Need an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet PCI card!

[bikalpapaudel]

Hey. Lately I've been doing some file sharing from my PC and the performance is very low.

Probably it's because it supports upto 100 Mbps only. And also because it is a low end on-board VIA Rhine adapter; takes significant CPU cycles and gives 5-6 Mega Bytes per second transfer speeds, at most.

So I've figured out that I need an add-on PCI Gigabit (1 Gbps) ethernet card. It should also not give me a big performance hit during transfers. It's very noticeable otherwise on a single core proccy.

I have no PCI-e expansion slots on my Mobo.

What are my options and the prices?

 

[harmandeep]

Kya baat hai

here a branded wud cost u > 1K IMHO and iballs and other nearly .6K

i had bought one from Ebay.com , Intel pro 1000 MT PCI GBe , for use with ESX and vSphere ( sasta tikau solution for these products to be recognized as a part of intel e1000 family nic series )

New Intel Pro/1000 MT Gigabit Desktop Network Card - eBay (item 220570564746 end time Mar-18-10 20:18:19 PDT)

i had bought from a HongKong based seller named ' goezshopping ' and its costed me 13$ rougly Rs700/- shipped including any customs ( if they were involved ) , product received was brand new , sealed although a old nic chipset ( Q2 2002 as ark.intel.com )

but VFM as per me