I ran into this forum via a search that brought me to the excellent comparison thread on the i350-t4.
Well, I ran into a deal that may be too good to be true, and I wanted to get some feedback. The card I've been needing is about 6 Intel PWLA8492MT. Now, these cards are older and are PCI-X, but also work fine in a PCI slot (yes, I know about the bandwidth situation when doing that.). Typical pulls go for about the same that I've paid for what are supposed to be new-in-box Intel cards.
Mine have arrived from California in shrink wrapped Intel boxes, have the Intel sticker on the back of the card, an Intel installation book, Intel branded install CD, but are not PCI-X. (I really don't know how as a fake you just chop off the 64-bit part of the design.)
So the question is, did Intel ever make a PCI-only version of the PWLA8492MT without changing the part number? Seems unlikely to me, but I wanted to hear your thoughts.
Well, I ran into a deal that may be too good to be true, and I wanted to get some feedback. The card I've been needing is about 6 Intel PWLA8492MT. Now, these cards are older and are PCI-X, but also work fine in a PCI slot (yes, I know about the bandwidth situation when doing that.). Typical pulls go for about the same that I've paid for what are supposed to be new-in-box Intel cards.
Mine have arrived from California in shrink wrapped Intel boxes, have the Intel sticker on the back of the card, an Intel installation book, Intel branded install CD, but are not PCI-X. (I really don't know how as a fake you just chop off the 64-bit part of the design.)
So the question is, did Intel ever make a PCI-only version of the PWLA8492MT without changing the part number? Seems unlikely to me, but I wanted to hear your thoughts.