Windows and Linux users have their life in terms of hardware compatibility much easier
than Hackintosh or Apple Mac users.
They can choose from variety supported products.
So to get 10Gbit ethernet network card compatible with macOS Mojave or Catalina and working
in Hackintosh was quite impossible task.
Fortunately you have me, Morgonaut, so stay tuned :)
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You know already I always bring to you the best, easiest and fastest solutions.
So today I have for you again one out of the box working solution which is super easy and
cheap.
Let’s go.
The latest 2019 Apple Mac Pro has two 10gbit ethernet ports driven by Aquantia chip.
And I’ve found for you, hackintosh users, 10gbit network card, which uses the same Aquantia
chip as the new Mac Pro and costs just $125.
Isn’t that amazing?
:) Look at this.
It’s called ASUS XG-C100C 10G Network Adapter.
It’s PCIe x4 and it’s really small.
It has massive heatsink which never gets hot and single 10Gbit ethernet port.
Link where you can buy this exact card on regional Amazon stores you can find right
now in this video description, so check it out.
As you can see this Hackintosh has only two 1gbit ethernet ports on this Designare motherboard.
But to add 10gbit networking has never been easier.
I will shut it down and simply insert to the motherboard this little card.
That’s all :)
So now let's check the network
10gbit Aquantia ethernet.
So let’s test it if it’s also working good.
This insanely long orange cable goes to my Mac Pro over there.
I’ll start iPerf network benchmarking tool in server mode and on the Hackintosh I will
start it in client mode.
Well, over 7 gbits per second is much higher than 1 gbit, but it’s still not 10gbit as
it should.
Can I improve it even more?
Sure :) On the Mac Pro I have enabled Jumbo frames, or MTU 9000, so all I need to do is
enable it also on this Hackintosh.
Bang, almost full 10 gbit.
Of course the overall speed depends now not just on the network card itself, but also
on speed of your disks.
And most important is to use proper ethernet cable.
I personaly use and I recommend to use Cat 7 ethernet cable which will give you 10gbit
speed for long distance.
This cable is in fact 30 meters long and look how great it performs.
BTW I’ve tested just out of curiosity to edit one my 4k videos on my Mac Pro over 10gbit
network directly from this hackintosh.
Overall performance, scrubbing in timeline and final render times were absolutely the
same is if I would edit it from one of my internal super fast NVMe disks inside of this
Mac Pro.
This brings whole new level of opportunities not just for Hackintosh users but to Mac users
too.
Imagine, now you can easily build just separate file server for your video editing or for
storing massive amount of sound banks and samples.
You can build or dedicate some old hackintosh just for this task and save insane amount
of money on it.
So cheap, fast and reliable network card which you can buy now on each regional Amazon store.
Link to it you can find right now in this video description.
So…
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