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Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties by timc3 on Sunday November 17, 2024 @12:44AM (#42162248)
If its SFP then intel, they have seem to have good ability to go into power saving states. My mellanox cards don’t.

10gbase-t ethernet is harder to pick, a lot of those cards run incredibly hot particularly the ones that expect server style cooling. Heard bad things about all of them.

Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway.

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Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties by toast0 on Monday November 18, 2024 @12:48AM (#42170029)
> Also heard that Windows has a hard time reaching 10G anyway.

It really shouldn't. Microsoft invented or popularized Receive Side Scaling [1], which helps get things lined up for high throughput; but applications probably need to do a bit of work too.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/n...

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