QNAP QXG-2G2T-I225 NIC Comes with 3 Brackets: What is the difference between the two smaller ones?

[johntdavis]

I just picked one of these up for use in an OPNSense build I’m doing, as OPNSense needs Intel NICs and that’s the chipset being used. QXG-2G2T-I225 | Flexible, fast, economical | QNAP (US)

I noticed it came out of the box with a short bracket on it that seemed to be a standard short bracket, but there’s an additional long bracket and a second short bracket in the box.

What’s the difference between the two short ones? I suspect the one that comes on it is some sort of QNAP specific version and I should have switched to the other short one before I stuck it in my Optiplex. It fits with the bracket it came with (that has an extra bend at the bottom), but it’s tight and awkward.

[ScottishTom]

It looks like one is a PC-standard “L-shaped” low profile bracket where the other one is a QNap custom flat bracket, which I would guess fits a QNap chassis specifically.

[johntdavis]

Thank you! That’s exactly what I needed. I got paranoid I’d used the wrong one because it refused to go in with the RF coupler/shield thing that Dell includes with its Optiplex 5040.

I just can’t get it to fit–with this thing fit over the slots, there’s no room for the QNAP bracket’s bottom piece of slide in. (Somehow the other card I have in the system didn’t have that problem.) Hopefully I don’t run into RF issues or shorts.