USB-C 10-GiG-E Ethernet Adapter

[AquaVixen]

As the title says I'm looking for a USB-C 10-GiG-E Ethernet Adapter for a future build. Does anyone know of any such adapter that exists? I'm looking for a USB one, NOT a thunderbolt one.

[kkpatel87]

13 minutes ago, AquaVixen said:

As the title says I'm looking for a USB-C 10-GiG-E Ethernet Adapter for a future build. Does anyone know of any such adapter that exists? I'm looking for a USB one, NOT a thunderbolt one.

There are some that go to 2.5/5 Gbps but not 10...from what i understand about the interconnects, USB-C does not support 10 gig lan because of the poor latency.  You need to go to TB3 for that.

[AquaVixen]

It should be possible. There is both a 20 Gbps and 10 Gbps standard for USB 3.2 Gen2. Even the 10 Gbps standard should be "Enough" to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet.. which is also 10 Gbps. At least logically that should work? 10 Gbps = 10 Gbps.

[GDRRiley]

if its a desktop just use PCIE it is going to be easier.

[GDRRiley]

Just now, AquaVixen said:

It should be possible. There is both a 20 Gbps and 10 Gbps standard for USB 3.2 Gen2. Even the 10 Gbps standard should be "Enough" to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet.. which is also 10 Gbps. At least logically that should work? 10 Gbps = 10 Gbps.

its also about power and someone making a chip that will work over USB

[AquaVixen]

1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

if its a desktop just use PCIE it is going to be easier.

I was planning to use this in a ITX build that does not have a spare PCIE port. The PCIE port in the planned build would be using a raid card in there. I guess I can't have everything I want in technology just yet.

[AquaVixen]

1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

its also about power and someone making a chip that will work over USB

So then no one has created a chip that can do what I asked for yet? Okay. So that's the answer then.

[kkpatel87]

2 minutes ago, AquaVixen said:

It should be possible. There is both a 20 Gbps and 10 Gbps standard for USB 3.2 Gen2. Even the 10 Gbps standard should be "Enough" to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet.. which is also 10 Gbps. At least logically that should work? 10 Gbps = 10 Gbps.

Well that is a very simplistic arguement. Take into account an interface chip and latency. With overhead, 10 gig ethernet would be more like 6Gbps, hency there are 2.5/5 gbps adapters.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, AquaVixen said:

I was planning to use this in a ITX build that does not have a spare PCIE port. The PCIE port in the planned build would be using a raid card in there. I guess I can't have everything I want in technology just yet.

many boards now should have 2.5 or 5gb built in

 

[AquaVixen]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

many boards now should have 2.5 or 5gb built in

 

Yep but I wanted 10 Gigabit.. oh well.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, AquaVixen said:

Yep but I wanted 10 Gigabit.. oh well.

then DTX or mini ITX.

some server boards will

I'll add this for a NAS/server USB nics aren't reliable

[AquaVixen]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

then DTX or mini ITX.

some server boards will

Oh! I forgot server boards. I wonder if supermicro makes ITX AMD boards.. time to go looking. Thanks for reminding me.

[GDRRiley]

Just now, AquaVixen said:

Oh! I forgot server boards. I wonder if supermicro makes ITX AMD boards.. time to go looking. Thanks for reminding me.

what socket?

[AquaVixen]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

what socket?

I'm hesitant to start driving this topic into a discussion about motherboards because this is the wrong section of the forums for that. I think my original question was answered already here.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, AquaVixen said:

I'm hesitant to start driving this topic into a discussion about motherboards because this is the wrong section of the forums for that. I think my original question was answered already here.

just give is more info. it is fine. its moved to more what you need

[AquaVixen]

I was hoping to build a small server out of a AMD AM4 B550-based Mini-ITX build, mainly because the new 4000 series APU's will feature 8 cores and 16 threads at < 100W. Which is very very appealing to me. I'll be replacing an ancient Dual-Quad-I7-Xeon-LGA-1366 server. I was wanting to use a hardware raid card in the main PCI-Express slot and then try to find some sort of way to also get 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the same system. I just think it's not possible with today's technology. Not yet. I'm probably going to have to give up and just go with a full ATX B550 / X570 build instead to get what I want, sadly.

[GDRRiley]

3 minutes ago, AquaVixen said:

I was hoping to build a small server out of a AMD AM4 B550-based Mini-ITX build, mainly because the new 4000 series APU's will feature 8 cores and 16 threads at < 100W. Which is very very appealing to me. I'll be replacing an ancient Dual-Quad-I7-Xeon-LGA-1366 server. I was wanting to use a hardware raid card in the main PCI-Express slot and then try to find some sort of way to also get 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the same system. I just think it's not possible with today's technology. Not yet. I'm probably going to have to give up and just go with a full ATX B550 / X570 build instead to get what I want, sadly.

X570D4I-2T by asrock rack is an option

[AquaVixen]

5 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

X570D4I-2T by asrock rack is an option

I had no idea "ASRock Rack" existed. I'll look through these later today. Thank you.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, AquaVixen said:

I had no idea "ASRock Rack" existed. I'll look through these later today. Thank you.

its a small sub division just like how gigabyte and asus have one

[AquaVixen]

Now that I'm done with dinner I can look into this. Wow, it has everything, even 10 Gigabit onboard and X570 chipset for Zen2 / Zen3. Looks like X570D4I-2T will do everything I want.  Nice find!

 

For anyone else looking at this thread and wanting to see what I was looking at, here it is: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X570D4I-2T#Specifications