I'm trying to buy a couple of Mellanox SFP+ NICs for the first time and I want to make sure that I'll be buying the correct one.
1. Are there fakes of these cards from eBay like the Intel ones?
2. I know these get hot quite a bit and considering that I'll be using them in a tropical country (Philippines), I want to get a variant that is known to have good cooling. Are OEM variants better than stock ones in this area? Or are they pretty much the same?
3. Any other differences between OEM and stock that I should know about?
I'll be using one CX311 in a Synology DS1817+, another one on a Windows 11 PC, and a CX312 on a pfsense box.
1. Are there fakes of these cards from eBay like the Intel ones?
2. I know these get hot quite a bit and considering that I'll be using them in a tropical country (Philippines), I want to get a variant that is known to have good cooling. Are OEM variants better than stock ones in this area? Or are they pretty much the same?
3. Any other differences between OEM and stock that I should know about?
I'll be using one CX311 in a Synology DS1817+, another one on a Windows 11 PC, and a CX312 on a pfsense box.