It is best to communicate your product requests directly to the customer service department so that they can forward them to the appropriate department.
I think not. I use the card under Linux: the chipset is from Aquantia and the driver is called atlantic. Here is a forum discussion on FreeNAS: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/new-cheap-asus-xg-c100c-nic.56160/
The connector is too big for an X1 slot.
But you can put the card in the X16 slot. It's not optimal, because the x16 slots share the lanes, but it would work. ;)
But there are network cards with the x1 connector on Digitec. :)
I have asked the support, as expected the answer from you is not useful.
I have now received mine and the hole spacing is l=52mm w=42mm.
The height of the component to be cooled is 2.2mm.
Attention: If you want to mount the heat sink directly on the component, you have to slightly mill off the heat sink at one point, because another component is higher.
The gap with the original distance (chip to heat sink) is 0.8mm - therefore it is best to put a copper plate of this thickness in between.
Das tool um die Firmware upzudaten findest du hier:
https://www.asus.com/ch-fr/Networking-IoT-Servers/Wired-Networking/All-series/XG-C100C/helpdesk_Download/
Hi Skywalker73
Your mainboard (https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/pcs/motherboards/1402709/asus-b85m-g-review)
has no PCI-E 4x only 2 x PCI-E 2x ...so the max speed would be 6Gbps.
But basically the card should work just not with full speed.
The other question is if your modem has 10gbps ports at all ... but yes it probably will.
Greetings
Salute... 2 possible solutions for you.
The chipset of the network card is an AQC107. The driver version officially supported by ASUS on their home page is quite old (v.2.1.008.0). There are newer ones on the official Aquantia page (chipset manufacturer):
1. https://driverdownloads.aquantia.com/
2. select AQC107
3. select operating system
4. select language and download version 2.1.18.0.
Installation:
First install the official driver package from Asus (if you want the ASUS software, you need it).
then install and update the driver with the Aquantia package.
Runs very stable for me.
If the problems are not solved yet, try to use the card without IPv6 TCP/UDP checksum offload. This option can be deactivated or activated in the advanced options of the network driver of the card. Deactivating this option causes, among other things, that the CPU is used more when the network load is high... However, this should have no effect on gaming as long as the backup is not flooding the line at 10gbit in the background.
Hope this helps
Greetings
.kure
The speed of the ASUS XG-C100C network card is not strictly limited by the motherboard's maximum PCI Express speed, but it does depend on the available PCI Express lanes and their version.
- The XG-C100C uses a PCI Express 3.0 x4 interface, which means it requires four PCI Express lanes to operate at its full potential of 10Gbps.
- If the motherboard only supports PCI Express 2.0 or has fewer available lanes, the card's performance might be affected. However, the card is designed to be backward compatible with older PCI Express versions (PCI Express 2.0 and 2.1), although the maximum speed may be reduced accordingly.
In summary, while the card can function with lower PCI Express versions or fewer lanes, its full 10Gbps speed is optimized when used with a motherboard that supports PCI Express 3.0 x4.
Please note that this card (like some other 10Gbps cards) uses the Marvell AQC113CS chipset (V2) or its predecessor (V1) the AQC107. These chips (very often) suffer from sporadic dropouts. Ironically, I bought this card to compensate for the failed Intel chip I225-V on the motherboard, which also had connection drops and dropouts. Btw. the I226-V has similar problems. Depending on the application, this can have a significant impact (online gaming, Parsec, VR streaming). If you google it, it becomes clear how widespread the problem is.
The first attempt was a cheap card with a Realtek RTL8125, which was reliable in the connection without dropouts. But it had poor throughput and ran well below the theoretical port speed. As a result, it suffered from bufferbloat (Google: Waveform Bufferbloat).
Ultimately, the Intel X550-T2 (server network card) provided a remedy. Reliable connection, fast transmission and good throughput, no dropouts. Unfortunately expensive in contrast to what you pay for a mainboard that should actually contain a functioning network controller. Ironic that the solution again comes from Intel, who caused my problem.
