chetansha
Skilled
@vivek.krishnan can help. You can also source it from ebay and ship it via i2c
where could i get a used quad intel NIC ,is this very far fetched in india ?
I also have remains of Intel X79 as the board died; when board was in its prime, it was super quirky in setting up but ran fine once it booted and could take on workloads easily till last year.Nopes, but you need to keep looking.
I got mine from ISS/Server Spares, Bangalore - 93795 09939.
Secondly for those looking to buy - the main issues are with cost of the mobo (dual socketed ones, obv) and warranty issues (I had a SuperMicro X9 dual socket E5 2670v1) but the board got screwed and could not be repaired by anyone I could contact and has to be junked. I still have the E5s though, but no plans to go down the same route considering the expensive affair.