Tuesday, November 21st 2017
Aquantia Black Friday Deals: AQtion 5G NIC for $59 and 10G NIC for $69
Aquantia Corp., 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 adapters - Aquantia AQtion Network Interface Cards (NICs) - to gamers and performance PC users at a giftworthy price point for a limited time. The Aquantia AQtion AQN-108 5G NIC is now available for $59.00 and the Aquantia AQtion AQN-107 10G NIC is 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they get outstanding Multi-Gig Ethernet performance, but they get bragging rights over their pals who are still using outdated, 17-year-old single gigabit technology."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.
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.
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.
27 Comments on Aquantia Black Friday Deals: AQtion 5G NIC for $59 and 10G NIC for $69
Asus and Gigabyte have been selling their own NICs based on the 10Gbps for around $99 for some time now. Review here www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/ASUS-XG-C100C-NIC-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-Masses and here www.eteknix.com/asus-xg-c100c-10gbase-t-network-adapter-review/
Sadly the Arrow link is to cards closer to $200, one of the companies only ships to the US and the third is out of China and only has the 5Gbps cards in stock :(
Also, there's two variants of both, one with half-height bracket, one with full height. Only WPG site explains this.
SFA = full height
SHA = half height
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Arrow is a huge components distributor, so maybe the person you talked to is clueless about this offer?
That said, Aquantia appears to have very good customer support, as they're sending me a pair of full size brackets. :toast:
It still sucks that Arrow had less than 30 cards in stock and if you were unable to order those, you got nothing.
So now I'll have two brackets, but no cards... fan fucking tastic.
First I got this message:
"Please note that your order is currently on a Trade compliance hold. Once all is cleared by TC we will ship it immediately."
Then I get another message telling me that they're out of stock and as such, they'll cancel my order. Seriously?
I will never, ever order anything from Arrow in my life again, as they clearly don't give a crap about their customers.
Regardless, after my experience with Arrow, I can't recommend them to anyone. I thought they were a huge global supplier of parts, but their support doesn't reflect that in the least way.
Curiously your card is made in Taiwan and mine in China, I wonder why?
This isn't really Aquantia's fault but I've been having trouble finding the right settings for the card. I was having MAJOR issues with insanely high ping and packet loss in games, getting auto kicked off servers on War Thunder but no issues while browsing. After several tries, I just disabled and reduced every possible setting and slowly tried things. I finally traced it down to having TCP/UDP checksum offload ipv4 and ivp6 enabled. I disabled them and everything is fine now. Web browsing started to hang, so slowly figured out the other settings again. I increased the transmit buffers and renabled most other things as well, so now gaming and web surfing is back to smooth.
Edit: Well, that fix only worked until I powered down the system, as today I had the same problem with no network cable being detected. Great...