WIFI Help

[_god_]

Im building my brother a PC and he has no access to Ethernet, so hes stuck with wireless. He's looking to game on this rig and needs a WiFi card or adapter. I've been looking at the TP-Link AC1300 but after seeing some of the reviews where writen in 2015 im not sure if its out of date now.  I saw on another post here taking about Intel's AX200 but the amazon page for it says it only works with Intel CPUs and my brother has AMD.  I was wondering if yall could help me out and give any reconmendations for anything around $40.  Anything helps!

[Electronics Wizardy]

the ax200 seem to be the goto cards there days, and support any cpu.

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, _god_ said:

Im building my brother a PC and he has no access to Ethernet, so hes stuck with wireless. He's looking to game on this rig and needs a WiFi card or adapter. I've been looking at the TP-Link AC1300 but after seeing some of the reviews where writen in 2015 im not sure if its out of date now.  I saw on another post here taking about Intel's AX200 but the amazon page for it says it only works with Intel CPUs and my brother has AMD.  I was wondering if yall could help me out and give any reconmendations for anything around $40.  Anything helps!

My AMD CPU on my laptop and desktop with AX200 Intel cards would like to disagree with that statement.

Keep in mind if the router isn't AX ready then you won't see any benefit over an AC card but if you can get it for cheap it won't hurt either.

[_god_]

34 minutes ago, Lurick said:

My AMD CPU on my laptop and desktop with AX200 Intel cards would like to disagree with that statement.

Keep in mind if the router isn't AX ready then you won't see any benefit over an AC card but if you can get it for cheap it won't hurt either.

How do I know if my router is AX ready?

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, _god_ said:

Anything helps!

Look up the model number of the router in google to figure out what WiFi standard it is and buy accordingly. Ive owned some TP Link adapters and they were always rock solid. Asus also has some fine selections from what I have read. You may want to consider a PCIe card that has a movable antenna. For example there are WiFi adapters where instead of antennas being connected directly to the back the antenna is connected to the card via some wires. This gives you the ability to place the antenna in a place that has the best reception.