Can anyone explain Aquantia gigabit ethernet to me?

[xxxlun4icexxx]

Hi,

Quick question for you all.

I just happened to be looking at the following motherboard:
ASRock Taichi Ultimate

It boasts that it includes an Aquantia 10Gb/s BASE-T ethernet port. Does this mean anything to the average gamer/user with cable service internet?

 

[Doctor Rob]

Not really. It "may" help by giving you maybe a little lower latency (like 1 ms) because they are more powerful and use less cpu cycles. but overall that is not going to help. what is nice is the dual LAN and Wireless lan built in.. and the asrock taichi boards are in my opinion always a good buy if you are a gamer and want a little something extra.

 

[jimmysmitty]

10Gbe is the next step for connection rates. Right now pretty much every NIC port is 1Gbe. Most consumer ISPs offer up to 1Gb connections however they are typically 960/800Mbps and are rated for internet. The only thing that will benefit from 10Gbe is internal network connections however you would need a switch/router that also supports it.

In your case it would be relegated to 1Gbe connection speeds as there are no consumer routers that I know of with a 10Gbe port/ports yet. Asus does have a switch with 10Gbe ports but again the benefit will only extend to you internally.

Gaming probably wont benefit as it would still depend on the NIC chip itself. From what I know the best are Intel which typically offer higher performance.

 

[grimfox]

Generally no. Most ISPs in the US only offer up to 1Gb service so it's not going to help improve your PCs download speeds from the internet.

IF you have two systems in your house with 10Gb ports then you could wire them together (or through a 10GB switch/router) and you could transfer large files between them very quickly. IE if you had a storage server for media and a HTPC you could easily stream content from one source to another. Realistically you don't need full 1G to stream 4k content so it's overkill for that purpose. After that you are looking at using it for a home business where you need to transfer large files between multiple PCs quickly. If you were doing home video editing with 4k source material or rendering where you have a separate system for rendering.

If you aren't using it for something like that then it's really only useful for bragging rights.

 

[failboat]

10G won't do anything for gaming. aquantia is really the only maker of 10G NIC chips under $100. gaming uses around 200Kbs. More bandwidth doesn't speed it up.

without a 10G switch or another pc with 10G you can't do anything with it.
If you had 5 people heavily using a NAS at home then a 10G link from NAS-> switch might be worth it.
unmanaged switches with just a few 10G are >$400

 

[xxxlun4icexxx]

Thanks for the info all!