be great for home entertainment systems like a audio network music player or even Media Center PC's that can also stream video.

$99 for 10G is way too cheap, unless I'm out of the times.

neah, look at it. Also i don't why so many people want it, maybe for internal networks.

I found it for $99.00 u.s. also at superbiiz. Excuse my ignorance on net speeds etc., but my internet speed is 150mbps. Would using this card in my pc help with say gaming and watching movies? Or do I need a higher bandwidth input to see any difference using this card?

First of all i envy you 150 mbit 😛 and no it won't do anything for you since you are most likely in the classic 1000 mbit ethernet if you are in 100 mbit mode make sure tha you change it to 1000 or get the right cables /equipment to do so

Remember, you don't really need a switch to form a network ! 2 cards in 2 PC's... one cable between them. SHAZAAAM, 1000 megabytes/second speed between them (assuming everything else works properly) And this happens to be exactly my setup, 2 PC's with harddisks and SSD's in them, and two of these babies would allow me to access ANY data from one or the other computer just like it's local drive. Bring it ASUS, my wallet is ready \o/ ... x2

maybe when i make my next pc these will be integrated in to mobo, and maybe those speeds might be possible without pay threw the ass to get it.

neah, look at it. Also i don't why so many people want it, maybe for internal networks.

Imagine a small-business level router with an octacore EPYC, 16GB ECC RAM, and eight of these babies on it on full speed, on a 10G switch

Speed will be the same, but latency gets noticeably worse. If you play games where ping time is important, stick with a gigabit adapter (or better yet, a 100 mbit one). There are two REALLY big things to note about 10 gig. 1.) That's an x8 slot on the adapter, and you need to plug it into a slot capable of actually serving out PCIe in Gen 3 x8 mode. That means on Z170/Z270 you MUST put it in the second graphics card slot, and on X99/X299 you need to make sure the slot you put it in runs in x8 or x16 mode with the CPU you have slotted. 2.) There's literally no single disk or SSD that can fully take advantage of 10GbE. That's why most motherboard manufacturers are settling for the cheaper 5GbE adapters; the fastest NVMe drives out there can't saturate 5GbE. You would need x99 or x299 boards with Samsung 960 Pro drives in RAID0 on both ends of the transfer before you needed 10GbE on consumer level gear.

you will only need pcie gen 2.0 x4 so you way out if you think you need x8 gen3 from wik 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-X) = 10 Gbit/s 1.25 GB/s PCI Express 2.0 (×4 link) = 20 Gbit/s 2 GB/s PCI Express 3.0 (×4 link) = 32 Gbit/s 3.938 GB/s so one good nvme drive would take it up Samsung 960 PRO M.2-2280 512GB 3,500 MB/s and 2,100 MB/s

I like how people look at buffered/sequential read/write speeds and conclude that that's the speed they are getting most of the time 😀