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5G and 10G AQtion NIC products at $59.00 and $69.00
You guys know I've been evangelizing 5G and 10Gbit/s Ethernet to be embedded into motherboards for a while now. Well, Aquantia is pleased to offer a special holiday promotional pricing for our 5G and 10G AQtion NIC products. At $59.00 and $69.00 respectively.
San Jose, Calif. – Nov. 21, 2017 – Aquantia Corp., (NYSE: AQ), a leader in high-speed, Multi-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity solutions, today announced its plan to help PC gamers and hardware enthusiasts squeeze new levels of performance out of their systems. Today, Aquantia announced a special holiday promotion with international distribution partners Arrow, WPGA and WPI, to deliver the industry’s fastest Ethernet adaptors – Aquantia AQtion Network Interface Cards (NICs) – to gamers and performance PC users at a giftworthy pricepoint for a limited time. On Black Friday, November 24th, the Aquantia AQtion AQN-108 5G NIC will be available for $59.00 and the Aquantia AQtion AQN-107 10G NIC will be available for an unprecedented $69.00.
The super-low latency and in-game advantage that AQtion Multi-Gigabit NICs deliver make them the perfect holiday surprise for any hardware enthusiast. The performance PC user – whether a gamer, video editing enthusiast, designer, engineer or just a tried and true geek – wants the ability to move huge volumes of digital life data seamlessly and quickly. In a home or office, that seamless capability requires a 5G or even a 10G NIC card.
Kamal Dalmia, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, said: “Typically, gamers and performance PC enthusiasts are on the leading edge of technology trends. Given the substantial uptick in interest we have seen for Multi-Gig PC Access solutions in the past year we thought it would be great to kick off the holiday season with a special promotion for those users. Not only do they get outstanding Multi-Gig Ethernet performance, but they get bragging rights over their pals who are still using outdated, 17-year-old single gigabit technology.”
The AQtion AQN-108 NIC supports 5G and 2.5G Ethernet speeds over standard Cat 5e and Cat 6 copper cables. Compliant to IEEE 802.3bz standard, these adapters are also backward-compatible with legacy 1000BASE-T Ethernet. The AQtion AQN-107 NIC has the added benefit of supporting 10GBASE-T Ethernet in compliance with the IEEE 802.3an standard. By supporting PCI Express x4 and x1 versions with a single RJ45 port, these new Aquantia NICs can be used to easily upgrade existing PCs and new models to fully utilize the bandwidth capabilities of modern CPUs and GPUs.
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#5494451 Posted on: 11/21/2017 06:00 PM
The real question is, who is gonna pay 600+€ for a corresponding switch ?
I evaluated it and came to the decision to wait another year or two, tho I redid the cabling in the house already to accomodate 10G, once it's mainstream and supported from HighEnd Macs ( iMac Pro does ) to mainstream Asus boards, without the need of an add-in card it will drop in with new devices by itself. No reason to force it for that much money imho unless you benefit in your workflow and make money with it, that's a different story and money is waged against performance and time. This is not the case with my gaming rig that occasionally fires up some VM machines.
The real question is, who is gonna pay 600+€ for a corresponding switch ?
I evaluated it and came to the decision to wait another year or two, tho I redid the cabling in the house already to accomodate 10G, once it's mainstream and supported from HighEnd Macs ( iMac Pro does ) to mainstream Asus boards, without the need of an add-in card it will drop in with new devices by itself. No reason to force it for that much money imho unless you benefit in your workflow and make money with it, that's a different story and money is waged against performance and time. This is not the case with my gaming rig that occasionally fires up some VM machines.
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#5494493 Posted on: 11/21/2017 08:36 PM
The real question is, who is gonna pay 600+€ for a corresponding switch ?
I evaluated it and came to the decision to wait another year or two, tho I redid the cabling in the house already to accomodate 10G, once it's mainstream and supported from HighEnd Macs ( iMac Pro does ) to mainstream Asus boards, without the need of an add-in card it will drop in with new devices by itself. No reason to force it for that much money imho unless you benefit in your workflow and make money with it, that's a different story and money is waged against performance and time. This is not the case with my gaming rig that occasionally fires up some VM machines.
Well look at it from this point; until recently that kind of a card costed 600+€, at least it is starting to become somewhat affordable.
