On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 02:29:41PM -0400, nick via talk wrote:
The more interesting thing with those boards seems to be that according to MSI not sure about others on the 200 dollar and over Canadian boards there will be a added card for 10gbs networks which is a great value. Probably just some low end 100 dollar card but still it's a neat add on.
Some of the MSI boards even have the 10Gig port on the mainboard. https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRESTIGE-X570-CREATION for example. The 10Gig port is apparently this chip: https://www.aquantia.com/products/controllers/aqtion-aqc107/ Based on this image: https://storage-asset.msi.com/event/mb/2019/amd-x570/images/msi-10g_lan.png Supposedly it does 5 speeds (100M, 1G, 10G, 5G and 2.5G, but not 10M). Appears to be supported by the atlantic driver in linux as of 4.11 kernel. Someone benchmarked it against an intel X540 and found performance and CPU load were identical. -- Len Sorensen