Right now there are no 10 gigabit ethernet cards that fit into a PCIe 1x slot. While some would like an SFP+ card, there are probably no PCIe 4.0 SFP+ controllers. However there is the Marvell AQC113 supporting an RJ45 connector. This would do 10 gbe with 1 PCIe 4.0 lane or 7.8 gbe with PCIe 3.0.
I bet there is enough homeland demand for such a Level1Techs product.
How about an PCIe x8 USB card. Maybe with 4.0 all ports would be 10 gig, and at 3.0 they’re all 5 gig. I think I’ve seen one such card before. Of course it had type C instead of just type A.
6 type A, full speed simultaneously with 0 controllers conflicts etc.
not that I can afford such a thing… and if I wasn’t running an old server as my main rig.
… I’m an eclectic weirdo… anyway.
I think they should make a processor compatible with the AM5 socket which combines eight zen4 cores with an M2 Ultra on a PCIe switch that lets us pass through any given PCIe device to a MacOS running natively on the M2 part of the chip. This would be an amazing product for Mac virtualisation and I can guarantee at least one customer.
And I can guarantee at least one army of lawyers.
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