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With Wireless-AC technology and dual-band speeds up to 1900 Mbps, this TP-LINK Archer T9E network adapter provides reliable wireless access, so you can enjoy online gaming, 4K Ultra HD video streaming and more.
Posted by: jake
Verified Purchase:Yes
This is a well made WiFi card. It's a sturdy, solidly build card, and it works very well. The default drivers (from TP-Link's site) are okay but very outdated. Newer drivers can be downloaded from third party sites. Both the older and newer drivers work perfectly fine under Windows 10, although TP-Link's management utility does not detect the card (which is fine with me, as Windows is more than capable of managing the card by itself). There are a plethora of configuration options for this card under Windows, far more than my previous TP-Link card had, which is quite nice. The antennas the card came with are, well, bog-standard antennas. They aren't bad, but they're not the greatest if you have some walls to go through and want 5GHz, so I hooked the card up to a set of Super Power Supply 9dBi antennas via three heavily shielded TP-Link TL-ANT24EC3S 10ft extension cables, and relocated the antennas to the other side of my desk for better signal.
Overall, I'm satisfied with this card, although I do want to note that due to 802.11ac's inherent issues with 256-QAM, don't expect to achieve the maximum data rate of 1300Mbps. This card tops out at 878Mbps for me, which I am satisfied with. You can only expect to achieve maximum data rates with an actual line-of-sight to the router or some equivalent situation where the 5GHz signal is exceptionally strong, which I don't have, and even powerful antennas and shielded extension cables cannot overcome this limitation (although they did dramatically boost my 5GHz signal strength).
My Best Buy number: 0734671187
My Best Buy number: 0734671187
I would recommend this to a friend!
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This Gigabyte Technology ATX motherboard keeps pace with you as you battle through games, edit videos and touch up photos thanks to overclocking speeds of up to 3466MHz. The USB 3.1 Type C port enables simple connectivity of a variety of devices.
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Great motherboard, I built a terrific workstation
on January 18, 2017
Posted by: jake
Verified Purchase:Yes
Great motherboard. This is the heard of my new desktop workstation. I've filled it with a brand new Skylake Core i7 6700K, 32GB of DDR4 RAM. The root filesystem sits on a 250GB SSD and /home sits on a 2TB WD Black drive.
The motherboard functions perfectly, supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS without any issues. The GigE network controller works at full speed, as do the USB3 ports. Audio works fine and even the on-board GPU is pretty good, though if you're a gamer, you're going to ignore that for a much more expensive GPU anyway. But for me, as a workstation and for watching movies, it's perfect.
Very satisfied with this motherboard
My Best Buy number: 0734671187
My Best Buy number: 0734671187
I would recommend this to a friend!
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