ITX with dual Intel lan

cokecan · 24 Dec 2014 at 09:34

Hey Guys

I'm on the look out for an ITX board with dual Intel network adapters on it that's sandybridge/ivybridge/haswell based. I've seen a few Gigabyte boards with dual Realtek nic's but Ideally I'd like dual Intel nic's. I'm also planning on adding a raid card so can't go for a Intel PCI-e card.

Has anyone seen anything on their travels? Seen some awesome server/workstation boards but from what I've seen they are either quite pricey, hard to find or don't support S3 sleep (another feature I'd like)

Cheers

ZXSpectrum · 24 Dec 2014 at 09:59

This is the only one I know of...

http://www.asus.com/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/P9DI/

Steveocee · 24 Dec 2014 at 14:31

Why so discouraged from the Realtek boards? The Intel based boards only gets marginally better throughputs so unless it was for something doing constant read/write operations over the network at full tilt you will be fine with a Realtek nics

Frozennova · 24 Dec 2014 at 14:58

My guess would be for ESXI as support for Realtek NICs.

Not Sandy/Ivy/Haswell but the Intel Avoton Boards look awesome

http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I

Saundie · 28 Dec 2014 at 19:45

I have the Asrock C2750D4I that Frozennova mentioned. Support for 32GB RAM was the main reason I chose it, but the dual NICs have come in handy for running the lab simulations I need for my studies. It is, however, an expensive option if your main requirement is dual NICs.

Edit: there are some other, cheaper options. The Jetway JNF9J-Q87, for example, has dual Intel NICs, supports 16GB RAM and is significantly cheaper than the Asrock.

melvis · 29 Dec 2014 at 09:03

my Z87n-wifi has one of each intel/qualcomm