10G PCIE x8/x16 Ethernet Network Adapter Compatible Intel X520-DA1 82599EN Chip,Single SFP+ Port LAN Card NIC Server Support Windows Server/Windows/Linux/Vmware ESXI

Great addition to get 10 G network at home. Blazing fast. Windows 11 found it immediately and installed the drivers.

The built-in network port on my computer failed so I purchased this unit. I plugged it into the PCI-e slot of the computer, turned it on, and it did not automatically find the new hardware. Turns out, that's what they want.The card came with a disk with a readme file stating that even if the computer finds the card, do not let it auto install. I ran the installation software and the card lit up. With this card, I am achieving 800+ Mbps download speeds.There are 2 network ports on this card, and there is a way to combine them in such a way to increase the speed, or redundancy of the connection. I'm not a gamer, so that was of no interest to me.

I would give this card 6 Stars if I could. Literally plugged it in and it took right off. Windows 11 recognized the card as a Intel I210 Gigabit Fiber Network Connection. I used an MTXNEO 1.25G 1310NM 20KM DDM SFP module.Interesting these cards do not have a heat sync on the main chip like most Intel cards. However, the Intel I210 card does not have a heat sync either. So absolutely no worries.At the time of this review these cards were selling for $10.99. Let me tell you, this is a steal! I will for sure be purchasing more of these cards. Will let this one run for a while. If it fails within a short period of time I will update my review. For sure not expecting any issues.

Works fine , no issues

I needed a second nic for my NVR. A added this NIC and Windows found and set it up without me needing to do anything. I don’t know if you can PXE boot from it, but it works great from Windows 11. So much better than those NE 2000 compatible cards which always require drivers and are never quite compatible.

Ubuntu server 22.04 natively supported.Currently using this card as the interface to my 2.5Gb service. Passing port one to a pfSense vm then port two from that vm to supply my 10Gb NAS infrastructure, plus a virtual switch supplying 21 busy client vms, a secondary 1Gb infrastructure for household wireless (32 clients) and a third 1Gb server infrastructure (4 more clients). This card has just worked so well with no drama that I've just ordered another one and more to come as I upgrade my commercial infrastructure to 10Gb.

This worked out of the box on my custom built home server. The CentOS Stream 9 installed on my ASRock Z790M PG Lightning/D4 coupled with 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13600K was able to detect the new network interface without having to load any drivers. I have used the Wiitek 10GbE SFP+ DAC Twinax cable to connect it with Ubiquiti UniFi Aggregation switch. Based on the initial experience, this gets 5 stars. However if I experience any trouble later on, I’ll update the rating and this review accordingly.Update: It turns out the card is not fully compatible with the specific setup that I have. The card was plugged into an x16 physical PCIe v3 slot having only 4 electrically connected lanes. Since the card is PCIe v2, it was expected that it would run at v2 speeds however as long as 4 lanes are used it should be plenty to provide 10gbps speed. However unfortunately the OS reports that the card is connected as PCIe v2 with only 2 electrical lanes which is a bit of a bummer since otherwise the installation process was pretty smooth. This could just be a compatibility issue with the specific motherboard I have and your experience may vary.For reference, this is the message I get during boot:pci 0000:02:00.0: 8.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 5.0 GT/s PCIe x2 link at 0000:00:1c.0 (capable of 32.000 Gb/s with 5.0 GT/s PCIe x8 link)The iperf3 tests show the following results:[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 6.30 GBytes 5.41 Gbits/sec 1 sender[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 6.30 GBytes 5.39 Gbits/sec receiverHad it been able to establish the x4 link, I have no doubt I would have gotten the full 10Gbits/sec throughput.

Worked on Unraid with no issues, but Windows 11 needed drivers installed manually. Went on Intel's website and got release 27.0 and had to unzip the (.exe) and look for the corresponding chipset. Once that was done everything worked perfect.

facile d'installation, fait la job

I like that it just worked, and I had 10 GB connection into my switch from my storage.