Intel EXPI9301CTBLK PCI-Express Network Adapter

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I bought this to replace the onboard NIC on my motherboard as the motherboard NIC fails under heavy loads.Perfect NIC, and not too expesnive

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I'm using it with a pfsense running in vmware workstation right now. Unfortunately these are one of the few nic's that'll work bridged in vmware. Otherwise, good performance.

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I bought this to go in a HP Pavillion s5118f that I was trying (and failing) to install VMWare ESXi on. Received it, replaced the standard bracket with the bundled low-profile, dropped it into the spare PCIe socket, turned on and off went the installer. ESXi is running smoothly.It's been absolutely fine since I put it in. No problems, no hiccups nothing. It just works - which is exactly what I wanted.So if you are wanting to try out ESXi but the installer fails and you don't want to mess around with compiling an oem.tgz and custom install disk, give this a go.

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Bought that trying to lower my ping while gaming, and i have no scientific proof but it seems more stable then my MoBo gigabyte adapter.....so with a price match it worth a try, it surely can't be worst than the motherboard adapter.

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I am able to copy files on my local lan faster than before, as well downloading and surfing and copying on my lan is much faster

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Bought on forum recommendation for building a pfSense box. So far it's been performing just like any other NIC I've had. Can't say it's increased speeds or pings, but I had been using GbE adapters previously. For the price, I would buy this again over other adapters.

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I buy these quite regularly for file servers and workstations (gaming) or anywhere I transfer large files.Using the PCIe interface instead of onboard NIC enables lower latency, and real-world speed gains.Anyone wanting to upgrade the efficiency of their network speeds, this is a good/cheap first step for faster file transfers or gaming ping time/latency.

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Very good product. Low latency playing games online and good transfer speeds on LAN. Bought this over the PCI version because this is supported by Windows 7.

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this is awesome, faster than my mobo's gigabit network card, it died, so rather than RMA I jsut bought this, but I am able to copy files on my local lan faster than before, as well downloading and surfing and copying on my lan is much faster, no slow downs, its really great for the price, again it works with Windows 7, no playing around looking for driversbut hey it's Intel, can u really go wrong with them

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Although I haven't used this for a lot of online gaming(yet), I did get this card based on other people's recommendations, and so far it's been a good piece of hardware.These Intel NICs are supposedly good at lowering your ping, especially compared to onboard NICs, and although I haven't run this through a battery of tests, I did notice that on one of the online speed checking sites, on which it always gave my onboard NIC a ping of 28 or 29, this Intel NIC always gets 18, or 19!Another nice thing about this card, is that you don't even need to install the Intel drivers to get it working, because Windows(at least Vista & Win7) recognizes it right away, and automatically installs the necessary drivers.

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