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I don’t like the idea of a network card with a cooler. I strongly dislike the idea.
Have used 10GB cards with coolers. They were unstable and noisy.
Consumer grade mobos with 10 gig onboard nics have some MASSIVE heatsinks for them to keep them passive.
I swear it feels like half the heatsinking on my mobo is for the network card and not the VRM or chipset.
that cooler looks like a GPU cooler from the 90s :)
This is for servers, not desktops, so noise isn’t much of an issue.
Buuut I’m curious why it has the fan isntead of a long heatsink. Maybe planning for homelab users in about ~10 years?
Also I’d just like to say: Fuck Broadcom. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.