List of NICs and their equivalent OEM parts

[newabc]

hello all,
have some experience with hardware and servers, but new to buying NICs here and just now finding out about generics and counterfeits and etc. The first posts on this thread aren't up to date, right? is there a list somewhere of recommended NIC hardware? I'm looking for a dual or quad port intel NIC to put in a Dell Optiplex but hoping to avoid something that will fail in the long term as i'd like to use this for OPNsense

Usually, the unpopular Intel OEM brands will have much less counterfeits, like the Intel OEMed Cisco, Fujitsu, Supermicro, etc. brands.
If the installation method is bare metal, not using hypervisors, personally I will recommend i340-t4 OEMs, less counterfeits than i350-t4 which can do SR-IOV.

 

[Samir]

Usually, the unpopular Intel OEM brands will have much less counterfeits, like the Intel OEMed Cisco, Fujitsu, Supermicro, etc. brands.

<-- Dead on. Even the Dells and HPs have fakes now so can't trust those 100%, even from recyclers.

 

[Matta]

Can I use HP 530sfp+ (652503-b21) on Windows 10 somehow ? I tried to find drivers but there are only Windows Server drivers.

 

[newabc]

Can I use HP 530sfp+ (652503-b21) on Windows 10 somehow ? I tried to find drivers but there are only Windows Server drivers.

For the famous NICs, usually the win server drivers are compatible with the windows with the same primary version number. So I think the win server 2022 drivers have a large possibility to be compatible with win 10.

 

[nabsltd]

Can I use HP 530sfp+ (652503-b21) on Windows 10 somehow ?

I booted a WinPE of Windows 10 and it had drivers for the 530SFP+.

But, you can always follow the instructions in this thread.

 

[MountainBofh]

Can I use HP 530sfp+ (652503-b21) on Windows 10 somehow ? I tried to find drivers but there are only Windows Server drivers.

Yes, those are a Broadcom 57810 based card. Broadcom makes their drivers a nightmare to find, but I got you covered. https://www.btfh.net/temp/57810.zip

 

[Matta]

Yes, those are a Broadcom 57810 based card. Broadcom makes their drivers a nightmare to find, but I got you covered. https://www.btfh.net/temp/57810.zip

Link is not working at the moment, not sure if it's temporary or ?

 

[MountainBofh]

Link is not working at the moment, not sure if it's temporary or ?

Its probably the firewall on my web server, I tend to block a lot of non US IP addresses. I'll drop the firewall for a few days. Sorry about that.

 

[Matta]

No problem, thanks.
I've managed to download and extract. Since there is no instalation exe I guess I can only try to install it via device manager. But when I give file location with 4 .sys files it gives me various devices but it seems none of it work when I install.

 

[MountainBofh]

should just be a standard inf type driver install. Not sure why its not working for you : (