ipolex 10Gb Network Card Intel X540-T1 Ethernet Card PCI-E NIC, Single RJ45 Copper Port, with Intel X540-BT1 Controller, 2.1 X8, 10G PCI Express LAN Adapter NIC, Support Windows Server, Linux, Vmware

I had trouble getting it working on windows 11 even trying some other tutorials I found on the internet. The seller sent me the above image with a note and the card comes up very well on both ports now. For the price this is the best value I have found even through it is using a "old" driver. It works well connected to my Ubiquiti set up. I am glad they responded with a note, I had figured I would have to use it on a server platform instead of a workstation. Follow the video from the link above and it will come right up in windows 11. It will warn you about driver signing but it is an Intel driver it is just that they are not keeping up with windows 11. Beyond that the card works well on my mother board. It has a well designed heat sink and where it is located in system it has a case fan directly cooling it. For the price you are not going to beat the card.

Good process and product

Worked great in my home TrueNAS server!

Very Satisfied

Installed in my PC and booted up. The light on the NIC flashed and indicated it was connected to 10G but Windows showed "no internet connection". Moved to my onboard NIC (2.5Gb) and it was fine. Went back to the 10G and it worked for a while, and well. Rebooted my PC and now it refuses to detect the NIC. Tried installing generic Intel drivers, the ioplex drivers, and letting windows detect it, nothing is working. Reseated the card, rebooted, still nothing. It just doesn't get properly detected by Windows. I knew the price felt too good to be true.

The NIC is a powerful asset for the low cost. But the installation process is a bit convoluted. You have to dive through Intel driver layers to directly install the 10GBe NIC driver through Device Manager. Not all that difficult, just a bit aggravating. Otherwise, solid. I used the Wired_driver_30.0_x64 and installed the driver for WIN10/11 from the:\\Wired_driver_30.0_x64\PROXGB\Winx64folders, don't go any deeper in the install search.

Does not support 2.5GBE and I wish it did.

These things have been amazing in my home lab upgrade. They popped right into my VMware box and were detected without any need for manual driver updates. Each of my VM boxes are not getting 20gbs aggregated... It's been such a game changer for my lab.