
- Intel card works with every device NIC I have with no issues - Worked at 1, 2.5 and 10GB for me with no issues - two ports - Can team depending on the OS

I ordered this card for my supermicro server running PVE v7.1. I did setup SR-IOV PCIE passthrough, and it is blazingly fast!

Good value, bought this to replace 10/100 on-board LAN so I could take advantage of 1Gb wired router. Never had a problem. Stopped working after a year, but well worth the money


- Just plug and play in Windows 11 Pro. - I received 2 Card TX401, and both work like a charm. - Big upgrade on my local network, on a 10 G Switch. - Again, rock solid, good heat sink size, should be reliable for years... - It's Rj-45 , so no need to upgrade for fiber... for now. - Never had a problem with TP-Link to be honest.

No issues, dead simple on CentOS 7

The obvious question is why one would purchase this card over the far cheaper options. Generic 1Gbps NICs can be had for just over a tenth the cost, while Intel's desktop varieties run less than half the price of this card. Leaving aside the cheapest cards - ones I've found to cause more problems with data corruption and reliability than it's worth - the main reason to go with a server card is if you will be loading it heavily. If you're running your own datacenter, power-saving features such as EEE and DMA coalescing are handy, but that likely doesn't apply to most potential customers for this NIC. The I210T1 does an even better job at offloading calculations than previous generation NICs.Saturate a full 1Gbps connection with multiple streams and you'll see CPU usage drop in comparison to what it is with desktop cards. We put this card in a workstation to replace the on-board Realtek NIC. System CPU time dropped by 20-30% under very heavy network loads after switching to the I210T1. Another benefit to the I210T1 - and a possible reason to upgrade to this new model - is Audio Video Bridging (AVB) support. When working on projects where multiple media streams need to be perfectly synchronized, AVB worked wonders. Older NICs simply could not keep everything synced perfectly. We needed to work on 10Gbps connections instead. Being able to accomplish the same feat with a much cheaper card is great! The I210T1 is tiny. It fits easily even in systems with bulging heatsinks and video cards.

This card was purchased to replace an Intel card that was randomly losing connectivity. The issue was likely related to the driver for windows 7. I specifically looked of a card that advertised Win7 compatibility. This card was one of the few I could find. Thus far it has been working excellent. No loss of connection for the last two weeks!


Good build quality. Meaty heat sink, female rj45 ports do not feel cheap. Did i mention fast?


it works with Windows 10, it won't be the bottleneck at either the bus or the switch, so you can focus on troubleshooting other things, it's tiny yet solid and fits in a very tight x1 slot.

- Compatible with ESXi 6.5.0




Simple install, comes with both regular and low-profile brackets, very fast


