ipolex 10Gb Network Card Intel X710-DA2 Ethernet Card SFP+ PCIe NIC, Dual SFP+ Port, Intel X710-BM2 Controller, PCI Express 3.0, PCI-E Ethernet LAN Adapter Support Windows Server/Linux/VMware

This card does what it is supposed to do. It negotiates at full speed and easily maxes out my connection without any drops or instability. Once it is set up, it just works and stays consistent. Setup was not completely plug and play for me. Windows did not install the driver automatically. I had to go into Device Manager, find the unknown network device, and manually point it to the driver I downloaded from the manufacturer. After that, the card came online and has been solid. The bigger issue was the physical fit. The metal port shield around the Ethernet connector is clearly designed with a server chassis in mind. In my standard RGB desktop case, the top of that shield hit the edge of the case and kept the bracket from seating properly. To make it work, I had to carefully trim the top of the metal shield down to roughly the height of the PCB so the card could sit flush in the slot. After that little bit of handiwork, it fit fine and has been working with no problems. Overall, performance is great and it fully saturates my line, but be aware that you need to install drivers manually and, depending on your case, you might have to do a bit of physical work to get it to fit right.

Works perfectly. The difference in speed between this card and a gigabyte card is incredible. It was easy to install, and I was able to download and install the drivers for it without a problem.

I had trouble getting it working on windows 11 even trying some other tutorials I found on the internet. The seller sent me the above image with a note and the card comes up very well on both ports now. For the price this is the best value I have found even through it is using a "old" driver. It works well connected to my Ubiquiti set up. I am glad they responded with a note, I had figured I would have to use it on a server platform instead of a workstation. Follow the video from the link above and it will come right up in windows 11. It will warn you about driver signing but it is an Intel driver it is just that they are not keeping up with windows 11. Beyond that the card works well on my mother board. It has a well designed heat sink and where it is located in system it has a case fan directly cooling it. For the price you are not going to beat the card.

Installed in a vintage 2016 system (!), it still worked perfectly, was recognized by OPNsense (FreeBSD) which is often picky about NIC's, and operates at full speed. No issues at all.

It should be noted that this chip set is no longer supported by Intel, while Linux supports the drivers, and they work great, there are no windows 10 or 11 drivers. The company's website only directs you to the Intel website drivers, which only have drivers for BSD, windows 7 and a couple of Microsoft servers. But with some internet searching, you can find drivers for Windows 10, which work perfectly fine on Windows 11. I found some on a Dell support website. That's why I give them a 4.

My use case is a personal development network with two high end desktop workstations, one with AMD Ryzen 9 and the other with Intel i7. Both are running Ubuntu Linux 22.04.2 PRO and I am using a Mikrotik CRS306-4S-1N switch. Both Desktop systems have dual 10G NICs and cable into the switch with 6COM 6C-SFP-10G-T SFP+ 10G RJ45 Adapters and CAT8 cabling. As soon as everything was plugged in the systems came right up and everything was fast and sweet. Don't forget to plug in the backhaul cable from the switch to your in-house network feed otherwise no DHCP and the 10G connections don't com up. Highly recommended. This is plug and play and the most practical sense. Installation time was about an hour and that include putting boards in two machines, running cables, attaching adapters and installing switch. "Settings/Network/Ethernet/Wired/enp11s0f0 showed connected at 10000 Mb/s immediately. My one extra thought though is that the dual channel boards are only a little bit more, and by the time you bother to open up the box and install a board, you might as well think of the future, IMHO.

Works great - up to advertised speeds. But - once I setup a vlan on this card - if both are used at the same time - the performance suffers. Guessing related to buffers. But I’m done troubleshooting.

l'ho installata su pfsense per collegarlo ad uno switch mikrotik in 10G. Il sistema l'ha visto senza nessun problema e le performance sono ottime. La consiglio per la sua facilità d'uso e per il prezzo.

Worked perfectly how I needed didn't even need a driver

To be fair I was a really disappointed when this card turned up. Considering how much it cost the heat sink was quite loose and wobbled about. I tried to straighten it up but it kept reverting back to its wonky state. There's a couple of plastic pegs on opposite corners of the heatsink, held in place with springs, but it looks like one of the springs was weaker than the other one and compressed fully causing the issue. Perhaps my card was faulty but this sort of thing should be picked up in QA. The card seemed to work and was detected fine after installing the Intel drivers from their website. This also leveraged the extra functionality provided by this card's chipset such as VLANs, Link Aggregation etc. so it clearly works and appears to be a genuine Intel chip. However, the heatsink got incredibly hot after only a few minutes use. I just didn't have much confidence in the heatsink doing a good job of dissipating heat, or in the plastic pins holding it on top of a chip that clearly gets really hot. If you are looking for a Dual port 10GbE RJ45 card I think there are better quality options out there. Pros: - Appears to be a genuine Intel chip - Works with Intel drivers to leverage advanced functionality such as VLANs, Link Aggregation etc. - Comes with low profile bracket Cons: - Expensive - Really poor build quality on the heatsink and installation - Runs very hot

R8127を試したもののUbuntuにドライバを入れた辺りから不調になってしまい、泣く泣くこちらに交換しました。 とりあえず挿しただけで、サーバ間で9.6Gbpsで転送できています。 安定性などはこれからですが、ドライバでどうこうしなくて良いというのは精神衛生上素晴らしいです。 純正ボードということですが、10Gtek製のようです。 --- 現状、特に支障なく（サーバが落ちることなく）運用できています。 100GB程度のやり取りでは問題ありません。大量データの移動はまだ試していませんが、さすがの安定性かと思います。

Works great, you need to install the drivers on windows 11 manually by downloading them from the website, you can either Google the product name or just scan the qr code on the network card. Getting 8.7Gb speed, but this is cause my ISP provides that much. Very satisfied with this network card.