The real question is, who is gonna pay 600+€ for a corresponding switch ?
I evaluated it and came to the decision to wait another year or two, tho I redid the cabling in the house already to accomodate 10G, once it's mainstream and supported from HighEnd Macs ( iMac Pro does ) to mainstream Asus boards, without the need of an add-in card it will drop in with new devices by itself. No reason to force it for that much money imho unless you benefit in your workflow and make money with it, that's a different story and money is waged against performance and time. This is not the case with my gaming rig that occasionally fires up some VM machines.
Well look at it from this point; until recently that kind of a card costed 600+€, at least it is starting to become somewhat affordable.
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#5494566 Posted on: 11/22/2017 05:34 AM
As i understand this, it works at speeds of up to 5 gig on Cat 5e/Cat 6 and 10 gig on Cat 6a/Cat 7. I would imagine that 2.5g base-t and 5g base-t are going to be very popular, as it is a pretty good step up from 1 gig. There is a lot of cat5 in this world.......a whole lot. Replacing it with cat 7 and fiber can be pricey and downtimey, often prohibitively so for many.
As i understand this, it works at speeds of up to 5 gig on Cat 5e/Cat 6 and 10 gig on Cat 6a/Cat 7. I would imagine that 2.5g base-t and 5g base-t are going to be very popular, as it is a pretty good step up from 1 gig. There is a lot of cat5 in this world.......a whole lot. Replacing it with cat 7 and fiber can be pricey and downtimey, often prohibitively so for many.
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#5494651 Posted on: 11/22/2017 01:26 PM
Right now my 1gbit LAN is more than sufficient. Sure, it is nice if your ISO has finished after some seconds, but be honest: How many of your devices could possibly USE the full amount of 10gbit (~1,25GB/s)? Wouldn't 1gbit (~125MB/s) be more than sufficient, even if you live at your house with your whole family and everybody uses at least one device simultanously?
For the use in a private household I really see no gain in anything, most households (gurus aside ;-) ) even run their devices with traditional HDDs or probably one small SSD. And if your harddrive only manages 50MB/s it doesn't matter if you use 1gbit or 10, the bottleneck is the harddrive.
Sure, if you have to renew all your cabling, I would invest in a CAT7 setup with decent shielding, so the "base" is done and you don't have to do the same work / invest twice in the near or far future.
But right now, where internet speeds still are crappy as hell, fiber does not cover the whole country and most (German) people don't even get more than 16mbit ADSL (16 down, 1 up), I do not see any need to get one of these chips or invest in a whole 10gbit setup (cards, switches, cabling, routers/firewalls, etc.)
Remember the times where you had to pay hundreds Euros or more for a single 10mbit LAN card? Now gbit cards cost almost nothing, you get one for less than 10 Euros if you like. Wait a few years and the same will happen to the 10gbit cards.
Right now my 1gbit LAN is more than sufficient. Sure, it is nice if your ISO has finished after some seconds, but be honest: How many of your devices could possibly USE the full amount of 10gbit (~1,25GB/s)? Wouldn't 1gbit (~125MB/s) be more than sufficient, even if you live at your house with your whole family and everybody uses at least one device simultanously?
For the use in a private household I really see no gain in anything, most households (gurus aside ;-) ) even run their devices with traditional HDDs or probably one small SSD. And if your harddrive only manages 50MB/s it doesn't matter if you use 1gbit or 10, the bottleneck is the harddrive.
Sure, if you have to renew all your cabling, I would invest in a CAT7 setup with decent shielding, so the "base" is done and you don't have to do the same work / invest twice in the near or far future.
But right now, where internet speeds still are crappy as hell, fiber does not cover the whole country and most (German) people don't even get more than 16mbit ADSL (16 down, 1 up), I do not see any need to get one of these chips or invest in a whole 10gbit setup (cards, switches, cabling, routers/firewalls, etc.)
Remember the times where you had to pay hundreds Euros or more for a single 10mbit LAN card? Now gbit cards cost almost nothing, you get one for less than 10 Euros if you like. Wait a few years and the same will happen to the 10gbit cards.
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The real questions are how good is aquantia regarding driver support?
What about total latency, DPC latency, etc
Intel usually much better in those regards than the likes of broadcom, realtek, etc