Aquantia 10G Ethernet Adapters for Gamers Available for $89.99
10 GigE keeps dropping in price, and we like that (as well as the new black colored PCB! Aquantia, a leader in Multi-Gigabit Ethernet, is pumping new life into networked gaming. Today the company announced the availability of a special gamer edition AQtion AQN-107 Ethernet adapter for an introductory price of $89.99.
The AQN-107 10Gigabit adapter takes high-speed Multi-Gig networking to the next level, and the gamer edition provides exclusive access to new Aquantia gaming prioritization software. The AQtion AQN-107 gamer edition hardware is clad in classic black and comes with both full-height and half-height powder coated black brackets for the gamer who wants a beautiful, fragging machine. LK Bhupathi, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Aquantia: “We listened to feedback from the guru community – they want easy access to high-performance Multi-Gig Ethernet hardware at competitive price points. Amazon provides us with the customer-focused approach that gamers and PC enthusiasts demand. Aquantia decided to kick off our Amazon presence with a special gaming edition of our 10G AQtion Ethernet Adapter combined with the beta version of Aquantia’s prioritization software so users can tightly control latency and lag.”
- Available exclusively on Amazon
The combination of the gamer edition AQN-107 with the new Aquantia software will allow gamers to prioritize gameplay over other LAN activity. The reduction in lag and latency provides the reaction time advantage which can mean the difference between living on to play more and a “Game Over” situation. Twitch streamers, in particular, will benefit from dynamically controlling both the upload and download speeds through the prioritization interface.
About the Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107
The Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107 in classic black supports 10GBASE-T Ethernet in compliance with the IEEE 802.3an standard. It is also backward compatible with legacy cabling and Ethernet standards and supports 5GBASE-T and 2.5GBASE-T Ethernet per the IEEE 802.3bz standard. By supporting PCI Express x4 with a single RJ45 port, AQtion NICs can easily upgrade most existing tower PCs, supplanting outdated Gigabit Ethernet. It also fully utilizes the bandwidth capabilities of the latest CPUs and GPUs. Go here to learn more about the gamer edition of the AQtion AQN-107
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Ah yes 10Gb internet, it's a shame UK limit is still at 0.350Gb... one day we might have good internet one day
No RGB i want a refund! not gamer unless it can shine like a rainbow!
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Well it sucks having 550MB/s SSDs in everything then being limited 125MB/s by Gigabit LAN when moving files about.
I've been looking at Intel Teaming to get 2 Gigabit at least...
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Well it sucks having 550MB/s SSDs in everything then being limited 125MB/s by Gigabit LAN when moving files about.
I've been looking at Intel Teaming to get 2 Gigabit at least...
Don't some of the newer boards have 5Gb built in? or did i dream that
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Kind of useless for home use till NAS's, Routers & motherboards start supporting this mainstream (at least for home use).
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Since they keep slapping "gamer" labels on random products, I guess people really must be falling for it.