Help me find a Low Profile Gigabit LAN Card

Riczter on 05/08/2013 - 20:46

Looking for local stock to save time on shipping. I was surprised when ebay came up with no results. Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms?? Lightning strike fried the old one :/ PCIe x1 not PCI. PLE said around $50 but I'm hoping we can do better than that! If you find something i'll be very very happy :) Thanks

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  • samfisher5986 on 05/08/2013 - 22:56

    Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter - Intel 82574 Gigabit Controller, 10/100/1000 Mbps, Low Profile & Full Height, PCIe v2.0, VMDq

    http://umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=265…

    Should be the best one you can get for a reasonable price.

  • Riczter on 06/08/2013 - 00:13

    Legendary, cheers for taking the effort :) Thanks to you I got the model number of that one, punched it into ebay, and found a guy who lives in W.A. that can sell it to me for $25 :D

    • samfisher5986 on 06/08/2013 - 00:19

      cool but wouldn't you think $10 is worth getting a brand new one with warranty?

  • Riczter on 06/08/2013 - 00:40

    In most cases, yes. But it's just a LAN card, in my experience they only ever fail during lightning strikes (3rd time for me :/). Usually they are pretty long lasting.

    Plus this one is local so I can finish off the repair quicker.

    • samfisher5986 on 06/08/2013 - 00:58

      Depends what you get, IMO Intel LAN cards are more reliable than anything else.

      You must be having some very unusual lightning strikes for it to be breaking your lan cards.

  • Riczter on 06/08/2013 - 01:13

    First time, good 10-12 years ago now, lightning strike blew my speakers, fried my 64k dial up modem, and line in port on the computer. No surge protectors or anything of course.
    second time, few years back, internet wouldnt work after a lightning strike, but wifi was fine so i installed a PCI LAN card and it was fine. And 2 weeks back, after a lightning strike, windows wouldn't load, kept freezing before startup. By disabling the LAN in the BIOS it worked fine again…

    So maybe I'm just very unlucky, but I've found that lightning strikes and networking equipment don't like each other very much :P

  • ESEMCE on 06/08/2013 - 08:29

    Most, if not all, of them are.. but not many come with a low profile case clip.
    If you can live without one, just buy the card that meets your budget/requirements and remove the metal frame before installing (That's what I've done).
    Alternatively, you can modify the ATX clip to be low profile with a hacksaw and some pliers (I've also done this before)

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