Review on 💨 High-Speed 10Gb SFP+ Network Card NIC with Broadcom BCM57810S Chip and Dual SFP+ Port – PCI Express X8 for Windows Server, Linux, VMware by Bob Trapp

Built a pfsense router out of an HP t730 thin client and ran into card problem after card problem. Tried both the trusted Mellanox Connect-X 3 Pro and 4, it won't even start. Tried X520 Intel, only booted intermittently with clearing the CMOS on startup, so no saved settings. Also learn that Intel NICs tend to be unstable with AMD settings. Almost gave up and found Broadcom NetXtreme and voila. No boot problems, pfsense immediately detects my DIY router/firewall and replaces my dd-wrt routers. And also. the Broadcom NIC was the cheapest option. only desire. that the card was PCIe 3.0 and not 2.0 but holds 4GB/s bandwidth well.