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Here is my anecdotal take: This is highly dependent on your setup. I suffered this with my older Intel Core i7 2600k Asus P8Z68V motherboard PC...
I don't have any experience with those PCIe to PCI adapter brackets but they use a common PCI to PCIe bridge chip. In fact most consumer/gaming...
Correct answer! In a 3U/4U chassis where you cannot easily duct airflow just mount a side fan that blows onto the card. That is sufficient. You...
What are you talking about? The drivers are still available here: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=32 Click WinOF then...
Have you tried freight forwarders? Sometimes they have more favorable shipping prices and low customs processing fees (lower than UPS, DHL, etc).
If you need that many ports it is a truly unique product and has a good mix of SFP+ and 10GBASE-T which you don't see often on low port count...
Interesting thread. Especially interesting seeing the Mikrotik rep didn't understand the problem fully and just made a "oh but Cisco isn't perfect...
The problem with the mainstream platforms has been the low pin count on the socket both for AMD and Intel. They need to up their game in that...
Mikrotik seem to announce new products a year+ ahead of the actual store availability. Most people forget all about it by the time they can buy it...
For what its worth I always had Task manager up when testing as I was also measuring CPU utilization during the iperf2 runs. And iperf2 and Task...
@arglebargle Yes you are right as long as you pick Linux or FreeBSD as OS but as long as you go with Windows something fishy is going on. Either...
There is no need to run multithreaded iperf tests. ConnectX-2 and ConnectX-3 is capable of maxing at 9.8Gbps single stream. Just make sure your PC...
So AsRock actually supports ECC on their boards. As in if I have an issues with the ECC functionality I can complain and get a replacement board?...
A bit telling how expensive these switch chips must still be when all they can accomplish are two ports. The Netgear GS810EMX (gaming focused)...
There is no compelling reason to go with SM's consumer boards. They are not of higher quality than Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, etc. Especially not their...
How come it is only X79 though? Did some factory end up buying way too many of these chips back in the day? All these boards are recently...
Most of the time you are better off just searching ebay yourself instead of trying to use this forum for great deals. I catch myself primarily...
Those chinese X79 boards are manufactured quite recently to cash in on the availability of cheap 2011 CPUs. Used to assemble primarily desktop...
As long as you use fiber optics everything should speak 10GBASE-SR and thus work. That is a defined standard. If the NICs don't communicate they...
It is a hard sell. Only really high end motherboards come with it onboard and gamers don't ask for it. Only aspiring content creators that need...
