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Wifi Card for Gaming PC?

Trippsy

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Im looking to get a wifi card for my gaming PC mainly to help with ping and better connection. The way my house is set up I can not use the tried and true Ethernet so unfortunately on board Wifi or a card/adater is all I can do right now.
Suggestions?

Motherboard: MSI MPG x570 Gaming Plus
Case: NZXT H500

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Have you looked into a powerline adapter? It would help a lot overall.

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1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

Have you looked into a powerline adapter? It would help a lot overall.

No, what is it?

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I personally use a Gigabyte GC-WB1733D-I Wi-Fi card, it's a PCIe x1 Wi-Fi card that supported 1733Mbps and Bluetooth 5.0. I bought mine for £28 from Amazon.

It's been super reliable so far in my experience with it, no ping spikes, no outages, no malfunctions, it's a great card.

 

The reason it's a good card is because it uses an Intel 9260 Wi-Fi card as it's method of networking, meaning you get Intel networking inside the card, great reliability.

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4 minutes ago, Trippsy said:

No, what is it?

it's a wifi extender, you run an ethernet cable to it and it gives more range.

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Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

How many watts do I needATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 spec, PSU misconceptions, protections explainedgroup reg is bad

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If it's an internal card, as long as it uses Intel's Wi-Fi chipset, it should be rock solid. Though make sure the antennas can be in a position where they're not blocked a whole lot by the case itself since the case can act as an RF block.

 

However I've used USB based ones in the past, which 3.0 ones are still good for 802.11n and 802.11ac. Do not get a USB 2.0 one.

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10 minutes ago, Trippsy said:

(I hope this is the right category)
Im looking to get a wifi card for my gaming PC mainly to help with ping and better connection. The way my house is set up I can not use the tried and true Ethernet so unfortunately on board Wifi or a card/adater is all I can do right now.
Suggestions?

Motherboard: MSI MPG x570 Gaming Plus
Case: NZXT H500

Should have bought a motherboard with wifi instead of that X570.  TP-Link's products are good.  Basically most every wfi solution works fine just need to get one based on your internet speeds and distance.

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Best Wifi for a desktop is getting a motherboard with it built in, otherwise try Powerline Adapters they're fantastic. If you can't do powerline adapters then any pcie wifi card that uses intel chipsets and is wireless ac, I used a gigabyte one last year for a friend that was pretty good can't remember the name but I think it was only like $30 on Amazon.

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40 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Best Wifi for a desktop is getting a motherboard with it built in, otherwise try Powerline Adapters they're fantastic. If you can't do powerline adapters then any pcie wifi card that uses intel chipsets and is wireless ac, I used a gigabyte one last year for a friend that was pretty good can't remember the name but I think it was only like $30 on Amazon.

How so when a PCIe to M.2 adapter will basically allow identical chipsets as provided on-board?  The only benefit of on-board is the USB being routed in the connected rather than stealing a motherboard header. eg https://amzn.to/32lbDae

 

The bonus is they could easily be upgraded to an Intel AX200 card for the very latest WiFi 6 technology for less than buying the higher model.

 

Powerline can be a good option if your AC wiring is good and you don't have DSL, but its also more expensive than WiFi. (it can interfere with DSL in some circumstances causing a reduction in broadband speed)

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WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX
ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up)
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5 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

How so when a PCIe to M.2 adapter will basically allow identical chipsets as provided on-board?

Well then you're having to buy an adapter as well as the WiFi card. With a board that has it built in you don't have to buy extra parts or adapters and you aren't taking up slots that can be used for other things.

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36 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Well then you're having to buy an adapter as well as the WiFi card. With a board that has it built in you don't have to buy extra parts or adapters and you aren't taking up slots that can be used for other things.

Fair point, but depending on the motherboard choices you could end up paying more than the cost of the adapter and most people will have spare PCIe slots anyway.

It only really bites you on the ass when you go ITX like I did ;) so have no spare PCIe slots.

 

Well technically my motherboard DOES have on-board WiFi, but its soldered on the board so can't be upgraded which sucks.

Router:  Intel N100 (pfSense) WiFi6: Zyxel NWA210AX (1.7Gbit peak at 160Mhz)
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ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up)
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