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I have CAT6 cable in my home and was looking into buying a 10Gb card for my computers to utilize the bandwidth. My questions is why there are some that cost $400 and others that cost $30 when there appears to be no apparent difference between them. Here's a link to a newegg page that demonstrates this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100010064%20600013864%20600013871. Any insight would be great.

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Why would you need a 10Gb NIC?

Why do we need 4k TV's? We don't, we just want them

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I have CAT6 cable in my home and was looking into buying a 10Gb card for my computers to utilize the bandwidth. My questions is why there are some that cost $400 and others that cost $30 when there appears to be no apparent difference between them. Here's a link to a newegg page that demonstrates this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100010064%20600013864%20600013871. Any insight would be great.

Unbranded,  seems to be that in the description they are said to run at 1Gbps  rather than 10 which sounds more resonable for the price. Its probably a tiypeo, I would only ever buy branded NIC's especialy if we are looking at 10Gbs +

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Why do we need 4k TV's? We don't, we just want them

But 4K you can actually see a difference a 10 gigabit connection might never even get 1 gigabit worth fo bandwidth used in a normal home environment it would be a waste.

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But 4K you can actually see a difference a 10 gigabit connection might never even get 1 gigabit worth fo bandwidth used in a normal home environment it would be a waste.

But you don't actually need 4k to watch TV. Hell, you don't even need 1080p. My point is, we don't really need anything other than what is required to live. But we WANT things. Want is a very different thing from need

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To my knowledge you can't find a 10 gigabit card for under 200$ so a 30$ card probably has some kind of catch to it.

It is probably a 1Gb card

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For $30 it would be worth having a look. You could always return it if it isn't right.

 

 

 

 

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If you read the reviews you can see that it's not 10Gb.

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Why would you need a 10Gb NIC?

SPEED we need more SPEED 

Really though, 10gbe for an internal network with file server would be nice though.

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