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<awygle>
Lofty: re: PCIe I bought one of those usb3 PCIe extenders for bitcoin miners so I could do PCIe work on my desk, should work for your laptop if you get interested
<Lofty>
Huh, interesting
<awygle>
I spent some time thinking about this because 90% of my use case for the 10gx is "10GBase PCIe NIC"
<awygle>
(the other 10% is "1GBase rack switch with 10GBase upstream ports")
<sorear>
hmm
<sorear>
can't you buy a 10G NIC (base-T or SFP) for much less than lofty's 1200 USD fpga board
<Lofty>
Quite probably
<awygle>
Of course
<awygle>
But you could build a 10G NIC based on the 10gx with a retail price comparable to commercially available offerings
<awygle>
And it would be, though not entirely, much more programmable and better understood by non-megacorps than existing options
<awygle>
(at least the above is my thesis, it'd need to be proven out ofc)
<Sarayan>
why do we care about 10gx in the first place?
<awygle>
i care because it gives access to 10Gbps+ SERDES at a nice price point, personally. that opens up things like PCIe 3, 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps networking, Thunderbolt and USB >3, etc.
<awygle>
dunno why or if lofty cares beyond "awygle annoyed me about it a few times" :p
<Sarayan>
huhu
<Sarayan>
I mean I kinda care about 10lp because analogue pocket
<Sarayan>
but 10gx, not sure what to do with/about it
<Sarayan>
I'm not going to buy a $1200 card that's for sure :-)
<awygle>
the card is expensive but the chips are almost ridiculously cheap for what they are. down to <100$ in some cases.
<awygle>
at hobbyist quantities no less
<Sarayan>
more like $150-$200 on digikey, but yeah, not insane
<Sarayan>
what's insane is soldering it of course, but heh :-)
<awygle>
mouser is much cheaper for some reason
<sorear>
there are also <100$ consumer 10G NICs
<sorear>
i don't have one and don't know if they suck