Rating: - Rock solid on linux
I replaced my cheapie gigabit nics (Realtek chipset) with the Intel nics and the difference is like night and day under Linux. 50MB/s file transfers are now the norm. You can go cheapie on most other computer parts but don't do it with nics under Linux.
Rating: - Works and Fast
Can be installed in the 3rd PCIe x16 slot in an EVGA 780i SLI motherboard.
So you can have 2 video cards and the quality of an Intel network adapter running at PCIe speed.
Rating: - Great gigabit network card!
Being an Intel product I installed this with no trouble. My wired network speed went from 5 MB/sec to about 9 MB/sec for a 5GB file transfer. I thought it should be better so I did a little serching and found out that a setting in the windows xp operating system had to be enabled. After I did this, a reboot and reset of the switch and router I got an amazing 20 MB/sec transfer rate! It really saves file transfer times greatly, especially if you edit and archive large video files as I do. I would recommend this card to anyone.
Rating: - Love the card
This is a very good card and it works with CentOS 5.0 just fine. Intel ROCKS!!!!
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