Question Can't tell if my motherboard has the rev 3.0 intel 2.5 GBE. Are there revisions for the 2.5 Realtek GBE? Is the 2.5 Realtek more stable?

[Yoiji]

I have a motherboard from the x550 series. It was manufactured in Feb of 2023. I can't find a revision number at all and I need to check before I decide to return it or not. I don't want to take apart my entire pc to build it to figure out which revision it is cause ik the revision can be found in device manager. Would Feb of 2023 be a good manufacturing date for their revision 3s?

Also, were there any revision numbers regarding the Realtek 2.5 GBE card? I heard it was just as bad at the Intel one while others saying it is better/ironed out. So not sure if there were other revisions to the Realtek 2.5 like the Intel.

Regarding stability, is the Rev 3 2.5 Intel more stable than the Realtek 2.5?

 

[bill001g]

This is one of those things you start to suspect vendors like intel of paying off news publishing sites.
Although there was some coverage once it became fairly clear it has a hardware issue that could not really be patch it was silence. I suspect they were trying to avoid something like a recall. It was even less news on realtek.

Its not like the huge coverage melting power connectors got but I suspect far more people are affected.

I would suspect 2023 manufactured would be ok since if I remember correctly the original problems were in mid 2022.
That does not mean they did not have a old batch of ethernet chips they could put on the boards. I would be more worried about those motherboards you get directly out of china than some of the larger brand names.

Motherboards are almost like memory chips there is no way to say for sure what chips the assemblers are using. They tend to buy whatever they can obtain at the time the boards was assembled.

The problem chips mostly were only having issue if you ran them above 1gbit. I guess it depends how fast you are going to run. Worst case you can buy a ethernet add in card for fairly inexpensive.

 

[Yoiji]

This is one of those things you start to suspect vendors like intel of paying off news publishing sites.
Although there was some coverage once it became fairly clear it has a hardware issue that could not really be patch it was silence. I suspect they were trying to avoid something like a recall. It was even less news on realtek.

Its not like the huge coverage melting power connectors got but I suspect far more people are affected.

I would suspect 2023 manufactured would be ok since if I remember correctly the original problems were in mid 2022.
That does not mean they did not have a old batch of ethernet chips they could put on the boards. I would be more worried about those motherboards you get directly out of china than some of the larger brand names.

Motherboards are almost like memory chips there is no way to say for sure what chips the assemblers are using. They tend to buy whatever they can obtain at the time the boards was assembled.

The problem chips mostly were only having issue if you ran them above 1gbit. I guess it depends how fast you are going to run. Worst case you can buy a ethernet add in card for fairly inexpensive.

Ok are there revision numbers regarding Realteks 2.5s? I hear some say its stable others say its horrible.

Also, you say worried about the boards from China? I see a BUNCH of Rog Strix x570s on Ebay listed as “New” but they all come from China. Any outside of China are listed as used. Is there a problem with these? They all happen to be manufactured in July of 2022 as well when I messaged all of them.

 

[bill001g]

Only way I can think to tell to get a photo of the ethernet chip.

Asus still controls the devices manufacture even for the china market. It is more those strange boards you see on aliexpress from completely unkown brands. Some of those use chipset they reclaim off defective motherboards so they can be very sketchy.

The realtek ones were not quite at bad as intel but again most this was reddit post there was very little coverage from the main tech press.

Maybe pay a bit more any buy from a actual store rather than ebay. If you live near a real store where you can go look at the boards you can see even the bios revisions, well asus ones have a sticker on the box.

Then again buy cheap and just assume it might be bad and budget in a extra $25 for a new 2.5g ethernet card.