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Adding two additional NICs to Optiplex 3010 mini tower
The Optiplex is required to connect to three networks so we need to add two additional Network Interface Cards. The machine can support only 8GB maximum RAM from http://www.dell.com/downloads/global...ok.pdf#page=11 It would be running Windows 10 Professional 64 bit. 1. It has PCI slots vacant so would getting two network cards at http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...04306684114868 work? 2. Or, would getting something like https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00965J4TS/ be better? Or, is some other brand better for dual NIC? Does anything else need to be changed when the motherboard is supporting 3 NICs? Any suggestions would be helpful. |
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Adding two additional NICs to Optiplex 3010 mini tower
On 3/10/2018 11:13 PM, t wrote:
The Optiplex is required to connect to three networks so we need to add two additional Network Interface Cards. The machine can support only 8GB maximum RAM from http://www.dell.com/downloads/global...ok.pdf#page=11 It would be running Windows 10 Professional 64 bit. 1. It has PCI slots vacant so would getting two network cards at http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...04306684114868 work? 2. Or, would getting something like https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00965J4TS/ be better? Or, is some other brand better for dual NIC? 3. Does anything else need to be changed when the motherboard is supporting 3 NICs? 4. Is going with a brand name like Intel https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BMZHX2/ better? |
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Adding two additional NICs to Optiplex 3010 mini tower
t wrote:
On 3/10/2018 11:13 PM, t wrote: The Optiplex is required to connect to three networks so we need to add two additional Network Interface Cards. The machine can support only 8GB maximum RAM from http://www.dell.com/downloads/global...ok.pdf#page=11 It would be running Windows 10 Professional 64 bit. 1. It has PCI slots vacant so would getting two network cards at http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...04306684114868 work? 2. Or, would getting something like https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00965J4TS/ be better? Or, is some other brand better for dual NIC? 3. Does anything else need to be changed when the motherboard is supporting 3 NICs? 4. Is going with a brand name like Intel https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BMZHX2/ better? That's the one I spotted on Newegg. This one isn't sold by Newegg, but drop-shipped from somewhere else (that's what the 9S code means). https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIAD5G6HJ1702 That seems to have an x4 PCI Express interface on it. Which is good, except when you don't have a slot for it. The x4 would fit in the video card x16 slot of course, but that may be occupied by your video card right now. With your luck, your machine doesn't have the right slot mix for the project. Imagine two NICs trying to serve 112MB/sec at the same time (while plugged into an old PCI slot, not a PCIe slot), and the slot lets them down. How embarrassing. That's why you want to use your weather-eye to suss the situation. The NICs would still work in such a situation, but the person who installed them would have naughty words spoken about them later :-) OK, you provided the Guide Book link, which helps. One machine picture shows an x16 PCIe for a video card (as well as the CPU graphics option, a GPU that could be inside the CPU). The other three slots are PCIe x1. They never seem to volunteer chipset info (PCH???), so I can't add any more details to my diagram as a result. DIMMs --- CPU ---x16--- Video card | | DMI bus (can be a bottleneck, but not usually) | SATA ---- PCH??? --- x1 PCIe slot SATA --- x1 PCIe slot --- x1 PCIe slot You can put a nice Intel PCIe x1 NIC card in the remaining slots. Check and make sure the slots are free first, as the factory could have put a TV tuner or other junk in one of those slots. Buying single NIC cards would be perfectly fine. The alternative, sliding some RealTek **** in there, um... Just get a couple single slot Intel NICs for them to use. The typical Intel NIC for sale on these sites, they're sold in bulk, in a plastic bag, with *no* driver CD. Always check the advert for scams such as no driver CD. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIA4A054E7126 https://images10.newegg.com/ProductI...106-036-06.jpg So the picture shows this one is a cardboard box version and at least it doesn't ship in a *non-antistatic* bag :-/ The picture shows a CD, and if it arrives without a CD, give the seller a bad review for me :-) Even a PCIe Rev1.1 slot at 250MB/sec full-duplex is sufficient for 112MB/sec Ethernet (which also works full-duplex). The processor slot usually has a PCIe revision higher than the PCH based slots. Sometimes the CPU has PCIe Rev3 for the x16 video slot, and maybe PCIe Rev2 off the PCH (500MB/sec on a single lane, not bad). When you're installing PCIe cards, you have to check the card and the mobo, to see if the lowest common denominator is sufficient for the application. For example, this is important if you buy BlackMagic cards for video capture or editing. If that dual Intel NIC with the x4 connector on it, was magically stuffed into an x1 slot, it would probably run full speed. It's only the older PCI ~100MB/sec bus which would be limiting the NICs and wouldn't be fair to the customer. My old Pentium 4 system, the chipset in it had a second bus called CSI, which operated at 266MB/sec and that bus was custom crafted just for NICs. And in this case, your PCIe x1 slots, even in the worst case, are 250MB/sec and perfectly good for single (or even dual) GbE NICs. I don't see too much that can go wrong here, except for not checking for blank slots for the project :-) The four slots are all PCI Express type. No vanilla PCI to be seen. Paul |
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