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I'm building out a 10G LAN in my house (8k VR video files are ludicrously enormous) and while it's mostly Mac, where I use Thunderbolt to SFP fiber adapters, fo

I'm building out a 10G LAN in my house (8k VR video files are ludicrously enormous) and while it's mostly Mac, where I use Thunderbolt to SFP fiber adapters, for my Windows PC I'm looking around at what PCI options to get, and haven't pulled the trigger. If you make a decision on a 10G card (SFP or ethernet) I'd like to hear what you picked.

murderfs 2y ago
You can get pretty cheap 10GBASE-T NICs on ebay. I've had pretty good success with this abomination, a server-pull NIC with an HP proprietary physical interface plugged into an adapter to PCI-E: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144151881516 https://www.ebay.com/itm/144151881516
- toast0 2y ago
  That's a pretty weird contraption. If you want weird, I'd suggest one of these https://www.ebay.com/itm/166884585625 https://www.ebay.com/itm/166884585625 Silicom PEG210 Silicom PE210G2BPI40-T-SD-BC7 Intel x540 based bypass NIC. In case you want to have the two ports connect together when the computer is off or something. Setup time is a bit more, but you can also configure them to act like normal NICs. Usually show up around $15-25 like other x540 dual rj45 cards, but sometimes a bit less, cause they're weird.
timc3 2y ago
If its SFP then intel, they have seem to have good ability to go into power saving states. My mellanox cards don’t. 10gbase-t ethernet is harder to pick, a lot of those cards run incredibly hot particularly the ones that expect server style cooling. Heard bad things about all of them. Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway.
- toast0 2y ago
  > Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway. It really shouldn't. Microsoft invented or popularized Receive Side Scaling [1], which helps get things lined up for high throughput; but applications probably need to do a bit of work too. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/introduction-to-receive-side-scaling https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/n...

murderfs 2y ago

You can get pretty cheap 10GBASE-T NICs on ebay. I've had pretty good success with this abomination, a server-pull NIC with an HP proprietary physical interface plugged into an adapter to PCI-E: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144151881516 https://www.ebay.com/itm/144151881516

toast0 2y ago
That's a pretty weird contraption. If you want weird, I'd suggest one of these https://www.ebay.com/itm/166884585625 https://www.ebay.com/itm/166884585625 Silicom PEG210 Silicom PE210G2BPI40-T-SD-BC7 Intel x540 based bypass NIC. In case you want to have the two ports connect together when the computer is off or something. Setup time is a bit more, but you can also configure them to act like normal NICs. Usually show up around $15-25 like other x540 dual rj45 cards, but sometimes a bit less, cause they're weird.

timc3 2y ago

If its SFP then intel, they have seem to have good ability to go into power saving states. My mellanox cards don’t. 10gbase-t ethernet is harder to pick, a lot of those cards run incredibly hot particularly the ones that expect server style cooling. Heard bad things about all of them. Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway.

toast0 2y ago
> Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway. It really shouldn't. Microsoft invented or popularized Receive Side Scaling [1], which helps get things lined up for high throughput; but applications probably need to do a bit of work too. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/introduction-to-receive-side-scaling https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/n...